I was watching the Windows Task Manager page and was surprised to see the Windows Idle Process "running". It disappeared when I suspended the Rosetta job, which was showing as "running" in BOINC Manager, times advancing normally, but only using 2 - 3% CPU. I am used to seeing non BOINC jobs using time while a project is using less, sqlserver etc., and understand that, but the Idle Process?

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Sounds like a case where BOINC Manager thought the task was running, but it actually was not getting any CPU time, nor not able to use CPU at that point for some reason. That sort of thing is how some folks report tasks running for several days.

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It was getting a small CPU time figure though, 2% or 3% rather than the 25% you would normally see. I'll enable Rosetta again and keep a watch on it.

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It was getting a small CPU time figure though, 2% or 3% rather than the 25% you would normally see. I'll enable Rosetta again and keep a watch on it.

I had the same lately, BoincView showed a Rosetta result running, but with CPU efficiency 0% and when I checked the machine, I saw 25% idle in taskmanager (1 core out of 4) and no Rosetta activity.

Restarting the core client brought the result back to life and it finished without further problems.

p.s.: Pausing the result will help if "keep in memory" is disabled - but it's usually better to keep results in memory.

Here is one that did this again. After a core client restart it continued where it had stopped.