BM can crash during multiple up/download

[Contact]

If there are many files up/downloading, boinc.exe uses very high CPU% and BOINC Manager is slow to respond (selecting tab or item, moving slider etc.) BM can easily crash during this situation.

[Contact]

BOINC Manager not responding

[Nicolas]

There's actually two different problems there:

• BOINC core client uses very high CPU% and doesn't respond to manager requests if there are too many file transfers in queue
• BOINC Manager hangs and doesn't respond to keyboard/mouse if the core client doesn't reply; which could be caused by many reasons, including a hanged client, or a network problem (if the manager is connected to a remote client).

Technical details for the second problem: this is because the manager uses blocking I/O to communicate with the client.

[MikeMarsUK]

David has marked the second issue as 'probably fixed in 5.9.12, reopen if not'

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/113

Do we know what version is being referred to in this ticket (282?)

[MikeMarsUK]

And there was the duplicate I created (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/171) of course.

[Contact]

Replying to MikeMarsUK:

David has marked the second issue as 'probably fixed in 5.9.12, reopen if not'

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/113

Do we know what version is being referred to in this ticket (282?)

Version 5.10.6 according to crash.png, but have seen similar behavior with other versions when too many up/downloads waiting.

[Nicolas]

#286 marked as duplicate of this bug. However, note that the description on #286 seems to be more complete than the one here.

[romw]

This should now be fixed in the latest 6.6 clients.