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1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : climate prediction not obeying suspend/snooze/preferences? (Message 46229)
Posted 15 May 2013 by Bill Redmann
Post:
Les,

It seems that something had hanged: A task showing a persistent 100.000% completion was burning a core full time, no matter what the settings. I snoozed BOINC, killed the still-running process from Activity Monitor, quit BOINC Manager, then relaunched it.

In BOINC Manager, the task (at 100% completion) appeared briefly, then disappeared. Maybe submitted, maybe just lost, I'm not sure.

Its hard to say how long that had been the case, since I was only paying attention to CPU load since around the time I started this thread. Plausibly, it's been going on since the last time something updated.

I'll keep a casual eye out for a recurrence, but for now... problem gone.

Thanks for thinking on the problem...

-Bill
2) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : climate prediction not obeying suspend/snooze/preferences? (Message 46228)
Posted 15 May 2013 by Bill Redmann
Post:
I now have version 7.0.65, which I believe I had downloaded and installed about 25-APR-2013.
3) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : climate prediction not obeying suspend/snooze/preferences? (Message 46175)
Posted 10 May 2013 by Bill Redmann
Post:
Hmm.

I made my account preferences consistent (and deleted all venue settings).
I deleted my local preferences (which had differed from the online preferences).
BTW, I've since upgraded to the April 25, 2013 build of BOINC.
But I'm still seeing the same issue with hadam3p_pnw_6.09_i686-apple-darwin.

As a test, I set the BOINC Manager "Activity" menu to "Run Always", and I saw multiple BOINC tasks pick up until all eight cores were saturated (only one task running was climate prediction). Once that got going for a few minutes, I clicked "snooze", and within ten seconds (with updates every five), the Mac's Activity Monitor showed all the tasks taking zero CPU, except hadam3p_pnw_6.09_i686-apple-darwin still pulling two cores worth.

In the BOINC Manager "Projects" tab, I can select climateprediction and click "suspend".
When I look up "Properties" for climateprediction, it states "Suspended via GUI = yes".
Yet I still see the hadam3p_pnw_6.09_i686-apple-darwin keeping two cores busy (again, still true after ten minutes).

Is there a glitch on the Mac platform? Or has my unit gotten into a weird mode? (There's one task at 100.000%... might be stuck...).

The CPU consumption at two cores (of eight) seems to be completely ignoring my suspend commands, regardless of the UI used. It also seems to ignore the 'suspend while in use' preference. Project 'Properties' for climateprediction shows 'suspended = yes'. Likewise, the task status in the task list, does too, with a further proper differentiation between the causes 'user request' and 'computer is in use'.


Thanks,

-BIll
4) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : climate prediction not obeying suspend/snooze/preferences? (Message 45935)
Posted 15 Apr 2013 by Bill Redmann
Post:
Here it is, ten minutes after I snoozed BOINC, and Climate Prediction is still taking up a whole core.

I tried "snooze" because the Climate Prediction project wasn't suspending computation according to my preferences (i.e., when the computer is in use). My other projects don't seem to exhibit this issue.

The Activity>Suspend menu item doesn't seem to have an effect, either.

In the BOINC Manager 'Tasks' tab (7.0.31), everything is marked with a status of "Suspected - user request", but the Mac activity monitor still shows hadam3p_pnw_6.09_i686-apple-darwin as consuming 100% of the CPU.

Any hints? The usability of my Mac (OS X v10.8.3) is suffering mightily.

Thanks,

-Bill




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