| 5 | | It seems to me that there are two ways of closing the BOINC client/manager/tray local system: let's call them 'manual' and 'automatic'.'Manual' can be invoked by right-click|exit from the system tray icon (Manager with main window closed), or by File|Exit BOINC from the main Manager window. Either way displays the Exit Conformation dialog, if enabled.'Automatic' is invoked when either the BOINC installer, or a Windows shutdown, needs to close BOINC. This closedown mode never displays the Exit confirmation dialog.I have another couple of gripes with 'automatic' closedown mode:1) Pending registry changes (e.g. 'Run Manager at login?') aren't flushed during an automatic closedown, only by a manual close.2) Some applications have a tendency to cause running tasks to error if closed by the 'automatic' route, but not if closed by the 'manual' route. From my current project set, !NumberFieldsatHome seem vulnerable to this. CPDN moderators have long advised volunteers running CPDN tasks to shut down BOINC manually before shutting down their computers.I suspect the NVIDIA driver restart issue arises similarly from a difference between manual and automatic shutdown of BOINC. Whether BOINC is interacting directly with the driver at this point, or whether BOINC closes the applications in an unusual way and they in turn trigger the driver problem, needs further investigation. |
| | 5 | It seems to me that there are two ways of closing the BOINC client/manager/tray local system: let's call them 'manual' and 'automatic'.[[BR]][[BR]]'Manual' can be invoked by right-click|exit from the system tray icon (Manager with main window closed), or by File|Exit BOINC from the main Manager window. Either way displays the Exit Conformation dialog, if enabled.[[BR]][[BR]]'Automatic' is invoked when either the BOINC installer, or a Windows shutdown, needs to close BOINC. This closedown mode never displays the Exit confirmation dialog.[[BR]][[BR]]I have another couple of gripes with 'automatic' closedown mode:[[BR]][[BR]]1) Pending registry changes (e.g. 'Run Manager at login?') aren't flushed during an automatic closedown, only by a manual close.[[BR]]2) Some applications have a tendency to cause running tasks to error if closed by the 'automatic' route, but not if closed by the 'manual' route. From my current project set, !NumberFieldsatHome seem vulnerable to this. CPDN moderators have long advised volunteers running CPDN tasks to shut down BOINC manually before shutting down their computers.[[BR]][[BR]]I suspect the NVIDIA driver restart issue arises similarly from a difference between manual and automatic shutdown of BOINC. Whether BOINC is interacting directly with the driver at this point, or whether BOINC closes the applications in an unusual way and they in turn trigger the driver problem, needs further investigation. |
