Using BOINC 6.12.33 on Win7 x64 SP1 with Nvidia GTX460 and NVidia Driver 275.33.

Occasionally when waking my computer up, the Milkyway@Home tasks continue running even though I have my preferences set to never allow that to happen. I am not using the BOINC screensaver, just the default Windows blank screensaver.

Only way I've found to make them stop is to go into task manager and kill them manually in order to make my computer usable again. Any thoughts on why these tasks might not be respecting the BOINC settings?

Right click on BM (system tray) and select snooze/snooze GPU.

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Will give that a try next time it happens. Still doesn't explain why they aren't stopping when they are supposed to though.

Since these GPU tasks are making my WIN/XP machine unusable for work, I have also tried that automatic override to temporarily halt the tasks. (This machine has an ATI HD5870 so the problem is not limited to NVidia.)

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it takes up to 5sec for the task to pause.

As I type in this message, the screen is visibly unable to keep up with the keystrokes, halting for seconds at a time. Elsewhere it has been posted that these GPU tasks are supposed to limit themselves to about 1/30sec of run time. Based on the symptoms in front of my eyes, I don't believe that is the case.

Sometimes it takes up to 5sec for the task to pause.

It won't let me edit my own message so I'll reply to it...

If one looks at the BOINC manager screen while typing in keystrokes or moving the mouse, you can see the GPU task is indeed pausing within about 1sec.

If done outside of BOINC and the GPU lockout setting is too short, like 1-2sec, the GPU task starts right up again before the application has had a chance to respond to your input. So this responsiveness issue is just a variant of the other I reported.

Asking for a 5sec lockout on the GPU appears to greatly increase apparent responsiveness. Unfortunately, this greatly stretches the elapsed time to return GPU WU results.

Sometimes it takes up to 5sec for the task to pause.

I have a 5870x2 on Win7 and I've seen that. I normally only have to pause when starting a HD video for a few seconds (then unpause and all is good).

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I am using a GTX 460, Win 7 X64, and Boinc manager 6.12.33, and have noticed that the Milkyway CUDA tasks do not stop when I shutdown and EXIT the manager.

Milkyway still runs and I have to use the task manager to stop the CUDA task.

Running a CUDA task on SETI will stop when I exit and shutdown Boinc.