[boinc_dev] BOINC on Android

2012-03-16 Thread David Anderson
I recently sent an email to several people interested in BOINC on Android. If you didn't get this, and are interested in taking part in these discussions, please let me know. -- David ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu

Re: [boinc_dev] MySQL Port Number

2012-03-12 Thread David Anderson
Daniel: I added code to the C++ interface that parses hostname:port. -- David On 12-Mar-2012 2:20 AM, Daniel Lombraña González wrote: Dear all, Do you know how you can specify a different port number for the DB? Because in the documentation there is no information about this specific issue,

Re: [boinc_dev] Do we need to comply with COPPA

2012-03-12 Thread David Anderson
BOINC stores a cookie only when users log in, and this could be viewed as explicitly requesting a particular service, and therefore not requiring explicit consent. In any case, I think it would suffice to add text to the login page saying that logging in uses cookies. -- David On 08-Mar-2012

Re: [boinc_dev] Compile error: ../vda/vda_lib.h:28:19: error: stats.h: No such file or directory

2012-03-10 Thread David Anderson
Oops, forgot to add new files. Please try again. -- David On 10-Mar-2012 1:38 PM, yoyo wrote: Hello, I downloaded the latest SVN version and get a compile error in directory sched: make[2]: Entering directory `/home/boincadm/boinc/sched' if /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++

Re: [boinc_dev] nood question

2012-02-26 Thread David Anderson
See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/DevProjects The process is: 1) propose and discuss ideas 2) implement and send me diffs 3) I check them in. -- David On 26-Feb-2012 9:50 AM, Dead J. Dona wrote: good day. please tell me how can I contribute to boinc server code? okay, i do not mean to

Re: [boinc_dev] UI freeze after loading external pictures in the Notice tab

2012-02-14 Thread David Anderson
The HTML renderer in WxWidgets 2.8 is a homegrown thing that seems to have problems with images (i.e. it freezes sometimes). WxWidgets 2.9 uses WebKit, and we'll be upgrading to this soon. -- David On 14-Feb-2012 12:52 AM, Daniel Lombraña González wrote: Dear all, Some of our users are

Re: [boinc_dev] charity support of a boinc project

2012-01-23 Thread David Anderson
All these things are possible; we're doing some or all of them for - GridRepublic - Progress Thru [sic] Processors - The Charity Engine Please have the organization contact me for details. -- David On 23-Jan-2012 12:28 PM, yoyo wrote: Hello, some big charity organization want's to support a

Re: [boinc_dev] Number of tasks completed

2012-01-23 Thread David Anderson
Done. -- David On 16-Jan-2012 6:54 PM, Josef W. Segur wrote: The Application details page for a host running an older version of BOINC shows all applications as having zero tasks completed. That's because the pfc_n count is used, and that isn't incremented unless the result elapsed time is

Re: [boinc_dev] How do I run the boinc manager gui from within VS

2012-01-22 Thread David Anderson
The GUI is a separate program. Run a 2nd VS, select boincmgr as the startup project, compile it, run it. -- David On 22-Jan-2012 11:00 PM, Kristin Roher wrote: Is it possible to run the boinc manager gui from source code using VS? I have successfully compiled the source code for boinc 6.13.12

Re: [boinc_dev] stderr returned unreliable

2012-01-19 Thread David Anderson
On 19-Jan-2012 11:10 AM, Matt Arsenault wrote: I believe I found the problem. After the process is complete, the redirected stderr file isn't necessarily written to disk resulting in truncated or missing output in some cases before the client attempts to read it. fflush is not sufficient for

Re: [boinc_dev] IOS port of BOINC

2012-01-01 Thread David Anderson
Mark: I'd be interested in this too. BTW, is there a cross-compilation system for iOS? (e.g. on Mac OS X) -- David On 02-Jan-2012 10:07 AM, TarotApprentice wrote: Hi Kristin, I had an iOS developer working on this too. Unfortunately he wan't too good so I gave him the boot. He did

[boinc_dev] some new features

2011-12-25 Thread David Anderson
We recently added some new features to support CERN's VM project. Some of these may be of more general utility. 1) Web-based application graphics. Previously, application graphics (both screensaver and window) were produced using a separate program. In this new approach, window graphics (i.e. the

Re: [boinc_dev] Better weak_auth.php

2011-12-23 Thread David Anderson
Checked in; thanks -- David On 24-Dec-2011 3:59 AM, yoyo wrote: Hello, the weak_auth.php contains only an example how the weak account file should look like. With this patch it is displayed with the content for the concrete project. With this the user can just copy and paste the content:

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC manager bug in Size column of Transfer tab?

2011-12-16 Thread David Anderson
I think it has to do with counting HTTP headers. I looked at this a while ago but didn't immediately see the problem. I'll take another look. -- David On 16-Dec-2011 7:37 AM, Carl Christensen wrote: hmm, I wonder if (since it's a bad connection) it's doing retries but showing a cumulative byte

Re: [boinc_dev] Remote Job Submission

2011-12-10 Thread David Anderson
Thanks, Nico. I checked in these fixes. I decided to change make_project generate template files without .xml rather than changing other tools to expect .xml (to avoid breaking existing projects). -- David On 08-Dec-2011 10:45 AM, Nico Schlitter wrote: Hi there, Today, I did some tests with

Re: [boinc_dev] Server chooses wrong plan class for work allocation

2011-12-09 Thread David Anderson
No; the project directory path is used to launch the main program, regardless of whether it's been copied to the slot dir. On 08-Dec-2011 6:02 PM, Rom Walton wrote: I thought both the executable and supporting DLLs needed to have the copy_file/ attribute on Windows. In that case the process

Re: [boinc_dev] Server chooses wrong plan class for work allocation

2011-12-08 Thread David Anderson
Interesting! According to MS docs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7d83bc18%28v=vs.80%29.aspx) the search order for DLLs is: 1) The directory where the executable module for the current process is located. 2) The current directory. 3) ... some other directories In our case, 1) is the

Re: [boinc_dev] How to determine AMD's Catalyst driver version?

2011-12-06 Thread David Anderson
This is a question for AMD. Actually I asked them once, and didn't get an answer. -- David On 06-Dec-2011 2:40 AM, Oliver Bock wrote: Hi, The current BOINC client is able to determine the CAL version of the installed AMD/ATI driver. Is there any way to find out (and communicate to the

Re: [boinc_dev] How to determine AMD's Catalyst driver version?

2011-12-06 Thread David Anderson
I fixed this (in the scheduler code). -- David On 06-Dec-2011 5:24 AM, Bernd Machenschalk wrote: If this list is correct, ATI has CAL release numbers1000, which makes the numeric encoding of the CAL version (version_num in COPROC_ATI) kind of inadequate:

Re: [boinc_dev] OpenCL memory error in scheduler? Also: Generic OpenCL plan class

2011-12-01 Thread David Anderson
Sorry, I didn't think this through. The bottom line is that there can't be a generic OpenCL plan class. If you have an OpenCL app that can use either NVIDIA or ATI, you must create two separate app versions, one for NVIDIA, one for ATI, with the existing plan class names. Furthermore, your

Re: [boinc_dev] OpenCL memory error in scheduler? Also: Generic OpenCL plan class

2011-12-01 Thread David Anderson
On 01-Dec-2011 11:27 AM, Jon Sonntag wrote: Has anyone tried Intel's OpenCL library for CPUs yet? Is there a coproc class for that as well? If the library can be bundled with app versions, then these can use the existing mt plan class or a variant of it. If for some reason the library must

Re: [boinc_dev] What is a proper way to have persistent file written by project's app?

2011-12-01 Thread David Anderson
That's probably the best approach (although the files would never get deleted). Make sure you include a version# in the filename. -- David On 01-Dec-2011 2:29 PM, Bernd Machenschalk wrote: But what about just putting the file into the project_directory (as available from init_data.xml),

Re: [boinc_dev] missing files?

2011-11-30 Thread David Anderson
I think reason for adding that check_arg() stuff (some kind of Google-rank-boosting scheme) has disappeared. I'm going to start taking it out, starting with show_user.php -- D On 30-Nov-2011 1:35 PM, yoyo wrote: Hi Travis, I think this is an request from Boincstats BAM to show_user.php with

Re: [boinc_dev] [Fwd: [boinc_projects] Wrapper doesn't consider all used cpu time]

2011-11-29 Thread David Anderson
I checked in a change so that the wrapper measures the CPU time of the app's entire process tree. Note: this involves enumerating all the processes in the system, so it could take a little time. For this reason I have the wrapper measure the app's CPU time only every 10 sec. Maybe I'm being

Re: [boinc_dev] Asking for workunits that will never come

2011-11-24 Thread David Anderson
There are 2 mechanisms: - if the project has no application versions that use a particular processor (CPU or GPU vendor) it sends the client a flag to that effect, and the client won't request that type of work. This is in the current server code; some projects may not be using it. - If

Re: [boinc_dev] Proposal for a Template Engine for the BOINC project websites

2011-11-24 Thread David Anderson
I don't see a strong reason for doing this. There's already is a separation between logic (i.e. DB access) and presentation (HTML). It uses PHP rather than a template engine. For example, html/inc/user.inc : show_user_info_private() generates the HMTL to show some user info Also, I don't see a

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC Database encoding settings

2011-11-16 Thread David Anderson
Thanks. Before committing this, I want to make sure it works. The strange thing is, UTF8 characters seem to work for me even without this change; for example, see http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test/forum_thread.php?id=56 http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test/forum_thread.php?id=44#111 Is this

Re: [boinc_dev] Client SSL support

2011-11-12 Thread David Anderson
yup, the client supports it. -- David On 12-Nov-2011 3:01 AM, Willy wrote: Does the BOINC client support SSL connections, specifically, can it communicate to https://bam.boincstats.com (don't try that yet)? I'm thinking of using SSL at BOINCstats but it would only be a half solution if the

Re: [boinc_dev] APR, DCF and non-deterministic projects

2011-11-07 Thread David Anderson
The goals of CreditNew involve long-term averages. It makes no promises about individual jobs or about credit/hour. If a project has highly variable jobs, this translates into highly variable credit for individual jobs. But the long-term average stuff should still hold. If anyone has a specific

Re: [boinc_dev] app selection problem

2011-11-03 Thread David Anderson
I agree. Let's keep things the way they are. -- David On 03-Nov-2011 9:55 AM, Jon Sonntag wrote: If I choose to run only certain apps for a project and I choose not to accept work from other apps when those apps cannot get work, I would be very unhappy if the project ignored my preferences and

Re: [boinc_dev] app selection problem

2011-11-03 Thread David Anderson
This checkbox, AFAIK, is not part of the BOINC source code. -- David On 03-Nov-2011 5:24 AM, Peter Slacik wrote: Few (or many?) of projects, which allow to selectively opt-in/out for each single applications, have one more optional checkbox to automatically opt-in for each new application,

Re: [boinc_dev] app selection problem

2011-11-03 Thread David Anderson
On 03-Nov-2011 9:20 AM, john.mcl...@sybase.com wrote: It would also be nice to link the applications listed in the applications list with the applications listed for selection so that the administrator did not have to create the list in two places. (apparently they do have to create the

Re: [boinc_dev] app selection problem

2011-11-03 Thread David Anderson
On 03-Nov-2011 12:03 PM, Bernd Machenschalk wrote: I know, but a checkbox is easy to add. Is there any support in BOINC (sched_send etc.) for this behavior? No. ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu

Re: [boinc_dev] More BOINC security

2011-10-26 Thread David Anderson
- Switching to a more expensive hash function would be a goodly amount of work (backward compatibility), so I think we'll stick with MD5. - The recent attack on CPDN was generic (i.e., not CPDN- or BOINC-specific). The first injected query got the DB structure (lists of tables and

Re: [boinc_dev] Client downloads old version of app

2011-10-21 Thread David Anderson
I'm not sure what you're saying. Applications have names. App versions are identified by the 4-tuple (application name, platform, version number, plan class). On 21-Oct-2011 12:12 PM, john.mcl...@sybase.com wrote: Each version should be getting a different name (version number as part of the

Re: [boinc_dev] Locality scheduling

2011-10-21 Thread David Anderson
The tables for locality scheduling are created by the script boinc/db/schema_locality.sql. e.g.: if your project is named foo, cd to boinc/db/ and type mysql foo schema_locality.sql -- David On 21-Oct-2011 12:38 PM, Bernd Machenschalk wrote: Max Dmitrichenko wrote, On 21.10.11 19:22:

Re: [boinc_dev] Client downloads old version of app

2011-10-21 Thread David Anderson
Correct - as of now, you need to stop the project, run update_versions, then start the project. I'll change this to use the trigger file mechanism as before. -- David On 21-Oct-2011 12:45 PM, Patricio Vidal wrote: Hello, I don't know if this is related: after I updated to use the latest

Re: [boinc_dev] boinc_finish() status

2011-10-21 Thread David Anderson
That's definitely not how things are supposed to work. What platform(s) does this happen on? -- David On 21-Oct-2011 7:46 AM, Max Dmitrichenko wrote: Hi! The comment to boinc_finish() tells: // NOTE: a non-zero status tells the core client that we're exiting with // an unrecoverable error,

Re: [boinc_dev] Multiple Disk Drive Usage Suggestion

2011-10-20 Thread David Anderson
That's an excellent idea. It would be a fairly large job to implement, and we can't do it in the near term, but I added it to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/DevProjects -- David On 20-Oct-2011 10:19 AM, S Ross wrote: Suggestion - allow Boinc to use more than one drive at a time.

Re: [boinc_dev] sticky files and rsc_disk_bound

2011-10-19 Thread David Anderson
Max: Currently the server's calculation of disk requirements is crude, and doesn't handle your case well. I'll modify the scheduler so that takes into account sticky files (including their possible presence on the client). However, this may take me a month or two. -- David On 19-Oct-2011 5:06

Re: [boinc_dev] Folder structure for app new version.

2011-10-18 Thread David Anderson
The software (update_versions) accepts both; it's your choice. I updated http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AppVersionNew to explain this better. -- David On 18-Oct-2011 10:35 AM, Patricio Vidal wrote: Hello, The folder structure for app new version (

Re: [boinc_dev] Client downloads old version of app

2011-10-18 Thread David Anderson
That's not the case. It should download a new version even while there's an existing job using an older version. -- David On 18-Oct-2011 5:13 AM, john.mcl...@sybase.com wrote: Does the client have a single old task on hand? If so, it will keep downloading the old executable until that one is

Re: [boinc_dev] latest trunk php user_search.php bug

2011-10-13 Thread David Anderson
Fixed. -- David On 13-Oct-2011 11:49 AM, yoyo wrote: Hello, here http://yafu.dyndns.org/yafu/user_search.php?search_string=xsearch_type=name_prefixcountry=anyprofile=eitherteam=eitheraction=Suche I get the following faults: *Warning*: Cannot modify header information - headers already

Re: [boinc_dev] bug with the work generation system

2011-10-11 Thread David Anderson
Fixed (in sample_work_generator.cpp) -- David On 11-Oct-2011 9:25 AM, Jon Sonntag wrote: I had a similar issue with Collatz a while back. Instead of the normal 500 WUs ready to send, there were over 50,000. It took several weeks to clear them out and the nightly maintenance, backup time,

Re: [boinc_dev] Trickle-Message segmentation fault

2011-10-08 Thread David Anderson
Done; thanks. -- David On 08-Oct-2011 5:26 AM, Christian Benjamin Ries wrote: Hello, I just wish to use trickle-messages. As a standalone application a segfault happend, a small modification could solve this: cr@visualgrid-4:~/boinc/boinc/api$ diff boinc_api.cpp* 574d573

Re: [boinc_dev] Suggested change to project backoffs

2011-10-06 Thread David Anderson
the first listed file first. I found I had to allow BOINC to retry, and fail, each BRP file in turn, before it could download gravity-wave files from the (independant, redundant) set of download mirrors that were unaffected by the BRP congestion. - Original Message - From: David

Re: [boinc_dev] Global prefs, and sched.

2011-10-04 Thread David Anderson
Israel: Assuming that your BAM prefs were host-specific, I figured out what the problem is. It's a scheduler bug, and the fix will be deployed in SAH tomorrow. -- David On 04-Oct-2011 2:19 PM, Israel Figueroa wrote: Hi, I've a windows box with a 6.12.34 client for winXP installed. Attached to

Re: [boinc_dev] Suggested change to project backoffs

2011-10-03 Thread David Anderson
The way things are supposed to work: if a file has multiple URLs (for either download or upload) the client tries them all, and if they all fail it backs off on the project. So there should be no single-point-of-failure effect. Does anyone see the client behaving differently from this? -- David

Re: [boinc_dev] Seti@home scheduler inability to send out Wu's to certain GPU's

2011-10-03 Thread David Anderson
This was due to a bug introduced into the BOINC scheduler. I fixed this bug, and a new scheduler will be deployed soon. -- David On 03-Oct-2011 3:06 PM, Stephen Maclagan wrote: Since the last Maintenance day there's been a lot of users reporting problems getting GPU Wu's, Urs Echternacht has

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Does Work Fetch recognize exclude_gpu configuration?

2011-10-01 Thread David Anderson
On 24-Sep-2011 10:29 PM, Jacob Klein wrote: David, In order to setup the scenario, I removed my GPUGrid and Einstein tasks, then let the client figure out what to do. As it went asking projects for more work, GPUGrid.net got 5 GPU tasks, and then work fetch stopped asking for NVIDIA

Re: [boinc_dev] Suggested change to project backoffs

2011-10-01 Thread David Anderson
It would be possible to do per-server backoff, but it's probably not worth the added complexity. -- David On 01-Oct-2011 7:42 AM, TarotApprentice wrote: Now that Einstein is getting download issues I would suggest a change to the way backoff's work. Einstein issues different types of work

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] libnotify4 and BOINC

2011-09-29 Thread David Anderson
I'm referring to the Linux client that we (BOINC) supply. It's targeted at the current Ubuntu, but we'd like it to run on other distributions (including older versions) as well. On 29-Sep-2011 7:45 AM, Matt Arsenault wrote: On Sep 29, 2011, at 12:23 AM, David Anderson wrote: Ideally we'd like

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] libnotify4 and BOINC

2011-09-28 Thread David Anderson
Supporting both will require using dlopen(), dlsym() etc. We'll do this at some point (or you can do it if you have time). -- David On 28-Sep-2011 11:32 AM, Matt Arsenault wrote: Is there a later version? Yes. The current version is 0.7. 0.6 introduced API changes. It would probably be

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] libnotify4 and BOINC

2011-09-28 Thread David Anderson
Ideally we'd like to have a release that works on machines with old and new versions of libnotify. At compile time you have to choose one or the other. On 28-Sep-2011 7:37 PM, Matt Arsenault wrote: On Sep 28, 2011, at 4:33 PM, David Anderson wrote: Supporting both will require using dlopen

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] libnotify4 and BOINC

2011-09-27 Thread David Anderson
On 27-Sep-2011 5:00 PM, Charlie Fenton wrote: We specifically do _not_ recommend using autotools on the Mac to build BOINC. For general distribution, it should always be built using XCode. For the SVN trunk, we recommend XCode 4.1. Charlie: We use xcode, but if other people want to use

Re: [boinc_dev] Average processing rate at Seti

2011-09-24 Thread David Anderson
Stephen: The person to ask is Jeff Cobb. I think he plans on deploying the fix on Monday. -- David On 24-Sep-2011 11:13 AM, Stephen Maclagan wrote: What happened to applying this fix to the Main Project, two Fridays have gone by now, Claggy - Original Message - From: David

Re: [boinc_dev] forum_index.php

2011-09-23 Thread David Anderson
Fixed. -- David On 22-Sep-2011 1:26 PM, yoyo wrote: Hello, latest svn trunk version, http://yafu.dyndns.org/yafu/forum_index.php When you hover the mouse over the Mark all forums as read button, the mouse over text shows as Mark all threads in all message boards as \'read\' The element

[boinc_dev] Using Wordpress for BOINC project sites

2011-09-21 Thread David Anderson
Thanks to recent work by Carl Christensen, you can now use Wordpress (a popular content management system) as the basis for your BOINC project's web site. This is described here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WordPressInt The notion of account is unified: when users log in with their BOINC

Re: [boinc_dev] Average processing rate at Seti

2011-09-15 Thread David Anderson
I changed the ratio limit from 2 to 10, and added the limit to non-anonymous-platfrom as well. Should be on beta tomorrow, main project Friday. -- David On 09-Sep-2011 12:37 PM, Josef W. Segur wrote: Here's a few comments related to the short term changes as implemented in changeset 24128.

Re: [boinc_dev] IPV6?

2011-09-13 Thread David Anderson
On 13-Sep-2011 10:38 AM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: 2011/9/13, john.mcl...@sybase.comjohn.mcl...@sybase.com: Does BOINC support IPV6 yet? ... I have seen some work to implement IPv6 for GUI RPCs, but I have no idea what's the current status; David? A couple of years ago we started using

Re: [boinc_dev] Wrapper deletes checkpoint file

2011-09-13 Thread David Anderson
Good point. Who wrote that code anyway? svn blame wrapper.cpp ... 19159 davea if (checkpoint_filename.size()) { 19159 davea boinc_delete_file(checkpoint_filename.c_str()); 19159 davea } Oops! -- David On 13-Sep-2011 12:39 PM, yoyo wrote: Hello, I use

Re: [boinc_dev] Curl Call does not urlescape characters

2011-09-13 Thread David Anderson
Thanks; I added a call to curl_easy_escape(). -- David On 13-Sep-2011 5:32 PM, Tom Ritter wrote: I noticed this in 6.11.1, and it appears the code is the same here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/trunk/boinc/client/http_curl.cpp#L425 client/http_curl.cpp:425

Re: [boinc_dev] Invalid Notices XML

2011-09-09 Thread David Anderson
Fixed. This will appear in the 6.13.4 client. -- David On 09-Sep-2011 9:02 AM, Jon Sonntag wrote: In v6.12.34, the url elements in the xml files used for notices contain ampersands which are not escaped (e.g. instead ofamp; ) or in a CDATA section. This causes errors when reading them with a

Re: [boinc_dev] Work fetch / Scheduling problem

2011-09-09 Thread David Anderson
I see the problem. It seems to me that the only solution is to make rr_sim model more accurately what the scheduler does, including REC and time-slicing. This shouldn't be that hard to do, but it will take a couple of days at least. -- David On 09-Sep-2011 9:14 AM, john.mcl...@sybase.com

Re: [boinc_dev] Warning in result.php of latest trunk

2011-09-08 Thread David Anderson
fixed -- David On 08-Sep-2011 11:58 AM, yoyo wrote: Hello, latest svn trunk version, warning in result.php: *Warning*: Missing argument 2 for show_result(), called in /home/boincadm/projects/yafu/html/user/result.php on line 33 and defined in

Re: [boinc_dev] Feature Request: Delete local config (and pull from Account manager) via boinccmd

2011-09-06 Thread David Anderson
I'm not sure which file you're talking about: - cc_config.xml (there is no mechanism for getting this from an account manager) - global_prefs_override.xml -- David On 06-Sep-2011 7:14 AM, Johannes Fürmann wrote: Hi *, For the last couple of days I tried to delete the local boinc config

Re: [boinc_dev] App crashed after updating BOINC libs to rev 23996 trunk

2011-09-06 Thread David Anderson
APP_INIT_DATA has increased in size, and there's an inconsistency between the app and the library. Try doing make clean in the app, then rebuild. -- David On 06-Sep-2011 1:18 PM, Raistmer wrote: Can confirm now that with boinc_get_init_data(app_init_data); commented out app runs (offline) to

Re: [boinc_dev] forum_index.php line 96

2011-09-05 Thread David Anderson
Fixed. -- David On 04-Sep-2011 11:22 AM, yoyo wrote: Same here: *Warning*: Missing argument 2 for start_forum_table(), called in html/user/forum_forum.php on line 139 and defined in *html/inc/forum.inc* on line *200* yoyo schrieb: Hello, latest trunk version: *Warning*: Missing argument

Re: [boinc_dev] Account manager RPC

2011-09-02 Thread David Anderson
The 6.13+ version of the client can handle weak authenticators. -- David On 02-Sep-2011 11:53 AM, Israel Figueroa wrote: In the Wiki ( http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AccountManagement#AccountmanagerRPCs ) there is a mention that pre 6.14 clients can't handle weak authentifiers as

Re: [boinc_dev] prefs_edit.php?subset=project

2011-09-02 Thread David Anderson
/boincadm/projects/yafu/html/user/add_venue.php on line 65 David Anderson schrieb: Fixed. -- David On 01-Sep-2011 1:02 PM, yoyo wrote: Hello, when I edit my preferences (latest trunk version) and select allow beta apps I get: *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function prefs_beta_parse_form

Re: [boinc_dev] prefs_edit.php?subset=project

2011-09-01 Thread David Anderson
Fixed. -- David On 01-Sep-2011 1:02 PM, yoyo wrote: Hello, when I edit my preferences (latest trunk version) and select allow beta apps I get: *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function prefs_beta_parse_form() in *html/user/prefs_edit.php* on line *63* yoyo

Re: [boinc_dev] SETI user web: profile code broken

2011-08-29 Thread David Anderson
Fixed. -- David On 29-Aug-2011 5:30 AM, Richard Haselgrove wrote: And another one - using the red-x to report forum messages to a moderator also results in a 500 Internal Server Error. Another one for the 'ToDo' list in 24064: there are user reports that trying 'edit profile' results in a

Re: [boinc_dev] Seti Advanced search not working

2011-08-28 Thread David Anderson
Fixed. -- David On 28-Aug-2011 1:34 PM, TarotApprentice wrote: While we're bombarding David with issues on the Seti web site... I noticed the message boards advanced search doesn't seem to work. If you use the simple search (ie just enter search string in the box provided) that works fine.

Re: [boinc_dev] Building boincmgr (trunk) fails

2011-08-26 Thread David Anderson
On 26-Aug-2011 7:08 AM, Christian Beer wrote: Hi, I tried to reproduce building client, manager and libraries with a newly installed Debian 6 and found out that make does not enter the clientgui directory, thus not building and copying the manager into the stage the Makefile.am change fixed

Re: [boinc_dev] minimal API need to implement a BOINC Client

2011-08-25 Thread David Anderson
The smallest BOINC client is BoincLite: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/trunk/BoincLite It can be attached to only 1 project at a time, and does only 1 job at a time. -- David On 25-Aug-2011 12:15 PM, Márcio Vinicius dos Santos wrote: Hi, I'm trying to implement a minimal BOINC

Re: [boinc_dev] minimal API need to implement a BOINC Client

2011-08-25 Thread David Anderson
On 25-Aug-2011 7:40 PM, Márcio Vinicius dos Santos wrote: Thanks, I found in http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SoftwareDevelopment some links about Protocols, Is it all I need to implement mine own client ? Yes. The docs describing protocols may be out of date. You can run the standard

[boinc_dev] Settings/Options in the BOINC manager

2011-08-24 Thread David Anderson
On 23-Aug-2011 2:15 PM, Jorden van der Elst wrote: In BOINC 6.12 the Options menu has been changed to Network and display options. However, it also has the Language, Notice reminder interval, Run Manager at login? and Enable Manager exit dialog? settings, which are now a tad hidden as no

Re: [boinc_dev] Settings/Options in the BOINC manager

2011-08-24 Thread David Anderson
David Anderson davea@ssl.berkel ey.edu To Sent by: Jorden van der Elst boinc_dev-bounceels...@gmail.com s...@ssl.berkeley.ed

Re: [boinc_dev] CPU priority for 0 resource projects.

2011-08-08 Thread David Anderson
I changed the RR sim slightly to work for zero-share jobs. -- David On 08-Aug-2011 7:01 AM, john.mcl...@sybase.com wrote: Once a task has been downloaded, the client has made a commitment to get it done on time. Hopefully the modifications to the resource scheduler will not prevent tasks

Re: [boinc_dev] File flags - sticky generated files

2011-07-19 Thread David Anderson
The current (6.13) BOINC client doesn't support sticky generated files, as you describe them. It also doesn't support files that are both uploaded and downloaded (as required for distributed storage purposes). Here's a design doc for client changes that will fix both problems:

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] CreditNew: Is it really just a random number generator?

2011-07-11 Thread David Anderson
(I'm moving this to boinc_dev; not appropriate for boinc_alpha) Re Eric's idea: we do maintain std dev. However, this wouldn't work if there is an initial sequence of consistent, small values, and large values thereafter. Richard, rest assured that CreditNew is not a RNG. Something anomalous is

Re: [boinc_dev] Divide by Zero error in host_app_versions.php line 43

2011-07-02 Thread David Anderson
This was fixed in trunk. At this point, projects should use trunk instead of server_stable (I've been meaning to promote trunk, but haven't gotten around to it). -- David On 02-Jul-2011 3:17 PM, Jon Sonntag wrote: Current line 43: $gflops = 1e-9/$hav-et_avg; If the user hasn't

Re: [boinc_dev] API for remote job submission

2011-06-21 Thread David Anderson
David Anderson schrieb: We plan to add an API for remote job submission soon. The design doc is here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/RemoteJobs Please read and comment. I know that several projects have implemented their own mechanism of this sort, and I'd like to hear about

[boinc_dev] configure problem

2011-05-26 Thread David Anderson
Can anyone help with this? I'm getting the following error from configure: ... checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config Package openssl was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `openssl.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No

Re: [boinc_dev] configure problem

2011-05-26 Thread David Anderson
Thanks, Carl. The package turned out to be named libssl-dev On 26-May-2011 11:15 AM, Carl Christensen wrote: make sure you have the apt-get install openssl-dev and not just openssl also if you use apt-get it probably puts it somewhere weird ie not just /usr/local/ssl so you have to find out

Re: [boinc_dev] lib/filesys function boinc_make_dirs issues

2011-05-25 Thread David Anderson
That's the correct behavior ('c' is a filename, not a dir name) -- David On 25-May-2011 11:51 AM, joshhigh...@gmail.com wrote: 3) (new) if filepath parameter is a/b/c, then the 'c' directory will not be created; the while loop breaks too soon. ___

Re: [boinc_dev] proposal for new update_versions - comments welcome

2011-05-18 Thread David Anderson
Teemu: I fixed 1). I can't reproduce 2); if I answer n or no, it goes to the next one and prompts for y/n. -- David On 18-May-2011 9:31 AM, Teemu Mannermaa wrote: On 10.5.2011 20:15, David Anderson wrote: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AppVersionNew I've just release new applications

Re: [boinc_dev] total_limit in config_aux.xml not respected

2011-05-13 Thread David Anderson
I can't reproduce this. Kamran, can you please put debug_quota1/debug_quota in your config.xml, then send me part of your scheduler.log? Thanks -- David On 12-May-2011 10:32 AM, Kamran Karimi wrote: Hi all, After a server upgrade yesterday, it seems that the total_limit tag in

Re: [boinc_dev] boinc_report_app_status bug in Windows?

2011-05-13 Thread David Anderson
Daniel: You need to pass a double (time_t is an int). Linux/Mac case: the small difference is because we were writing them with different format conversion codes (%f and %e). I fixed this. -- David On 12-May-2011 5:03 AM, Daniel Lombraña González wrote: Dear all, I'm using this method

Re: [boinc_dev] Buffer overflow in dir_size() function / ticket #1108

2011-05-11 Thread David Anderson
Thanks; I fixed this. -- David On 11-May-2011 7:50 AM, and...@gmx.de wrote: Hi all, I was told by the friendly forum moderators that it's probably best if I post my findings here so it reaches the right people. I was experiencing a crash in boinc that, judging by the stack trace, looks

[boinc_dev] proposal for new update_versions - comments welcome

2011-05-10 Thread David Anderson
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AppVersionNew -- David ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] clients not getting rsc_fpops_bound correctly?

2011-05-07 Thread David Anderson
Tom: Those numbers come from the server. Try setting debug_send/ and debug_version_select/ in your config.xml, and look for anomalies in your scheduler log (or send a chunk of it to me). -- David On 06-May-2011 5:50 PM, Tom Ritter wrote: No solution, but here's a sample of some logs that show

Re: [boinc_dev] First benchmarks run

2011-05-01 Thread David Anderson
We decided that it would be a bad user experience if the fan went on right away. -- David On 29-Apr-2011 5:28 AM, Rytis Slatkevičius wrote: Is there any reason why benchmarks only run after the first project is attached (on a clean install)? It would be nice from the user's perspective if

[boinc_dev] account manager questions

2011-04-28 Thread David Anderson
This was posted on the BOINC msg boards; I'm answering it here. -- David I'm trying to implement yet another Boinc Account Manager (AM), I'm currently in a planning stage. I've been reading wikis, mailist, and the code of other similar project (jarifa) and there are some doubts for the correct

[boinc_dev] BOINC Workshop 2011

2011-04-26 Thread David Anderson
Everyone: The BOINC workshop will be held in Hannover, Germany this year, at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. The tentative dates are 18-19 August. See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WorkShop11 As usual, the workshop is free, but you must register by sending me email.

Re: [boinc_dev] validator code question

2011-04-25 Thread David Anderson
Yes, that was wrong. I changed it to: if (retry) { // this usually means an NFS mount has failed; // arrange to try again later. // transition_time = DELAYED; goto leave; } -- David

Re: [boinc_dev] feature request: AMS acct_mgr_request

2011-04-24 Thread David Anderson
Willy: I implemented this. Rom: please backport [23429] to 6.12. -- David On 24-Apr-2011 12:25 AM, Willy wrote: Hi all, Would it be possible to include the sections time_stats and net_stats (as they are present in the sched_request) in the acct_mgr_request.xml as well. I could make some nice

Re: [boinc_dev] Question about Dev Projects Wiki

2011-04-23 Thread David Anderson
On 22-Apr-2011 7:01 PM, Joe Areeda wrote: than code. It is available at http://www.areeda.com/jclientgui.jar. I got a File not Found there with. Is there documentation on the requests available, calling arguments and returned information? Getting that stuff from the

Re: [boinc_dev] An idea for speeding up GPU projects

2011-04-20 Thread David Anderson
Projects that want fast turnaround time for GPU jobs either assign short deadlines for those jobs, or limit the # of GPU jobs in progress on a host. Queue length doesn't impact either of these. -- David On 19-Apr-2011 9:49 PM, robert miles wrote: Could you make the queue length for GPU workunits

Re: [boinc_dev] boinc_report_app_status() changes the behavior of Suspend Task

2011-04-19 Thread David Anderson
Daniel: When you report the last checkpoint time, you're telling the client that the app has checkpointed. This allows the client to preempt the application. So what you see is normal. -- David On 19-Apr-2011 2:09 AM, Daniel Lombraña González wrote: Dear all, I have been tweaking my wrapper,

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