Desktop App stuck

[I_Seth]

it looks like my app is stuck and doing this for some reason:

[
{
“time”: “03/10/2019, 00:00:58”,
“text”: " Task MCM1_0154654_5031_0 postponed for 600 seconds: Waiting to acquire lock"
},
{
“time”: “03/10/2019, 00:00:58”,
“text”: " Task MCM1_0154625_1648_0 postponed for 600 seconds: Waiting to acquire lock"
},
{
“time”: “03/10/2019, 00:00:23”,
“text”: “: Waiting to acquire lock Task MCM1_0154617_4868_1 postponed for 600 seconds: Waiting to acquire lock”
},
{
“time”: “03/10/2019, 00:00:23”,
“text”: " Task MCM1_0154586_6857_0 postponed for 600 seconds: Waitin"
},
{
“time”: “02/10/2019, 23:59:47”,
“text”: " Task MCM1_0154591_8272_1 postponed for 600 seconds: Waiting to acquire lock Task MCM1_0154586_3527_0 postponed for 600 seconds:"
},
{
“time”: “02/10/2019, 23:59:31”,
“text”: " Resuming computation"
},

Any ideas? It’s been going on for hours… tried to reinstall app but no joy, still doing it
now i have 12 processes on pause doing nothing and all postponed…

[john]

This can happen if two instances of BOINC were running on top of each other. Usually the app will eventually be able to acquire a lock. Inside BOINC/slots each folder that is being worked on has a lock file, you can manually delete that file the the impacted slot, or you can just wait 1-2 days and it should resolve itself.

[I_Seth]

thx John! In the end… Because of my setup with the validator I actually moved my boid app into a virtual machine with 2 CPU’s assigned to it. it was going crazy with my original setup. so now i have 4CPU’s for validator, 2 CPU’s for boid cmd app and 1 CPU for storej node and 1CPU spare for the system.