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| 1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Tasks Running When Should Be Suspended
Message 114843 Posted 13 Nov 2024 by Sebh007 |
I am having the same problem to the point where it's causing the PC to overheat and shut down which is very undesirable! I have tried reinstalling, suspending the project (CPDN) and suspending all tasks but it just soldiers on regardless. Options - Computing Preferences are set to 'Suspend when computer is in use' which used to work perfectly well, but no longer does. The only way to stop it running and stop the machine overheating is to kill BOINC, or individual tasks, in Task Manager. I have now been forced to restrict use to just 12.5% of CPUs and 12.5% of CPU time which isn't really a very good state of affairs, but at least it's stopping the overheating. Hopefully it's just a typo in the code that can be quickly fixed but the number of threads reporting the same issue online is quite substantial so it must be pretty obscure otherwise it would have been fixed by now. |
| 2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Resource share not being respected by BOINC
Message 99396 Posted 22 Jun 2020 by Sebh007 |
Thanks all. That all makes complete sense however frustrating it might be. I've only got one CPDN task across all machines currently and that has a deadline of 15th Feb 2021, so it's not going to compete for a long time methinks! I shall micromanage until it's done I think - it's only another 17 days or so - and then leave BOINC to it's own devices. If there's no CPDN work available, then I'm not unduly bothered, but I just don't fancy getting on the wrong side of Greta Thunberg! I might consider segregating the two projects on a machine by machine basis in the future, but then that would mean all that lovely resource going to waste on a CPDN-dedicated machine with no work. Thanks again - much appreciated. |
| 3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Resource share not being respected by BOINC
Message 99386 Posted 22 Jun 2020 by Sebh007 |
I have been running BOINC for years and am currently running 7.16.7 on a variety of Windows machines. Until COVID-19, I have run CPDN exclusively, at which point I thought I should run some Rosetta to help identify a protein or similar more quickly. My resource share is set so that CPDN is supposed to get 99.90% of the resources and Rosetta should get 0.10% of the resources (at least that what is shown on the Projects tab). In the individual Project Properties windows, the Scheduling priority for CPDN is shown as -0.01 and for Rosetta as -997.20. In practice, since the end of March when I added the Rosetta project to the various machines, they have not run any CPDN at all, even though they have tasks waiting to run. On one of the machines I manually suspended all the Rosetta tasks to just make sure that any CPDN tasks waiting would actually run, and the CPDN ones do run until I re-enable all the Rosetta tasks at which point they switch to 'Waiting to run'. The Project tab reports the CPDN Work done (over years) as being 8,300,790 and the Rosetta Work done as 2,850,662 since March. It reports the Avg.work done as 49.81 for CPDN and 11,970.46 for Rosetta. Granted that the deadline for the CPDN tasks are months later than the Rosetta deadlines, but I would have thought that the weighting of the CPDN project would have overridden that? Perhaps I'm being naive. All comments most welcome. Thanks. Seb |
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