Projektnews LHC@home: Urgent Update for Windows Users

[P3D-Bot]

A bug has been found in the Windows version of BOINC which means that files larger than 4 GiB (2^32 bytes) are being left behind in slot directories, affecting us and other BOINC projects. Unfortunately, we do produce VM files that large, so we are interfering with these other projects. If you are active on this project, using Windows, please update your BOINC version to a patched version (see this message and thread).

"The files that are needed to apply the hotfix are

For 64-bit BOINC
boinc.080515.x64.zip

For 32-bit BOINC
boinc.080515.x86.zip

Simply extract the two files for your version from the .zip archive, and copy them to your BOINC program folder - you'll need to stop the BOINC client while you do this, and restart it again afterwards."

Thanks to the community for helping us debug this, especially Richard, Crystal Pellet and Ray, and to the BOINC crew for coming up with the fix.

In the meantime, we will move on to debugging why our VMs are currently growing so large.

Lese weiter bei LHC@home....