World Community Grid - View Thread - Problem with Windows behavior with BOINC client installed.

World Community Grid Forums

Category: Support

Forum: BOINC Agent Support

Thread: Problem with Windows behavior with BOINC client installed.

Quick Go »

No member browsing this thread

Thread Status: Active
Total posts in this thread: 4

[ ]

Author

This topic has been viewed 1300 times and has 3 replies

gndobson
Cruncher
Joined: May 3, 2007
Post Count: 3
Status: Offline
Project Badges:

180 day badge for Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2

14 day badge for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together

45 day badge for Nutritious Rice for the World

90 day badge for Help Fight Childhood Cancer

180 day badge for Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2

90 day badge for Computing for Clean Water

45 day badge for Microbiome Immunity Project

180 day badge for OpenPandemics - COVID-19


Problem with Windows behavior with BOINC client installed.

I have a behavior which is inconvenient on a consistent basis. When the computer is left idle and the BOINC client starts and then I return to use the machine, open windows fail to respond to mouse clicks either to close or get any type of window focus. I am forced to use the taskbar to close the app and then re-open. I un-installed the client and the behavior stopped so pretty sure the BOINC client is the problem.

Window 10 Pro build 1909

[Dec 16, 2019 10:21:28 PM]

Falconet
Master Cruncher
Portugal
Joined: Mar 9, 2009
Post Count: 3295
Status: Recently Active
Project Badges:

14 day badge for Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2

14 day badge for Nutritious Rice for the World

180 day badge for Help Fight Childhood Cancer

90 day badge for Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2

90 day badge for Drug Search for Leishmaniasis

90 day badge for GO Fight Against Malaria

20 year badge for Mapping Cancer Markers

2 year badge for Uncovering Genome Mysteries

2 year badge for Outsmart Ebola Together

1 year badge for FightAIDS@Home - Phase 2

5 year badge for Microbiome Immunity Project

14 day badge for Africa Rainfall Project

5 year badge for OpenPandemics - COVID-19


Re: Problem with Windows behavior with BOINC client installed.

Do you have any projects that might be using the GPU?
Those would be projects outside WCG.

----------------------------------------

AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W
AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz

[Dec 17, 2019 11:19:39 AM]

Former Member
Cruncher
Joined: May 22, 2018
Post Count: 0
Status: Offline


Re: Problem with Windows behavior with BOINC client installed.

Since W10 1903 I have to suspend all ready to start tasks, then suspend all running tasks, using BOINCStats "suspend at checkpoint" function and only then exit BOINC client, then boot. On boot, run a BOINC repair install to get the ownership set back on the data dir exclusive drive partition, then start client and resume the formerly running tasks, then resume the ready to start. If I don't, BOINC is prevented from starting the jobs, not a cycle, and then kills the tasks after 30 seconds. This start, try, kill cycle can last 30-40 results before somehow BOINC does get ownership back. And still the fickle MIP that were running will manage to crash. The new ones then run fine.

7.16 is not an option, 7.14 is stable.

This is the monthly routine after update Tuesday. Power failure and boot and all BOINC goes belly up, for the next 30-40 tasks, otherwise hibernating and resume works perfect.

[Dec 17, 2019 5:16:36 PM]

gndobson
Cruncher
Joined: May 3, 2007
Post Count: 3
Status: Offline
Project Badges:


Re: Problem with Windows behavior with BOINC client installed.

WCG is the only project running.

[Dec 19, 2019 6:20:59 PM]

[ ]