I do run the graphics, and on the new agent, the screen was blinking.

If this turns out to be a bug, and if it gets fixed, the news should be put in the RSS feed so that those of us who use the feed will be notified.

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I do run the graphics, and on the new agent, the screen was blinking.

If this turns out to be a bug, and if it gets fixed, the news should be put in the RSS feed so that those of us who use the feed will be notified.

>>RSM

I'm having a similar problem, if by blinking you mean the project graphics rapidly flash on intermittently with the "BOINC" logo and the words "BOINC is currently suspended."

It's very distracting and I'd love to know how to fix it.

I should say that I'm running this on a iMac Intel and I didn't have this problem with previous versions.

Patrick

Hi-

I saw a bit of that; but ultimately it was a screen saver flashing. I went back to 5.10.45 for the moment. I just don't think that kind of thing is good for the monitor.

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Mitch,

are all your screen drivers up to snuff? So far with all the testing, the only anomalous I've had with 6.2 is that extra blank window when looking at WCG graphics. Now that has disappeared and the last WCG sub-project is being beta-tested this minute using the BOINC 6 API and shows perfect under 6.2.14.

cheapirish

As for that "BOINC currently Suspended" message, you might wanna check if the client is actually crunching as the BOINC screensaver is dependent on that.

ciao[/quote]

Hey Sek-

I will have to check. I had trouble in the past with the video driver on this machine, I'll check with nVidia. Thanks.

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cheapirish

As for that "BOINC currently Suspended" message, you might wanna check if the client is actually crunching as the BOINC screensaver is dependent on that.

ciao

Here's what I'm showing in my messages tab for today. Is there another way to check on whether the client is crunching?

Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.14 for x86_64-apple-darwin
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.5.1
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Data directory: /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||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 SSE3 MON DSCPL VMX EST TM2 SSSE3 CX16 TPR PDCM
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||OS: Darwin: 9.4.0
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 208.80 GB virtual
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Disk: 297.77 GB total, 208.56 GB free
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Local time is UTC -4 hours
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||No coprocessors
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008|rosetta@home|URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID: 192116; location: work; project prefs: default
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008|climateprediction.net|URL: http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID: 786941; location: (none); project prefs: default
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008|Einstein@Home|URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 785700; location: (none); project prefs: default
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 2311470; location: home; project prefs: default
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008|malariacontrol.net|URL: http://www.malariacontrol.net/; Computer ID: 57476; location: (none); project prefs: default
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 452247; location: (none); project prefs: default
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 02-Mar-2008 13:37:49)
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Host location: none
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||General prefs: using your defaults
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Reading preferences override file
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2048.00MB
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3686.40MB
Fri Aug 1 09:41:32 2008||Preferences limit disk usage to 18.63GB
Fri Aug 1 10:14:47 2008|climateprediction.net|Restarting task hadcm3istd_cnyd_1920_160_05925187_6 using hadcm3i version 539
Fri Aug 1 10:14:48 2008|World Community Grid|Restarting task faah4193_TL3_Min1_xmd04570_08_1 using faah version 605
Fri Aug 1 11:30:45 2008||Resuming computation
Fri Aug 1 12:30:56 2008||Resuming computation
Fri Aug 1 12:30:57 2008|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 2939 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks
Fri Aug 1 12:33:49 2008|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error
Fri Aug 1 12:38:01 2008||Suspending computation - user is active
Fri Aug 1 12:56:42 2008||Resuming computation
Fri Aug 1 12:57:46 2008||Suspending computation - user is active
Fri Aug 1 13:02:47 2008||Resuming computation
Fri Aug 1 13:03:13 2008||Suspending computation - user is active
Fri Aug 1 13:19:40 2008||Resuming computation
Fri Aug 1 14:19:03 2008||Suspending computation - user is active
Fri Aug 1 14:42:40 2008||Resuming computation
Fri Aug 1 14:44:55 2008||Suspending computation - user is active

Do you use CPU throttling? If you do, that bug is fixed in 6.2.15.

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/quote]Mitch,

are all your screen drivers up to snuff? So far with all the testing, the only anomalous I've had with 6.2 is that extra blank window when looking at WCG graphics. Now that has disappeared and the last WCG sub-project is being beta-tested this minute using the BOINC 6 API and shows perfect under 6.2.14.[/quote]
I checked nVidia, and I am up to date. In my naivete, I would have to ask, if the graphics are all running fine, WCG and all BOINC projects, in 5.10.45, and with 6.X just out, and subject to the vagueries of all sorts of individual computer if's and but's, why suspect the video drivers?

I am sure that there will still be kinks to work out for a couple of months. Going up I full version number should be a big deal.

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I'm experiencing the same problem.

Vista Ultimate 64, installed as protected mode, i.e. boinc runs as limited user.

When the screensaver starts it shows WCG for a second, flashes to the BOINC logo (with computation suspended message), and switches like so back and forth - very annoying.

I'm running SETI@home (64 bit optimized), WCG and Cosmology@home.

Hardware is a Q9450@stock speed, GeForce 9800GTX w. the latest drivers from NVidia. OS is updated with all the latest patches from MS. I previously ran BOINC 5 without any issues (apart from the annoying not autostarting bit..)

Same problems. Running NVIDIA graphics, Win XP, flashes between "BOINC is suspended" and the graphics.

People, this is known and a fix will be in BOINC 6.2.15 which is being tested by the alpha crew at this moment. Or you can download it if you cannot wait.

Do NOT download 6.3.6, that is only tested by people from GPUGrid, to test the GPU/co-processor addition of the code.

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Thanks so much, relieved. Again, I request put it into the RSS feed for BOINC News when the fix is accomplished.

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