Posts by asbickel

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Suspended - computation suspended (Message 38785)
Posted 5 Jul 2011 by asbickel
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Computation Suspended -- inappropriately.

For the past few weeks my tasks refuse to run unless I select "Run Always" in the Activities Menu.

My Boinc Manager version is 6.12.26 (x86), recently upgraded but the problem also occurred with the previous version. I"ve been a BOINC user for around 10 years and have not experienced this before.

My Boinc Manager Preferences are set as follows

(Unchecked) While Computer is on Batteries
(Unchecked) While Computer is in Use
(Unchecked) Use GPU while computer is in Use
Only after computer has been idle for 3.0 minutes
While Processor Speed is less than 60%
Every day between 0.00 and 0.00
No day of week override is checked

The three "other options" at the bottom of the screen are default.

Today I left my machine unattended for hours, and came back to find than no activity had occurred on any of the 3 active tasks.

Incidentally, some of these options are ambiguous. IN particular "only after computer has been idle . . ." seens to contradict "while computer is in use". How these two options interrelate seems to be left for the user to guess, although I'm sure the designer understood it perfectly.





2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Possible Boinc Conflict with Skype (Windows XP) (Message 16382)
Posted 3 Apr 2008 by asbickel
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Recently I've been experiencing computer crashes with Skype (blue screen of death). I'm running Windows XP professional on a 3 GHz machine with 2GB main memory and lots of disk space.

In trying to figure out what's happening, I've been keeping the task manager open. Today, while making a phone call on Skype, I was surprised to see BOINC load one its modules, which committed almost all the memory on the machine.

Apparently voice activity alone doesn't trigger whatever event Boinc is listening for to detect user activity.

I'm wondering if this might be the cause of the occasional crashes I've experienced while using Skype.

Arthur




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