Comment 1 for bug 1008397

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