I did not miss those points. I understood them completely. You're complaining that a file was downloaded once and was unnecessary.
I'm pointing out that the same mechanism can cause the same file to be downloaded hundreds or thousands of times. So, I raised what I see as a far more important issue, and you tell me my thinking is incomplete. Your suggestion deals with unneeded files. Even if that is fixed, there is still a potential problem with files that *are* needed. I'm sure if you'd given my comments a little more thought, rather than just skimming them for some point you could criticize, you'd have seen that. Paul D. Buck wrote: > On Sep 28, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Lynn W. Taylor wrote: > >> The fact that they're missing for some reason (i.e. rogue antivirus >> keeps deleting them) is potentially the real issue. >> >> .... especially if the AV deletes the file almost immediately after >> the >> download, and BOINC notices quickly after the file gets deleted. >> >> It makes sense to me for BOINC to try and keep files (because when you >> need them the servers might not be available, so try to get 'em back >> quickly) but something has to guard against stupid antivirus programs >> causing a DoS attack. >> >> Addressing unneeded files is a little bit of help, but that won't fix >> the "needed" files getting downloaded over and over. > > Two points you are missing. I had no work on hand for the whole > project and the project was NNT at start up. There was literally no > reason to obtain the exe file because there was not chance I was going > to use it. In this case, I am not likely to turn that project on for > another month because I am doing something else. > > So, each time one of my systems downloads those files it is a complete > waste of bandwidth (I have seen this before). The only saving feature > is that I only rarely restart my systems. > > And if the servers are down later on not only will I get no exe, I > will get no work... > > As to the delete file and download over and over, on YoYo where I have > seen the trojan issue arise the tasks downloaded is downloaded with > the exe that is needed, it is quarenteeened and the task is tagged > with DL failure. And if we don't persist to download files that are > not going to be used, then this is not going be an issue. > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
