Posts by Alan-AlanG7Mc

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Task reset progress (Message 2082) Posted 14 Jun 2023 by Alan-AlanG7Mc Post: Yes. It looks like my Windows-10 (on 'pretty old' HP 64-bit hardware, with 4 cores) is also affected. Running "CurieMarieDock 0.2.0 long tasks 2.02" software. BOINC version is 2.20.2 x 64 (Current version per BerkeleyBOINC page), Widgets3.1.7. I'm using Local Preferences, which are: Options // Computing Preferences // Computing // Request tasks to checkpoint at most every [ I picked 600 seconds, 10 minutes ]. Problem seems to happen when Win 10 pretty much forces an update-reboots, and I let it. I tried to first shut down everything cleanly, including telling BOINC to "shut down running tasks when exiting BOINC". My thinking is "Better to let BOINC do the Work-Unit shut-downs, than to let the update-reboot kill them."
2) Message boards : News : CmDock source code (Message 2067) Posted 9 May 2023 by Alan-AlanG7Mc Post: Checkpoints - none? SiDock does not seem to be doing checkpoints/save-points of its work. So a BOINC manager shutdown with 'stop running projects' (or perhaps a system crash/reboot) loses >all< work done so far. Four SiDock work units have gone from just under two days remaining, back to four-plus days, with less than 1% completed. = I would prefer to donate to projects who can >complete< work units, despite occasional crashes and shutdown on my end. Thank you.