The task status correctly shows Suspended - time of day but the count is still going.

I have tried all the menu options to suspend activity and no effect.

I tried run cpu benchmarks and it failed due to failure to stop applications.

Even quitting boinc does not stop the task.

This has happened before but in those cases using the menus to suspend activity stopped the task.

Task is PrimeGrid PPS (Sieve) 1.39 (cuda32) pps_sr2sieve_47576159

System details from log:

Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.25 for x86_64-apple-darwin
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | Libraries: libcurl/7.21.7 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.4
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | Running as a daemon
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7600 @ 3.06GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | Processor features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM PBE SSE3 DTES64 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM SSE4.1 XSAVE
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | OS: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (Darwin 11.4.0)
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 29.83 GB virtual
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | Disk: 433.40 GB total, 29.58 GB free
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | Local time is UTC +10 hours
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9400 (driver version 4.2.5, CUDA version 4.20, compute capability 1.1, 254MB, 206MB available, 58 GFLOPS peak)
Wed 16 May 21:14:13 2012 | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9400 (driver version CLH 1.0, device version OpenCL 1.0, 256MB, 206MB available)

Not a BOINC problem, but a project science application problem. So you'll have to complain at Primegrid.

Even quitting boinc does not stop the task.

This is normally caused by BOINC trying to exit the application, but it refusing to do so. The application will then stay in memory, continuing to run as a rogue app. You can only quit it through the OS its task manager, end process.

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