Hi,

I wanted to take part and installed Boinc, uptodate version yesterday.

My system:

Athlon64 3500+
2 GB DDR2 Ram
250GB STA2 HDD
Win XP Home SP3

I set it to start when the system is idle for 5 minutes.
Seems to work...
The screensaver starts after 7 minutes, too.

The problem is, when I start using my PC again (after the screensaver)CPU time is not given back.
The CPU stays at 100% with minirosetta_1.3 as a child of Boinc.

The only option to end this is to kill the process or the process tree.

Any help would e appreciated.

Thanks
/noodles

What BOINC version are you running?

Have you tried running without BOINC as your screensaver?

Any time you do not run while computer is in use, you want to be sure you also set it to leave tasks in memory when suspended. Perhaps you've already done this.

BOINC runs at the lowest priority possible. So if it is getting 100% of the CPU, it means your CPU has absolutely nothing else to do. Most machines can run BOINC all the time without noticible impact to using the computer. Especially when plenty of memory is available, as with your machine.

I agree with you that it doesn't sound like it is running properly. It should stop using CPU when your computer is in use. I don't know why that is happening. Hopefully a current BOINC version will address that issue. But the other settings will help you put more of your idle time to good use.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Thanks for your answer.

What BOINC version are you running?

6.2.19

Have you tried running without BOINC as your screensaver?

Yes, without using the scr it is better but does not work reliable.
Sometimes when I move the mouse or use the keyboard the minirosetta process stops using the CPU sometimes it does not and I have to kill the process because it is consuming 100%.

Furthermore I configured Boinc not to use more than 60% of the processor time but my fans are running on full power - quite noisy after a while.

BOINC runs at the lowest priority possible. So if it is getting 100% of the CPU, it means your CPU has absolutely nothing else to do. Most machines can run BOINC all the time without noticible impact to using the computer. Especially when plenty of memory is available, as with your machine.

This does work better when I allow computing while PC is in use but I prefer to run Boinc when my computer is idle.

Thanks

Regards
/noodles

Hi,

something to add:
I switched to default settings to see wheter it would be better but same problem.

It seems to work but after a while it does not react to any commands.
I can open Boinc manager and change settings but minirosetta does not work anymore.

I first realized that because the progress of my assigned tasks does not go on although minirosetta consumes CPU time.

When I look at the processes I can see that Boinc.exe has three minirosetta child processes.
When I kill these and restart Boinc it starts working normally again.

So it does not matter which settings I try it doesn't run stable on my system.
It seems I have to remove it from my PC.

Perhaps i'll give it a try later.

Thanks for your time.

Regards
/noodles

So it is not honoring your 60% CPU preference either? I guess it would be hard to know just based on fan noise, and once you use your computer to check, then it is supposed to suspend. So I guess one way to check would be to set it even lower, say 30%, just to see if you can hear a difference on the fan.

BOINC and Rosetta have both been very stable on XP. I'm wondering if something might be confused in your configuration. Are you running it as a service? Do you use multiple user IDs on that machine? Or did you try to "sandbox" BOINC to run under another user ID?

The only other things I can suggest would be to try reinstalling BOINC and reattaching to Rosetta, and to search/post about the problem on the BOINC message boards.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

I'm having the same problem with XP, but what keeps on running is not Rosetta, rather it is mini rosetta and I am running 1.40 version of it, which is the latest.
Any help in how to fix this problem will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
- Yusuf

I have a similar problem with mini rosetta 1.40. Even if I manually put the BOINC on hold/pause, rosetta(s) are still running and using 25% of my processor(Q6600) per process. I am using Vista x64. Could someone please help me with this? It's quite annoying as I have to kill those processes via task manager if I want to use all of my processing power for something else for a while...

I also just started having this problem today. I have tried Boinc 6.2.19 and 6.4.1 and I am running Vista x64.

Using default settings for the last few months, If I move my mouse, the process suspends. Under the message tab you see "Suspending Computation - user is active"
Now though, My CPU load stays at 100% unless I physically close BIONC Manager. Has there been some sort of change I am not aware of? This seems a very odd thing to just happen out of nowhere.

Thank you.

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same issue here. it dosnt hog up 100% of my CPU, but it almost maxes out 2/4 cores and the other two sit at roughly 40%

System Specs:

Intel Q9300 @ 3.39GHz
8gb [4x2gb] G.SKILL DDR2 ram
ASUS Maximus Formula x38 chipset MB [socket 775]
ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
Vista Home Premium x64



never had any issues with this application until recently, and it happened on my desktop and my lappy at roughly the same time, so methinks it's something server related as the two are totally different systems