Do you have other projects running (SETI for example) and now that other project is running ? By default each project will run for at least an hour before giving your CPU to the next project. But you can change that Switch between applications time in your account general preferences
I am seeing this exact behaviour under Linux. I am running Seti and Einstein. I can tell which should be running. Even though I can't see time consumed (due to the threads issue with pre-2.6.10 kernels), I can see that there is no Idle time. I was showing over 80% Idle. This work-around was to stop and restart BOINC. This appears to have started computing again. I also changed mysetting for "Leave in Memory" to No as this relaunches the subprogram rather than just sending IPC messages.
The computer is fine. All other activity is unaffected.
> what do you mean by paused ?
>
> Did your computer lock up ?
>
> Do you have other projects running (SETI for example) and now that other
> project is running ? By default each project will run for at least an hour
> before giving your CPU to the next project. But you can change that Switch
> between applications time in
> your
> account general preferences
>
Yes, I have another project. I was expecting normal multitasking, not a 60 minute work cycle. But I now see that each project is pausing for 60 minutes while the other is working.
> Yes, I have another project. I was expecting normal multitasking, not a 60
> minute work cycle. But I now see that each project is pausing for 60 minutes
> while the other is working.
>
> thanks for the info.
The BOINC projects do not tend to be very well localized as in the memory they are requesting tends to overfill the cache. This means that a context switch is even more expensive than usual, and that would slow down overall processing. The second reason is this allows BOINC to control the amount of time that each gets, rather than allowing the OS to give them equal shares (if they had the same priority) or starving one (if it had a lower priority level).
Work has paused
)
what do you mean by paused ?
Did your computer lock up ?
Do you have other projects running (SETI for example) and now that other project is running ? By default each project will run for at least an hour before giving your CPU to the next project. But you can change that Switch between applications time in
your account general preferences
I am seeing this exact
)
I am seeing this exact behaviour under Linux. I am running Seti and Einstein. I can tell which should be running. Even though I can't see time consumed (due to the threads issue with pre-2.6.10 kernels), I can see that there is no Idle time. I was showing over 80% Idle. This work-around was to stop and restart BOINC. This appears to have started computing again. I also changed mysetting for "Leave in Memory" to No as this relaunches the subprogram rather than just sending IPC messages.
The computer is fine. All other activity is unaffected.
> what do you mean by paused
)
> what do you mean by paused ?
>
> Did your computer lock up ?
>
> Do you have other projects running (SETI for example) and now that other
> project is running ? By default each project will run for at least an hour
> before giving your CPU to the next project. But you can change that Switch
> between applications time in
> your
> account general preferences
>
Yes, I have another project. I was expecting normal multitasking, not a 60 minute work cycle. But I now see that each project is pausing for 60 minutes while the other is working.
thanks for the info.
Chuck
> Yes, I have another
)
> Yes, I have another project. I was expecting normal multitasking, not a 60
> minute work cycle. But I now see that each project is pausing for 60 minutes
> while the other is working.
>
> thanks for the info.
The BOINC projects do not tend to be very well localized as in the memory they are requesting tends to overfill the cache. This means that a context switch is even more expensive than usual, and that would slow down overall processing. The second reason is this allows BOINC to control the amount of time that each gets, rather than allowing the OS to give them equal shares (if they had the same priority) or starving one (if it had a lower priority level).
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