BOINC ignoring preferences?

[Jeffers]

I've noticed a few occasions recently when my computer seemed to be running rather sluggishly. I'm running 6.10.18 on Windows XP 64 bit, CPU is I7 and graphics Nvidia GT9800.

After a bit of investigation it looks to be down to BOINC.  I've got it set to suspend while I'm using the PC, but when I check the tasks I've found a SETI task still executing. Bizarrely the status says it's suspended as user is active as I would expect, but it's progress time and percentage are still incrementing. Doing a manual suspend on the task makes no difference, but if I abort it everything gets back to normal, confirming that as the culprit. I'm only running Seti and Rosetta.

Any ideas?

[Timby]

I've noticed a few occasions recently when my computer seemed to be running rather sluggishly. I'm running 6.10.18 on Windows XP 64 bit, CPU is I7 and graphics Nvidia GT9800.

After a bit of investigation it looks to be down to BOINC.  I've got it set to suspend while I'm using the PC, but when I check the tasks I've found a SETI task still executing. Bizarrely the status says it's suspended as user is active as I would expect, but it's progress time and percentage are still incrementing. Doing a manual suspend on the task makes no difference, but if I abort it everything gets back to normal, confirming that as the culprit. I'm only running Seti and Rosetta.

Any ideas?

Hi Jeffers, I am running 6.10.29 at the moment, this seems to be following the preferences OK and now gives you the option to pause just the GPU applications. I know its a development release but it seems to work fine
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

Mark

[Jeffers]

Thanks for the link, I'm running that version now but I'm still seeing the same issue. I've also moved to Windows 7 on the PC but that didn't help either. I still end up with one Seti task running, even though everything says it's suspended. Only way to stop it is an abort of the task. Weird, eh?