Hi,

seems I am having a special issue with BOINC again...

The benchmark at startup will not finish with BOINC v6.10.36 (Win XP32). Messages:

08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] Reading preferences override file
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] Preferences:
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] max memory usage when active: 1791.05MB
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] max memory usage when idle: 3223.89MB
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] max disk usage: 7.48GB
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] max CPUs used: 2
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] don\'t use GPU while active
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] max download rate: 40960 bytes/sec
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] max upload rate: 10240 bytes/sec
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] (to change, visit the web site of an attached project,
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] or click on Preferences)
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] Using proxy info from GUI
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] Not using a proxy
Initialization completed
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] Running CPU benchmarks
08-Mar-2010 20:30:09 [---] Suspending computation - running CPU benchmarks
08-Mar-2010 20:30:41 [---] FP benchmark ran only 1.390625 sec; ignoring
08-Mar-2010 20:47:49 [Collatz Conjecture] task collatz_1267889401_72584_0 resumed by user

After resuming tasks, the status is \'Suspended\', not \'Task suspended\'.

One the next start BOINC did this

08-Mar-2010 21:00:18 [---] Suspending computation - CPU usage is too high

and nothing else for 5 minutes. Older versions usually recover within max 1 minute.

Nothing in the changelogs, no ticket in trac, nothing in the forums?

v6.10.32 was fine. Will go back to the old version (again).

cooper.

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Phenom II 705e

08-Mar-2010 21:00:18 [---] Suspending computation - CPU usage is too high

There is a new preference to control this behavior. It tells BOINC to stop computing when a certain threshold of CPU usage is consumed by other applications than BOINC. The default value is 25% I think. You can find this setting under Extras->Preferences: \"While processor usage is less than ... \". To achieve old behavior set it to 0 (no limit).

The bench mark failure happens for me occasionally too. Normally It runs fine if I start it again manually.

08-Mar-2010 21:00:18 [---] Suspending computation - CPU usage is too high

There is a new preference to control this behavior...

I am aware of this.

The bench mark failure happens for me occasionally too. Normally It runs fine if I start it again manually.

This should not be necessary, at least in v6.10.32 it always recovered (v6.10.36 did not). I assume this is connected to the initial problem or the same.
I was a little surprised when I saw that v6.10.36 was released from beta to stable.

cooper.

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Phenom II 705e

Issue fixed with v6.10.37, although not mentioned in the version history.

cooper.

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Phenom II 705e