Probably the first thing for you to do is to check and see if something else is hogging the CPU. Assuming that you are running XP of some sort, you can do this by hitting three keys at the same time. These are alt ctrl and del. This will bring up an window that shows all your processes. Now if that P4 is a HT version your total CPU will be 50%. This is just a reporting problem – the machine is really 100% busy but that is another issue.

Now look for rosetta (WCGrid_Rosetta). Is it getting 40 to 50% of the CPU? Is there some other program getting a large portion? If there is another program that is getting a large portion of the CPU, there is the problem; since Rosetta runs at the lowest priority, the other program is not letting it have any time to process.

That being the case, then what is that other program. Is it something that you recognize or could it be malware of some sort. In any case if it is “hogging” the CPU then you have the answer.

If, on the other hand, Rosetta is getting lots CPU (40-50%) on this HT machine or 80-100 on a non-HT machine, then it sounds like you might have one of those work units that the techs want to know about. Hopefully Viktors or someone else that knows how to find the work unit name so you can capture that number then kill the process and thereby force a new one to be sent.

This all assumes that there in not something wrong with the computer itself … There is a list of useful utilities at: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=2490

Please post back your results after looking into it.

The computer is an older P4, a 2.0GHz with 400FSB and no HT. Nothing else is running on the computer, it is a print server. Typically there are only 26-28 processes running on it. It's a very trimmed down XP machine with most of the services that are not needed disabled. Should not have anything else running, and my family prints to that computer like... 4 times a day. So essentially it just crunches.

I ended up restarting the computer, and the WU aborted by itself and it grabbed a new WU. Wish I had not done that if the WU would have been useful for Viktors...

So problem solved but no idea how!

There was one other member who's machine seemed to get stuck on a work unit for a very long time (days) without progress % increasing and after rebooting, things finished normally. I think your's finished without error also. I can only guess there may have been some weird windows or harware glitch holding things up. Thanks for noting this, however.