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S@NL - John van Gorsel

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Message 52862 - Posted: 22 Jan 2026, 17:43:44 UTC
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I have a task that took 26 hours to reach 100% and even at 100% it continues. The Windows task manager shows that Virtualbox still keeps a CPU core busy. The logfile that I get to see through the "show graphics" button also shows that there is still information added. This is the second time that I see this and the first time I let the file run another day but then I noticed that the running.log seemed to have reset so I aborted that task.

Current task:
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=431737820

Is there a graceful way to end this task? My pc has done 28 hours of productive work (although that is what it looks like) so I don't want to simply abort this one.
Any help is appreciated.

Regards, John
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Message 52863 - Posted: 22 Jan 2026, 21:05:35 UTC - in response to Message 52862.  

Theory tasks can be quite long. There are threads about 6-10days long running tasks. The % in BOINC is clueless about the state in the Virtual machine. So that is no useful indicator for this Project.

If you still see "217 of 760 integrations done" or "52800 events" and counting up then the task is fine(i think most task have been 100k events)
i have not exact knowledge of virtual box tasks. did run theory native tasks so can't help with the exact location of the log file if "show graphics" window is not printing that.

Theory is always a big surprise bag. with ultra short tasks and long runner randomly. If you prefer more stable runtimes then is atlas the better project.
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Message 52864 - Posted: 22 Jan 2026, 21:28:43 UTC - in response to Message 52863.  

Thanks, I'll allow it some more time then. Its now at "Integrating 328 of 760, iteration 3"
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