Computer falls asleep when BOINC is chuggin
21 Nov 2016 13:01:11 UTC
Topic 202988
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As the title says.
I am leaving the computer on with 2-3 CPU WU (FGRPSSE) tasks running. The power options are set to sleep in 30 minutes of inactivity, yet after 30 minutes, the PC goes to sleep right away. I do not wish to turn off the sleep, is there anyway to fix this?
Windows seem to determine
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Windows seem to determine when it is "idle" based on keyboard/mouse activity rather than CPU activity.
I don't allow sleep at all on my machines but a quick google search found this page with tools to prevent sleep. Don't know if any of them works.
Bleh, and BOINC doesn't seem
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Bleh, and BOINC doesn't seem to have any kind of Power Management configuration.
How do you want BOINC to
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How do you want BOINC to react? It also uses mouse and keyboard activity to detect if the computer is idle. What's your desired behavior if you don't want to turn off sleep mode? What kind of power management configuration do you expect that BOINC has that your OS does not have?
Well, i would expect if there
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Well, i would expect if there is X CPU % usage going for few hours, BOINC should tell Windows not to sleep until the WU (tasks) are finished. Kinda like when updating Windows, defragging or something else, where it doesn't fall asleep. I have tried setting the priority to Above Normal and the Sleep time to 4 hours, gonna see what has happened when i come back from work.
ku4eto wrote:Well, i would
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That is not implemented in the BOINC Client. BOINC has no direct notion of "finish these tasks but don't start new ones". But since most projects do regular checkpoints it's not a problem that your computer goes to sleep, it will resume where it left of before. The BOINC Client afaik can't tell the OS that it shouldn't go to sleep. And there is also no need to do this. If you want your computer to fall asleep after X minutes of user inactivity BOINC has to adhere to this. If some Windows tools don't adhere to this it's a decision made by Microsoft. The BOINC developers made the decision to follow what the user configures.
BOINC is now a community driven project, maybe if you can get some support from other users regarding the "finish these tasks but don't start new ones" feature and open an issue on github.com/BOINC/boinc someone will implement it.
Can you turn off sleep all
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Can you turn off sleep all together and just have the monitor turn off?
I think Windows says when a PC goes to sleep or not. Either by mouse/keyboard activity or maybe it can be set if CPUs are more than % active somehow.