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You can check the throttling graphs (CPU%, GPU%) in both BoincTasks (for the previous 12 hours (actually, why not 24?)) and TThrottle (for the previous 24 hours). And off course the corresponding temperatures.

In debugging a problem with the GPUGRID project, I rebooted a boinc 24/7 system and the elapsed time decreased by 1/2 as shown.
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It seems I had a stuck task and attempted to reboot to clear it.  Why did the elapsed time go from 2d6h to only 12h.  I am using boinc 7.03, maybe that is the problem?

In such cases (when you suspect a task got stuck) you should also take a look at the Tasks' checkpoint column. It is possible, that the tasks did not checkpoint for the most of the missing time and it just reverted to the last known stored checkpoint data after rebooting.

Welcome here, Erik!

Is it possible to use BoincTasks to connect to machines over the internet?  For example:

My machine running BoincTasks in 192.168.x.x -> router -> external address 24.x.x.x -> destination external address 67.x.x.x -> router -> 10.x.x.x running BOINC

I can set the routers to pass any ports necessary.

If you could map this route to some local port (or build a SSH tunnel), then it should be no problem. I guess you've already tried this in the past with BoincView.

On the Computers tab, fill the entries for IP, port, pwd - that should do it.

the window TThrottle in BT could not be resized, or at list in my computer is displayed as is, but no showing the whole thing.

2 - sent screenshot to the bug server as "sshot-1.png" and will see how I could not see the whole info.

OK noted as a bug, my computer had the right dimensions stored.

I can confirm the TThrottle dialog being cropped.

I'm quite confused about the "Threads" and how to translate this.
Do they really just show the CPU-usage of the overhead program "BoincTasks"?
What's the use for this futile graph? Is there really anyone out there, who is interested in this? The use of the different real tasks, especially that of the GPU-ones, may be of some real concern, but who gives a flying f*** about the wee percentages of BoincTasks?

Saenger, I hope you do not belong to the sort of people, who just on principle do kick aside anything they do not understand You could at least think of that maybe someone might be interested in (I am personally) or even might need such a tool (see all these request to solve BT's 100% CPU usage)...

I'm sure there are lot of hot tasks around, but everyone can have his/her own different opinion on which of them are "real", "the ones" to be solved with priority.

In this case (actually, each time) I'll click on the remote computer's network name (on Computers tab, IP Address column) as if to edit it and immediately press enter after making no change. BT then immediately goes into the connection cycle.

I'll try the sidebar the next time, but I suspect it never did the trick for me. (My reconnect timeout is around 10 minutes.)

That's the hard way and not recommended, clicking on the sidebar is the way it's designed to work.

If you have the connection logging active, you should see: 08 december 2011 - 14:50:07 Connect ---- Forced reconnect request to: Host: in the logging.

Tried the sidebar and it connected
Just to remember the correct steps to do

Out of interest, how many computers are you running?  I have up to about 15.

ATM just 3. Two of them with just fractional throughput.
I'm not competing with anyone, just debugging and analyzing everything related. Trying to help spreading and pushing BOINC and useful related tools forward.

I build and test them before selling them, so BOINC is excellent burn in tool :-)

I know that usage model

Fred, could you please consider this as a change wish?
(Well, "immediately" might also be a "up to a couple of minutes/hours" or "in chunks of a few pieces" - I've no idea whether it is anyhow expensive to insert tasks into LTH (I assume it is not).)

What is it you want added?

In the past, there was only the STH. Later you've added LTH and the oldest STH items (which fall over the delay threshold) are shifted into LTH.

But STH has virtually no filtering controls (except sorting), compared to LTH (which has already some).

Would it make sense to immediately insert all completed (+ aborted, failed, etc.) tasks into both STH+LTH and rename the two existing delays to "Remove tasks from STH after ... days" + "Remove tasks from LTH after ... days"?

For me the problem of only seeing one computer in the history is solved by another of your answers - use the computer sidebar.

Off course. But there is also the Project selection (which I do use often). And in the future, more will possibly come 

A rule option to put a project on NoNewTasks after meeting a criterion?

Done and done.
I'm a bit distracted, building a SETI app_info editor and merger after using the Lunatics installer.

Sure, that's what the ToDo list is designed for (I suppose at least) - to put it there and can forget for a while.
You're anyway continuously inserting a plenty lot of code into BT.

I wouild like to see a rule that allows comparison between deadline date & time and system date & time so that I could automatically abort those tasks that exceed their deadline.

A rule on the deadline. Like 24 hour past the deadline, abort task.

I'd advice just "user adjustable", per rule, as the secure/over time may greatly differ per project.

That's what I'm planning to do.

Any ETA on the deadline comparison? It has not made it yet into the WishList's ToDo section, let's not forget it

A rule option to put a project on NoNewTasks after meeting a criterion?

Some way of telling it to retry immediately would be helpful.

In this case (actually, each time) I'll click on the remote computer's network name (on Computers tab, IP Address column) as if to edit it and immediately press enter after making no change. BT then immediately goes into the connection cycle.

I'll try the sidebar the next time, but I suspect it never did the trick for me. (My reconnect timeout is around 10 minutes.)

I have a ridiculous number of computers running boinc, so I'd like sometimes to see the history of ONE computer to check on problems with a particular project for example - is this possible?

With LTH? If all tasks would immediately go into LTH too and got discarded from STH after a definable delay (which is now used to delay filling of the LTH)?

Fred, could you please consider this as a change wish?
(Well, "immediately" might also be a "up to a couple of minutes/hours" or "in chunks of a few pieces" - I've no idea whether it is anyhow expensive to insert tasks into LTH (I assume it is not).)

I have a ridiculous number of computers running boinc, so I'd like sometimes to see the history of ONE computer to check on problems with a particular project for example - is this possible?

With LTH? If all tasks would immediately go into LTH too and got discarded from STH after a delay?

...only able to download the work in the CPU and/or GPU executing ... no warehouse in the computer just only the one running ... what could be done to fix this issue??

I'm sorry, but...

Threads graph - if both actual values and average is displayed, the average line is much thinner and often not visible behind the (much more dense) values. Could the average be thick and values thin?

Tasks graph: I've sometimes noticed, that I can select a few projects and see their tasks graphs, but as soon as I select any of a few other projects, all graphs disappear. No matter whether Combine projects is selected. (This is when the "Over a period of:" (= Timespan) checkbox is deselected, i.e. "All times" data.)
If I select the Timespan and play with the days, I can find a borderline - with less days, all is fine, with more days, all graphs suddenly disappear.

With other words: I can select even a 190 day Timespan. After selecting a few (or all) projects (from a group of 11 "good" projects), their tasks are displayed in graphs, for 7.10.-6.12.2011. Selecting any of the remaining 6 projects (e.g. SETI@home) causes all graphs to disappear (and the graph baseline gets 6.10.-6.12.2011). But after lowering the Timespan to 60 days, the graphs get displayed again (and the graph baseline gets 7.10.-6.12.2011). Then I select one more project (form the "bad" ones - Rosetta), graphs disappear (and the graph baseline gets 6.10.-6.12.2011). After lowering the Timespan to 59 days, the graphs get displayed again (and the graph baseline gets 7.10.-6.12.2011). Now after selecting any (or all) from the remaining "bad" ones, all graphs remain correctly displayed.

(I remember there was already a similar bug in the far past, with Credit Graphs disappearing this way.)

Project rank column - what is the second number? What about right-aligning the ranks?

Find computers - the range is assumed according to the mask? What about environments with huge masks and trying to scan just a small known range (like 50 IP's)?