I have a strange behaviour happening.
no task are running while the computer is not in use.
yes I've doubled checked.

There ais absolutely no sense into this and no logic case. The CPU is not busy while doing something else, the screensaver is literraly saying that because it is not in use there is not running app.

What's the cause of it?

Need a bit more information to diagnose this. Which projects are you signed up to? Have they downloaded any tasks? What does the event log say?

I've made the exact same request on the community board from einstein since the problem seems to originate from there:

Here what I've posted:

1/ I'm a member since ... more than 12 years ? at least for seti so I know pretty well how Boinc works

2/ there was a long list of tasks int the waiting list, but there was 3 tasks from einstein that were somehow blocking the process

3/ As I said, the tasks from einstein were running only when the computer was in use.

4/ I can generalise the previous point to all task since nothing was running at all.

4bis/ the 3 task were due for the 18th july, so several days ago-> so the problem have been occuring for quite a few days now without I noticed it since it's not one of my primary hosts.

5/ the preference were explicitly said as loaded from the website of einstein since it was the last update of the settings.

6/ I definitely think that there is a logic problem in the xml server. Maybe only on my account, maybe in general I don't know.

7/ Why do I think that? Because I uninstalled this afternoon boinc, restart, rename the old boinc data folder, reinstalled boinc, designated the new data folder (but since those settings are in the registry I didn't have to specify anything), reattached to worldcommunitygrid and setiathome, change the location to work for computing preferences, and YAY again the same problem.

8/ I've looked in the prefs of the application and here we go again, the einstein prefs from the website....

=> the problem is on the server

9/ I've change one single setting (number of cpu to 33%) in the worldcommunitygrid prefs and setiathome pref to have something more up-to-date than einstein and VOILA... the tasks are running again

=> yeah the problem is defintely on the einstein server part.





So this is not a local file problem, since folder renamed,

it is not a local pref, since it was loaded from the website,

it is not a setting in the preferences itself on the website, since I try to have the same everything on every project and with other rpef file it works.





So can you maybe enlighten me here where I'm mistaking or where I've done something wrong or why my test topology is not accurate?

Best regards

But in the event log it was totally normal for the application since it was acting accordingly to what it finds on the einstein pref server.
And as demonstrated, it works with other prefs from other project. So I think it's limited to the coding of the xml from einstein. Maybe it's limited to my account, maybe it's ageneral thing, I don't know. But nevertheless I don't see how it could be a problem from the local host since it only downloads the xml parameters, correct ?

Anyway I have still the the screenshot from the task list + the renamed old folder if it is needed. Just tell me what to upload and I'll do it.

Anyway I have still the the screenshot from the task list + the renamed old folder if it is needed. Just tell me what to upload and I'll do it.

A screenshot of the task list is unlikely to help - unless it shows that all tasks are well past their deadlines, which would account for there being no allocated tasks on the server (as Gary says).

Better to make a text copy of the messages in the Event Log, and post that instead.