VBOX: Adjust the set_cpu_usage() and set_network_usage() function prototypes to use ints and handle the preference conversion in the calling function.
VBOX: Set the minimum CPU usage value to 5%, if for some reason somebody chooses 0% (on purpose or bug) VirtualBox goes nuts. This should give the VM at least enough time to render a few frames and eventually boot.
allows projected_flops to be calculated from host_app_version pfc rather
than elapsed time. This is valuable if result elapsed times are highly
variable and dependent on input.
See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/MultiSize
The components of this include:
- DB changes:
add size_class to workunit and result
n_size_classes to app; >1 means multi-size
- size_regulator daemon program: change results states
from INACTIVE to UNSENT carefully
- size_census program; writes quantile info in flat files
- transitioner: when creating results for multi-size apps,
set server state to INACTIVE
- sched shmem (feeder): read quantile info from flat files,
store in shared memory
- scheduler (score-based scheduling): for multi-size apps,
add component to score function for size class.
- show_shmem: show result size class
- make_work (and other callers of count_unsent_results()):
count both INACTIVE and UNSENT
- create_work: add --size_class cmdline option
Also:
- if get MySQL errors in upgrade, don't rewrite db_version
Set the temporary exit delay to one day if an incompatible version is detected. This gives the volunteer a chance to take corrective action before the task errors out after it exceeds its deadline.
On Linux the currently signed-in user has to be added to the vboxusers group in order to handle bridging USB devices. If the user has not taken that step virtual box throws a warning that looks like an error. This caused vboxwrapper to believe that the VM had failed to start. Since we do not know of any VM enabled problem that needs to communicate with an external USB device, just disable the feature entirely.
buttons from threads in Questions and Answers forums.
These are a vestige from when Q&A forums were different from other forums,
i.e. questions were sorted by frequency of being asked,
and answers were sorted by their relevance.
I still like this idea, but it didn't catch on.
Rom Walton