Although the help says:

--project url {reset | detach | update | suspend | resume | nomorework | allowmorework}

suspend ans resume are noct implemented

$ ./boinc_cmd --project http://lhcathome.cern.ch/ resume
Unknown op resume
$ ./boinc_cmd --project http://lhcathome.cern.ch/ suspend
Unknown op suspend

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i've noticed this too, and i'm very disappointed. sure would be nice to be able to do this for those of us running boinc as a background process on a unix/mac machine. can the devs give us any idea as to if suspend and resume will ever be implemented. if never, perhaps you should remove it from both the commandline help as well as the webpage docs.

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Hermes & ben,

Just to be sure you have an actual flaw and not "pilot error", make sure that you have selected (clicked on to "highlight") an in-process workunit on the "Work" tab. If the Suspend and Resume are still greyed-out, you have an issue.

Michael

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"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward Justice"

Just to be sure

Michael, they're running the CLI version - no Manager. This is going to take a developer to answer.

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Had the same problem and found a way for Linux based machines.
My machine does work for Seti@Home and the "setiathome_4.02_i686-pc-linux-gnu" process that does the work honours the SIGSTOP and SIGCONT signals. Don't know if that goes for other projects, though.
So "kill -s SIGSTOP <proc no>" and "kill -s SIGCONT <proc no>" works as expected; is suspends and resumes the computations.

Had the same problem and found a way for Linux based machines.
My machine does work for Seti@Home and the "setiathome_4.02_i686-pc-linux-gnu" process that does the work honours the SIGSTOP and SIGCONT signals. Don't know if that goes for other projects, though.

These signals are processed by the Linux kernel; there is no way for any application to ignore them.

So "kill -s SIGSTOP <proc no>" and "kill -s SIGCONT <proc no>" works as expected; is suspends and resumes the computations.

But it does not start the computation for another project, while the applikation for one project is suspended.

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