Super long WUs on OSX
8 Feb 2007 9:24:40 UTC
Topic 192397
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Hi all,
I'm using BOINC 5.4.9 on a G5 running OSX 10.4.8. I noticed yesterday that BOINC hadn't called home in 2 days and found a stalled E@H WU - frozen at just over 90%. I aborted it and it started another as normal. This morning I found the new WU running oddly - it's at 45% and says it's been running for 2h - but its been running for at least 15h. So I've suspended the project for now. Anyone know what's going on??
Cheers,
Robert
Super long WUs on OSX
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Are you running any other projects? Check Activity Monitor: you may find that it’s actually another app that’s gone off the rails—or maybe a second instance of the E@h app—and BOINC Manager is just confused. That’s happened on my dual-core G5 a couple of times; after rebooting or quitting and relaunching BOINC the timings become reasonable again. SETI@home Beta is down at the moment, so I can’t get to the Number Crunching forum there, but IIRC someone there told me it was a known problem concerning BOINC’s interaction with the API; it may even have been addressed in v5.8.x. (I haven’t updated yet, and have no intention of doing so in the near future; although v5.8.8 was officially released a while ago, from what I hear it’s pretty buggy—they’re already on v5.8.9, with some issues still outstanding.)