On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:25:20 -0700, Chris Schram <schram@webenet.net>
wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:03:07 +0200, Lars Bausch wrote:

Hello Cris,

Chris Schram wrote:

I am running BOINCManager 5.4.9 on a new Intel iMac running Mac OS X
10.4.7, and have observed that the SETI@home application within BOINC
crashes quite frequently. I am also running Einstein@home on the same
machine and it never ever crashes.

When SETI@home crashes, BOINCManager always gets it running again, and
my workunits do get completed.

I haven't a clue how to interpret all these crash logs I've gotten, but
they all look quite similar. Does anyone know who handles the Mac
programming at S@h? I'd like to see if we can get this issue resolved.

Can you please post some of the <stderr> outputs from the aborted WUs. You
can see the stderr log via the SETI Web Sitte / Your Account / Computers
on this account / select Results (from the affected system) /
  Result ID.

It would appear that, with one exception, my crashed workunits are able to
restart and complete without producing anything useful in stderr. Here is
the one exception:

<http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=357584163>

I am currently detached from S@h on the Intel iMac, but I was getting
crash logs on every workunit. If someone out there wants to see what one
of those looks like, I'm sure I could reattach and generate one in no time
flat. ;-)

Just an idea here, do you have the setting in Boinc, on the webpage,
to "Leave applications in memory while preempted? 
(suspended applications will consume swap space if 'yes')"
I have the setting set to 'yes' and my units stopped having issues
when they got pre-empted.
I am a Windows guy ONLY, so I am not even sure this is an option on
your settings, but it is on Windows machines.