Posts by Tinface

1) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 13300)
Posted 26 Oct 2007 by Tinface
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Very nice, thanks for the info.
2) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 13296)
Posted 26 Oct 2007 by Tinface
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5.10.27 seems to have fixed this problem. I double checked that the service is actually running this time :)

Can anyone else confirm this? I'm not going to post on the trac ticket again till I'm sure the bug is actually gone for good.

Edit: I ran 5.10.20 until upgrading to .27. The fix might have been in any inbetween version.
3) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 12795)
Posted 29 Sep 2007 by Tinface
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So, this seems like it is a SETI issue and not a BOINC issue?
Other projects tried so far suspend as they are supposed to???

No, it was a case of me messing up. I had disabled the service when switching to a custom seti app and forgot to restart it afterwards. As long as the service is not running, the manager can suspend on activity. The service cannot.
4) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 12401)
Posted 10 Sep 2007 by Tinface
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I just installed the seti Crunch3er optimized apps (http://calbe.dw70.de/2.4V/2.4V_Windows_x64_SSSE3_GFX.zip) and it made the issue go away. I'm running seti, cpdn and lhc.


If you are only running the standard apps from cpdn and lhc (NO SETI) is the issue still there?

This previous post identifies "17/06/2007 14:05:13||Reading preferences override file" while the problem is still there. I notice in Tinface's listing that line is NOT there w/ location=home but no preferences set for home, so BOINC using DEFAULT preferences.

Tinface: Can you create local preferences override & see if issue reappears?

After copying the custom apps to the seti project folder, the Boinc service was disabled somehow. This was the reason suspend on activity worked. Restarting the Boinc service causes the issue to reappear. My bad, sorry.
5) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 12394)
Posted 10 Sep 2007 by Tinface
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Funny thing is as far as I can see I don't get the message telling me I'm using the optimized app. Perhaps the issue is not related to the app itself but some configuration relating to it is.

10/09/2007 10:42:08||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.18 for windows_x86_64
10/09/2007 10:42:08||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Libraries: libcurl/7.16.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz [EM64T Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6]
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni
10/09/2007 10:42:08||OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: , (06.00.6000.00)
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 8.15 GB virtual
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Disk: 465.76 GB total, 202.87 GB free
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Local time is UTC +1 hours
10/09/2007 10:42:08|climateprediction.net|URL: http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID: 696070; location: home; project prefs: default
10/09/2007 10:42:08|lhcathome|URL: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/; Computer ID: 9620054; location: home; project prefs: default
10/09/2007 10:42:08|SETI@home|URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 3454899; location: home; project prefs: default
10/09/2007 10:42:08||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2007-08-14 03:39:14)
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Host location: home
10/09/2007 10:42:08||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2047.28MB
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3685.11MB
10/09/2007 10:42:08||Preferences limit disk usage to 93.13GB
10/09/2007 10:43:09|SETI@home|Restarting task 13fe07ac.7306.239531.3.5.157_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 527
10/09/2007 10:43:09|SETI@home|Restarting task 13fe07ac.7306.239531.3.5.85_0 using setiathome_enhanced version 527
10/09/2007 10:48:47||Suspending computation - user is active
10/09/2007 10:48:52||Resuming computation
10/09/2007 11:07:41||Suspending computation - user is active
10/09/2007 11:07:45||Resuming computation
10/09/2007 11:18:07||Suspending computation - user is active
10/09/2007 11:18:10||Resuming computation
6) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 12393)
Posted 10 Sep 2007 by Tinface
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I just installed the seti Crunch3er optimized apps (http://calbe.dw70.de/2.4V/2.4V_Windows_x64_SSSE3_GFX.zip) and it made the issue go away. I'm running seti, cpdn and lhc.
7) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 11070)
Posted 20 Jun 2007 by Tinface
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It seems I were too quick to declare the issue gone. I noticed after a while that Boinc was again running when it shouldn't. Being busy at the time I just turned the service off. When I later wanted to resume computation I ran the manager and it was again able to start and stop as it was supposed to. Curious about this I checked the services and noticed the manager had not started it which I then did. After this Boinc again did not work.

The conclusion is that as long as the service is not running, the manager is able to suspend and resume as it should. If the service is running it cannot. This might have been the case with the earlier version as well. It probably was if the update didn't have anything to do with this as mentioned. What got me confused was that it seemed to work just after installing the new version. I'm unsure about why that was the case.

Hope this helps.
8) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 11022)
Posted 18 Jun 2007 by Tinface
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5.10.7 has fixed the issue with Boinc not suspending tasks in both shared and service installs.

Thanks a lot for the help and thank you dev's for fixing this.
9) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 11014)
Posted 18 Jun 2007 by Tinface
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Removing the preference override file by the use of the 'clear' button didn't help sadly. Neither did setting up local settings afterwards telling Boinc to suspend while user is active. Computation continues happily unaware that I'm trying to choke it.

I noticed a slight glitch with the preferences window as well. There is no way to scroll down to change the settings at the bottom. This goes for all three tabs.

Thank you for all the help so far.

Edit: Oh btw I failed to mention that I'm running Boinc as a service.
10) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 11004)
Posted 17 Jun 2007 by Tinface
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Having this issue as well using versions 5.8.16 and 5.10.6 (Windows x64) on Vista x64.



I've seen stranger things happen so....

Check your general preferences on one of your projects. Make sure the "Do work while the computer is in use" is set to no. Even if it is, change it to yes and then back to no. Once it's set back to no, update that project through the manager to get your general preferences downloaded again.

Also make sure the host is set to the same location (home/work/school) as you're using to manager your preferences.

Other than that, I'm out of ideas.

Used SETI@home for the above.

"Do work while computer is in use?" was set to 'no', so I set it to 'yes' and clicked 'update preferences'. In Boinc Manager I clicked the SETI project and clicked 'update'. This is what got printed in the messages:

17/06/2007 14:05:08|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user
17/06/2007 14:05:08|SETI@home|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)
17/06/2007 14:05:13|SETI@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509]
17/06/2007 14:05:13||General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2007-06-17 14:04:35)
17/06/2007 14:05:13||Host location: home
17/06/2007 14:05:13||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
17/06/2007 14:05:13||Reading preferences override file
17/06/2007 14:05:13||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 511.38MB
17/06/2007 14:05:13||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 920.48MB
17/06/2007 14:05:13||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB

Changing "Do work while computer is in use?" back to 'no' and updating gives similar output. Despite 'Activity->Run based on preferences' ticked, Boinc keeps processing my wus.
11) Message boards : BOINC client : Boinc On Vista - Projects Don't Suspend (Message 10950)
Posted 16 Jun 2007 by Tinface
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Having this issue as well using versions 5.8.16 and 5.10.6 (Windows x64) on Vista x64.



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