February 13, 2007 16:00:00
The new boinc client for linux version 5.8.11 has been released. This contains a bugfix for the stack limit problem that caused all the results crunched by the 5.8.8 client to crash. We discovered that there was some information for the processor model missing yesterday which has been fixed by the boinc devs and will be incorporated in the next client release. Please upgrade to 5.8.11 or higher if you can. This will help us a lot with the HR issue.
Is it fair to assume that I can delete the "ulimit"-fix from the run_manager file now that I've upgraded to 5.8.11?
Thanks,
Rene
Edit:
I don't know if others have seen this, but after the installation BOINC manager claims to be version 5.8.8... strange... I've never downloaded the 5.8.8 build and have upgraded to 5.8.11 from 5.8.2
February 13, 2007 16:00:00
The new boinc client for linux version 5.8.11 has been released. This contains a bugfix for the stack limit problem that caused all the results crunched by the 5.8.8 client to crash. We discovered that there was some information for the processor model missing yesterday which has been fixed by the boinc devs and will be incorporated in the next client release. Please upgrade to 5.8.11 or higher if you can. This will help us a lot with the HR issue.
Is it fair to assume that I can delete the "ulimit"-fix from the run_manager file now that I've upgraded to 5.8.11?
Thanks,
Rene
Edit:
I don't know if others have seen this, but after the installation BOINC manager claims to be version 5.8.8... strange... I've never downloaded the 5.8.8 build and have upgraded to 5.8.11 from 5.8.2
;-)
Apparently in the Linux forum others have said it won't work if you delete the ulimit fix. The issue isn't in BOINC it's in the way charmm is working (or perhaps the fortran compiler's code) so there won't be a fix in BOINC to rid us 'ulimit -s'. BOINC affected charmm by limiting the 'ulimit -s' setting. The new version allows 'ulimit -s' to work correctly again. BTW, if you have 5.8.11 installed, it's likely the correct version. The popup About box just has the wrong info in it. I let them know about it in beta but there were so many other issues at the time it probably just slipped through the cracks. But when you startup BOINC, it should still report the correct version in the Messages panel or in the log file.
Is it fair to assume that I can delete the "ulimit"-fix from the run_manager file now that I've upgraded to 5.8.11?
Thanks,
Rene
Unfortunately, the "ulimit" fix is still needed.
Around version 5.8.8, logic was introduced into the BOINC client which broke the "ulimit" fix. Version 5.8.11 removed the code that broke the "ulimit" fix and got us back to the point where we were with the older versions of the BOINC client.
HTH,
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