Boinc 4.09/ WinME / Seti - LHC split 33/66

This is odd ... when a project is paused neither cpu time and 'to completion' columns are paused, in fact the 'to completion' column reverses and starts ticking upwards in time. when the project resumes, 'to completion' time reverses and once again counts down, thus overstating the total cpu time by the pause duration.

Closing, then restarting the client eliminates this behavior until a project is once again handed off to the other.

Known bug or something new?

I've had this happen a few times.

I've also closed the client to clean things up as the crunching appeared to be extremely slow.

This is a known bug for the 4.x series on windows 98 and ME as long as you have the preference "Leave apps in memory" set to on. The apps appear to be running while paused, but no real work is getting done. The CPU time and time to completion will increase, this just results in the unit requesting an excessive amount of credit when the unit is returned. If you do not want this to happen, turn the preference off, do an update to get the preference change, then stop and restart Boinc.

> This is a known bug for the 4.x series on windows 98 and ME as long as you
> have the preference "Leave apps in memory" set to on. The apps appear to be
> running while paused, but no real work is getting done. The CPU time and time
> to completion will increase, this just results in the unit requesting an
> excessive amount of credit when the unit is returned. If you do not want this
> to happen, turn the preference off, do an update to get the preference change,
> then stop and restart Boinc.
>


SETI@home - 2004-10-06 19:27:22 - Pausing result 01mr04ab.2990.17441.867324.19_3 (removed from memory)

As you can see I have "Leave apps in memory" set to off and it still happened a couple of hours ago.