Stuck in benchmarks

etherbrat
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Hi. My computer must have shut down due to a momentary power interruption. After I restarted it and boinc manager, boinc manager reported that processing was suspended because benchmarks were running. It has been like that ever since. The benchmarks normally don't take very long at all. I tried resetting my project, to no avail - it seems stuck in the benchmarks. Any ideas?

Claggy
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Stuck in benchmarks

Restart Boinc?

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etherbrat
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Nope. Tried that.

Nope. Tried that.

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You can try setting 1 in a

You can try setting 1 in a cc_config.xml

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration

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0|1This will disable the periodic benchmark testing as well as block the 'run CPU benchmarks' from the manager menu.

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Richard Haselgrove
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Check whether the computer's

Check whether the computer's system clock is accurate now, and - if you can - whether it was accurate before the shutdown (perhaps look at a timestamp on a file you edited recently).

Some versions of BOINC had/have a bug whereby if benchmarks were run 'in the future' (perhaps because the system clock was wrong), the next benchmark run wouldn't complete until that future time was reached.

(It was more likely in the days of Windows XP, when people sometimes used the clock setting tool as a calendar lookup - I've done that myself, and forgotten to hit 'cancel' instead of 'OK')

etherbrat
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Meh. I dunno. I removed and

Meh. I dunno. I removed and reinstalled boinc-manager and boinc-client. It remembered my ID and project, downloaded work and sprang back into life. Stranger things have happened.

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