What do Suspended, Waiting and Postponed mean?
Possible messages you can come across:
- Waiting for memory.
- Waiting for GPU memory.
- Waiting to run.
- Waiting to run (Scheduler wait: Waiting to acquire lock)
- Postponed: waiting to acquire lock.
- Postponed: please upgrade BOINC to the latest version.
- Suspended: on batteries.
- Suspended: computer is in use.
- Suspended: user request.
- Suspended: time of day.
- Suspended: CPU benchmarks in progress.
- Suspended: need disk space - check preferences.
- Suspended: computer is not in use.
- Suspended: starting up.
- Suspended: an exclusive app is running.
- Suspended: CPU is busy.
- Suspended: network bandwidth limit exceeded.
- Suspended: requested by operating system.
Essentially, all these mean that BOINC is paused, or has paused any running work.
Waiting for memory
The task has paused while waiting for you to free more memory. Either your preferences are very strictly set, or you didn't have enough memory to begin with.
Check the When computer is in use, use at most N GB and When computer is not in use, use at most N GB' preferences.
Waiting for GPU memory
The task has paused while waiting for you to free more GPU memory. It's possible you try to run too many tasks at the same time on your GPU and it's run out of usable memory.
Waiting to run
This task has run for a bit, but has since been paused by the scheduler. It's waiting its turn to continue.
Waiting to run (Scheduler wait: Waiting to acquire lock)
This message means that a previous task is still occupying the lock file in the slot directory. BOINC cannot continue with this task until that slot directory has been vacated. Try to reboot, that usually stirs things loose. Used in BOINC 6.
Postponed: waiting to acquire lock
This message means that a previous task is still occupying the lock file in the slot directory. BOINC cannot continue with this task until that slot directory has been vacated. Try to reboot, that usually stirs things loose. Used in BOINC 7.
| Original writer | Original FAQ | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Jorden | 46 | 07-01-2007 |
