resources partitioning does not work correct

[LAZA]

First: I crunch for over four years with BOINC and did not change the project resources since months.

I did a fresh installation of Precise from alternate CD and added BOINC per Synaptic.
Version 7.0.25 didn't work for me so i installed the

7.0.27+dfsg-3.1 from http://ppa.launchpad.net/trekcaptainusa-tw/boinc/ubuntu

In this version, the resources partitioning (which isn't changed for a very long time) IMHO between my three projects is broken!

World Community Grid 152 92,12%
QMC@home 9 5,45%
eon2 4 2,42%

Over the last months (before reinstallation, with Xubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 and the BOINC packages from Synaptic) the projects average points in the statistics were about:
WCG 750-900
QMC around 100
eon2 under 20

Since the installation of the new BOINC the WGC got not enough work (there was enough, i think) the average points dropped down to now 400, while QMC is now higher than 420 and eon2 from below 20 to now 220!

So in my opinion something has been changed from BOINC 6.12.34 to 7.0.x so that the resources partitioning is not correct calculated.

Xubuntu 12.04
BOINC 7.0.27+dfsg-3.1
Linux xubuntu2 3.2.0-25-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 20:30:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Steffen Möller (moeller-debian)]

Hello,

On 06/04/2012 10:58 AM, LAZA wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> First: I crunch for over four years with BOINC and did not change the
> project resources since months.

Nice to hear.

> I did a fresh installation of Precise from alternate CD and added BOINC per Synaptic.
> Version 7.0.25 didn't work for me so i installed the
>
> 7.0.27+dfsg-3.1 from http://ppa.launchpad.net/trekcaptainusa-
> tw/boinc/ubuntu

Have not heard of that one.

> In this version, the resources partitioning (which isn't changed for a
> very long time) IMHO between my three projects is broken!
>
> World Community Grid 152 92,12%
> QMC@home 9 5,45%
> eon2 4 2,42%
>
> Over the last months (before reinstallation, with Xubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 and the BOINC packages from Synaptic) the projects average points in the statistics were about:
> WCG 750-900
> QMC around 100
> eon2 under 20
>
> Since the installation of the new BOINC the WGC got not enough work
> (there was enough, i think) the average points dropped down to now 400,
> while QMC is now higher than 420 and eon2 from below 20 to now 220!
>
> So in my opinion something has been changed from BOINC 6.12.34 to 7.0.x
> so that the resources partitioning is not correct calculated.
>
> Xubuntu 12.04
> BOINC 7.0.27+dfsg-3.1
> Linux xubuntu2 3.2.0-25-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 20:30:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> ** Affects: boinc (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>

This problem is beyond me, I must admit. I also found
that e.g. Rosetta is pretty bad at keeping up with competing projects.
This is mostly because of a very restrictive policy towards server
contacts from what I observe.

This is something for upstream, I presume.

Steffen

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Is this bug fixed with .34 release?
please try it from my ppa
https://code.launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/boinc
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[LAZA (laza74)]

Sorry, got no time the last weeks to test this!

I hope, there are some others to reproduce and test this version...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for boinc (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[LAZA (laza74)]

Sorry, slipped completely out of my mind!

I got an updated version from the Ubuntu crowd on 2012-07-20:
boinc (7.0.27+dfsg-3~precise1~ppa1) to 7.0.27+dfsg-5ubuntu0.12.04.1

Since then, this seems to be correted... (or something got into the ppa-Version).

So for me this can be closed.

Thanks for your attention.