Boinc sometimes does not run tasks, or does not get new tasks.

obvious stuff: boinc set to run always ?
what does it say as the reason for suspension? check the messages tab

what projects are you running? check your preferences again, are there any bottlenecks like ram or disk space that boinc will run into?

It's always running as a daemon.
It does not change to suspended = it still shows 'running' but the cpu load and the cpu time indicator does not show activity.

mostly the wcg and sometimes seti are running. usually there are no bottlenecks, but once in a while i start something that takes the cpu or the harddisk (throughput; space is still plenty left) to itself and boinc does not always recover from that bottleneck load moments.

then i restart the daemon and try some actions on the task myself until it.. starts again.

the main thing is: it says its running, but it's not and unfortunately does not recover from that state by itself.

What does the messages tab say when this is happening?

Hello once again..

Well I got another (somewhat similar) problem. Thepriority thing is different, but overal it's the same as the ones I already described.

You want to know the Messages? Let's take a look. It says nothing regarding this, e.g:

Mon 01 Sep 2008 11:23:45 AM CEST|World Community Grid|Started upload of R00098_3388fcf8c40841f5efd97d84790a713b_01_000_17_0
Mon 01 Sep 2008 11:23:56 AM CEST|World Community Grid|Finished upload of R00098_3388fcf8c40841f5efd97d84790a713b_01_000_17_0
Mon 01 Sep 2008 07:43:52 PM CEST|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks
Mon 01 Sep 2008 07:44:13 PM CEST|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Tue 02 Sep 2008 11:25:49 AM CEST|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Tue 02 Sep 2008 11:25:54 AM CEST|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Tue 02 Sep 2008 11:54:19 AM CEST|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Tue 02 Sep 2008 11:54:41 AM CEST|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks

So it reported 2 Tasks and 2 Tasks are running (not running) so it does not fetch new tasks. The whole Message Log just complains about upload download scheduler request retries and so on. Nothing about a task that's not running because of any problem.

So now I have 2 stalled Tasks from the Human Protenome folding Project. The running state changed to 'Running, high priority' but it still does not calculate the tasks. My CPU is idle. A look into top shows, that no task is running, but BOINC boincmgr itself is one of the top cpu eaters.. so something goes wrong with the task and the boincmgr itself.

I could prove it with screenshots, but I already wrote everything down here, all that I see from the running system.

Well, it's not a crash or something that makes a lot of noise. It just gets into a strange state and does not recover. This happens from time to time. I can't tell you more so far.

What log files exist beyond the message log in the gui?

Regards,
arkibott

And once again only manually restarting the boinc-client daemon put live back into the tasks.

Wed 03 Sep 2008 01:46:32 AM CEST|World Community Grid|Restarting task lx074_00004_12 using hpf2 version 520
Wed 03 Sep 2008 01:46:32 AM CEST|World Community Grid|Restarting task lx100_00016_8 using hpf2 version 520

Now it's running.

Sounds like this could very well be a bug. You can convert it to a bug report in the blue box at the top right of the screen.
One last suggestion from me: go to Advanced -> Read local prefs file, and tell the output of the messages tab.

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