Thus far I have been unable to catch a recurrence.  Great, an intermittent
failure.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Eric J Korpela
<[email protected]>wrote:

> OK, I'll try to catch another one.
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:31 AM, David Anderson 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Eric:
>>
>> If you set the <task_debug/> logging flag,
>> the client will show when it suspends/resumes tasks.
>> This will tell us whether it's a problem in the client or the app.
>>
>> -- David
>>
>>
>> On 16-May-2013 11:16 AM, Eric J Korpela wrote:
>>
>>> I had "keeps running when computer is in use" problem last night with an
>>> Einstein CUDA app, so it's clear that this isn't restricted to SETI@home. 
>>> There
>>> has to be a BOINC issue or some common flaw with how exiting is handled.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering is there's some way that writing a checkpoint (or
>>> reporting a
>>> checkpoint) is going wrong.  I assume that even GPU apps would suspend
>>> rather
>>> than exit if there has been no checkpoint since it was started?
>>>
>>> Of course in this case it's not suspending either, it's continuing to
>>> run.
>>>
>>> David, any comments?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Raistmer the Sorcerer <
>>> [email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       Then looks like I should report bug in BOINC API  - sometimes it
>>> doesn't
>>>     and set only "suspend" flag w/o "quit" flag.
>>>     Possible relevant info: user had changed idle interval to 10 min
>>> instead of
>>>     default.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Воскресенье, 12 мая 2013, 21:06 -07:00 от David Anderson
>>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]**>>:
>>>
>>>      >
>>>      >
>>>      >On 12-May-2013 4:44 AM, Raistmer the Sorcerer wrote:
>>>      >> Can I get definitive answer, please. In case when user set BOINC
>>> not to use
>>>      >> GPU while user active (USE GPU only when PC idle): should BOINC
>>> set
>>>      >> boinc_status.quit_request flag when user becomes active  by
>>> BOINC devs
>>>      >> opinion or should not?
>>>      >
>>>      >Yes.
>>>      >
>>>      >-- David
>>>      >
>>>      >>
>>>      >>
>>>      >> Суббота, 11 мая 2013, 8:49 +04:00 от Raistmer the Sorcerer
>>>      >> < [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >:
>>>
>>>      >>> If you look corresponding thread you will see that app does
>>> check. There is
>>>      >>> boinc_status.suspended flag also, but is this designed
>>> behavior, not to set
>>>      >>> boinc_status.quit_request for GPU app in all cases when its
>>> exit=suspend
>>>      >>> required ?
>>>      >>>
>>>      >>>
>>>      >>>
>>>      >>> Пятница, 10 мая 2013, 17:24 -07:00 от Eric J Korpela <
>>>      >>> [email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected].**edu<[email protected]>>
>>> >:
>>>
>>>      >>>> I can think of one other option.  If an OpenCL routine never
>>> exits, the
>>>      >>>> application might not get to the point of checking the flags
>>> (unless you
>>>      >>>> are checking the flags while waiting on OpenCL routines to
>>> finish).  I
>>>      >>>> haven't checked the driver revision the users in question have
>>> installed.
>>>      >>>> Are they using suspect driver versions?
>>>      >>>>
>>>      >>>>
>>>      >>>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Raistmer the Sorcerer  <
>>>      >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
>>>      >>>>> Trying to solve non-suspending issue listed in this thread:
>>>      >>>>> http://setiathome.berkeley.**edu/forum_thread.php?id=71581&**
>>> postid=1365551<http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=71581&postid=1365551>
>>>      >>>>>
>>>      >>>>>
>>>      >I came to conclusion that either BOINC does something wrong in this
>>>     situation or
>>>      >app doesn't check all needed flags and not aware about exit
>>> request.
>>>      >>>>>
>>>      >>>>> I check these flags: boinc_status.quit_request
>>>      >>>>> boinc_status.abort_request
>>>      >>>>>
>>>      >>>>> Maybe some another flag BOINC sets to inform app that suspend
>>> required
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