Boinc hogging cpu, failure to contact projects, wu's reported downloaded from project but not showing up in cache. Boinc 4.43, E@H 4.81, S@H 4.02 on Mandriva 2005LE and 10.1 systems, all patches and updates applied. Time share 50/50 between E@H and S@H. PIII and AMD platforms.

All above problems appeared when S@H was unreachable for an extended period about a week ago. All issues have cleared now that S@H is back up. It appears Boinc 4.43 has issues when a project cannot be accessed for an extended period. Updating the E@H project, I used Kboincspy, seems to have temporariliy cleared the problem. Using the 4.72 test client is reported to fix the issue.

Odd CPU behavior:

TOP
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5209 me 25 0 6656 1964 1176 R 79.0 1.6 399:53.45 boinc
5215 me 34 19 18132 4268 1288 S 4.0 3.4 759:03.52 einstein_4.81_i

PS AUX
me 5209 36.3 1.5 8576 1908 ? R Aug28 513:12 ./boinc
me 5215 54.2 2.2 18132 2776 ? SNl Aug28 764:47 einstein_4.81_i

Normal CPU behavior (after killing and restarting boinc):

TOP
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
27459 me 34 19 18132 5356 1608 S 98.2 4.3 1:14.39 einstein_4.81_i
(./boinc doesn't show in this view, CPU is normally near 0.0)

PS AUX
me 27458 0.0 1.2 2724 1572 ? S 10:07 0:00 ./boinc
me 27459 90.0 4.2 18132 5356 ? SNl 10:07 7:09 einstein_4.81_i

KDE System Guard, kpm, also shows similar issues. See this thread for original reported info
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=2622#17582

S@H connectivity poor, more Boinc 4.43 problems. PIII computer running Boinc 4.43, E@H 4.81, S@H 4.02 Mandriva 2005LE. Last E@H wu reported finished, w1_1336.5_0.1_T11_S4hB_1, but not uploaded.

Abnormal behavior:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5076 root 16 0 91492 22m 2320 S 1.0 5.9 400:49.56 X
6065 me 16 0 23932 11m 9208 S 0.3 3.0 33:38.66 kdevmon
22097 me 16 0 27100 13m 11m S 0.3 3.5 0:00.60 konsole
22129 me 16 0 1968 1032 800 R 0.3 0.3 0:00.02 top
1 root 16 0 1536 508 456 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.29 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:10.49 events/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 khelper
9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
21 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.01 kblockd/0
73 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:33.59 pdflush
74 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:47.96 pdflush
76 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
75 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:21.25 kswapd0
669 root 21 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
749 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.35 reiserfs/0
802 root 13 -4 1520 444 392 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.34 udevd

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
me 6697 0.0 0.5 3244 2096 ? S Sep10 0:37 ./boinc
(no einstein or seti client running)


Normal behavior, after killing Boinc and restarting:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22144 me 39 19 17084 14m 1084 R 98.0 3.8 0:30.41 setiathome_4.02
5076 root 15 0 91492 22m 2320 S 1.0 5.9 401:08.96 X
5870 me 16 0 47052 36m 7508 S 0.3 9.6 14:03.70 mdkapplet
5957 me 16 0 3564 2280 808 S 0.3 0.6 2:43.20 gam_server
6065 me 16 0 23932 11m 9208 S 0.3 3.0 33:40.29 kdevmon
22091 me 16 0 34276 20m 15m S 0.3 5.3 0:03.36 konqueror
22180 me 16 0 1968 1028 800 R 0.3 0.3 0:00.03 top
1 root 16 0 1536 508 456 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.29 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:10.49 events/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 khelper
9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
21 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.01 kblockd/0
73 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:33.59 pdflush
74 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:48.03 pdflush
76 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
75 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:21.27 kswapd0

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
me 22141 1.4 0.4 3120 1880 ? S 14:35 0:01 ./boinc
me 22144 90.9 4.1 18112 15868 ? RN 14:35 1:48 setiathome_4.02

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