Even if it is added to the DB, the clients are going to have to send it every time until such a time as all projects are updated. If it is turned off most of the time, the clients will have to notice changes and send an update if the list no longer matches the one that was sent last. This can be caused by either a hardware upgrade (moving the BOINC install to a new machine), or an OS upgrade (the new or patched OS now notices the new processor flag), or ?.
-----Original Message----- From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Sonntag Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 9:12 AM To: David Anderson Cc: BOINC Developers Mailing List @berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] android -- boinc not storing cpu features (/proc/cpuinfo features) If not in the database, the 1024 characters of CPU info gets sent every single time the host contacts the server using network bandwidth over and over and over and over and over and over.... What costs more, a GB of disk space or a GB of bandwidth? (Hint: It isn't disk space.) Jon Sonntag On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 7:08 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > We could do this, but it would require adding a 1024-character > field to the host DB table, which would increase the DB size somewhat > (e.g. by 1 GB for projects w/ 1M hosts). > Probably not worth it. > > On 22-Aug-2013 3:14 PM, Carl Christensen wrote: > >> it might be nice on the boinc project's web page for computer (as Bernd >> mentioned) to print the p_feature field (like we do for bencharks)? plus >> the >> "coprocessor" line I was thinking "ARM Neon" & VFP counted as a >> coprocessor >> (FPU rather than GPU)! ;-) ______________________________** >> _________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] >> http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/**mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev<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<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.
