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Message 6462 - Posted: 15 Nov 2006, 1:24:43 UTC

At work I'm using BOINC 4.72 and for some reason it keeps downloading images again and again. Here is a sample:

11/14/2006 7:30:29 PM|Pirates@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://pirates.spy-hill.net/cgi-bin/scheduler
11/14/2006 7:30:29 PM|Pirates@Home|Reason: To fetch work
11/14/2006 7:30:29 PM|Pirates@Home|Requesting 259200 seconds of work, returning 0 results
11/14/2006 7:30:30 PM|Pirates@Home|Scheduler request to http://pirates.spy-hill.net/cgi-bin/scheduler succeeded
11/14/2006 7:30:30 PM|Pirates@Home|No work from project
11/14/2006 7:30:31 PM|Pirates@Home|Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 26 minutes, and 13 seconds
11/14/2006 7:30:31 PM|Pirates@Home|Started download of arecibo_181.png
11/14/2006 7:30:31 PM|Pirates@Home|Started download of sah_40.png
11/14/2006 7:30:32 PM|Pirates@Home|Finished download of arecibo_181.png
11/14/2006 7:30:32 PM|Pirates@Home|Throughput 482525 bytes/sec
11/14/2006 7:30:32 PM|Pirates@Home|Finished download of sah_40.png
11/14/2006 7:30:32 PM|Pirates@Home|Throughput 54099 bytes/sec
11/14/2006 7:30:32 PM|Pirates@Home|Started download of sah_banner_290.png
11/14/2006 7:30:32 PM|Pirates@Home|Started download of sah_ss_290.png
11/14/2006 7:30:33 PM|Pirates@Home|Finished download of sah_banner_290.png
11/14/2006 7:30:33 PM|Pirates@Home|Throughput 271860 bytes/sec
11/14/2006 7:30:33 PM|Pirates@Home|Finished download of sah_ss_290.png
11/14/2006 7:30:33 PM|Pirates@Home|Throughput 323631 bytes/sec

Any reason why all of a sudden?
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Message 6464 - Posted: 15 Nov 2006, 1:57:16 UTC

Those images are used in the new BOINC with the simple GUI. Are you deleting them, or is your BOINC deleting them on each startup? Anyway, it's a benign problem. You could solve it by using a newer BOINC version anyway. I haven't heard of anyone on a 5.4.x version having this problem.
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Message 6465 - Posted: 15 Nov 2006, 2:52:59 UTC

BOINC deletes them as soon as they download as far as I can tell. I haven't been able to use a 5.4.x version yet at work.
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Message 6472 - Posted: 15 Nov 2006, 8:50:27 UTC

Try copying them off your home PC and writing to the same location on your work PC's boinc installation. If they disappear then set the 'readonly' flag.
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Message 6474 - Posted: 15 Nov 2006, 23:56:27 UTC

Hadn't thought about that. I'll give it a try.
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Message 6482 - Posted: 16 Nov 2006, 2:19:23 UTC

I did not find these files on any of my computers at home. :(
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Message 6484 - Posted: 16 Nov 2006, 3:56:49 UTC - in response to Message 6482.  

I did not find these files on any of my computers at home. :(

Try to download them from my site then. They're in a zip file.

Exit Boinc.
Unzip the files to \\Boinc\\projects\\setiathome.berkeley.edu\\
Make them read only (properties of each file).
Restart Boinc.

Setigraphics.zip
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Message 6491 - Posted: 17 Nov 2006, 4:12:20 UTC
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It's also doing it for ClimatePrediction.

11/16/2006 6:02:13 PM|climateprediction.net|Started download of hadcm3_40.png
11/16/2006 6:02:13 PM|climateprediction.net|Started download of hadcm3_banner_290.png
11/16/2006 6:02:14 PM|climateprediction.net|Finished download of hadcm3_40.png
11/16/2006 6:02:14 PM|climateprediction.net|Throughput 80679 bytes/sec
11/16/2006 6:02:14 PM|climateprediction.net|Finished download of hadcm3_banner_290.png
11/16/2006 6:02:14 PM|climateprediction.net|Throughput 175458 bytes/sec
11/16/2006 6:02:14 PM|climateprediction.net|Started download of hadcm3_ss_290_1.png
11/16/2006 6:02:14 PM|climateprediction.net|Started download of hadcm3_ss_290_2.png
11/16/2006 6:02:15 PM|climateprediction.net|Finished download of hadcm3_ss_290_1.png
11/16/2006 6:02:15 PM|climateprediction.net|Throughput 397068 bytes/sec
11/16/2006 6:02:15 PM|climateprediction.net|Finished download of hadcm3_ss_290_2.png
11/16/2006 6:02:15 PM|climateprediction.net|Throughput 424121 bytes/sec
11/16/2006 6:02:15 PM|climateprediction.net|Started download of hadcm3_ss_290_3.png
11/16/2006 6:02:17 PM|climateprediction.net|Finished download of hadcm3_ss_290_3.png
11/16/2006 6:02:17 PM|climateprediction.net|Throughput 569768 bytes/sec

The first post was about Pirates but it looks like they have new ones.

11/16/2006 11:11:49 PM|Pirates@Home|Started download of pirates_40a.png
11/16/2006 11:11:49 PM|Pirates@Home|Started download of pirates_40b.png
11/16/2006 11:11:50 PM|Pirates@Home|Finished download of pirates_40a.png
11/16/2006 11:11:50 PM|Pirates@Home|Throughput 4636 bytes/sec
11/16/2006 11:11:50 PM|Pirates@Home|Finished download of pirates_40b.png
11/16/2006 11:11:50 PM|Pirates@Home|Throughput 4037 bytes/sec


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Message 6492 - Posted: 17 Nov 2006, 5:15:43 UTC - in response to Message 6491.  
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The first post was about Pirates but it looks like they have new ones.

11/16/2006 11:11:49 PM|Pirates@Home|Started download of pirates_40a.png
11/16/2006 11:11:49 PM|Pirates@Home|Started download of pirates_40b.png
11/16/2006 11:11:50 PM|Pirates@Home|Finished download of pirates_40a.png
11/16/2006 11:11:50 PM|Pirates@Home|Throughput 4636 bytes/sec
11/16/2006 11:11:50 PM|Pirates@Home|Finished download of pirates_40b.png
11/16/2006 11:11:50 PM|Pirates@Home|Throughput 4037 bytes/sec

Ah, but those I can put easily on here... I made them ;) (just holler and I'll put them on here in zip format as well as the CPDNs)

You could of course update to the latest Boinc version in test: 5.7.3
Then it won't download those files over and over. Although, hold on, as 5.7.4 is about to be released tonight.

The 5.7.x versions all have a fix for proxy server problems...
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Message 6493 - Posted: 17 Nov 2006, 5:33:58 UTC

CPDN pics (unpack in \\BOINC\\projects\\Climateprediction.net\\)

Pirates icons (unpack in \\BOINC\\projects\\pirates.spy-hill.net\\)
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