I recently changed from SETIathome Classic to BOINC. I now notice that not much progress is made between the time I step away from the computer and when I come back, say during a work day or overnight. Will BOINC defer to other background programs such as GOOGLE desktop? Is that why it seems to suspend itself? What can I do about it?

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I recently changed from SETIathome Classic to BOINC. I now notice that not much progress is made between the time I step away from the computer and when I come back, say during a work day or overnight. Will BOINC defer to other background programs such as GOOGLE desktop? Is that why it seems to suspend itself? What can I do about it?

There are a few possibilities. A work unit takes on average pc's about 4 hours. Faster and slower machines may shorten/extend the time to under an hour to 8 hours or more.

When your pc is idle, and when you come back and then open the boinc screen, it takes a few seconds to refresh the status.

The time it takes for your PC to crunch a single unit looks a little long to me seen your processor. A 2.6 GHZ machine can do it in less (my sempron 2600 takes 3,5 to 4 hours on average). So i suspect there is a program running on the background that takes processor capacity.

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I recently changed from SETIathome Classic to BOINC. I now notice that not much progress is made between the time I step away from the computer and when I come back, say during a work day or overnight. Will BOINC defer to other background programs such as GOOGLE desktop? Is that why it seems to suspend itself? What can I do about it?

you can open the "Taskmanager", and look at the "processes" tab to see where your CPU cycles are going.

tony

There are still issues with running OpenGL 3D screensavers at the same time as running BOINC I believe, could it be that?

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Raithmir's SPARC64/UltraSPARC Linux Builds
http://www.kulthea.net/boinc/

Do you allow the screensaver to run continuously?

I recently changed from SETIathome Classic to BOINC. I now notice that not much progress is made between the time I step away from the computer and when I come back, say during a work day or overnight. Will BOINC defer to other background programs such as GOOGLE desktop? Is that why it seems to suspend itself? What can I do about it?

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You may want to go through all your preferences - to run all the time, no limited hours, etc.

I personally turn off the screen saver and graphics, as I always used the command line version of setiathome...

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