Are any other computers having this problem?
Let's maintain some perspective.

TOO_MANY_EXITS is not caused by BOINC suspending/resuming the app.
On Windows, it typically means that something outside BOINC is killing the app.
Perhaps security software; BOINC has no way of knowing.
Problems like this are usually solved by communicating with the volunteer.

I'm not sure what you mean by "black box".
BOINC is the opposite of a black box.
Do you have any specific suggestions?

On 18-Mar-2014 8:05 AM, Richard Haselgrove wrote:
Looking around at SETI, trying to analyse how well the server was performing
while the status page was dysfunctional, I came across this user.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=7220378


He (and his - somewhat elderly - computer) have been members for about 3 weeks.
He's got a little credit, both at SETI and at Cosmology, so the computer seems 
to
be in working order.

But now, every single task - at both projects, today - is failing with Exit
status-226 (0xffffffffffffff1e) ERR_TOO_MANY_EXITS (oh, and a few download
errors).

He seems to be using what was the recommended BOINC at the time (v7.2.39), stock
science applications, and I'd be willing to bet default BOINC computing 
settings.
BOINC has just *got* to work for volunteers like that, out of the box - 
otherwise
there's no point.

So, as a reasonably experienced "reader of the runes", what can I deduce from 
the
error messages presented that I might possibly pass on in a helpful private
message? Er, as it happens, nothing. I'm stuck. Even task
http://www.cosmologyathome.org/result.php?resultid=28640358 - which ran for
nearly two hours - presents nothing useful in stderr_txt.

If we're going to seal the black box, so that no information leaks out to the
target "volunteer spare cycles" user, then the onus is on us to make sure it
works. First time, every time.

Otherwise it's no surprise the number of volunteers goes down, year after year.
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