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Thread: Macintosh: if I kill/quit a non-WCG BOINC process, do I need to reset WCG? |
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jonathandl
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In the Mac OS Activity Monitor, I have noticed the BOINC Manager normally has a "child" process; that is, the BOINC core client. And the core client normally has one "child" process of its own; that is, the science application.
Sekerob writes: Frequent changing of profile settings & local preferences and repeated panic states (see discussions on Earliest Deadline First / High Priority processing) can cause such conditions to develop. BOINC needs 1 or 2 weeks to find it's balance and understand *particularly* if multiple projects are attached to the client. Best is to decide on what's wanted, make the changes and leave it be. Resist the urge to micromanage Well I am running malariacontrol.net in addition to World Community Grid. And I think that I must have micromanaged too much... cause now I got this malariacontrol_5 process which is "stuck"; in other words, it doesn't go away if I suspend the malariacontrol.net project. I want to use Activity Monitor to "quit" the non-BOINC science application, but what I am wondering is whether this might screw up The World Community Grid results that are already in my computer, since they are both "children" of the same BOINC core process?? I don't need to "reset project" again, do I? |
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Do you have "leave applications in memory" set to yes? If so, suspended science applications won't normally be removed from memory, and the process will remain.
If it really is a "zombie" process that BOINC has lost track of, then kill it with the Activity Monitor. BOINC won't care. |
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jonathandl
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Do you have "leave applications in memory" set to yes? If so, suspended science applications won't normally be removed from memory, and the process will remain. No. If it really is a "zombie" process that BOINC has lost track of, then kill it with the Activity Monitor. BOINC won't care. It is not a "zombie" strictly speaking, in that if you do "ps" in a Terminal window it does not show a status of "Z." Also I mis-wrote in my original post  ; it's not a non-BOINC science application that is stuck, but rather a non-World-Community-Grid science application. They all are BOINC.Is it still okay to use Activity Monitor to "quit" the process in question without reseting the WCG jobs that are already running? |
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Former Member
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Yes, go ahead. Then see whether BOINC notices.
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jonathandl
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Yes, go ahead. Then see whether BOINC notices. Thanks for the swift reply. Yes, BOINC actually does notice, but if I read the error message Wed Nov 28 23:44:55 2007|malariacontrol.net beta|Task wu_41_510_76828_0_896577738_2 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file (along with the forum post about this error message) correctly, then I think that it's harmless. |
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