I do now have several tasks on different machines that have run for over 30 hours and are estimated to be less than 50% through. Should I abort those tasks or let them run?
I have not changed the default running length target.

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I do now have several tasks on different machines that have run for over 30 hours and are estimated to be less than 50% through. Should I abort those tasks or let them run?
I have not changed the default running length target.

The watchdog should cut in after runtime+4 hours, so it sounds like the WU has stopped processing. Select the WU in Boinc Manager, then click properties to see the difference between elapsed time & cpu time. Task manager will show if it's actually using any resources. Try shutting down Boinc then restart it and see if it actually starts processing properly. Hopefully that won't lose the processing you've actually completed. If not, it sounds like the task has to be aborted, unfortunately.

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so it sounds like the WU has stopped processing.

It looks like you were right, the WUs had actually stopped processing. Thanks for your help :)

This means that I now have to babysit my machines :(

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Has anyone seen any word from the BOINC folks on reasolution to this problem where the BOINC Manager thinks the task is running, but it gets no CPU time?

The good news is that it seems to be fairly rare. The bad news is you typically have to exit and restart BOINC for it to work through the problem.

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