S@H stops processing

Author	Message
Regan Wood Send message Joined: 3 May 00 Posts: 2 Credit: 16,857 RAC: 0	Message 28750 - Posted: 21 Sep 2004, 21:28:07 UTC I have boinc 4.09 and S@H will stop processing at irregular intervals. It still shows to be running, but the CPU time shows that it is not. It did the same on V 4.05. I have Windows XP Pro with SP2. I disabled the firewall with no effect. Exiting from boinc and restarting works, but it will lock up in from 4 to 25 minituts. What gives? ID: 28750 ·

KWSN_Dagger Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 36 Credit: 3,578 RAC: 0	Message 29155 - Posted: 22 Sep 2004, 23:14:04 UTC Last modified: 22 Sep 2004, 23:15:00 UTC Darn double posts. :( ID: 29155 ·

KWSN_Dagger Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 36 Credit: 3,578 RAC: 0	Message 29156 - Posted: 22 Sep 2004, 23:14:15 UTC If your running another project and have a WU from that one, then Client will pause Seti to run that other WU for an hr or so, then pause that one and run Seti. If it's something else, then it could be settings, or something chewing up your free memory (viruses, bots, trojan scripts, other programs). ID: 29156 ·

Heffed Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Mar 02 Posts: 1856 Credit: 40,736 RAC: 0	Message 29173 - Posted: 23 Sep 2004, 0:39:31 UTC Are you on dial up? If you are on dial up and BOINC decides to talk to the servers when you aren't online, BOINC will lock up. Exiting and restarting is the fix as you have noticed. ID: 29173 ·

Regan Wood Send message Joined: 3 May 00 Posts: 2 Credit: 16,857 RAC: 0	Message 29355 - Posted: 23 Sep 2004, 13:18:45 UTC - in response to Message 29156. > If your running another project and have a WU from that one, then Client will > pause Seti to run that other WU for an hr or so, then pause that one and run > Seti. > If it's something else, then it could be settings, or something chewing up > your free memory (viruses, bots, trojan scripts, other programs). > [url=http://www.timtaylor.net/kwsn] > Thanks for the answers. I have a shared T1 connex and I don't have any other projects loaded, so no help. Don't know for sure about the others, but I keep Norton updated and scan regularly. The computer did actually finish 2 WU last night. Of course the servers were taken down so I didn't make any progress!!! Thnaks again. ID: 29355 ·

Doomlord Send message Joined: 3 May 01 Posts: 21 Credit: 2,821,336 RAC: 1	Message 29377 - Posted: 23 Sep 2004, 14:29:20 UTC - in response to Message 29355. I have had this several times recently, and have noticed that while boinc-gui is a happiply running task, the setathome task isnt on the taskmanager list. Exit BOINC and relaunch and it continues happily. It may be coincidental, but this only appears to happen when my machine is getting a damned good hammering like playing Doom3 or transcoding video streams ID: 29377 ·

Ethan Montgomery Send message Joined: 23 Jul 02 Posts: 2 Credit: 515,485 RAC: 0	Message 46022 - Posted: 13 Nov 2004, 5:57:51 UTC What kind of processor do you have? If it is a slower one then other programs or Windows itself might be using your processor since SETI is at Low Priority ID: 46022 ·

Martin Johnson Send message Joined: 9 Jun 01 Posts: 201 Credit: 224,995 RAC: 0	Message 46026 - Posted: 13 Nov 2004, 6:09:18 UTC It's a 2.66Gh, so it ain't too slow. Regan, if you have the graphics display / screen saver on, then you will see this effect. Go to the work tab, and you probably will not. ID: 46026 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 46277 - Posted: 14 Nov 2004, 5:22:03 UTC 4.09 had this problem. Upgrade to 4.13 and it should go away. BOINC WIKI ID: 46277 ·

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