World Community Grid - View Thread - BOINC: Pause, Snooze, Suspend and Resume processing Manually or Automatic

There are a number of ways to interrupt the science processing manually, temporarily with Snooze / Pause and indefinitely with Suspend, by using the graphical user interfaces (GUI) of BOINC Manager in Simple and Advanced View .

Selecting Snooze from the system tray menu, right-click icon, overrides the 'run....' setting and suspends activity for one hour, 60 minutes.
Selecting the Pause button in the Simple View, also lasting 60 minutes.

A Snooze or Pause status is identified with:
- A tick mark before Snooze in the system tray, right click, pop up menu.
- By the Resume button in the Simple View.
- By the Suspend option being selected in Activity menu of the Advance View.
Selecting Suspend in the Activity menu of the Advance View stopping processing indefinitely. This status is identified by:
- Snooze being grayed out in the system tray, right click, pop up menu.
- By the Resume button in the Simple View.
- By the selected Suspend option in Activity menu of the Advance View.

A Resume of computations from temporary Snooze / Pause or indefinite Suspend can be done in several ways:

Deselecting Snooze from the system tray menu, right-click icon, which only works if there is a tick mark in front.
Selecting "Run always" or "Run based on preferences" in the Activity menu of the Advanced View.
Selecting the Resume button in the Simple View

If BOINCmgr is loaded All interruptions of processing are identified by a system tray icon showing 2 vertical bars. Hovering with the mouse over the icon will show a balloon with status information.

Caveat: Those clients that were installed using the Service / Protected option can only be controlled from a signed in User with the appropriate authorization. Without that the BOINCmgr is not allowed to connect to the Core Client service!

Automated methods

Use the weekly and daily scheduling [override] feature in the Local Preferences to tell BOINC what weekly day segment(s) it should work. [as of version 5.10]
Set the sensing of mouse and keyboard activity to stop BOINC during use [While computer is in use]
- Via BOINC Manager interface, see FAQ: A Basic Overview of the Simple- and Advanced Client View functions
- Via the My Grid > Device Manager > Device Profile, see FAQ: Website Device Profile & Local Preferences Information
Set the sensing of mouse and keyboard activity to pause BOINC when the computer has not been used for a period of time, to allow the computer to go in Power Down Sleep / Hibernation. The option [only via Custom Device Profile is Stop work after computer is idle for: 20 minutes [Power Saving Preset profile default]
BOINC has an configurable option [as of 6.3.13] to let the client Pause/Suspend automatically when programs of choice are loaded, until they are unloaded. This could be for instance a particular game. Add a line to the <options> section of the cc_config.xml file coded as e.g. <exclusive_app>mygame.exe</exclusive_app>
As of version 6.10.20 it is also possible for GPU computing to be paused when starting specific programs. For example <exclusive_gpu_app>screenblaster.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>

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