Ran across something odd on one of my Box's today, there were no Messages in the BOINC Manager for a period of about 8 hr's, I'm using BOINC Client 5.10.45 on a Win XP Pro 64-Bit OS on that Box.

I know the Client was running the whole time because work has been done & finished work has been trying to upload to the Riesel Sieve project all day which has been down so there should be Messages relating to the Uploads too ... Steve

I know. This same bug is still in BOINC 6.2 and there's no fix going to be available until 6.4

All the messages are still logged in the stdoutdae.txt file, so if you ever need them, they're there. Now as for the official word on this and what is causing it...

Rom Walton wrote:

After 20 minutes or so Windows shuts down the timers* the manager uses to maintain state, so it stops getting the latest message updates. The CC only retains the last 1000 messages in memory, so when a bunch of log flags are turned on that buffer gets cycled through really quickly. When the manager wakes back up it requests all the latest messages and gets back the last 1000, and anything before that is forgotten.

*The timers are no longer fired at regular intervals until the BOINC Manager receives focus or has some form of user activity. They seem to stop sometime after the window is minimized or closed/hidden.

See http://bcbjournal.org/articles/vol4/0011/Using_timers.htm

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Okay, but I never noticed it before ... :)

Tric tacket... no, Trac ticket [trac]#306[/trac]

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