Well, about 7% into a WU, something locked up on Vista beta, and though I terminated it (memory wasn\'t relinquished), went to do a logoff to free the lost/non-recovered memory. All well with that? Wrong, BOINC tried to run every single fricken WU that it was scheduled to run, and trashed it\'s entire queue, rather then recognize the OS\'s message about a shut down, with a request that all processes terminate.

I wish the BOINC developers would fix that one, and STOP TRYING TO START NEW WORK UNITS after a system shutdown or logoff was initiated. System shutdown means DO NOT schedule anymore processes to run, cause the system is requesting everything to self terminate.

Edit: Vista\'s info on the business with BOINC\'s manager:

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: boinc.exe
Application Version: 5.4.9.0
Application Timestamp: 445bcefb
Fault Module Name: boinc.dll
Fault Module Version: 5.4.9.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 445bcec6
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000221e
OS Version: 6.0.5384.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 9cfa
Additional Information 2: 649e652448544eb7782aadd939157745
Additional Information 3: 9cfa
Additional Information 4: 649e652448544eb7782aadd939157745

Files that help describe the problem
AppCompat.txt
Version.txt
memory.hdmp
minidump.mdmp

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Hi,

If you could document this at the boinc development forum (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_forum.php?id=2), that would be great.

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