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Windows SMP stops when wifi drops?

Sgraffite

Sgraffite

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I just noticed today on my laptop, that if I lose connectivity (manually or accidentally) to the wireless router, all of my Windows SMP processes instantly vanish. There is no error message given, and the console still appears to be crunching away, but in actuality nothing is happening.

Logically this makes no sense to me. I would think connectivity wouldn't matter until an attempt to submit the results is made. I've had this problem for a while, but I never knew the cause of it until now (at least I think it is the cause, it is repeatable). Has anyone else noticed/heard about this, or can anyone else confirm this?

 
The SMP process uses the connection to communicate somehow (never bothered to try and figure it out, but it's probably explained at the official forums). My Mac Mini does the same thing, really sucks and the only fix appears to be to restart the client.
 
Yes, it use the network to communicate between the 4 threads. When the wifi connection drop, it will drop the threads and stall as this also happened on my few T7200 laptops too.

Just reboot the laptop, make sure the connection is ok then restart the client.

 
Well thanks for the quick responses guys. I guess I'll just use wired when I can and keep an eye on it when I can't.
 
Sgraffite said:
Well thanks for the quick responses guys. I guess I'll just use wired when I can and keep an eye on it when I can't.
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Even wired networks has the same limitations as if the network get dropped (switch hiccup, dns server assigning a new ip or other woes), the client would stop as well... It's the beta nature of the client so you must accept this fact.

I heard the team is rewriting the SMP client almost from scratch for the Windows environment (and maybe Linux, not sure) to reduce the dependency on a network connection or to make it less sensitive to drops.

 
Xilikon said:
I heard the team is rewriting the SMP client almost from scratch for the Windows environment (and maybe Linux, not sure)
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Hmm, does this mean we'll have another beta and more bonus points?

 
aldamon said:
Hmm, does this mean we'll have another beta and more bonus points?

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I don't know nothing more than the rewrite... I hope there are more bonus points but I think we will not get more than currently until v6, with the revamped points system.
 
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