Boinc/Seti ignoring CPU usage limit

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Message 705457 - Posted: 29 Jan 2008, 4:54:28 UTC

Hi All,

I'm new to seti and boinc. I have donated 3 of my computer's CPU time for seti and I will add a 4th if I can get help with this.

I am having trouble with one of my systems, OS=FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE

Regardless of the CPU usage limit set, cpu hammers along at 100%

Firstly, this is the output of boinc:
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[seti@networkservices ~]$ boinc_client
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.4.9 for i386-unknown-freebsd
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [---] libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.3
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [---] Data directory: /usr/home/seti
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [SETI@home] Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [---] Processor: 1 i386 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [---] Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 0 bytes virtual
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [---] Disk: 64.46 GB total, 34.77 GB free
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [SETI@home] URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 4181989; location: home; project prefs: default
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [---] General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 2008-01-29 15:34:20)
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [---] General prefs: using separate prefs for home
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [---] Local control only allowed
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [---] Listening on port 31416
2008-01-29 15:46:46 [SETI@home] Resuming task 27dc06ae.17478.6207.15.6.210_1 using setiathome_enhanced version 521

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[seti@networkservices ~]$ cat global_prefs.xml |grep cpu_usage
<cpu_usage_limit>70</cpu_usage_limit>
<cpu_usage_limit>70</cpu_usage_limit>

Info on the process:
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PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
25839 seti 2 20 19 69148K 43716K ksesig 0:30 98.19% setiathome-5.15.i38

Any ideas what the problem is?
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Message 705494 - Posted: 29 Jan 2008, 8:22:02 UTC

The BOINC client 5.4.9 did not support CPU throtteling. The CPU throtteling is supported since 5.8.x. Please upgrade to 5.8.15 or newer.
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