I just built a system asus p5b deluxe , with a intel c2d I started running seti because of the short work units while tweaking bios ,,,,I never noticed in task manager any dips in the 100 percent both cores untill tonight I thought it was a fluke because I had added rosetta , But , I ended up erasing boinc totally and reloaded with rostta only while watching the graphics the anamation stops at the same time as the task mgr dips the dips seam to go almost to zero roughly every 22 seconds there is very little on this computer and turning off pctools spyware doctor and Kaspersky 6.0 internet suite have no effect stumped big time!!!

Did you happen to define the % of CPU that BOINC should use to be something less then 100%? This is in your General Preferences (see the [participants] link at the top of this forum page).

BOINC runs at the lowest priority allowed by your machine, so it should always try to run other tasks first. But, this setting basically gives you a way to tell BOINC that you want it to pause once and a while. Sometimes people do this to control heat/cooling fan levels.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Did you happen to define the % of CPU that BOINC should use to be something less then 100%? This is in your General Preferences (see the [participants] link at the top of this forum page).

BOINC runs at the lowest priority allowed by your machine, so it should always try to run other tasks first. But, this setting basically gives you a way to tell BOINC that you want it to pause once and a while. Sometimes people do this to control heat/cooling fan levels.

my bad !! this was the first time that I had used anything but 100% I thought it would increase my overall idle time by a few % but it literally cuts out the % from your prefs literally it stops

Did you happen to define the % of CPU that BOINC should use to be something less then 100%? This is in your General Preferences (see the [participants] link at the top of this forum page).

BOINC runs at the lowest priority allowed by your machine, so it should always try to run other tasks first. But, this setting basically gives you a way to tell BOINC that you want it to pause once and a while. Sometimes people do this to control heat/cooling fan levels.

you are correct it affected seti as well but I can not get Rosetta to update and see the new prefs I reinstalled the rosetta url as well

It is a BOINC setting, not specific to SETI or Rosetta or other projects. If your machine runs at say 90%, that will be true for all projects.

It does increase your idle %, but it achieves this by "cutting out" periodically. There's no good way to make a Windows program (or Linux, or Mac) run at 90% (or any other %), so they just halt the running application for 1 second periodically to achieve the overall percentage you defined. If you set to 90% for example, it halts for 1 second, then runs for 9 seconds. You saw it halt about every 20 seconds, so I suspect you had it set to us 95% of CPU.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

It is a BOINC setting, not specific to SETI or Rosetta or other projects. If your machine runs at say 90%, that will be true for all projects.

It does increase your idle %, but it achieves this by "cutting out" periodically. There's no good way to make a Windows program (or Linux, or Mac) run at 90% (or any other %), so they just halt the running application for 1 second periodically to achieve the overall percentage you defined. If you set to 90% for example, it halts for 1 second, then runs for 9 seconds. You saw it halt about every 20 seconds, so I suspect you had it set to us 95% of CPU.

you are correct I just got a referance site to respond but it says project servers may be down so my prefs will not change is this something on my end because the servers were all on line last night