Windows S5R3 App 4.15 available for Beta Test
23 Oct 2007 8:01:54 UTC
Topic 13617
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A new Windows App is available from our Beta Test Page.
It has the immediate syncing that has been disabled for the 4.13 release re-enabled and (hopefully) working now. It should make the checkpointing more reliable, e.g. in case of a power failure. However it trades in that for a possibly additional load on the harddisk. If you don't like this, you can opt-out from this by creating a file "EAH_NO_SYNC" in the BOINC directory.
Hopefully most of you won't notice, but this App will "delay-load" not only the graphics DLLs (as the 4.13 did already), but also the mandatory DLLs (like ADVAPI32.DLL). This to make some progress on finding which DLL causes our DLL-load problems (see "Client Errors of S5R2 Apps" thread in "Problems and Bug reports" board).
Please test and report.
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Windows S5R3 App 4.15 available for Beta Test
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That's ok. I think the only people that might actually notice a change are laptop owners with larger "write to harddisk no more than..." settings that put their disk to sleep in between. Let's see if I'm right.
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RE: The change (since
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It was meant to be, but right now it looks like this doesn't work as it should. We are investigating.
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RE: Does EAH_NO_GRAPHICS
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Should work as before. Doesn't it? In any case when trying it does break anything, then it's definitely a bug worth reporting.
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RE: RE: The change (since
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Looks like indeed there went something wrong.
According to Rom Walton the next release (5.10.27 or higher) should have this fixed.
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I published the 4.15 App to
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I published the 4.15 App to be official.
I hope it soon gets followed by another App that has some bug fixed I recently found in the BOINC library.
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RE: Any chance at getting
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I'm actually working on it. SSE seems to be less [edit:]sensitive to our famous "Input domain error"s than the x87 FPU code.
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RE: Hey Bernd ;-) I think
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What's the second?
And yes, I'm not getting much sleep these days...
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Well, they are in different
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Well, they are in different sentences, and "actually" should really mean something like "truly" here. "sensible" of course should be "sensitive", and is indeed a false friend of German origin.
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RE: it probably comes from
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Comes from latin "sentire" (Duden, Etymologie: Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache), probably spread by the Romans.
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RE: Strange how those
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I'd guess it's Ananias in Acts 5 who "gave up the ghost" (probably King James version)? IIRC the "King James" bible has actually been translated from Luther's text, who should be made responsible for this phrase then. [edit]Sorry, that's wrong (according to Wikipedia). Probably the wording is already in the Greek source.[/edit]
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