If it's a 100MB app, and you have a modem, it's more than 2 minutes. And then there's load on the download server.
It's possible that a mechanism for deleting app versions is needed. But deleting them when there are no jobs is not it. Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > El Sáb 26 Sep 2009 17:04:25 David Anderson escribió: >> Not a design flaw. >> Suppose you delete the files of an app version that has no jobs. >> 5 minutes later the client gets a job for the app version. >> You have to download the files again. > > If you do get a job for that app, you save about two minutes (big deal) by > having downloaded the files before getting the job. If you don't get a job, > you're wasting bandwidth by re-downloading. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
