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Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
Thanks for that, Christian. Mind posting the same to our email thread so everyone in that knows about that? (Edit: signature) |
Send message Joined: 20 Nov 12 Posts: 801 |
I also investigated about moving the dependency repositories to github and it seems that with the advent of git lfs (large file support) we are able to migrate. Github has a hard limit on file size (100MB) and some of the files in the dependency repos are bigger than that. I found a viable way to migrate the existing repos to lfs repos on github and will test this soon. The quota limits of the free Git LFS could be a problem. From About storage and bandwidth usage: All personal and organization accounts using Git LFS receive 1 GB of free storage and 1 GB a month of free bandwidth. For the VS2013 repo the largest files are: 116037816 ./wxwidgets/mswin/x64/Debug/lib/vc_lib/wxmsw30ud_core.lib 80756766 ./wxwidgets/mswin/Win32/Debug/lib/vc_lib/wxmsw30ud_core.lib 79456656 ./wxwidgets/mswin/x64/Release/lib/vc_lib/wxmsw30u_core.lib 68340262 ./wxwidgets/mswin/Win32/Release/lib/vc_lib/wxmsw30u_core.lib 63582160 ./virtualbox/win/common.cab Even though the limit for repos is 100 MB I think it would be best to move files that are close to 100 MB to LFS as well to let them have a bit room to grow. So lets say all four wx files are moved to LFS. That's about 340 MB total. wx was updated once so that makes 680 MB total. VS2010 repo is even bigger. wx 3 was updated four times and then there's wx 2.8 a few times too. I'm not going to count how much total space they use. Then there's the problem with the size of all the other files. From What is my disk quota?: We recommend repositories be kept under 1GB each. This limit is easy to stay within if large files are kept out of the repository. If your repository exceeds 1GB, you might receive a polite email from GitHub Support requesting that you reduce the size of the repository to bring it back down. VS2013 repo is below that, only about 650 MB. VS2010 repo on the other hand is huge, somewhere between 1.7 and 2 GB. (Large files included in both figures.) Even without large files there's good chances the VS2010 repo would result in such a request. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
BOINC 7.6.33 is now recommended for Mac and Windows. |
Send message Joined: 23 Apr 07 Posts: 1112 |
Since it's been five months since the 7.6 head has been worked on, and it was even earlier than when Boinc 7.6.33 was tagged, I've gone and Cloned the Boinc repository, tagged a 7.6.34 release, and done a pull request back at the Boinc repository, Claggy |
Send message Joined: 2 Nov 15 Posts: 7 |
Does this mean that there will be a 7.6.34 release soon? If so, which OS platforms are targeted? |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
No. As Christian Beer answered to Claggy in Github: Releasing a new client version is a multi-step process. At the start there is the version change commit and a git lightweight tag on that commit but then someone has to build official binaries for all platforms and package them into the respective installer bundles. |
Send message Joined: 20 Feb 17 Posts: 1 |
I have been dealing with issues of BOINC performance declining based on using Task Manager as my reference. In the past three or more months I have found that the BOINC program when first loaded runs four to eight projects based on which computer and runs at the top nearly 100% of CPU performance. A week to a month later the amount of projects remain the same but the performance drops by 50% so these project tasks now run at near 49%. I noticed this first in the WCG totals over running the past near three years and so others that I have brought on board are telling me the same thing and getting the same drops in performance so it can not be the equipment but has to be the software. Others in a group I am in have come to me for best BOINC settings and their performance was doing very well and then dropped just in the past six months or so. I find that if I remove the BOINC program and reload it I get back to 100% and it runs that way for about a week to maybe over a month. I had others try this and watch their Task Manager and they claim they are getting the same reduction in performance and back up once they remove and reload the program. Just don't know what else to do or what is happening. |
Send message Joined: 25 Nov 05 Posts: 1654 |
I don't know the answer(s), but there are several things that you'll be asked by those that do. They're listed in this thread, which is a sticky in the Questions and problems section. I'm not sure which part of it is currently relevant, but starting at the beginning may be best. And a link to one of your projects wouldn't hurt. :) |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
David Anderson wrote: I released a new version of the client for Win.I'll add the change log notes as soon as I can figure out how to get them through SmartGit, the only program that seems to be working on my PC. |
Send message Joined: 12 Feb 11 Posts: 419 |
I'll add the change log notes as soon as I can figure out how to get them through SmartGit, the only program that seems to be working on my PC. I think that open a new thread "7.7/7.8 Change Log and News" (as suggested in mailing list) will be great |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
A separate thread about the new development version is what I had in mind anyway, but has nothing to do with the request by Charlie to add a separate branch and tag in gitHub. That's just done so all the development of the newer client doesn't happen in Master. But as far as I know, development always happened in Master, until the client was far enough along, that it would go into production numbering and get its own branch - in this case 7.8 But to get to 7.8 we first have to traverse a lot of 7.7s. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
It's going to be quite labour intensive to get the change logs out. Because TortoiseGit doesn't work on my system - it's missing something due to which it doesn't show up in Windows Explorer at all - I have to resort to another Git GUI, in this case SmartGit. But however smart it may be, it's not smart enough to just give me a log printout of all the changes from a certain date or tag. So I would have to manually copy all the messages from the message window to Notepad, which with over 2,500 commits since June 2016 is going to be too much work for me. I'll have to figure out another way to do this. Or give up. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
I only see 1109 commits... My Tortoise is working (up to a point) - you have mail. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
David Anderson wrote: I released 7.8.0 for testing (Windows 32 and 64, with and without VBox). Charlie Fenton wrote: BOINC 7.8.0 for Macintosh is available for testing. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
Charlie Fenton wrote: Since I see that David has created the client_release/7.8/7.8.1 tag, I have built BOINC 7.8.1 with its installer for the Macintosh and posted it to the "Index of /dl" page. See the change log post for the change log and links. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
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Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
David Anderson wrote: A new client is available for testing on Win and Mac.Download links: here. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
But other - reported and fixed - problems are still present. - the word 'daemon' is presented to users in the options dialog - 'OK' is still used instead of 'Save' in the Computing preferences dialog - GPU detection fails when 'boinc' is started from the command line, instead of 'boinc.exe' |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
- the word 'daemon' is presented to users in the options dialogNot sure which version of the manager you're running, but in the Berkeley 7.8.2 the 'daemon' part is gone again. Its new counterpart 'client' isn't there either for that matter. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
The version I downloaded last night: |
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