Boinc
Continuous Network Loop
BUG ?

Project: World Community Grid

Account: PTabolinsky

Using Virus Protect: AVG ANti-Virus Free

OS: MS XP w/SP-2 updated

Problem
The below description has recently been happening when there apparently are no work units to download and the system stands idol for a bit. Occurance now at the end of every finished report, request for new work time. To the tune of two or three times a day (when I catch it finished/sleeping) for the past several days.
My hardware goes to standby or sleep when finished and does not receive any work units from server. When I wake my system up, boinc has a message for me that says:

BOINC MANAGER NETWORK STATUS
(X) BOINC failed to disconnected from the internet
[ OK ] button

The above message starts a continuous loop and will not release the system. Attempts to use the [OK] button or close function fail -- do not work while the popup graphic window continues to rebuild with same message reprinting over and over on top of each prior window.

My XP task manager sometimes freezes also. On the last accasion I ended task "BOINC MANAGER-0" and received the system task

message:

End Program BOINC MANAGER-0
THe system cannot end this program because
it is waiting for a responce from you.

I ended the boinc.exe in the task manager after the warning all data would be lost. I then did a soft reboot. The system then ran up OK with boinc.exe/mgr auto-start download, with sys settings as shown below and in Messages.

BOINC Task Bar

Activity Menu: Run Always, Network Activity based on Preferences

Advanced: Options: "Boinc Manager"Connections: ISDN (default)

BOINC Messages (tab)

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM||Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for windows_intelx86

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM||libcurl/7.15.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8a zlib/1.2.3

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM||Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM||Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM||Memory: 1023.48 MB physical, 2.40 GB virtual

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM||Disk: 98.30 GB total, 84.17 GB free

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 49595; location: ; project

prefs: default

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 2006-07-05 07:45:13)

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM||General prefs: using your defaults

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM||Local control only allowed

9/10/2006 9:09:26 AM||Listening on port 31416

9/10/2006 9:09:27 AM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request to

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi

9/10/2006 9:09:27 AM|World Community Grid|Reason: To fetch work

9/10/2006 9:09:27 AM|World Community Grid|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work

9/10/2006 9:09:37 AM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded

9/10/2006 9:09:39 AM|World Community Grid|Started download of file
B01011_0064_YTMA10B1-5-10-9-c1_B01011_0064_YTMA10B1-5-10-9-c1.mask

9/10/2006 9:09:39 AM|World Community Grid|Started download of file

B01011_0064_YTMA10B1-5-10-9-c1_B01011_0064_YTMA10B1-5-10-9-c1.pgm

9/10/2006 9:15:10 AM|World Community Grid|Finished download of file

B01011_0064_YTMA10B1-5-10-9-c1_B01011_0064_YTMA10B1-5-10-9-c1.pgm

9/10/2006 9:15:10 AM|World Community Grid|Throughput 4371 bytes/sec

9/10/2006 9:19:16 AM|World Community Grid|Finished download of file

B01011_0064_YTMA10B1-5-10-9-c1_B01011_0064_YTMA10B1-5-10-9-c1.mask

9/10/2006 9:19:16 AM|World Community Grid|Throughput 5007 bytes/sec

9/10/2006 9:19:17 AM||Rescheduling CPU: files downloaded

9/10/2006 9:19:17 AM|World Community Grid|Starting task B01011_0064_YTMA10B1-5-10-9-c1_2 using hdc version 505


Please Advise
Thanks