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Message 117319 - Posted: 1 Nov 2025, 1:55:59 UTC

Boinc Manager V7.24.1
OS: Kubuntu 24.04

I have manager set to suspend when computer is in use. Mostly it does. But sometimes it does not.

It is NOT project dependent. I run World Community Grid MCM, Asteroids@home, Universe@home,
and Rosetta@home. It happens on all of them.

It generally happens after my computer has been running continuously for a few days or weeks, with BOINC
running as expected the entire time, until it doesn't.

Restarting my system generally solves the problem. But sometimes I need to complete something I am doing
before restarting. In those instances I will attempt to manually suspend or abort the running task.

Manual suspend does not always work. Sometimes even after I manually suspend them, the status will show
"task suspended by user" but the progress keeps incrementing and my system is laggy.

Often when I select a task in order to suspend it manually, there is a delay of 20-30 seconds in the the 'suspend'
button appearing.

The 'abort' button is always at the ready. Aborting a task always works.

Notably after a system restart, the tasks that previously ran on, run normally per settings.


As an aside, if you search the forums for "suspend", you will find messages about similar behavior going back
10 years. So I'm not really expecting there to be some fix that I can implement. I'm posting mainly to bring
attention to it and hopefully provide some useful information. I think it's a bug that's basically a fossil at this point.
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