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Ian Cook

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Message 60270 - Posted: 12 Feb 2015, 23:04:19 UTC

What your problem is exactly, write it out in as much detail as you can.
As stated, BOINC will not come out of suspension when the computer is not in use. Activity is set to "Run based on preferences" and "Network activity based on preferences". . The little Boinc tray icon has the "pause" symbol in the bottom right corner.

I have my processor and network preferences set as follows (I tried hotlinking these images but I could not get it to work)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98915197/CP-processor.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98915197/CP-Network.jpg

The project(s) that you have the problems with.
All projects. Its BOINC itself that does not come out of suspension.

What you have done so far to try to remedy the problem.

1. I have set Activity to "Run Always" and Boinc works fine
2. Downloaded and installed the latest Boinc
2. Reset all Project to the same set of preference and tried usind the web based preferences rather than computer based preference. No change.

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GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz [Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9]
(2 processors)

Microsoft Windows XP
Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
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Message 60271 - Posted: 13 Feb 2015, 0:09:09 UTC - in response to Message 60270.  
Last modified: 13 Feb 2015, 0:11:02 UTC

What your problem is exactly, write it out in as much detail as you can.
As stated, BOINC will not come out of suspension when the computer is not in use. Activity is set to "Run based on preferences" and "Network activity based on preferences". . The little Boinc tray icon has the "pause" symbol in the bottom right corner.

I have my processor and network preferences set as follows (I tried hotlinking these images but I could not get it to work)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98915197/CP-processor.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98915197/CP-Network.jpg

The project(s) that you have the problems with.
All projects. Its BOINC itself that does not come out of suspension.

What you have done so far to try to remedy the problem.

1. I have set Activity to "Run Always" and Boinc works fine
2. Downloaded and installed the latest Boinc
2. Reset all Project to the same set of preference and tried usind the web based preferences rather than computer based preference. No change.

System
GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz [Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9]
(2 processors)

Microsoft Windows XP
Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)


Made the links active.

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Message 60282 - Posted: 13 Feb 2015, 15:46:26 UTC - in response to Message 60270.  
Last modified: 13 Feb 2015, 15:48:37 UTC

My reading of your query is that "I have set Activity to "Run Always" and Boinc works fine" as in the client runs if the computing preferences are ignored. That's a good sign.

There's that little pestilence of an preference on the website location profiles, not on the client, that makes BOINC go to sleep if there is no mouse/keyboard input (don't know about joysticks and the like). At WCG it's "Stop work after computer is idle for: nn minutes". If the client is set to only compute when idle and the client is told to go snooze because of lack of user input, it may never start if the times to resume and time to snooze overlap. Can't think of another possible ATM.

Another 'feature' unrelated, if computing is suspended also the networking is stopped. Often I see such a comment in the event log, whenever the client is paused do to too high [non-BOINC] CPU load.
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Ian Cook

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Message 60294 - Posted: 14 Feb 2015, 0:03:29 UTC - in response to Message 60282.  

My reading of your query is that "I have set Activity to "Run Always" and Boinc works fine" as in the client runs if the computing preferences are ignored. That's a good sign.

There's that little pestilence of an preference on the website location profiles, not on the client, that makes BOINC go to sleep if there is no mouse/keyboard input (don't know about joysticks and the like). At WCG it's "Stop work after computer is idle for: nn minutes". If the client is set to only compute when idle and the client is told to go snooze because of lack of user input, it may never start if the times to resume and time to snooze overlap. Can't think of another possible ATM.

Another 'feature' unrelated, if computing is suspended also the networking is stopped. Often I see such a comment in the event log, whenever the client is paused do to too high [non-BOINC] CPU load.


I don't see anything like this - "Stop work after computer is idle for: nn minutes" in any of my project computing preferences. I have gone to every project and set the following (or its equivalent)

"Suspend work while computer is on battery power? yes
Suspend work while computer is in use? yes
Suspend GPU work while computer is in use? yes
'In use' means mouse/keyboard activity in last 1 minutes
Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last 1 minutes


Which all seem consistent with my local settings anyway.

For the record, my projects are

SETI
Rosetta
MilkyWay
Cosmology
Einstein
Asteroids
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Message 60295 - Posted: 14 Feb 2015, 0:12:52 UTC - in response to Message 60294.  

I don't see anything like this - "Stop work after computer is idle for: nn minutes" in any of my project computing preferences. I have gone to every project and set the following (or its equivalent)

"Suspend work while computer is on battery power? yes
Suspend work while computer is in use? yes
Suspend GPU work while computer is in use? yes
'In use' means mouse/keyboard activity in last 1 minutes
Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last 1 minutes


Which all seem consistent with my local settings anyway.

For the record, my projects are

SETI
Rosetta
MilkyWay
Cosmology
Einstein
Asteroids

There it is in red. That means after one minute of no mouse/keyboard usage, that computing is suspended. Try deleting the 1 in the box and leave the box empty, save preferences and update the project.
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Ian Cook

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Message 60297 - Posted: 14 Feb 2015, 0:30:31 UTC - in response to Message 60294.  

My reading of your query is that "I have set Activity to "Run Always" and Boinc works fine" as in the client runs if the computing preferences are ignored. That's a good sign.

There's that little pestilence of an preference on the website location profiles, not on the client, that makes BOINC go to sleep if there is no mouse/keyboard input (don't know about joysticks and the like). At WCG it's "Stop work after computer is idle for: nn minutes". If the client is set to only compute when idle and the client is told to go snooze because of lack of user input, it may never start if the times to resume and time to snooze overlap. Can't think of another possible ATM.

Another 'feature' unrelated, if computing is suspended also the networking is stopped. Often I see such a comment in the event log, whenever the client is paused do to too high [non-BOINC] CPU load.


I don't see anything like this - "Stop work after computer is idle for: nn minutes" in any of my project computing preferences. I have gone to every project and set the following (or its equivalent)

"Suspend work while computer is on battery power? yes
Suspend work while computer is in use? yes
Suspend GPU work while computer is in use? yes
'In use' means mouse/keyboard activity in last 1 minutes


Which all seem consistent with my local settings anyway.

For the record, my projects are

SETI
Rosetta
MilkyWay
Cosmology
Einstein
Asteroids


Correction to above post

"Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last 0 minutes"
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Message 60299 - Posted: 14 Feb 2015, 0:39:49 UTC - in response to Message 60297.  

[Correction to above post

"Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last 0 minutes"

I may be mistaken, but I don't think you want 0 in there either. Delete any number in that box and leave it blank.

My entry on website preferences looks like this:

Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last  --- minutes 
Needed to enter low-power mode on some computers	


and the box is empty when I click on Edit to bring up the options to change.
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Ian Cook

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Message 60317 - Posted: 15 Feb 2015, 0:55:13 UTC - in response to Message 60299.  

[Correction to above post

"Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last 0 minutes"

I may be mistaken, but I don't think you want 0 in there either. Delete any number in that box and leave it blank.

My entry on website preferences looks like this:

Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last  --- minutes 
Needed to enter low-power mode on some computers	


and the box is empty when I click on Edit to bring up the options to change.



Bingo!!!

Changed all the web preference to blank instead of "0" and it has fixed the problem. This really odd though, since I have two computers running Boinc (one at home and one at my business premises) and the "0" was not causing this problem at home, so I was ignoring it.

But thank you BobCat13.
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