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Message 71793 - Posted: 22 Aug 2016, 18:13:12 UTC

I've set BOINC not to allow new tasks for the WCGrid project, but it is still downloading and running new tasks after older ones finish.

Why is this?
How can I fix it?

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Message 71794 - Posted: 22 Aug 2016, 19:49:38 UTC - in response to Message 71793.  

Just to make sure you have set the option correctly: when you open BOINC Manager, Advanced view, Projects tab and you select World Community Grid, what does the button say? "Allow new tasks" or "No new tasks"?
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Message 71813 - Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 19:49:16 UTC - in response to Message 71794.  

It says "Permitir novas tarefas" which means "Allow new tasks".
And in "State" it says "Não obterá novas tarefas" which means "Will not obtain new tasks".
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Message 71814 - Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 19:55:12 UTC - in response to Message 71813.  

Can you show messages (from Event Log, CTRL+SHIFT+E) where it shows that new tasks are asked for and downloaded? If no longer in Event Log, check through stdoutdae.txt or stdoutdae.old in the data directory.
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Message 71816 - Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 21:57:18 UTC - in response to Message 71814.  

Is this another case of only active tasks showing (because of, maybe accidentally, hitting the Show Active Tasks selection?
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Message 71817 - Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 22:36:27 UTC - in response to Message 71816.  

Perhaps if he has a full cache. That can be checked.
In any case, checking the logs for actual request for work + downloads of work while the command was set is another way.

Does WCG have a form of "resend lost tasks"? That could be another way why tasks download when NNT has been set.
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Message 71818 - Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 23:17:15 UTC - in response to Message 71816.  

Is this another case of only active tasks showing (because of, maybe accidentally, hitting the Show Active Tasks selection?


SekeRob2, your guess was absolutely right. I had a queue of lots of tasks which were now shown after clicking "show all tasks". Thanks for the help!
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Message 71849 - Posted: 24 Aug 2016, 13:58:25 UTC - in response to Message 71818.  

Bugs like these would have long come to light. WCG does have Lost result resending, but for an extremely limited time before 'lost' is considered 'no time to pense over, sent to other client and free up slots'. The give away would have been the odd/uneven deadline.... not like 10.00 days, but 7.86 or whatever.
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