I'll remove that particular limit in the next client. The limit will then be a bit less than 64KB, which is the size of the database blob used to store the WU's XML description, which includes the cmdline. -- David
On 22-Mar-2011 6:47 AM, Travis Desell wrote: > 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.
