El Sáb 26 Sep 2009 01:03:58 Paul D. Buck escribió:
> Here is a log from the start-up of BOINC and for the life of me I
> cannot understand this ... prime grid seems to have been contacted
> even when NNT is selected and it looks like a whole set of executables
> were downloaded.  What makes this more than a little disturbing is
> that MacAfee says that at least one of those executables is a trojan ...

Apparently because the client already had information about those files. Since 
the client expected the files to be there but they weren't, it re-downloaded 
them.

But missing or corrupt files shouldn't be re-downloaded if they are not 
currently needed, so you have a point...

> Oh, and if the BOINC client knows that I don't want MW CPU tasks, why
> does it keep asking for them ... I am on the third iteration already
> when oh when is it going to ask for GPU work like my preferences state?

Because they are "project-specific preferences", which have project-specific 
syntax and meaning. The client doesn't even parse them. The client *doesn't* 
know that you don't want MW CPU tasks. It only knows that there are 
project-specific prefs saying "<gpu>0</gpu>" (or whatever) and passes them 
back and forth on the project and to the science apps (since there could be 
things like screensaver prefs in there), *without* parsing them.

-- 
Nicolas
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