When computers have become imactive do they stay on your list of hosts indefinately? I have a couple that are still on my list five weeks after they stopped doing S@h work.

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When computers have become imactive do they stay on your list of hosts indefinately? I have a couple that are still on my list five weeks after they stopped doing S@h work.

yep, indefinitely. They can be deleted by the user after all results attributed to the host have been purged/deleted from the master data base. I have one puter that still has ONE result that just never gets deleted, but once it does, I'm deleting that host.

to delete, go to your account, view computers, select the host, then scroll to the bottom of the screen and see if the "delete" this host option is displayed.

hope this helps'

tony

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Nice thread, just deleted 4 hosts at 3 boincaroo sites.
ty :)

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Lots of Computers out there no longer Crunching. According to BOINC Stats only 38.5% of the Active Users Computers were granted any Credit within the last Week.


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Nice thread, just deleted 4 hosts at 3 boincaroo sites.
ty :)

You just reminded me, I checked and my Old P3 (that hit the trashcan days ago) showed "0" results so I deleted it. I tried to delete the 4th puter on my list (which is the same as the 2nd listed puter), but since it still has ONE result stuck from Last JULY. I can't delete it.

Lots of Computers out there no longer Crunching. According to BOINC Stats only 38.5% of the Active Users Computers were granted any Credit within the last Week.

...within the last week? Never heard about hardware crashes and users waiting for spare parts? Or maybe someone is in hospital or on vacancies? Or any reason else?
I'm living in Austria and every working person here has FIVE weeks of vacancies every year :-)). It's up to you to estimate what "no longer crunching" means.
But I agree, computers not longer crunching should be deleted as part of reducing the load of seti-database.

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Thanks mmciastro. I was able to get rid of several of them. In my case some of the "inactive" hosts were ones that I had re-installed BOINC on for various reasons. When I re-installed, the system decided they were "new" hosts, and I wasn't able to MERGE to the new host.....at least when I picked MERGE I didn't get a pickbox for the new host.

Speaking of which.....if I "upgrade" to the current version 5.2 or whatever of the BOINC software, am I going to get a bunch of orphaned/new hosts? I assume you just use the built in installer and install on top of the existing application.

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I tried to delete the 4th puter on my list (which is the same as the 2nd listed puter), but since it still has ONE result stuck from Last JULY. I can't delete it.

Don't delete this one, merge it!

Andy

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I tried to delete the 4th puter on my list (which is the same as the 2nd listed puter), but since it still has ONE result stuck from Last JULY. I can't delete it.

Don't delete this one, merge it!

Andy

Merge only works if the computers are close enough to merge to another one. My bet is it does not fit that criteria.

I have 2 machines I'd love to get rid of, but there are stuck WUs since August of this year, but since these WUs will not go away, nor can my machines. And of course I have other WUs from July and November of 2004 that are not getting purged, either. We just need to wait to see if these ever get purged out.

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Not so much a "deleting" as a "merging" query.....

If two boxes are merged, can they both still report?

Reason: Two of my systems are "dual-boot" (Linux/WinXP) and it would, I recon, make sense to have them reporting as the same computer (which they are) rather than as two seperate entities (which is currently the case).

THoughts anyone?

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Not so much a "deleting" as a "merging" query.....

If two boxes are merged, can they both still report?

Reason: Two of my systems are "dual-boot" (Linux/WinXP) and it would, I recon, make sense to have them reporting as the same computer (which they are) rather than as two seperate entities (which is currently the case).

THoughts anyone?

Not currently possible. The OS differences would not allow it. Plus I bet the benchmarks are quite different in both the OSs.

Just to demonstrate here are 2 match machines from your account:
CPU type AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Number of CPUs 1
Operating System Linux
2.6.13-15-default
Memory 496.39 MB
Cache 1024 KB
Measured floating point speed 843.32 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 1866.37 million ops/sec

CPU type AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Number of CPUs 1
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)
Memory 510.98 MB
Cache 976.56 KB
Measured floating point speed 1650 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 3165.15 million ops/sec

Look at the wild different between the FP and Int speeds on the two OSs. The calculations would not jive very well.

Nice idea, but technically not feasible.

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