Quote from: fred on August 20, 2010, 05:17:48 PM
The scan addresses, fires up to 255 thread to ma ke a connection. In all this takes only 1 minute and killing is never a good idea, because you never know what is left behind. Handles, global memory, sockets, you don't want to know, making the system less stable.
And this process is unstoppable.
And it doesn't matter if it are 2 or 255 it will take just as long. It's the time needed for an adequate detection.
So we've established that the Stop button on Find computers during Scan address range serves no function, and should be removed/grayed out/whatever (BTW I make it 43 seconds on my Casio stopwatch.) Also does this section of the Manual maybe need an update? The FAQ is pretty informative.
Believe me as a Systems Analyst I know well the perils of killing an application in progress. I've done enough banging on new application suites to find out first hand, and got shockingly well paid to do it. I also know it's the OS's ( ) responsibility to clean up after an application that crashes for any reason. And on a preemptive multitasking system, it seems at least feasible, whether or not desirable, for BoincTasks to multitask away from Find Computers to do other BOINC things while the address scan is in progress.
But I'm just an end user, who's really grateful to have such a well-designed and useful tool