Hello all, I have a little suggestion. I do not know how it works now but what I suggest to add some mechanism to differentiate downloaded files into several categories, e.g: - Critical - Desired - Other
Of course this mechanism should be supported by the server side. Also this can help in the situation of disk or network limitation. BOINC can have some option to download only *Critical* files and *Desired* and/or *Other* files as an option. I think this can help mobile client also because in case of such devices there are more situation when you don't want to download noncritical files (e.g. without access to Wi-Fi spot, small disk quota etc). What to you think? Thanks Best regards, Vitalii Koshura 2015-12-24 14:41 GMT+02:00 Jord van der Elst <[email protected]>: > Hi guys, > > Something that's slowly been developing and is starting to be a problem > with more and more projects. When for whatever reason the small image files > for Simple View do not download correctly, they get shown as 'some download > is stalled' in BOINC Manager and all subsequent downloads of work is > stalled as well. This causes systems to run out of work. > > I think we should rethink this, and not have image files of a part of the > GUI that not everyone uses/sees, be capable of having a catastrophic effect > on work downloads. > > Two threads about this, one in the BOINC forums: > https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=10691 > And one in the WCG forum: > https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,38704 > > In the latter, Sekerob shows how to circumvent this problem by downloading > the image files by hand, but people shouldn't have to go through this. Not > with BOINC needing to be set & go. > > Two solutions come to mind: > 1. Don't let image files be dependent on downloads. If one or more are > stuck, too bad but they're not crucial for the client to run, so dismiss > that they're not in yet and always allow downloads of applications/work to > continue. > 2. Compress the image files into a zip file, download that separately from > work requests, unpack at BOINCs leisure. > Or perhaps: > 3. Have a check in place to see what view the user uses. If not Simple > View, is it necessary to download all image files now, or can we spread > them over further downloads of work, and still separate their outcome from > work requests? > > Discuss! > (Heh, always wanted to say that. :-)) > > With seasonal greetings, > > -- Jord van der Elst. > _______________________________________________ > 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.
