Hello Legrandpiou,
VINA projects have been giving trouble when they get paused too many times. When the BOINC profile is set to run the CPU at 60% (3 seconds on, 2 seconds off) some people have run into trouble. Check your profile for commands that will pause the project, such as Run Only If ? hmmm ? no keystrokes for 2 minutes. The Maximum Usage profile has a good set of defaults.

Lawrence

We're terribly sorry that the tips and workarounds as provided for VINA driven sciences in the GFAM and DSFL forums have not worked for you [VINA based apps do not like BOINC CPU time throttle]. These workarounds, for all and everyone who see the same issue were, to summarize [for Windows]:

1. Set BOINC CPU time to 100% [must, as this is the main problem source]
2. Install either:
- A TThrottle [for BOINC] and set temperature ceiling [If the reason for slowing down BOINC is temperature], OR
- B ThreadMasterGUI and set VINA science apps to a core %, to reserve a portion of CPU time to user/system functions, and reduce CPU Temps as bonus. The relevant app to select from the processes tab with selected % [for a duo at 60% that would be 30 and a quad that would be 15]. The exact science worker apps names currently are:

SN2S: wcg_sn2s_vina_6.13_windows_intelx86
GFAM: wcg_gfam_vina_6.11_windows_intelx86
DSFL: wcg_dsfl_vina_6.24_windows_intelx86

Reportedly does TMG give the smoothest operation and stopping fan speed oscillation in addition [if it were the case], only needing maintenance when a new science version comes out. Advantage of TMG is that the control is at individual science app level, but under the options tab can be set to a general ceiling percent. (100 / cores * desired %)

Both these tools are confirmed to work for most everyone on XP-SP3, Vista, W7, W2K3 Server and up.

If these do not work for you, then sadly, we'll have to advise to deselect until the programmers find a solution around the freeze problem for those that can't run BOINC at 100% idle cycle CPU time use.

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edit: spell
edit: emphasize temperature in point 2A/B.

After installing threadmaster GUI, it seems to work normally. I haven't had an error yet.

It seems to slow down severely the computation of the units.

Again, wait end see.

Thanks for helping.

Lots of computation errors on sn2s. Any thoughts? Running on a laptop. Might have to stop this project.

Thanks. I'll give it a try.