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Conan

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Message 947 - Posted: 31 Jul 2025, 22:21:36 UTC
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I have recently been getting a lot of tasks that just don't stop until they time out or get an Exceeded Elapsed Time Limit error

If I find one now I abort it.

They waste huge amounts of cpu time, they take up a full core, they fail eventually anyway.

I have reset the project on all my computers but it is still happening.

They reach 100% and then keep running and can run up to 10 hours before the time limit steps in, the work units should be taking less than 4 hours.

Please can this be looked into and fixed?

It is annoying and makes me think about dropping this project.

Thanks
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Message 948 - Posted: 1 Aug 2025, 12:18:13 UTC

Me to, I think more then 50% of the tasks are at around 4 hours of running at 100% (like normal for my system) but then stays in the running state up to 24+ hours. Sometimes they eventually complete (ready to report) but more often they fail (computation error).

For example:
https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/result.php?resultid=15833330 wu_1753764465_4911_0 (completed)
and
https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/result.php?resultid=15823109 wu_1753764465_93_0 (timeout)

But there are at least dozens more of each.
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Message 949 - Posted: 3 Aug 2025, 15:54:03 UTC - in response to Message 947.  
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Same here. I am suspending the Project until this is fixed and aborting all current tasks that exhibit this behavior. I have better things for my computer's time.
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Message 950 - Posted: 4 Aug 2025, 12:26:35 UTC - in response to Message 949.  

We are looking into the problem
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Message 951 - Posted: 4 Aug 2025, 13:23:29 UTC - in response to Message 950.  

We found and fixed the issue. The fix is included in the new app version is 250804. Thanks for reporting it.
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Message 1012 - Posted: 16 Dec 2025, 7:57:42 UTC

The last week or so I've been getting the "exceeded elapsed time limit" on tasks. I have aborted some tasks and then reset the project to see if if that helps but no I'm still getting the error. This is on two Windows machines running 10 & 11, using the 251201 version of the app.

Links to some tasks that have the error but were returned before exceeding the deadline date:
https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/result.php?resultid=17597374
https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/result.php?resultid=17575923

I have had three tasks complete successfully over the same period.
Anyone else experiencing this or know of a possible solution?
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Message 1015 - Posted: 23 Dec 2025, 7:21:51 UTC - in response to Message 1012.  

Stopped receiving new work for a week, performed a project reset, then resumed work and all seems to be okay now. Hey ho!
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Message 1017 - Posted: 6 Jan 2026, 19:26:35 UTC

I re-attach the project after some times.
Same error.

<message>
exceeded elapsed time limit 10952.25 (200000.00G/18.26G)</message>
<stderr_txt>
2026-01-06 16:46:44 (23632): wrapper: running ../../projects/boinc.loda-lang.org_loda/loda-251201-windows-x86.exe (boinc -H 4)
2026-01-06 16:46:44 (23632): wrapper: created child process 11560
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Message 1018 - Posted: 7 Jan 2026, 8:28:14 UTC - in response to Message 1017.  

Looks like I've had nine tasks fail for exceeding the time limit, they hadn't, over the last two days.
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Message 1019 - Posted: 7 Jan 2026, 14:55:21 UTC - in response to Message 1018.  

Looks like I've had nine tasks fail for exceeding the time limit, they hadn't, over the last two days.


9 wus, 9 errors
I stop the crunch
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