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fablefox
Senior Cruncher Joined: May 31, 2010 Post Count: 168 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have done a search in this thread, but these issue doesn't come out, maybe because people didn't notice it much?
----------------------------------------Anyway, the download progress is wrong, sometimes by 100% (double). eg: 10.0/5.0 8.0/4.0 In short, after 5.0/5.0 and reached 100%, it kept downloading and downloading sometimes all the way to double the size. My internet is unmetered so I don't care. But I hope this report can help improve the software. |
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Former Member
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What agent version are you observing this? Not sure, but the agent might be showing the total uploaded data -including- anything that was already sent, but somehow did not arrive completely. The download at times resumes from an earlier point or from the beginning, but the progress meter then not resetting to that earlier point. Add to the variables the on-the-fly compression during transmission and things could be looking really off.
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fablefox
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 version 7.2.47 the thing is sometimes I really set aside time to download, which allow me to observe the download. i don't really know what going on in the background. but by now download resume technology shouldn't have this type of problem. which is why i hope reporting helps. |
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Former Member
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You might find an ear over at dr. anderson's development resort at berkeley or someone happy to port your observations to the alpha mail list http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_alpha with instructions here http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AlphaInstructions
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fablefox
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I subs to the mailing list, but I doesn't plan to install alpha, as per this issue:
----------------------------------------"run experimental versions of BOINC that may crash or cause jobs to fail." I'm just want to know if someone else is observing the same issue. and this problem is on the Genome side or BOINC side. maybe an alpha/tester member can communicate with development team more. i'll see what i can do later, because at the moment, this issue is quite repeating...(as in many jobs are downloading like above image). |
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Former Member
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You don't have to run alpha, but it's definitely the port to report problems directly to developers, and yes others have seen this, including myself. It's one of these things that don't bother me, in fact it's in a way informative to know how much bandwidth was needed to get a result across. No limits like you, i.e. not costing.
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fablefox
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just mailed the alpha dev team.
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dango
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this was caused by new ugm app deployment. bedore i can pause/resume download; but now after pause the file is redownloading from 0, but progress bar is continuing
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uplinger
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There might be a reason you're seeing this, and it is because of precompressed files from our end. This would cause you to not be able to resume a paused download. Previously we did not precompress on our end and did compression on the fly. However these input files from UGM are large and take up a lot of space on our storage system. So to help keep space and things on our side running smooth, we have precompressed them.
Thanks, -Uplinger |
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