San-Fernando-Valley gave you incorrect advice for the problem you were trying to deal with.
He advised you to suspend. He didn't advise exactly what to suspend - the whole project?? -or the running tasks?? -or the tasks waiting to run?? This so-called 'useful tip' was not clear at all and makes no sense for your problem of computation not making progress. From your latest message, you must have started suspending the project so, unfortunately, you would need to 'resume' it before any further crunching could occur. In truth, there is no need to suspend anything when you just want to shut down.
You were also advised to update. Since computation was not making progress, there was nothing to update, so again, another bit of useless advice. Under normal circumstances, BOINC automatically deals with completed work so you don't need to worry about that either. If you were shutting down for an extended period (eg more than a few days) it would be advisable to check for any completed work that hadn't been auto-reported. However that has no bearing on your problem since there was no progress being made, ie. nothing to report. Once again, a suggestion that couldn't deal with your problem.
BOINC will be able to run in the background without you needing to do any suspending, resuming or updating if you just set your preferences correctly. Keith mentioned a change that you can make through BOINC Manager but that handles a different issue and may not be the only change you need to make. The most important change is to keep tasks in memory when suspended. Since you apparently have been doing tasks where there is a long period between checkpoints, you have a lot to lose if tasks are not kept in memory.
For your situation, it sounds like the best place to make preference changes is on the website. Whilst you can make these changes locally through BOINC Manager, there is additional information on the website that will help to understand the significance of the change. Also, changes made locally in the manager do override website changes so there could be future consequences if you made a later change on the website that could therefore be overridden/ignored.
Can you advise if you have made any local preference changes in the Manager? If you have, did you also check the "Disk and Memory" tab to see if there is a tick in the box for "Leave non-GPU tasks in memory while suspended"? If you report any changes you have made so far, I'll give you any further changes that would help to overcome your 'not making progress' issue.
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San-Fernando-Valley gave you incorrect advice for the problem you were trying to deal with.
He advised you to suspend. He didn't advise exactly what to suspend - the whole project?? -or the running tasks?? -or the tasks waiting to run?? This so-called 'useful tip' was not clear at all and makes no sense for your problem of computation not making progress. From your latest message, you must have started suspending the project so, unfortunately, you would need to 'resume' it before any further crunching could occur. In truth, there is no need to suspend anything when you just want to shut down.
You were also advised to update. Since computation was not making progress, there was nothing to update, so again, another bit of useless advice. Under normal circumstances, BOINC automatically deals with completed work so you don't need to worry about that either. If you were shutting down for an extended period (eg more than a few days) it would be advisable to check for any completed work that hadn't been auto-reported. However that has no bearing on your problem since there was no progress being made, ie. nothing to report. Once again, a suggestion that couldn't deal with your problem.
BOINC will be able to run in the background without you needing to do any suspending, resuming or updating if you just set your preferences correctly. Keith mentioned a change that you can make through BOINC Manager but that handles a different issue and may not be the only change you need to make. The most important change is to keep tasks in memory when suspended. Since you apparently have been doing tasks where there is a long period between checkpoints, you have a lot to lose if tasks are not kept in memory.
For your situation, it sounds like the best place to make preference changes is on the website. Whilst you can make these changes locally through BOINC Manager, there is additional information on the website that will help to understand the significance of the change. Also, changes made locally in the manager do override website changes so there could be future consequences if you made a later change on the website that could therefore be overridden/ignored.
Can you advise if you have made any local preference changes in the Manager? If you have, did you also check the "Disk and Memory" tab to see if there is a tick in the box for "Leave non-GPU tasks in memory while suspended"? If you report any changes you have made so far, I'll give you any further changes that would help to overcome your 'not making progress' issue.
Cheers,
Gary.