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

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