There are several reasons why having a short command line is a good idea. One of them is that the command text is stored in one of the busiest tables in the database. If you are sending out a lot of workunits you would like to keep that table fairly small (or throw huge amounts of RAM at your DB server - that works too).
An alternative to long (8k+) command lines is to store science parameters in a file and simply reference that file in the workunit instead. -- Janus On 2011-03-22 00:16, Rom Walton wrote: > It appears the current max is 8k. > > To cancel task instances use: html/ops/cancel_wu_form.php > > ----- Rom > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Travis Desell > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 6:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [boinc_dev] problems sending WUs with large sized command > lineparameters > > Think I've found a rather nasty bug. > > I was trying to send some data through the command line parameters (one > of the parameters is pretty large, maybe 10-15k characters) and it seems > to crash the BOINC client/manager. > > A window with "Communicating with BOINC client. Please wait..." keeps > popping up, and the only way to get out of it is to quit the BOINC > manager. Making matters worse it happens every time the manager opens > up, so you can't really do anything with it. > > So a couple questions: > > 1. is there a hard limit on the size of command line parameters? > and > 2. how can I kill the workunits that aren't allowing the manager to > communicate with the client, so I can get the boinc manager/client > working again? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------------------------- > Travis Desell<deselt @ cs.rpi.edu> > 1-518-867-1054 > Adjunct Professor& Postdoctoral Research Assistant > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180, USA > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~deselt/ > MilkyWay@Home ( http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/ ) > DNA@Home ( http://dnahome.cs.rpi.edu/ ) > Worldwide Computing Laboratory ( http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/ ) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
