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Snoob Send message Joined: 3 Sep 04 Posts: 18 Credit: 44,352 RAC: 0 |
Hello, I noticed that one of the WUs my laptop was working on for SETI seems to have stalled while nearing completion (97%). I had disabled the screensaver option and when I activated the "graphics" from the "show graphics" button, I noticed that the percentage on the screensaver is different (95.95%) and the "box" which visualizes the process does not show, whereas the graph above the percentage bar moves very slowly. Currently, I have suspended this WU and the one next in line is progressing normally. Similarly, Rosetta is also operating normally. Any ideas? |
Odysseus Send message Joined: 26 Jul 99 Posts: 1808 Credit: 6,701,347 RAC: 6 |
I noticed that one of the WUs my laptop was working on for SETI seems to have stalled while nearing completion (97%). This happens once in a while, especially on multi-CPU systems. (Is it your dual Intel host?) If you open the Task Manager, you may see an 'extra' S@h thread that's doing nothing but using a few percent of the CPU … Stopping and relaunching BOINC, evoking fresh instances of the science app, usually nudges such a stalled task out of its rut. |
Snoob Send message Joined: 3 Sep 04 Posts: 18 Credit: 44,352 RAC: 0 |
Yes, it was the Centrino duo that had run into this issue. I relaunched BOINC (actually, I restarted Windows and indeed the WU restarted but then it encountered some problem: the completion % began fluctuating between 95% (which was what I saw on the stalled screensaver) and 97% which was the figure on the extended BOINC view. A few seconds later the WU jumped from 97% to 100% and, predictably, I got a "computation error" as a result. Actually, this was my first compute error since rejoining SETI (I had some validation errors but never a client error). Oh, well, back to work. |
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