A way to "free" a WU
8 Mar 2005 19:52:30 UTC
Topic 188385
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I have several computers, and from time to time, while testing and what not, I run into the problem that I am assigned a work unit, but it has become lost, and in fact will never be computed by my computer.
It might be nice if there was a way, via a web interface, to let einstein know that I am definately not going to be able to do a WU, so it can be freed back into the wild.
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A way to "free" a WU
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> It might be nice if there was a way, via a web interface, to let einstein know
> that I am definately not going to be able to do a WU, so it can be freed back
> into the wild.
Good idea. I've got a few of those "Phantoms" where, after a manual "update" you get entries in the results list on the website that don't correspond to work listed in the Boinc GUI. I'd also like to be able to put 'em back into circulation. I thought I saw somewhere that this was supposed to be fixed??
Cheers,
Gary.
They will be put back in the
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They will be put back in the queue when they expire. The design decision was that there was too much risk to allow users to manually mark results as bad.
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> They will be put back in
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> They will be put back in the queue when they expire. The design decision was
> that there was too much risk to allow users to manually mark results as bad.
Thanks for the information John!
such things just should not be writ so please destroy this if you wish to live 'tis better in ignorance to dwell than to go screaming into the abyss worse than hell
> They will be put back in
)
> They will be put back in the queue when they expire. The design decision was
> that there was too much risk to allow users to manually mark results as bad.
Perfectly understandable decision. Maybe in a future release it might be possible to allow the server to "notice" these "out of character" results and in a client/server communication, ask the client if the client actually has the work or not. Perhaps the server could then send a "replacement" if the data had really gone missing.
Anyway, thanks for your reply.
Cheers,
Gary.