Change Log 5.8.6

Date unknown, copied 25 March 2007

• MGR: Disable advanced preferences dialog box.
• MGR: Do not refresh the Simple GUI when the manager is hidden.
• MGR: use a scientifically chosen set of colors for disk pie charts
• client: there was logic that wouldn't start a result for a project if it had > 2 active uploads (intended to prevent an unbounded buildup of files for a project whose upload server is broken). It is was never triggered since the default is 2 active transfers per project. Maybe I meant persistent file transfers. In any case, this is a bad policy because there may be a project with lots of output files per result, possibly large, and there's no reason to keep it from computing. So instead, I changed it to not start a result from a project if its number of results in FILES_UPLOADING state exceeds 2*ncpus.
• client and MGR: reorganize message priorities. There are now three priorities:

MSG_USER_ERROR

Conditions that require user intervention. These messages are written for non-tech users, and tell the user exactly what to do.

GUI: red letters

MSG_INTERNAL_ERROR

Conditions that may indicate a problem or bug in BOINC itself, or with a BOINC project or account manager. The message is prepended with [error]".

GUI: black letters

MSG_INFO

All other messages.

GUI: black letters

Note: all messages that must be enabled by cc_config.xml use MSG_INFO priority

• MGR: Flip the sorting icons for the Grid Control.
• MGR: Remove legacy tabs.
• MGR: Fix the OnFrameRender function in the Simple GUI, some of the logic in it blows out of the function with a return which was leaving the static variable that was guarding against repeated executions to true. This in turn kept the GUI from updating.
• Mac: Change MSG_ERROR to MSG_INTERNAL_ERROR in Mac-specific source file.
• MGR: Add a new menu item that'll shutdown the core client that the manager is connected too. It'll prompt for a new computer afterwards.
• client: another attempt at fixing the problem where a project is issuing work but not uploading files.

New solution: don't fetch work from a project with more than 2*ncpus results in FILES_UPLOADING state.

Note: this doesn't address John McLeod's point that we shouldn't increase LTD for projects in this state.