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BOINC Manager :
My wish list
(Message 4615)
Posted 1 Jun 2006 by Tarx Post: Just an update of what was posted so far. So far had one reply from jm7 "The polling loop is one second. So, it goes into a state, and then one second later is the first opportunity to change it. This has the effect that a 1% CPU share will have the CPU off for 99 seconds followed by on for 1 second (found this due to a bug in the initialization code which has been fixed)." [Suggestion were] 1) Add an option to disable the ballon pop-up in BOINC manager. The pop-up balloon when going over the BOINC Manager icon in the system tray is quite annoying as it often can stay for quite a while (I've timed it to see it sometimes go up to 90 seconds) hiding windows below it. But every 3 seconds can be too long for some. Although there is a registry hack to remove it (it also has the undesireable side effect of removing the balloon popup from other apps). 2) CPU utilization option. I noted from David Anderson on the Dev list "I added a "maximum CPU usage" preference. If you set it to 50%, BOINC will use half your CPU time (one second on, one second off). This feature will appear in the 5.5.1 client (which we'll start alpha testing soon). The BOINC alpha web site has this new preference; it will appear on other sites when they upgrade their PHP." I am happy to see that this sorely missing capability is being added to BOINC natively (instead of a hack). Is there a reason why it is only 1 second cycle on/off instead of something much faster (e.g. 1/200 of a second)? |
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BOINC Manager :
My wish list
(Message 4517)
Posted 27 May 2006 by Tarx Post: Go at a batch of them, if you have a batch. :) Great! & thanks! hopefully it will be a good sticky ;) In any case (for everyone) if you want me to include something to the batch of suggestions for the Boinc developers email list, just post it here in this thread. (I'll send it out on Monday) |
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BOINC Manager :
My wish list
(Message 4509)
Posted 26 May 2006 by Tarx Post: If you want your opinion heard by the developers, email to the Boinc developers email list. This list needs email registration. Ok, registered. Is it better to send one suggestion at a time, or batch them? |
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My wish list
(Message 4506)
Posted 26 May 2006 by Tarx Post: Have you checked the second link? Just an update (going back a few posts) (re: the annoying balloon pop-up that stays a while when mouse passes by system tray BOINC Manager icon) Yes, the first link works great (thanks!) when I gave up & just tried it - I was concerned that it would take away all hovering info (similar to Tool Tips), but it only took away the balloon pop-up (none of the other system tray items had a balloon pop-up). So hovering over BOINC Manager in the system tray now just shows "BOINC Manager" and not the balloon. I'm happy with that. However I'd still suggest that it'd be on the wish list as an option for BOINC Manager as I'm sure many others have been somewhat annoyed with that balloon (and playing in the registry is not a solution, just a hack). But at least there is a work around. ps: great to see other ideas mentioned! |
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(Message 4472)
Posted 25 May 2006 by Tarx Post: I would strongly suggest to use minutes. Some Boinc projects (such as climate prediction) can take months to complete so would starve other projects for weeks if it went to unsupendable at 95%. |
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(Message 4454)
Posted 23 May 2006 by Tarx Post: Ah - ok. Sadly it mentions "These steps disable all Notification Area balloon tips for this user. There is no way to disable balloon tips for specific programs only." |
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(Message 4447)
Posted 23 May 2006 by Tarx Post: How to disable ballon tips in XP. Thank you for your reply! I tried your suggestion regarding the balloon tips - unfortunately it didn't work... perhaps I put it in the incorrect spot (I didn't see a better place...?) I put the EnableBalloonTips Dword key with a value of 0 into the registy HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\\BOINC Manager (and then exited then restarted the BOINC client) Depending on what I do, how long the balloon tip stays up varies, but rarely for less than 1/2 minute (just experimented - seems to go away faster if I type). By the way, is there a place where suggestions for improvements are stickied? I don't wan't to add new threads if they are already covered... (and probably annoy those that have to reply to something already discussed!). |
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(Message 4442)
Posted 23 May 2006 by Tarx Post: 3)...and then it doesn't disappear unless I hit the close X. It does disappear (took a bit over 1 minute for me) - I guess I never have been patient enough! But that is way too long (especially as some of the tools I use are also in the system tray). The best thing would be if it was one of the right click options instead of default behaviour. If there was a way to shorten that (e.g. to 1 second) then that would be fine. I took a look at the files in the directory and didn't see any that applied. |
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BOINC Manager :
My wish list
(Message 4437)
Posted 23 May 2006 by Tarx Post: For item 1) I guess this needs both the forum admin and someone (preferably related to BOINC dev) that is responsible to keep it up to date. For item 2) "If you set it to 50%, BOINC will use half your CPU time (one second on, one second off)." (for the Alpha version) Hopefully they will consider faster switching for the released client. For item 3) "Hovering over the BOINC icon will display a status balloon which contains the project it is currently working on, how far along it is, and which computer it is connected to (Windows only)." Is it just me or it takes only a split second before it appears and then it doesn't disappear unless I hit the close X. Is there a way to disable this? For item 4) Thanks again - I tried Zone Alarm setting that IP range for 127 to no firewall - no change. Anyway, it does seem local as you have mentioned. Strange behaviour (haven't seen it with other programs & services). For the other questions/comments, hopefully we'll have additional posts! |
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My wish list
(Message 4434)
Posted 22 May 2006 by Tarx Post: Thanks for the reply! Is it possible to reduce the 1 second on/off to something much smaller? (e.g. 1/200 of second) or does that cause problems? Ok - for item 4 (using ZoneAlarm - doesn't list 127.0.0.1 as a zone). Interesting though (is that how it communicates to the client?) |
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BOINC Manager :
My wish list
(Message 4428)
Posted 22 May 2006 by Tarx Post: 1) To have a sticky in this forum for wish lists and comments on each item (e.g. saying under consideration, in next version, will not be done due to reason xyz, etc.). I suspect many of these items have been noted before, but without spending a significant amount of time, I'm not sure (and perhaps the official response is elsewhere). There are a few message boards (BOINC client, manager, etc) so I'm not sure where these should be placed, but will put them here as the BOINC manager could be part of the solution. Let me know & if any comment shoud be in another appropriate message board, I'll repost that comment. 2) I'm very surprised to see that the ability to adjust CPU utilization is missing from BOINC! This is something that is fundemental and needs to be added. And no, having some 3rd party patch (that doesn't always work) is not a solution. There are many reasons why this is needed. 100% CPU utilization can be quite undesireable. e.g. For desktop computers, this could mean extra noise (due to fan control speed). For notebooks it often means getting quite warm to work with (e.g. hot keyboard on some models) plus noise. etc. 3) The pop-up box when going over the BOINC Manager icon in the system tray is not proper windows functionality and is annoying! Unlike just about all other icons in the system tray it needs to be manually closed! This needs to be corrected (or at least have an option to disable that "functionality". 4) Network access occurs every second from the BOINC manager, even if all projects are suspended. This is not acceptable behaviour for this application. |
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