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Message 1006 - Posted: 11 Dec 2007, 5:24:15 UTC

12/10/2007 11:00:47 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops, unparsed_xml
12/10/2007 11:12:45 PM||[unparsed_xml] PROJECT::parse_account(): unrecognized: <allow_beta_work>1</allow_beta_work>
12/10/2007 11:12:45 PM||[unparsed_xml] parse_account_file_venue(): unrecognized: <allow_beta_work>1</allow_beta_work>
Is there any Beta work planned 'soon'?
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Message 1011 - Posted: 11 Dec 2007, 14:47:16 UTC - in response to Message 1006.  

12/10/2007 11:00:47 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops, unparsed_xml
12/10/2007 11:12:45 PM||[unparsed_xml] PROJECT::parse_account(): unrecognized: 1
12/10/2007 11:12:45 PM||[unparsed_xml] parse_account_file_venue(): unrecognized: 1
Is there any Beta work planned 'soon'?


once we get the php bugs on the webpage, and the last memory leaks in the application fixed (as well as the problem with boinc hanging when it gets suspended sometimes), we'll probably move into beta.
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Message 1023 - Posted: 12 Dec 2007, 5:11:48 UTC - in response to Message 1011.  

we'll probably move into beta.

Huh; I forgot MaH was still in Alpha... ;-p
When I wrote the previous post, I was thinking of Seti@Home, which has a separate site for Beta-App development.
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Message 1034 - Posted: 13 Dec 2007, 5:43:39 UTC - in response to Message 1023.  

Huh; I forgot MaH was still in Alpha... ;-p
When I wrote the previous post, I was thinking of Seti@Home, which has a separate site for Beta-App development.

No need for separate sites with the modern BOINC server SW. There is now the ability to turn on/off a user setting, to allow Beta apps within the same project.

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Message 1101 - Posted: 16 Dec 2007, 9:01:28 UTC - in response to Message 1034.  

And from The Story of the Hare who Lost His Spectacles:
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We have two redundant schedulers on bruno/ptolemy, both running the exact same executable (mounted from the same NAS, no less), on the exact same linux OS/kernel. One was sending work, the other was not. By "not" I mean there was work available, but something was causing the schedule processes on bruno to wrongly think that the work wasn't suitable for sending out.
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We checked everything: ifconfigs, MTU sizes, DNS records, router settings, routing tables, apache configurations, everything. We rebooted switches and servers to no avail. We had no choice but to begin questioning the actual code that has been working for months and happens to still be working perfectly on ptolemy.

Jeff attached a debugger to the many scheduler cgi processes and eventually spotted something odd. Why was the scheduler tagging the ready-to-send result in the shared memory (which is filled by the feeder) as "beta" results? We looked on ptolemy. There were not tagged as "beta" there. A clue!

Scheduler code was pored through and digested and it was determined this was indeed the heart of the problem - results tagged as "beta" were not to be sent out to regular clients asking for non-beta work. So bruno's refused to send any of these results out - it was erroneously thinking these were all "beta" results. But why?!
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but before getting lost down that road we put in a one-line hack which forces beta to be "0" no matter what bogus values get put in the oversized C struct,
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