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BOINC 6.10.58 soft-crashes on WinXP
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Send message Joined: 2 Mar 05 Posts: 1 Credit: 2,876 RAC: 0 |
BOINC 6.10.58 soft-crashes on WinXP even though plenty of memory (RAM & ROM) and cpu availability. I say "soft-crash" because I hear an error "boing!" from the system (but no error dialog pop-up) and then I realize that there appears to still be running (Status = Running), but actually there is no progress (Progress % is stalled) and the task manager shows little or no cpu activity. I have let this run for a few hours with no other apps running and still no progress. If I reboot, however, and re-launch BOINC (the only project is ClimatePrediction.net), then it runs again. However, when I launch other apps (particularly Firefox, I again hear the Boing! error alert, but still no diagnostic pop-up. I am running WinXP with 2 Gb RAM and with over 1Gb free and this still occurs even with low cpu activity, although it typically occurs after a period of high cpu activity. So far, the only way to resume is to reboot the PC and relaunch BOINC, but then the problem resurfaces later. Is there a debug mode or some way to find out what is happening? Remember, the status panel shows it apparently working normally, only it isn't. Peter -- |
Send message Joined: 7 Aug 04 Posts: 2168 Credit: 64,536,855 RAC: 6,595 |
In 6.10.30 and above, there are a couple BOINC computing preferences that can make it act differently than the previous defaults. I've changed mine to: Computing allowed --- Only after computer has been idle "0" minutes --- While processor usage is less than "0" percent The defaults upon installation of these newer BOINC versions is 5 and 25 and this is not desirable for the way I want BOINC to work. This can be changed on your Computing Preferences part of Your Account page, or in BOINC Manager itself under Advanced -- Preferences ---- Processor Usage tab. |
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