Any advantages as far as heat or speed to updating to the newest version? Mine is a 7.2.42. x64.

Thank you and a Happy New Year!

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Any advantages as far as heat or speed to updating to the newest version? Mine is a 7.2.42. x64.

As far as i know the answer would be no to heat but yes to improvements in speed but if you do upgrade then use the 0.43a Lunatics installer which is the latest one not the 0.43 installer

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Any advantages as far as heat or speed to updating to the newest version? Mine is a 7.2.42. x64.

I'd wait until Boinc 7.4.36 becomes recommended, Boinc 7.4.27 introduces at least one Bug.

Claggy

I'm using 7.4.32 x64 with no perceived problems, like the bug that hit 7.4.27...

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Thank you for the advice.

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7.4.36 released to the public

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Any advantages as far as heat or speed to updating to the newest version? Mine is a 7.2.42. x64.

Thank you and a Happy New Year!

BOINC has very little to do with crunching speed, but whatever resources it uses of course are subtracted from what's available for crunching. I have seen no recent trend toward making BOINC use less resources.

                                                                   Joe

Just successfully upgraded to 7.4.36 from 7.4.27 on both Exeter and Prometheus. No issues to report on upgrade; all seems well. Still on Lunatics 0.43a; and is crunching on both computers.


TL

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6.10.60 does everything that I want it to do and very successfully at that. ;-)

Cheers.

Just a question, have always forgotten to ask over the years.

When I upgrade to 7.4.36 (or any version):

Do I have to reinstall Lunatics 0.43a (or any version) afterwards?

Should I uninstall Lunatics, prior to BOINC Upgrade?

I normally uninstall Bionic clyde and Lunatics but if your just upgrading the lunatics software no you don't need to uninstall that or at least i don't i just run the new version over the old 1 and i have had no trouble .
I think you can do the same with Bionic but i all ways play it safe and uninstall it just in case a gremlin pops it's head up

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Just a question, have always forgotten to ask over the years.

When I upgrade to 7.4.36 (or any version):

Do I have to reinstall Lunatics 0.43a (or any version) afterwards?

Should I uninstall Lunatics, prior to BOINC Upgrade?

All I do is Exit BOINC to make sure that all crunching has stopped. Then I run the new BOINC installer. It seems to take care of everything; and work that was in queue picks up from where it left off when the new BOINC launches and resumes work. No need to reinstall Lunatics; unless there happens to be a new Lunatics to install, as well. All seems to be working fine for me.

If ever there is a problem with a new version of BOINC and you want to reinstall the previous version; again, Exit BOINC to stop all crunching. Then run the old BOINC installer over the new installation. You may get an error message; but BOINC may finish installing; then run the old installer a second time. This seems to take care of things; and then, you are back on the previous version of BOINC. I've done this a couple of times; and as long as you've reinstalled the old version twice over the new version, then work seems to pick up where it left off with no loss of work. I haven't had to downgrade a BOINC version from a newer version for a LONG time, now; but, I'm sure there are reasons, and occurrences to need to do so.


TL

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Should I uninstall Lunatics, prior to BOINC Upgrade?

No.

No



I see Richard has already said that...

The current BOINC installer is pretty smart. It will suspend work in progress and make sure things are in the right places (even if you made the "right place" somewhere other than the default) then restart the processes at their last checkpoint.

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The current BOINC installer is pretty smart.

The BOINC Installer isn't really that smart. All it does is detect if the BOINC client and manager are running, and if so, tell them to stop doing so. The BOINC client is what will gracefully stop the work in progress and save any lingering data from memory to disk in the separate BOINC Data directory.

Installing a BOINC over a previous BOINC will invoke the uninstaller from the previous BOINC version, which will remove the BOINC program files from the BOINC program files directory. This is a directory that only contains the BOINC executables and other files needed to run the executables.

The BOINC Installer will then proceed to copy all the files from the database file it contains into the directory that the BOINC Unsinstaller removed the BOINC executables from, before checking with Windows if the permissions on that directory are correctly set up.

Project data, task, the Lunatics applications, and log files live in separate data directories not touched in any way, shape or form by the BOINC Installer and Uninstaller. Yes, data directories, plural, because some of the log files live in yet another separate directory since some iterations of BOINC.

Anyway, long story short:
Does the user upgrading BOINC need to uninstall the Lunatics files first? No, the Lunatics files are in a separate directory untouched by the BOINC installer and uninstaller.
Does the user upgrading BOINC need to uninstall BOINC first? No, upgrading BOINC automatically uninstalls the previous BOINC.

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Advantage in heat ... as in "squeezes out all of it" and thus "runs as HOT as POSSIBLE?"

As said, BOINC has very little to do with how much heat is generated. It's the project science applications that do all that work. And since they didn't change in between 7.4.27 and 7.4.36, the answer is nowt.

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