Thread 'Windows shutdown procedure'

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Michael Milan Send message Joined: 27 Oct 05 Posts: 6 Credit: 199,910 RAC: 0	Message 17275 - Posted: 22 Nov 2005, 3:12:36 UTC Does the shutdown procedure in the FAQ still apply to the latest version of Boinc (5.2.7)? Or is it safe now to shut down without exiting the program first? ID: 17275 · Reply Quote

enginerd Send message Joined: 31 Aug 04 Posts: 13 Credit: 134,268 RAC: 0	Message 17318 - Posted: 23 Nov 2005, 5:45:46 UTC - in response to Message 17275. Does the shutdown procedure in the FAQ still apply to the latest version of Boinc (5.2.7)? Or is it safe now to shut down without exiting the program first? i pretty much just shut down whenever, the computer stays on mon-fri and i havent had any problems. but i think it goes suspend hadsm quit boinc restart or just suspend hadsm restart ID: 17318 · Reply Quote

old_user15351 Send message Joined: 8 Sep 04 Posts: 23 Credit: 121,446 RAC: 0	Message 17491 - Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 11:41:28 UTC I never had any problems with any project by just shutting down while things were still running although now i\'m running boinc as a service and i have a windows shutdown script (run gpedit.msc) so that windows stops boinc just before it shuts down, when it\'s told to shutdown/restart ID: 17491 · Reply Quote

old_user94880 Send message Joined: 27 Aug 05 Posts: 156 Credit: 112,423 RAC: 0	Message 17492 - Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 13:13:29 UTC Have my computers set to auto update and at times it will need a reboot and Boinc is set to start at boot, so far no problems...... BOINC Wiki ID: 17492 · Reply Quote

Andrew Hingston Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 17 Aug 04 Posts: 753 Credit: 9,804,700 RAC: 0	Message 17495 - Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 15:13:23 UTC My recollection is that there was a change to BOINC some time back to ensure that the applications had time to shut down properly, so in theory the original problem should be solved. On the other hand, that is not to say that the fix is guaranteed to work in every circumstance. ID: 17495 · Reply Quote

Pooh Bear 27 Send message Joined: 5 Feb 05 Posts: 465 Credit: 1,914,189 RAC: 0	Message 17496 - Posted: 28 Nov 2005, 15:31:01 UTC It still has problems in Win 95-ME. Althought CPDN does not necessarily work well on those platforms. 2K and XP are pretty good about it. I am running on 8 different machines and never had an issue with shutting down, cleanly. ID: 17496 · Reply Quote

old_user15351 Send message Joined: 8 Sep 04 Posts: 23 Credit: 121,446 RAC: 0	Message 17538 - Posted: 29 Nov 2005, 12:21:57 UTC Last modified: 29 Nov 2005, 12:23:05 UTC i\'m wondering, does windows know that the science apps are \"child\" processes of boinc as it were, and that boinc started them, and they should be allowed to quit (or be told to quit) before boinc does? because that\'s my reason for having a shutdown script, so that boinc handles it the way it\'s ment to, before windows trys to do anything untill boinc has stopped and everything is ok ID: 17538 · Reply Quote

Keck_Komputers Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 426 Credit: 2,426,069 RAC: 0	Message 17575 - Posted: 30 Nov 2005, 10:11:34 UTC - in response to Message 17538. i\'m wondering, does windows know that the science apps are \"child\" processes of boinc as it were, and that boinc started them, and they should be allowed to quit (or be told to quit) before boinc does? because that\'s my reason for having a shutdown script, so that boinc handles it the way it\'s ment to, before windows trys to do anything untill boinc has stopped and everything is ok I don\'t know. However it is STOP here to restart the computer instead of logging off. I lost alot of models due to that, but have not lost one since about version 4.55 of the BOINC client, 4.12 of the slab model. So hopefully that bug has been fixed. BOINC WIKI BOINCing since 2002/12/8 ID: 17575 · Reply Quote