Can you get Boinc to launch as a nice process under Leopard(10.5)?

Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Can you get Boinc to launch as a nice process under Leopard(10.5)?

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brianNYJets Send message Joined: 19 Sep 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 46,438 RAC: 0	Message 693881 - Posted: 23 Dec 2007, 4:06:14 UTC
	Under OS X 10.4 Boinc would automatically launch with a nice CPU priority. TTBOMK it no longer does this under 10.5(leopard). I understand that I can set Boinc to use a maximum percentage of the CPU, but feel that running as a low priority nice process would work better than this for all reasons. Is there anyway to make Boinc nice again?
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Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0	Message 693897 - Posted: 23 Dec 2007, 8:17:31 UTC - in response to Message 693881.
	Is there anyway to make Boinc nice again? I'm using Panther and the boinc app doesn't run 'nice'... However, the science app runs at 'nice 19'... Boinc and Boinc Manager usually just sit idle most of the time... Is this not so in Leopard? ;) ____________ It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .
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Thanar Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 42 Credit: 658,984 RAC: 0	Message 699782 - Posted: 13 Jan 2008, 17:18:43 UTC
	Indeed, on my iBook running 10.4.9 all seti clients render as Nice processes (according to Activity Monitor). On the other hand, on my MacBook running 10.5.1 SETI renders as a User process. Something smells bad here, although I am not sure if it's the client or BOINC manager. That said, I've been experiencing unresponsiveness from BOINC manager every time a WU finishes, or almost every time there is some BOINC-related network activity... ____________
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Admiral Darkk Send message Joined: 25 Dec 99 Posts: 1 Credit: 452,011 RAC: 0	Message 715146 - Posted: 19 Feb 2008, 5:43:01 UTC
	Yes, I have the same problem with 10.5.2 (and also had it on 10.5.1 and 10.5.0). The processes that BOINC launched are indeed no longer "nice".
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Questions and Answers : Macintosh : Can you get Boinc to launch as a nice process under Leopard(10.5)?