1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Some tasks stalling (Message 74943) Posted 26 Jan 2023 by Gerry Prich Post: I was not aware that specific tasks could be limited. I had reduced my CPU access to 50% in BOINC, have now adjusted that up to 80% and will see how things run. G

2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Some tasks stalling (Message 74942) Posted 26 Jan 2023 by Gerry Prich Post: I will take a look at that - thanks for the suggestion. G

3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Some tasks stalling (Message 74935) Posted 24 Jan 2023 by Gerry Prich Post: Thought the restart solved the issue, but no. Has run for 1.5 hours and now reporting 2.5 hours left. Like I said, it will just keep churning but never finish. So is there something about the Nbody tasks that is causing the issue on my hardware? (something not adequate to complete the task?). I am running a Dell machine, Windows 11 Pro (22H2), NVIDIA Model GeForce GTX 1660 Ti for graphics; i7 for processor and 16 GB RAM. Task id is de_nbody_11_14_2022_v182_40k__data__4_1666898646_819123. I have an older Win10 machine running also, and I see the same phenomena with an Nbody task showing running for days, but I don't think that is accurate. Many more of this type of task are in the list waiting to start, so I may have the same issue going on with all of them? I have an NVidia card on that machine also, is that possibly the common thread? Just trying to understand the cause. Like I said, hate to abort the tasks. G

4) Questions and Answers : Windows : Some tasks stalling (Message 74934) Posted 24 Jan 2023 by Gerry Prich Post: All - I just did a restart of BOINC on the one I described (Nbody) and it did appear to change the numbers it was reporting from hours to just minutes again. I will check back on it later and report whether it finished or not. I do restart the machine about once a week out of habit, so it does occasionally get a reboot. Just confused on why this is occurring, as I had not had an issue before. G

5) Questions and Answers : Windows : Some tasks stalling (Message 74933) Posted 24 Jan 2023 by Gerry Prich Post: Stalled is just a description - it was still processing, but each time I looked at it, the time remaining had increased substantially. Other tasks were running normally. G

6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Some tasks stalling (Message 74932) Posted 24 Jan 2023 by Gerry Prich Post: I have another one at the moment and it is an Nbody. It says it is 6.255% through the task and has been running for 10 hours and 42 minutes with 6 days 16 hours remaining. It appears to be progressing, but tomorrow it will show even more time remaining. The due date is today. All other tasks appear to be running normally, as I have a few other Projects queued up as well. G

7) Questions and Answers : Windows : Some tasks stalling (Message 74929) Posted 24 Jan 2023 by Gerry Prich Post: Has anyone been reporting issues with tasks stalling? I've had to cancel several work units that basically stalled and were showing days left to complete after processing for days. They were holding up other work units. Normally work tasks complete within the day they are started. I feel bad about cancelling them, but they were causing other units to go past their due dates. This is something I have never had issues with before. Unfortunately, I did not write down the name of the tasks, but they disappeared after aborting.

8) Message boards : Number crunching : All Milkyway@Home 1.02 tasks ending in computation error on HD6950. (Message 70646) Posted 3 Mar 2021 by Gerry Prich Post: Just an update from another person having issues with computational errors. For the past month I was having issues and couldn't seem to figure it out. I have a Dell desktop with a NVidia graphics card. What I believe now is that the issue was with an update Dell posted for the video card. I had reinstalled their driver but kept having issues. Finally I took a chance and went to the NVidia site, and downloaded a driver from their website. That seems to have solved the issue. In the past, when I've tried to update from NVidia direct on a Dell machine, I've had issues with compatibility - but perhaps that is no longer an issue. Just thought that I would post I had success with a driver update solving the error issue. One more thing to try when having issues. Gerry

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