Bug#843701: jessie-pu: package boinc/7.4.23+dfsg-1

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

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Hi,
>Your mail client mangled the diff.



sorry for that

> the diff is simple:> +  [ Tom Downes ]
> +  * Fix OOM_ADJ handling with a backportable approach
> +    (Closes: #843663)
> 
> ^^ a typo in a variable name was preventing OOM_ADJ from being correctly set in the init script
> 

What's the impact of that bug?

when kernel is OOM, boinc tasks should be killed before other tasks.
boinc is something that shouldn't impact the rest of the system
(voluntary computing), so it runs with lower nice level, and should
be killed before other programs in case the system gets out of memory.

this typo was preventing the second OOM handling to be correctly set, so people might have got
some other program killed instead of a boinc task.

>How can that possibly work?  The init script doesn't have an X>display...

this is a known problem/issue, usually people can do GPU computing with a reload of the boinc-client
daemon, in this case the init system picks the X server up.
(this is how things should work, I'm clueless about such stuff and I avoid touching it when it
"works")

thanks for the review,

G.