Paul asked how the owner of a computer that is crashing many tasks can find out. He also said that most such owners have no idea that their computer is doing this.
I have looked at the details of a considerable number of computers that have crashed many CPDN tasks. What I have seen corresponds with what Paul said. When a task crashes it generates a message like: 'Computation of task xxxxxxx finished'. This is true, but the word finished can easily suggest success. When computation finishes prematurely would it be possible to add to the messages something like: 'This task crashed'? And even 'Ask for advice on the project forum'? In the BM Tasks Status column would it be possible to classify such tasks as 'Crashed' until they report? Mo _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
