| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Support
Forum: BOINC Agent Support
Thread: Device Installations |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Active Total posts in this thread: 7
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
My Profile Miscellaneous Statistics shows I have 8 devices installed;
Device Installations 8 Is there anyway to delete/retire any of these? I'm only running one laptop (it's a Lenovo T60p so may count for 2 because of the Core 2 Duo chip). |
||
|
|
Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7848 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
This question has been answered a number of times and the current answer is no. It is on a wish list to get changed according to the CA's.
----------------------------------------Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
||
|
|
retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
Once the UD finally goes away, perhaps some wishes can get attacked when we are BOINC only. In the meantime, I have 112 devices including previous installations and testing, but only 4 are currently active. There's nothing we can do about old ones yet, if at all.
----------------------------------------
SUPPORT ADVISOR
----------------------------------------Work+GPU i7 8700 12threads School i7 4770 8threads Default+GPU Ryzen 7 3700X 16threads Ryzen 7 3800X 16 threads Ryzen 9 3900X 24threads Home i7 3540M 4threads50% [Edit 4 times, last edit by retsof at Mar 19, 2008 11:14:30 PM] |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It's a shame that old machines don't get purged automatically.
If a machine hasn't been heard from in a set time period, if for instance it hasn't downloaded units or uploaded results within a year, then it would get scrubbed auto-magically from the DB. Oh, well - maybe when we're all BOINCing..... |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
No.
Runtime is linked to devices. I'm sure you wouldn't like all your old points to be removed when the associated device is deleted....! This is the way BOINC works, too. All devices are kept in the database, forever. |
||
|
|
JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges:
|
As Didactylos said old devices must stay in the database for statistical and historical reasons. It is nice to be able to click on Device Installations in your personal stats page and see how much all your past and current devices have contributed to your current status.
----------------------------------------I think that what could make everybody happy would be the addition of an Active Device count everywhere in the stats the current Device count is shown. Maybe in the post-UD era of WCG...  Cheers. Jean. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It's a shame that old machines don't get purged automatically. As others have said, that would make a mess of the stats. Also, some of those machines might come back. I reckon if a room needs to be heated anyhow, it might as well be (at least partially) heated by a computer. I have machines I don't need which I run during winter for WCG and turn off the rest of the year. The main thing I'd like to see is the Device Installation number being correct. Mine says 9 on my main stats page. Click on it and get it to list all devices and the list is 8 entries long. |
||
|
|
|