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Dana Helgeson
Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 2, 2005 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Here's hoping someone has some insight on this: When I bring up BOINC Manager in advanced view, I can see the active work units ticking away for their times with elapsed and remaining. All is fine. But sometimes (it's random) when I try to close the BOINC Manager window with the Red X on the top right, the manager kind of blinks, remains on the screen and looks frozen, and the work units are no longer seen as ticking away. The task tab appears frozen. If I go to task manager, I can see the work units are still processing. While BOINC manager task tab seems frozen, I can click on all other tabs and menu items and they work fine, but I just can't close the window. The only way I can is to change the view from advanced to simple and then that window will close. This was also happening randomly in the prior version of BOINC before 7.0.64, so I don't think it's a version issue. It's certainly not a show stopper, but just annoying that I can't get rid of the BOINC manager screen without doing the above mentioned extra steps. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, etc. with no permanent luck. Like I said, it's random and doesn't happen every single time, so I'm stumped. All work units are processing without errors, so BOINC itself seems just fine. Any thoughts or things to check for? Thanks in advance.
Dana Helgeson Windows 7 Professional - 64 bit ASUS P6X58-E WS Motherboard Intel i7 X990 CPU 12GB RAM Nvidia GTX590 (x2) Graphics |
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Former Member
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hmmm, a few possibles are not enough GPU memory or your BM is made by you to list too many cached tasks, being in overtime to continuously fetch the queued tasks info from boinc.exe. Try "Show active tasks" button in the tasks view and tell us if that makes a difference.
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Dana Helgeson
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Thanks for the response SekeRob. The video card(s) show 4095 MB of memory with nothing else running at the time, so I'll assume that's way more than enough video memory. I'll try your suggestion of showing only active tasks and see what that does and report back in a day or so. When it looks like it's locked up, but really isn't, the show active tasks button doesn't switch the views. Only switching over to simple view and then back again seems to correct the weirdness.
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Dana Helgeson
Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 2, 2005 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Leaving BOINC manager in show active tasks didn't do the trick. It still looks like it's frozen, but again, only sometimes. Weird. Thanks for your suggestion though.
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Sgt.Joe
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I have experienced something similar occasionally, but I get a message which says "attempting to communicate with boinc manager. Please wait" There are then there are two buttons which say (I think) "wait" and "cancel." If I just ignore the message and wait it eventually clears itself although the times vary from just seconds to more than ten minutes. If I wait too long I just walk away and check back later. I don't know if this is the same problem. It does not seem to affect the processing and is just a minor annoyance. I think the version is 7.0.24 on Linux Mint 14 - 64 bit.
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Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
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For Windows would also look at setting scan exemptions in the security software for boinc.exe and boincmgr.exe, and add boincscr.exe and give clearance to traffic for port 31416 over local IP 127.0.0.1
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Dana Helgeson
Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 2, 2005 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I'm not real up on the Windows Firewall, but think I got the port and local IP entered in there. We'll see how that does. If this doesn't work, I guess I'll just get used to switching to simple mode and back and forth. Thanks to all for the suggestions.
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