On 10 June 2014 00:29, Richard Haselgrove <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ironically, the topic of tasks which make 0% progress - BOINC thinks
> they're running, and elapsed time continues to accrue, but I guess CPU time
> doesn't rise - cropped up at LHC as well recently.
>
>
> http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/forum_thread.php?id=3843&postid=26583
>

Hmm. It's a bit unclear if the app's process still existed or had it
exited. Saying it doesn't show in top could mean that with 0% CPU usage it
doesn't fit in the screen along with the actually running processes.

If the process still existed it would be a bug in the app, either in the
project's code or BOINC API. If the process had exited then it's a bug in
the client.

If this is happening somewhat often and if it looks like a client bug OP
could try running BOINC with <task_debug> set. Then every time BOINC starts
a new task the process' ID is printed to logs. If a process gets stuck like
that that process ID could then be used to see if BOINC is monitoring the
right process.

I've been running with <task_debug> ever since I reported the case of BOINC
(apparently) losing track of task's process. So far all I've gotten is ton
of logs...

-Juha
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