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Thread: agent started new task instead of continuing the old one (after closing apps manually) |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
hi
i have one question about the wcg agent, i let my computer run for several hours (running fightaids@home), when i came back i wanted to see how far the project was at that time so i wanted to open it via the small task icon (next to the system clock) but it wasn't there so i opened the windows task manager and closed .. .. WCGrid_AutoDoc... (it was still hard at work), then ud_*******.exe and then UD.EXE .. then i started the WCG agent again (via the windows start menu), but after its start it did not continue the old task that was running when i closed the apps, no, it downloaded a completely new task and that's my problem so now my questions are: where is the previous task now? will it come back later and finish its work? is it somewhere on my hard disk? (i thought it writes the calculation data to the hard disk?!?) if yes, will the wcg agent find it automatically and restart it from a special point of time so that it continues its work there? (for example: at 76%) or is the previous project now lost forever? :/ hope you can help me and sorry for my bad english |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Well... from my small understanding, when you kill its process, you lose that work unit. When it is started up again, it gets a new work unit. If it shuts down normally, it will continue from a checkpoint. But killing the program will make the work unit be terminated. Don't worry, that won't hurt the progress of the project, as there are redundancies of work units. No, that work unit before you killed it wont come back, to my knowledge anyways. If I missed something, fill it in for me. Hope this meager amount of info helps.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi enforcA,
jujaga is correct. Anytime the task is killed by Task Manager, UD.exe treats it as an unidentifiable error and downloads a new copy of the application and a new work unit. It informs the server that something went wrong on the old work unit. The icon disappeared from your system tray? This is a known bug in Windows that is solved in Start Here: 'Missing World Community Grid Icon in System Tray' http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=5084 Hope this helps with the WCG icon, mycrofth |
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