I got 33.33% of the way through the WU without a hitch in Windows XP, and now my WU seems to be stalled. The CPU time counter is not changing, and BOINC is not getting any system time according to the Windows Task Manager.

No new programs installed, no changes to anything, and rebooting did not change the situation. Is this normal? Any suggestions?

Hi, it's not stalled, you're at the end of a phase where the computer will take about 5 minutes to process the files so far. The CPU time will not show up because the way BOINC is designed for "multi-program" apps such as ours, it can only monitor one process. And since the climate model is what's running 99.999% of the time, that's what gets monitored for CPU time!

So just let it run, it should only take about 5 minutes or so depending on how much other activity you are doing on the computer, and then the next phase will start (it's three phases ergo 33.33% each).

> So just let it run, it should only take about 5 minutes or so depending on how
> much other activity you are doing on the computer, and then the next phase
> will start (it's three phases ergo 33.33% each).

It's been at this same spot, with no additional CPU activity, for over 18 hours now. No other processes running on the computer.

> It's been at this same spot, with no additional CPU activity, for over 18
> hours now. No other processes running on the computer.

oh that's different. Can you exit BOINC and go back in, it should pick up where it left off? How about the directory it's in, can you go to the boinc/projects/climateprediction.net/RESULT_NAME/dataout directory and see what files are there? Are there a lot of ".nc" extension files? That would tell us how far along it got in the post-phase processing.

Thanks.

> > It's been at this same spot, with no additional CPU activity, for over
> 18
> > hours now. No other processes running on the computer.
>
> oh that's different. Can you exit BOINC and go back in, it should pick up
> where it left off? How about the directory it's in, can you go to the
> boinc/projects/climateprediction.net/RESULT_NAME/dataout directory and see
> what files are there? Are there a lot of ".nc" extension files? That would
> tell us how far along it got in the post-phase processing.
>
> Thanks.
>

Okay, I've exited BOINC and went back in, and still no activity after about 20 minutes. It looks like it contacted the server after restarting, but nothing more.

I went to the directory you mentioned, and there are a lot of files, but not with a ".nc" extension. Most have names like 036paa.pg21c10 . The most recent file, which appears to have been created about the time I went back in to BOINC, is called 036paa.pc.8yac.anc (and is the only one that ends with the ".anc".

Mine also stalled after a while. It just wouldn't do anything . And the screen saver said no program running that uses graphics ?
I tried restarting it. Restarting the computer. But still nothing. I had to reset the project to get it to do anything.....