Hi,

If I leave my BOINC manager running overnight and such (I keep my screen locked) on my Windows XP box, in the morning the BOINC icon is unresponsive.

If I then kill it with task manager and re-run it, it works fine for a while (locking the display doesn't make the problem reapear).

Is there some way to work around this issue, is it a known one or should I file a bug report?

BOINC version?

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BOINC version?

Latest of course.

5.10.28

It appears to happen after it fails to connect once (due to say, dead internet).

Sounds like the boinc-can't-cope-with-iffy-networks issue yet again...

Here are the relevant tickets, note that there is some duplication. Could you be so kind as to add your experience (with as much detail as possible) to the one which is the best match to your problem?

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/113
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/171
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/282
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/286

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The way to tell would be to go back to Boinc 5.4.11 (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php) which if I recall correctly uses the more reliable asynchronous DNS but still communicates over localhost.

The boinc-client freezing occurs when Boinc *thinks* it is connected to the internet, but then can't make a reliable DNS query. Because the query is synchronous rather than asynchronous the client is stuck.

The boinc-manager freezing occurs when the boinc-client is frozen (perhaps by the above issue), or if localhost traffic is disrupted (for example, by the local firewall or a network-stack failure).

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I leave my computer run and my BOINC icon and BOINC window are the only ones that locks up

What happens exactly? If you double-click on the BOINC icon, the BOINC manager window should open.

but when I restart it still does it.

Do you mean when you restart the computer? Note that before you shut down the computer you should first exit from BOINC. If you have been able to open BOINC manager you can exit via File > Exit. If you haven't been able to open BOINC manager, you can still right-click on the BOINC icon and select Exit. You should then wait until the BOINC icon disappears before you begin the computer shut-down process.

The Task Manger shows the prosser go up and down like a yoyo and the program that it trys to run goese on and off trying to run the same program over and over again.

I think you mean that BOINC tries to run the same task again and again. Are you sure about this? Have you been able to look at details for one of these problem tasks in BOINC manager and see the % completed?

BOINC should have 2 icons one 2 run it normal and the other to run it in suspend mode

Only one icon is necessary - to open up BOINC manager. In the BOINC manager Activity menu you can choose to run or suspend your tasks.

so it won't try to run any program and may be have BOINC send out the many times it try to run a program and make BOINC have no more the 5 trys or so and try another program.

Usually if a task crashes, that's the end of it and BOINC will try to get a new replacement task from the same project. In the case of certain problems with tasks, BOINC lets the task try again, either from the last task checkpoint or from the beginning of the task. Tasks are supposed to be designed so that retries don't happen indefinitely.

If you are certain that the same task is going back to the beginning and retrying (=rerunning) indefinitely, you will need to tell us which type of task it is and from which project.

The Task Manger shows the prosser go up and down like a yoyo and the program that it trys to run goese on and off trying to run the same program over and over again.

Sounds like BOINC is using the CPU throttle function. What this does at any percentage it's set to is run BOINC at full throttle, then pause, go full, pause etc. In Task Manager that shows as the yoyo effect you describe.

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