My network usage increased 600 MB in one day last weekend. It could have been be a BOINC transfer.

Is there a log somewhere of how much data BOINC has uploaded or downloaded in the past?

Thanks

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Oppos, forgot, Windows 7 / BOINC 6.10.58

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No, at this moment there is no record of how much bandwidth BOINC uses up.
There is one for the Virtual Box wrapper application (in 6.12.37 and above), but that one can only be tested when the one project that uses the VBox wrapper app will update their back-end software. This then only measures network usage in the Vbox wrapper app though, not how much other non-Vbox apps use.

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In the file stdoutdae.txt (and stdoutdae.old) in your BOINC data directory, you'll find records of each up- and download, but those don't contain the size of the transfer.

Perhaps you can find out the sizes at the different project sites.

Gruß,
Gundolf
PS: The data directory might be hidden by windows.

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

No, at this moment there is no record of how much bandwidth BOINC uses up.

There is a file named daily_xfer_history.xml in my data directory that has been tracking the upload/download numbers for about a year now. Which version of boinc introduced this file?

Ah good catch. That one came with the first BOINC which could do the bandwidth throttling in preferences. But as it is, the file is a bit useless as it doesn't show how much for exactly when. I mean, even I can only go guess as to what the number in <when></when> means. It's not a Unix time notation.

The up and down values are definitely bytes.

I was already asking the developers to use the value for the bandwidth throttling, as it must keep it someplace for when you decide to use the preference. And then just show it some place in BOINC Manager. We'll see.

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The number between <when></when> would seem to be the day number since 01 Jan 1970. There have been 41 full years (9 of which are leap years) and 277 days this year as of today.

(41*365)+277+9 = 15251

My daily_xfer_history file is showing 15251 as the top entry.

Or do it easier:
Take value of <when/>, multiply with 86400 (24 hours in seconds), copy the outcome into clipboard, then go to a Unix time converter like http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm or http://krijnen.com/time.php, paste the value and hit submit.

That way you don't have to figure out on the how manieth day you are since January 1st. ;)

By the way, the developers have put this on their to do list. But it's too big to just do in a jiffy, so it'll be something that they're doing for the next all new BOINC Manager (GUI).

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Thanks all, for the responses. I will investigate futher. If I can find when it did a transfer and for which project I might be able to correlate.

Cheers

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Those running real operating systems need no web converters

{19436:17} [0:0]% perl -wle 'print scalar localtime 86400 * shift' 14982 
Sat Jan  8 02:00:00 2011

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I'm counting for science,
points just make me sick.