Re: [boinc_dev] [BOINC/boinc] 341001: lib: remove safe_copy(); not used, generated compi...

The policy in BOINC is to minimize dynamic allocation and thus avoid the complexity of pointer ownership. We avoid functions that return pointers to allocated memory. Exceptions to this should be clearly indicated in the function name, e.g. read_file_malloc(). On 1/3/2017 7:13 AM, Christian

Re: [boinc_dev] git access to Win dependent libraries working again

lt;https://boinc.berkeley.edu/git/boinc_depends_win_vs2010.git> fetch failed. -- Jord van der Elst. On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:02 PM, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu <mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>> wrote: > Cloning of the Win dependent libr

Re: [boinc_dev] git access to Win dependent libraries working again

5e43 under https://boinc.berkeley.edu/git/boinc_depends_win_vs2010.git fetch failed. -- Jord van der Elst. On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:02 PM, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu <mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>> wrote: Cloning of the Win dependent libraries (pre-bui

[boinc_dev] git access to Win dependent libraries working again

Cloning of the Win dependent libraries (pre-built curl, openssl etc.) hasn't been working for the last 6 months or so. Turned out to be a config problem; fixed now. Try, e.g.: git clone http://boinc.berkeley.edu/git/boinc_depends_win_vs2010.git David

Re: [boinc_dev] [BOINC/boinc] 0dda2f: some PHP stuff for project X

/0dda2fffa3e1d80c7be04bab91c4d5503a5b3278 Author: David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> Date: 2016-12-21 (Wed, 21 Dec 2016) Changed paths: M html/inc/boinc_db.inc M html/inc/bootstrap.inc M html/inc/web_rpc_api.inc Log Message: --- some PHP stuff for project X

Re: [boinc_dev] [BOINC/boinc] 341001: lib: remove safe_copy(); not used, generated compi...

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/commit/3410015b00f13f53e8284e668b503b31c20814e4 Author: David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> Date: 2016-12-19 (Mon, 19 Dec 2016) Changed paths: M lib/str_util.cpp M lib/str_util.h Log Message: --- lib:

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] compiling boinc apps on linux

Actually curl is used only by the client. I modified configure.ac accordingly. On 12/17/2016 12:13 AM, David Anderson wrote: curl is used only in client and server, so that's an error in configure.ac. I'll attempt to fix it tomorrow. -- David On 12/16/2016 7:24 PM, Travis Desell wrote: When I

Re: [boinc_dev] Problem at pogs.

Please create a github issue. I won't have time to look at this soon but maybe someone else can. -- David On 12/13/2016 8:41 AM, Christian Beer wrote: On 13.12.2016 17:01, Adrian Worley wrote: Good day, I have discovered a problem at the pogs project, the discussion of the problem seems to

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap

Thanks; that solved the problem. I committed it and deployed on SETI@home. I used a slightly wider author column (10em) to accommodate strings like "Volunteer moderator". -- David On 12/1/2016 1:47 PM, Juha Sointusalo wrote: Ok, pre-formatted text stretching table cells and allowing other

Re: [boinc_dev] french & german translation bug on language_select.php

I partly fixed this by getting the language names (native and international) from a BOINC file (inc/language_names.inc) rather than from the .po files. The German problem will go away when the translation is updated. -- David On 12/7/2016 12:58 PM, yoyo wrote: Hello, I'm on the latest boinc

[boinc_dev] Fwd: Update recommended client to latest available development?

recommended client to latest available development? Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:31:51 +0100 From: Jord van der Elst <els...@gmail.com> To: David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> Hi David, Can we have the latest available recommended client from the Download pages be se

Re: [boinc_dev] Join button when logged in

BTW, we have a scheme (not fully implemented) where, when you click the Join button, it immediately starts downloading the client installer, configured to attach to that particular project. This pretty much minimizes the number of clicks. -- David On 11/26/2016 8:33 PM, David Anderson wrote

Re: [boinc_dev] Join button when logged in

om:* boinc_dev <boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu> on behalf of David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> *Sent:* Sunday, 27 November 2016 15:03 *To:* boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu *Subject:* Re: [boinc_dev] Join button when logged in Good point. Maybe it could show something related to recen

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap

single site, and ideally across the BOINC family as a whole, and the current internet fashion seems to be to rely on color alone (and sometimes not even that) to identify a hyperlink. SETI is currently looking old-fashioned in that respect. On Monday, 28 November 2016, 9:14, David Anderson <

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap

the bootstrap branch. -- David On 11/27/2016 1:40 PM, Juha Sointusalo wrote: On 11 November 2016 at 23:10, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu <mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>> wrote: I revised the BOINC web code (PHP) to use Bootstrap CSS Please send me comments/feedback.

Re: [boinc_dev] Join button when logged in

Good point. Maybe it could show something related to recent jobs completed or credit. -- D On 11/26/2016 12:12 PM, Juha Sointusalo wrote: I already have an account at Seti@home. In fact, I'm already logged in to the web site. When I go to their homepage there is a big Join Seti@home button. If

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap status

Fixed, by putting those icons on a light gray background. -- D On 11/25/2016 3:08 PM, Richard Haselgrove wrote: I'm seeing a problem with the {sticky,read} flag at SETI. On Friday, 25 November 2016, 22:05, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote: I'm pretty much done with ch

[boinc_dev] Bootstrap status

I'm pretty much done with changing the BOINC web code to use Bootstrap. Examples: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/test/ uses standard bootstrap theme http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ uses a theme called "Slate" that I found on the web. Notes: - I changed the sample index.php to have a graphic

Re: [boinc_dev] Bootstrap CSS with Firefox 50.0 on https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/

Seems like a Firefox bug. I changed the logo URL to https. I'm currently trying to get a new SSL cert. The University office in charge of this isn't returning emails :-( -- David On 11/24/2016 3:18 PM, AgentB wrote: I am running Firefox 50.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 - the problem did not appear of

Re: [boinc_dev] Bootstrap CSS with Firefox 50.0 on https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/

I upgraded to Firefox 50 on Win 7, and am not seeing this. Anyone else? -- David On 11/23/2016 1:02 PM, AgentB wrote: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByWmDrqM7J67ZnBpSUhweDVLVEU and https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByWmDrqM7J67V2NkdHRQZjlpUXc Should show the two screen-shots. Cheers

Re: [boinc_dev] 'client_state.xml' : GPU info for workunit/result

The element already contains this info: e.g. setiathome_v8 820 windows_intelx86 0.001776 0.001776 6710859671.000872 opencl_intel_gpu_sah ... intel_gpu 1.00 264241152.00 On 11/19/2016 9:56 AM, Jean Philippe EIMER wrote:

Re: [boinc_dev] Fwd: Re: Bootstrap

berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=11290=74082 <https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=11290=74082> -- Jord van der Elst. On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:41 PM, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu <mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>> wro

Re: [boinc_dev] Fwd: Re: Bootstrap

at the end of screen, or that the code box had its own horizontal scroll bar. We do need something similar here. -- Jord van der Elst. On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:41 PM, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu <mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>> wrote: I noticed (as Jord di

Re: [boinc_dev] odd Bootstrap behavior

l(img/white_grad.png) repeat-x scroll left top; color: black; border-color: #ccc; } -- Pagarbiai / Sincerely Rytis Slatkevičius +370 670 7 2016-11-15 8:27 GMT+02:00 David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu <mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>>: When I use class="

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Web RPC access control

I agree with Christian. If we have reasonably effective means to recognize and remove spam accounts/profiles/teams etc., that's good enough. On 11/14/2016 1:10 AM, Christian Beer wrote: I don't think account creation is the right place to fix it. Especially since it will break older Clients.

Re: [boinc_dev] Bootstrap

Uwe: To get a dark-background color scheme, use a Bootstrap theme. There are many sources of these; see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/StyleSheets Note: the one I tried had a problem with white-on-white text in s, e.g. country selector. If anyone knows why please let me know. -- David On

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] Bootstrap

. But with it it looks very ugly? yoyo David Anderson schrieb: I revised the BOINC web code (PHP) to use Bootstrap CSS rather than our own ad-hoc CSS (main.css, white.css). This is on Github in a branch named "bootstrap". You can try it out on your project, and see it in action on the BOINC mess

Re: [boinc_dev] Bootstrap

this on the Alpha server instead? -- Jord van der Elst. On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:10 PM, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu <mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>> wrote: I revised the BOINC web code (PHP) to use Bootstrap CSS rather than our own ad-hoc CSS (main.cs

Re: [boinc_dev] feature requests

Stu: Some of those items don't exist (host ID or project ID) or aren't known to BOINC (free RAM, CPU temperature). I did add: - task received time - app version items: - plan class - platform - avg #CPUs - GPU type - avg # GPUs - estimated FLOPS - executable filename -- David On

Re: [boinc_dev] 4th Gen BOINC credit system

again. -- D On 10/7/2016 12:54 PM, Juha Sointusalo wrote: On 15 August 2016 at 01:44, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu <mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>> wrote: 2) We need a simulator that models credit calculations for various scenarios (synthetic, or based on tra

[boinc_dev] BOINC Workshop 2017?

There were no BOINC workshops in 2015 or 2016 because of my budget crisis. But now I have some travel funds again, and there's some interesting BOINC-related work going on: - use of Docker on both server and client - Integration with Condor - projects at nanoHub and TACC - issues related to

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC website private messaging glitch

Fixed. -- David On 9/11/2016 5:38 PM, CM wrote: Hey, I've been working on my 'Project Rain' BOINC project and encountered a small glitch with private messaging: "Object of class BoincUser could not be converted to int in /root/project/html/user/pm.php on line 216"

Re: [boinc_dev] 4th Gen BOINC credit system

-- From: boinc_dev <boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu> on behalf of David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> Sent: 15 August 2016 08:14 To: boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] 4th Gen BOINC credit system My thoughts: 1) The

Re: [boinc_dev] 4th Gen BOINC credit system

My thoughts: 1) The basic ideas behind the current credit system are sound, but there seem to be some problems with the details, in particular what happens when new app versions are added. 2) We need a simulator that models credit calculations for various scenarios (synthetic, or based on trace

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC_STATUS structure doesn't change on user input

I'm not sure what the problem is, but compare your code with the existing wrappers (wrapper.cpp, vboxwrapper.cpp) which work. -- David On 7/20/2016 10:58 AM, Benoist Wolleb wrote: Hi everyone, I am a student doing my thesis and I am writing a custom boinc wrapper for Docker. As suggested on

Re: [boinc_dev] providing BOINC through the Apple App Store

It would be great to have BOINC in the App Store. However, there are items in Apple's "Review Guidelines" that would seem to preclude BOINC: 2.15 Apps must be self-contained, single application installation bundles, and cannot install code or resources in shared locations 2.16 Apps that

Re: [boinc_dev] Astonishing effect of Link Time Optimisation on BOINC client

BTW, only the floating-point benchmarks are used by BOINC (for runtime estimation and credit calculation). Those didn't change much. -- David On 5/9/2016 3:07 AM, Steffen Möller wrote: Dear all, some of you may be aware of the BOINC client shipping with Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and the other

Re: [boinc_dev] Condor-B

Condor-B was an effort to add a BOINC back end to Open Science Grid. The development was completed and tested, but it was never deployed. Condor has a plug-in architecture for adding different back ends. The Condor job router talks to the plugins using a protocol called GAHP. The BOINC plugin is

[boinc_dev] Fwd: Boinc doesn't work with the latest version of fire OS

Our Android versions seem to be gradually failing. Wouldn't someone like to learn Android development and fix things? -- David Forwarded Message Subject:Boinc doesn't work with the latest version of fire OS Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:53:40 -0500 From: Sander

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC and BOINC-app-seti don't build with upcoming gcc-6

I committed Nicolas' fix, which works with older gcc (4.4.7) also. -- David On 1/21/2016 4:53 AM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: El 21 ene 2016, a las 07:23, Gianfranco Costamagna escribió: Hi, since gcc-6 is approaching, somebody did a test build with boinc,

Re: [boinc_dev] BAM! URL in BOINC client

I changed this. It's downloaded by the client every 2 weeks (along with project list) so it will show up gradually. I also changed the link on the BOINC web site front page. There are some other references to BOINCstats (the stats part, not BAM!) on the BOINC web site. Should I change these to

Re: [boinc_dev] Suspending individual GPUs.

I agree that it would be good to be able to suspend specific GPUs - manually - when an exclusive app is running - when computer is in use. However, this would be a large and complex code change: 1) GPU suspension currently applies to all GPUs, so there's only one copy the data structures.

Re: [boinc_dev] The trouble with image files...

I checked in a change so that limits on the number of active per-project and total file transfers don't include user files (like background images for SETI@home graphics) or project files (like images for the simple GUI) -- David On 12/24/2015 4:41 AM, Jord van der Elst wrote: Hi guys,

Re: [boinc_dev] RAM management by BOINC requires reworking

Please set and post an event log segment. -- David On 12/12/2015 1:35 AM, Raistmer the Sorcerer wrote: Current SETI beta app+data set constitute good example of bad behaving "rogue app" against that BOINC's resource usage limits should guard participant's system. But unfortunately these

Re: [boinc_dev] 153f66: Server (assimilator): add random string to result ...

You're right - enabling upload certificates (which work, AFAIK) would fix the problem too, as long as the project's upload directory isn't accessible. If I recall, we made upload certificates not the default at a point where S@h's servers were overloaded and we were looking for every performance

Re: [boinc_dev] boinc / html / user / gpu_list.php

I increased it to 2000, and 8 Mac GPU models are now shown. -- David On 11/7/2015 9:59 AM, Stephen Maclagan wrote: TBar over at Seti is complaining about Mac Nvidia/Intel GPUs only being intermittently shown: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=78297=1740408 I believe

Re: [boinc_dev] dlopen() without dlclose() in gpu_detect binary

I added dlclose()s in gpu_amd.cpp and gpu_nvidia.cpp. -- David On 10/21/2015 3:23 AM, Christian Beer wrote: Hi, I'm investigating a resource leak in client/gpu_amd.cpp where a dlopen() handle is leaked because there is no dlclose(). Is this intentional? The allocation happens on line 161

Re: [boinc_dev] Typo in computer detail, but only at E@H

cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx vmx smx tm2 pbe fsgsbase smep 4336131056.164854 13531525093.856213 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:36:54 -0700 From: David Anderson <

Re: [boinc_dev] file_upload_handler question

Christian: I checked in a change that should do this. Please review and test if you get a chance. -- David On 10/16/2015 2:24 AM, Christian Beer wrote: Hi David, we want to make a change to the file_upload_handler that will set the completely uploaded result file read_only. I checked the code

Re: [boinc_dev] Typo in computer detail, but only at E@H

That string comes from the client; I'm not sure why E@h would show it incorrectly. -- David On 10/16/2015 6:27 AM, TarotApprentice wrote: On Einstein I have a bunch of computers that show as: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepinng9]](8 processors)

[boinc_dev] Fwd: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for BOINC/boinc

FYI. I'm not sure how to fix these, or if they matter. -- David Forwarded Message Subject:New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for BOINC/boinc Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:45:52 -0700 From: scan-ad...@coverity.com To: da...@ssl.berkeley.edu Hi, Please find

Re: [boinc_dev] Default process priority

to that, for obvious reasons). On Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 6:35, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote: How about if you can specify two priorities in cc_config.xml: for CPU-intensive apps,and for others (GPU, NCI, wrapper). -- David On 9/29/2015 2:32 PM, Richard Haselgrove

Re: [boinc_dev] Default process priority

like a special case for the benefit of users who run one project only under BOINC, and as such rather mitigates against the vision of BOINC as a project-neutral (and multi-project) infrastructure. On Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 21:00, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote: We

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc] Memory Access & IO Priority (#1392)

Seems to me we should use PROCESS_MODE_BACKGROUND_BEGIN for the client itself, so that I/O intensive things like file transfers, writing the client state file, checksumming/copying big files, etc. would happen at low priority. And I think that I/O priority is inherited by child processes (though

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc] Memory Access & IO Priority (#1392)

e.g. 8 CPU workunits and 1 GPU workunit @ 0.5 CPUs) allocated on an 8 core host. Jon Sonntag On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 12:18 AM, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu <mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu>> wrote: Windows has an API for reducing the priority of I/O and memory usage, n

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc] Memory Access & IO Priority (#1392)

Windows has an API for reducing the priority of I/O and memory usage, namely SetPriorityClass(): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686219(v=vs.85).aspx with the PROCESS_MODE_BACKGROUND_BEGIN**arg. However - inexplicably - this arg can be used only by a process on itself,

Re: [boinc_dev] Proposal: Simple Attach (Cookieless Installs)

That scheme sounds plausible, but it seems more complex than what Rom proposed. -- D On 9/24/2015 11:48 PM, Rytis Slatkevičius wrote: Is there really a need for such schemes? A script will be running to generate the download filenames (I assume at boinc.berkeley.edu); why not store user's

[boinc_dev] White House webcase on citizen science

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has been interested in crowdsourcing and citizen science for a while, and they're organizing an online webcast/forum on Sept. 30: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/09/09/open-science-and-innovation-people-people-people They mention only

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_admin] When using HTTPS in image container tag, image doesn't show.

Fixed. -- D On 02-Sep-2015 8:24 AM, Rom Walton wrote: Ah, okay. The forum code is mucking up the URL for the image. http url https img: http://https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GxN5obBzW6Q/VLaEAFzpabI/KcE/awOO_nLKPhM/s1600/panic%2Bbutton.jpg;> - Rom -Original Message- From:

[boinc_dev] Android BOINC

I've received several reports (e.g. the one below) that the BOINC Android app has major problems on Android 5; for example, that text is invisible because it's white on a white background (this could be the problem in the case below). Does anyone on this list have the tools and skills to

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_admin] make Github repo the master?

...@ssl.berkeley.edu; David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu *Cc:* boinc_ad...@googlegroups.com; BOINC Dev Mailing List boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu *Subject:* RE: [boinc_admin] make Github repo the master? I plan on doing the changeover on the 27^th . After the change, everybody should only need to change

Re: [boinc_dev] Boinc for Arm on Linux doesn't report the CPU model, only the vendor.

What version are the package maintainers using? Hopefully patching 7.4 would suffice. -- David On 20-Jul-2015 1:20 PM, Stephen Maclagan wrote: I've patched my local 7.2 head and recompiled Boinc 7.2.47, and it works: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=74138 Mon

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC on Android 5.1.1

.Every time it olny helped to uninstall completely and install BOINC Manager again. /Which of course sadly *destroys* the 4 current WUs !!/ :-( Be well Filip 2015-07-19 1:05 GMT+02:00 David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu: Apparently the BOINC/Android

Re: [boinc_dev] Boinc for Arm on Linux doesn't report the CPU model, only the vendor.

Stephen: Thanks. It looks like the /proc/cpuinfo format changed at some point, and we weren't parsing the model name correctly for ARM. I checked in changes that will parse the /proc/cpuinfo examples you sent. Hopefully this will also work on recent Android. Rom, can you please test this on

Re: [boinc_dev] Boinc for Arm on Linux doesn't report the CPU model, only the vendor.

On Android (i.e. Linux) BOINC gets CPU info by parsing /proc/cpuinfo. Maybe the format of this has changed. Can someone who's seeing this problem please post the contents of /proc/cpuinfo on their device? Thanks -- David On 19-Jul-2015 6:09 AM, Stephen Maclagan wrote: The reason I'm posting

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC future

I couldn't repro this; account create succeeded. -- David On 12-Jul-2015 8:36 PM, lsi wrote: Hi All, First off, greetings, my first post - I probably would have posted on the web forum BUT I can't sign up due to an error on the signup page - so, second, I'd like to point out that there's an

Re: [boinc_dev] memory leak?

Where is the forum post? -- David On 29-Jun-2015 10:41 AM, Rebirther wrote: Someone posted this in our forum: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2 bytes) in /home/boincadm/projects/sr5/html/inc/db_conn.inc on line 119 It is happening by

Re: [boinc_dev] boinc_dev Digest, Vol 133, Issue 14

: David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu To: boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] memory leak? Message-ID: 5591bde4.2030...@ssl.berkeley.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Where is the forum post? -- David On 29-Jun-2015 10:41 AM, Rebirther wrote

Re: [boinc_dev] having trouble running xadd

What version of MySQL are you using? (see mysql --version) -- David On 26-Jun-2015 7:08 AM, Patcharaporn Jenviriyakul wrote: Dear experts, I got an error when I try to run bin/xadd command. sudo bin/xadd Processing App#None upper_case ... Traceback (most recent call last): File bin/xadd,

Re: [boinc_dev] is there a way to persist files on the host?

The easiest way is to not tell BOINC about the file - just create it in the project directory, and look for it there in subsequent jobs. The app can get the project dir from the APP_INIT_DATA: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/StatusApi -- David On 25-Jun-2015 2:10 AM, Marius Millea wrote:

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] BOINC re-using slot directories without ensuring they're empty

Message- From: boinc_dev [mailto:boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu mailto:boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Haselgrove Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:34 AM To: David Anderson; Jacob Klein; Seke Rob Cc: BOINC Development Subject: Re: [boinc_dev

Re: [boinc_dev] I: Question about changes to boinc/7.4.7+dfsg-1exp1

Fixed. -- David On 03-Apr-2015 1:40 AM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: Hi Boinc developers, Michael Tautschnig, has discovered a bug in the zip code with a really nice code checker tool and reported on debian bug 747964 https://bugs.debian.org/747964 can you please apply the attached patch

Re: [boinc_dev] App version affinity for job

(this would be better posted to boinc_proje...@ssl.berkeley.edu). You may be able to use homogeneous app version: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/HomogeneousAppVersion This ensures that the instances of a given job are done using the same app version. -- David On 09-Jun-2015 10:47 AM,

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] BOINC re-using slot directories without ensuring they're empty

, 20:57, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: That looks like what's needed. Richard, if you can repro the inter-job delay, you could try using Process Monitor to capture as much as possible from the client during that period. -- David On 18-May-2015 11:12 AM, Jacob

Re: [boinc_dev] Multi-GPU scheduling broken

I fixed that particular bug (please review the change). This code with written without multi-GPU apps in mind. There may be other bugs related to multi-GPU apps. -- David On 08-Jun-2015 3:20 PM, Teemu Mannermaa wrote: Hello, Once again I've been tracking interesting bug in the BOINC Client.

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] BOINC re-using slot directories without ensuring they're empty

. On Tuesday, 12 May 2015, 23:29, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: BTW: the client isn't completely single-threaded; it uses a separate thread to do CPU throttling. It would be feasible to also use separate threads for serving GUI RPC connections, which would allow client

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] BOINC re-using slot directories without ensuring they're empty

in the async code. - Rom -Original Message- From: boinc_dev [mailto:boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jacob Klein Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 2:12 PM To: David Anderson; Richard Haselgrove; Seke Rob Cc: BOINC Development Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] BOINC re

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] BOINC re-using slot directories without ensuring they're empty

as this is now nearing a 5 year continues frustration [June 2010 launch, and a huge limitation on the speed of progress on this project]. --SekeRob. On 12-5-2015 1:55, David Anderson wrote: That delay looks like it's caused by deleting files or by process cleanup. Does GPUGrid make lots of (non

Re: [boinc_dev] Project communication error on test server

Make sure the scheduler URL is correct (see the project's html/user/schedulers.txt) -- David On 28-Apr-2015 1:58 AM, Marius Millea wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to set up a test server in a VM based on the instructions here https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/VmServer. Everything appears fine,

Re: [boinc_dev] Bug in the BOINC Wrapper

I checked in a fix; thanks for finding this. -- David On 20-Apr-2015 10:34 PM, Kevin Vinsen wrote: I think I’ve found a bug in the BOINC wrapper for checkpointing Line 973 of wrapper.c is the read_checkpoint function. int read_checkpoint(int ntasks_completed, double cpu, double rt) {

Re: [boinc_dev] DC-api and android

I suggest using the BOINC API directly. -- David On 21-Apr-2015 11:16 AM, Wind Windest wrote: Hello we have made an application using DC-api over BOINC and compile it for android devices, but it seems like a hard work to do. The SZTAKI group have quitted developing their project (DC-API

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC Database Info errors

Fixed. -- David On 17-Apr-2015 11:42 PM, Rebirther wrote: Hi, after updating the software there are 2 errors in _ops (dbinfo.php) Notice: Undefined variable: config in /home/boincadm/projects/sr5/html/ops/dbinfo.php on line 28 Warning: mysqli_fetch_assoc() expects parameter 1 to be

Re: [boinc_dev] max_wu_to_sent

max_wus_in_progress is 5; try increasing it. -- David On 29-Mar-2015 12:49 AM, Rebirther wrote: Hi, in my config.xml I have set it to 20 but only getting 6 every RPC request at once (6 core). What should I change else? current config: enable_assignment1/enable_assignment

Re: [boinc_dev] OpenCL for CPU apps do not suspend in BOINC 7.4.36

Jon: An app that uses multiple CPUs must be set up as an MT app (i.e. with a plan class that sets avg_ncpus correctly). But regardless, suspend when computer in use should suspend all apps except NCI. Did this behavior start with 7.4.36? Does the app use the current API code? -- David On

Re: [boinc_dev] Client: Event Log enhancement

I added this. -- David On 09-Mar-2015 7:45 AM, Richard Haselgrove wrote: For Windows only. It's been a long time since the use of GPUs was disabled when running BOINC as a service, but people keep getting caught out - most recently in http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76849

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC client problems with HTTP 1.0 proxies

option. It should be automatic fallback when a 417 error is encountered. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:06 PM, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu mailto:da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: There's a client config option http_1_0/ that tells the client to use HTTP 1.0: see http

Re: [boinc_dev] Android 4.3 hosts not receiving Seti work.

I changed the schedule code so that it parses either 4.3.0 or 4.3. Eric, feel free to deploy this on S@h. -- D On 16-Feb-2015 1:02 PM, Stephen Maclagan wrote: There's a pair of Android 4.3 hosts that seem to have been caught by Eric's limiting Seti work to pre-Android 5 hosts, They are both

Re: [boinc_dev] set app priority

? *From:* David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu *To:* Jacob Klein jacob_w_kl...@msn.com *Cc:* BOINC Development boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu *Sent:* Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:42 PM *Subject:* Re

Re: [boinc_dev] set app priority

' definition instead, and ignore the CPU fraction? *From:* David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu *To:* Jacob Klein jacob_w_kl...@msn.com *Cc:* BOINC Development boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu *Sent

Re: [boinc_dev] web: make code and pre BBCode text word-wrap

Currently, BBcode like [pre]xxx[/pre] is transformed to div class=prexxx/div, where the CSS for the classes are (in html/user/main.css): .pre { font-family: Courier New, courier, monospace; display: block; white-space: pre; overflow: auto; } .code { font-family: Courier New,

Re: [boinc_dev] web: make code and pre BBCode text word-wrap

Thanks; I reverted this change. -- David On 10-Feb-2015 8:00 AM, Juha wrote: The change: web: make code and pre BBCode text word-wrap If you don't, and there's a long item, table cells are stretched out and other items become hard to read (need to scroll horizontally) diff

Re: [boinc_dev] deleting input files - md5

file_deleter deletes the .md5 files, but only if cache_md5_info is set in config.xml. Do you have this flag set? -- David On 03-Feb-2015 9:49 AM, Rebirther wrote: My server ran out of Inode space because of many small files. The problem is that the created md5 file of any of the input files

Re: [boinc_dev] feature request

Fixed; please update and try again. -- David On 30-Jan-2015 2:07 PM, Rebirther wrote: The new --reject_if_present option doesnt work for substring_validator. config.xml line validator-average --stderr_string Missing --reject_if_present -d 3 -app srbase6 --credit_from_wu If the string

Re: [boinc_dev] set app priority

Jacob: BOINC runs CPU jobs at idle priority to avoid impacting the performance of non-BOINC programs. The rationale for running jobs that use 1 CPU at higher priority is that - because they use little CPU time, running them at higher priority won't have much impact on other programs - some

Re: [boinc_dev] feature request

I added this. -- David On 28-Jan-2015 11:05 AM, Rebirther wrote: I want the opposite of the substring (validator). I need to check after a string and if its present the validation must be invalid, all others valid. An additional option would be great. -Reb

Re: [boinc_dev] feature request

... in the form of a --reject_if_present cmdline arg to sample_substr_validator; see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ValidationIntro -- D On 28-Jan-2015 11:05 AM, Rebirther wrote: I want the opposite of the substring (validator). I need to check after a string and if its present the

Re: [boinc_dev] db_purge is not running after the update, problems with server_status.php

Oops! Please update and try again. I'm not seeing the problem with server_status.php -- David On 26-Jan-2015 1:07 AM, Henri Heinonen wrote: After updating the server software I get this: cat db_purge_1.log 2015-01-26 08:52:38.3242 [debug] Purged result [41508740] from database

Re: [boinc_dev] boinc_init on multithreaded apps

The documentation was a mess; I cleaned it up somewhat. Multithreaded apps must initialize as described here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BasicApi and other info for multithreaded apps is here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AppMultiThread -- David On 06-Jan-2015 6:52 PM, Nicolás

Re: [boinc_dev] RPC for android

The BOINC GUI/client RPCs on Android use local (Unix-domain) connections instead of network (TCP/IP). Using network connections requires that the client maintain a listening TCP socket. Google considers this a security vulnerability, and doesn't allow apps that do this to be included in Android

Re: [boinc_dev] Building procinfo_mac.cpp

I added an include of unistd.h. -- David On 11-Jan-2015 8:00 AM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: Hello boincers, I'm writing a CMake build system for BOINC (currently only lib and api) and I'm having troubles on Mac. Once I added the Mac-specific source files, I get this: lib/procinfo_mac.cpp:48:15:

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