Suspending computation and network activity - user is active

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Contents 1 General 2 Example Log(s) 2.1 User Is Active 2.1.1 Line-By-Line Explanation 3 Other Related Messages 4 Developer Information

[edit] General

Message Type: Information Message

This Message tells the Participant that the BOINC Client Software is suspending work being done because the Participant is currently doing work on the computer. This is managed with a Preference Setting in the General Preferences.

The setting "Do work while computer is in use?", if set to "No" will mean that the BOINC Client Software will not do work while the Participant is using their computer, the BOINC Client Software does this by suspending computation activities of the Science Applications. In general I recommend that this setting be set to "Yes", mostly because in what seems to be over a hundred years of work with SETI@Home, and now the BOINC Software, I have never seen an impact on my other work when running either of those two programs.

I mean, you can set the computer to do no work while you are active, but, the only case where I can see that is if you are doing CAD work, compiling programs, launching the space shuttle, and etc. for the rest of us, running the BOINC Client Software all the time is the way to go.

[edit] Example Log(s)

[edit] User Is Active

2005-05-25 07:40:45 [         ] Suspending computation and network activity - user is active
2005-05-25 07:40:45 [SETI@home] Pausing result 28ja05ab.22588.1120.165886.152_1 (left in memory)
2005-05-25 14:59:23 [         ] Resuming computation and network activity
2005-05-25 14:59:23 [         ] schedule_cpus: time 29011.500000
2005-05-25 14:59:28 [         ] earliest deadline: 1117037030.000000 28ja05ab.22588.1120.165886.152_1
2005-05-25 14:59:29 [SETI@home] Resuming result 28ja05ab.22588.1120.165886.152_1 using
                                setiathome version 4.09

Line-By-Line Explanation

• Suspending computation and network activity - user is active

This Message informs the Participant that the BOINC Client Software is honoring their desire to perform no activity when they are active on the computer.

• Pausing result '(result)' (left in memory)

Tells the Participant that the Result has been paused, and retained in memory.

• Resuming computation and network activity

This Message informs you that the computer is returning to processing work using the BOINC Client Software.

• Earliest deadline: '(result)'

Because the processing is restarting, a Result has to be chosen to be processed, and the selection criteria was to process the Result with the "Earliest Deadline".

• Resuming result '(result)' using '(science application)' version '(version)'

So, we start processing this specific Result.

• College term paper

[edit] Other Related Messages

• Resuming computation and network activity
• Resuming network activity
• Suspending computation and network activity - on batteries
• Suspending computation and network activity - out of disk space - change global prefs
• Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
• Suspending computation and network activity - time of day
• Suspending computation and network activity - user is active
• Suspending computation and network activity - user request
• Suspending network activity - time of day
• Suspending network activity - user request

[edit] Developer Information

Code Location:	boinc/client/cs_prefs.C
Function:	CLIENT_STATE::suspend_activities(int reason)
Documentation:	boinc/client/cs_prefs.C
CVS Extract:	cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:@alien.ssl.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs/cvsroot checkout boinc/client/cs_prefs.C