Has anyone encountered this behaviour before? I have only seen it in the past couple weeks or so, but I haven't usually had to suspend Asteroids@home. I bought a new (to me) GPU (Radeon RX 6900 XT) and all other BOINC applications have been working fine except this, so I suspended it.

But every time I leave BOINC untouched for a long time (so far approaching 24 hours, perhaps longer sometimes...?) I come home to my computer crashed, fans at full and unresponsive, and I discover after reboot that Asteroids@home has been unsuspended and a whole bunch of OpenCL tasks have been downloaded and some had run.

I have had a couple projects left suspended for many days at a time, but they are generally projects that are unresponsive and I haven't gotten around to removing them, or they don't have applications for my hardware, and wouldn't give me tasks anyway.

I am checking out the previous threads about OpenCL issues on AMD and would like to focus on the BOINC suspend issue in this thread, unless it turns out they are more interconnected than I believe ATM.

Can a project somehow even forcibly unsuspend itself? Should I really be looking at BOINC as the culprit instead? I have disabled Asteroids@home giving me AMD GPU tasks for now, so that should take care of it anyway, so perhaps the question is moot.

Edit: forgot to say Manjaro has not yet updated its BOINC package, so I'm still running 7.24.1, with kernel 6.9.5.

the BOINC client has control over managing tasks. There's a difference between Suspend and Snooze, see https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3436 perhaps, that could be the culprit?

you can disallow OpenCL tasks in the project preferences, but that's another issue.

Wow thanks for the quick reply ahorek!

I thought it may not be under Asteroids, but the strange part is I have never seen it on other projects before. I use the advanced view, and didn't realize the "suspend" button in simple view is not the same, so that's interesting but I don't think that's it....I'm trying the same actions with a couple other projects right now to see if something similar happens. I'll report back here if I find anything out.

And yes, I have disallowed AMD GPU tasks from Asteroids preferences, so that should take care of the crashing for now anyway.