BOINC manager 5.7.x experiences ?
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David Ball
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I'm still running the recommended BOINC clients (Linux 5.4.9 and Windows 5.4.11) but I've noticed some people here are running the test 5.7.x clients. I was wondering what kind of experience you're having with them. Are they stable or do they tend to crash some?
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The current one (5.7.5)is rock solid for me aside from one annoying bug that'll be fixed in the next alpha release.
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Yes 5.7.5 seems enough stable to be used:) Yet it has the problem in snoozing, according to forums @ berkerley. Next the 5.8 will be released as recommended version.
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David Ball
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Yes 5.7.5 seems enough stable to be used:) Yet it has the problem in snoozing, according to forums @ berkerley. Next the 5.8 will be released as recommended version. I'll sure be glad when the new version for Linux is released. I'm on a dial-up connection and the BOINC manager menu item to suspend communications doesn't always work on my FC3 machine. The dot shows up by "Network Activity Suspended" on the activity menu but, most of the time, it never writes the suspended message to the log and they aren't actually suspended. Even using boinc_cmd from the command line doesn't do it. On the BOINC message boards, they asked for some people to email a developer with info they had on the problem with the current BOINC client sometimes dying and orphaning Rosetta. The thread was about it happening in Windows, but I've had it happen in Linux and got a very informative stack trace. When I sent it to the developer, I asked him to please release a command line version for Linux again. I also subscribed to the BOINC developers mailing list and have started going back through the archives. They're discussing some of problems that are going to have to be addressed with Vista, so I would expect a point release soon after Vista is readily available to users and developers, rather than just the giant corporations. Reading about the snooze problem was a bit spooky for me. When I found out it was caused by confusion over a time being specified in the wrong units, the Mars probe we lost because of metric conversion was the first thing I thought of. That's probably because I had recently read an argument over whether Hubble could have detected the crash if Mars hadn't been on the edge of the exclusion zone for the Sun. Since the release is so close, I think I'll wait until the actual BOINC client 5.8 release to try it. Thanks to everyone who replied! Regards, -- David |
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I also subscribed to the BOINC developers mailing list and have started going back through the archives. They're discussing some of problems that are going to have to be addressed with Vista, so I would expect a point release soon after Vista is readily available to users and developers, rather than just the giant corporations. There seems to be some problems when using a 'Service' install. I've got a 5.7.5 host (seti, cplan, leiden) running under Vista RC1 and using a "Single user" install did not cause any problems. Installation went into the default directory. |
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David Ball
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I also subscribed to the BOINC developers mailing list and have started going back through the archives. They're discussing some of problems that are going to have to be addressed with Vista, so I would expect a point release soon after Vista is readily available to users and developers, rather than just the giant corporations. IIRC, the "all users" and the "service" install are what they are concerned about on Vista. It sounds like you're either going to have security boxes popping up or have to run BOINC with so many permissions that it can really do damage to the system. The other problem I remember has to do with some processes like the Windows Desktop Searching indexer not working because it never sees the system go idle with BOINC running on Vista. I suspect Vista is going to make life interesting for a lot of developers besides BOINC. I would also expect it to be a moving target as Microsoft makes changes to try to deal with the problems developers are having. I'm looking forward to the 5.8 BOINC client release, but I think it's going to be a while before I try Vista instead of XP and Linux. -- David |
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