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Thread: How can I delete a device from the list? |
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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And frankly my personal point of view is, that I am happy to have the opportunity from time to time, to display the whole list and spend a minute remembering those good old devices, a few years ago when I started this adventure, their suffering when I was overclocking them to dramatic levels, the tremendous heat, the frequent hardware changes to extract more and more from those poor little things etc. etc. Yes, I am very happy to say that their sacrifice will never be forgotten.  Indeed- It also lets one bring up this old chestnut   I had to retire older machines because of electricity cost--but you can go to Boincstats and see all of the crunchers running and the ones not producing-- http://boincstats.com/stats/user_graph.php?pr=wcg&id=25015 maybe some of you all have not been there but this is my page and it only reports the computers that are producing work units--   |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Willy sends me these emails to tell me if a device has not send back a result in say the last 6 months. At least, when I go to my [hidden] host list see only 7,
----------------------------------------22/01/2012 16:34:12 | | Fetching configuration file from http://bam.boincstats.com/get_project_config.php 22/01/2012 16:34:15 | | Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/ 22/01/2012 16:34:16 | | Account manager: BAM! User: 4449, SekeRob 22/01/2012 16:34:16 | | Account manager: BAM! Host: xxxxxx 22/01/2012 16:34:16 | | Account manager: Number of BAM! connections for this host: 265 22/01/2012 16:34:16 | | Account manager contact succeeded Suspect that by cloning the old laptop client onto the new... no wait, there was something with new account ID's.... 4449 is not me. There was something that needed to be done to fix this, but what was it again? --//-- [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jan 22, 2012 3:47:30 PM] |
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Dark Angel
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Nov 11, 2005 Post Count: 728 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There is something LIKE what the OP suggested that I wouldn't mind seeing.
----------------------------------------There are times when, for one reason or another, a machine needs an OS reinstall. In that situation the BOINC client on that machine could have a reasonable number of work units cached that will never get processed, finally timing out before being reissued to someone else, but in doing so dragging validation out even further for the unfortunate wingman. I'm proposing the ability, not to delete the device, but rather to notify the system that it is dead and not coming back so that the work it had can be reissued sooner rather than later. This would need some kind of double confirmation to prevent or at least limit the "I accidentally killed my device ID how can I reactivate it?" posts. Anyway, see what people think. There may be some consideration I haven't thought of.  Currently being moderated under false pretences |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I'm proposing the ability, not to delete the device, but rather to notify the system that it is dead and not coming back so that the work it had can be reissued sooner rather than later. ^^^ I like that idea. But I really would like to be able to remove devices as well though. I've got 5 "devices" that are the same computer, thanks to hardware and/or OS installs. Of course, this thread would have been much shorter if someone had just said "No, and it doesn't look like the developers are going to change it." |
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Former Member
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How about "No, it's not on the planner of 2012"? What is on the planner and a work in progress is upgrading to the server version 7xx.
----------------------------------------Meantime got one of those mails arrived [including a persistent spelling error], as mentioned in me previous post: Dear SekeRob, The folowing hosts have not communicated with BAM! for a long time and will be removed from our database when they do not communicate within one week. Please note that this does not affect your statistics in any way! Last communication Hostid Hostname 2011-01-27 18:29:02 261818 xxxxxxxxxx Emphasis mine. Seems BOINCstats BAM has a 12 month retention policy for idle devices. WCG just hides them from the default view and likes to show all and every one ever uniquely identified. Soon we'll be hitting 2 million on the front page, last night 1,960,142... the 100,000 new devices challenge was extended to March 31. Maybe we can facilitate so it will work to get another validator backup server funded ;>) http://xkcd.com/908/ Recently read that by far the most traffic on a cloud is server park internal file arranging. --//-- [Edit 3 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 8, 2012 9:34:23 AM] |
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