FCP 'autosaving' project while Compressor rendering?

A 90 minute docu. Thirty hours of rendering. I just noticed FCP 'autosaving' the project file. Which took a long few minutes. Now Compressor is going again ... but there seems to be no diminishment of the 'remaining time' in the History window. I can't tell whether Compressor is stalled or not. I can hear the computer occasionally working.
Could the FCP 'autosaving' have frozen Compressor somehow? Though there is no spinning beach ball. I realise I should have turned off the 'autosave' function in FCP ... but never have before, and never had Compressor SEEM to stop before.
How can I know if the render has somehow come off the rails. Ooops!
Just 'hid' FCP to see if I could find the little indicator that Compressor was rendering. And when I tired to move the Compressor history window aside ... the Apple Cinema screen just went black. And I can't seem to refresh it or bring it back.
Help!
Ben

Thank you Alberto,
To my surprise ... the reason FCP was autosaving was because Compressor had actually finished the render ... even though it was still saying there were fifteen hours to go. Go figure. I'm not sure why the screens went blank. But with a reboot I went to look at the folder where the master was to be exported ... and there is was, complete and pristine. Mmmm. Wonder why Compressor was showing fifteen hours to go ... perhaps it was thinking it was compressing video and instead was doing the Dolby sound, which went through so fast ... mmm, that doesn't sound right either. A mystery.
Ben

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