A little question for you before I get to bed.

I received the PPS Sieve Jade badge on PrimeGrid today (10,000,000 credits).

This by means of using the GPU (or in this instance the GTX 680 4GB graphics card).

Only one such card installed, it better should have been both as it previously was, but I pulled the second card for a Sound Blaster sound card instead.

As you may know, I had to change or possibly reset the settings in the Boinc Manager Preferences a little while ago.

Using Boinc Manager 7.4.42, I run the tasks based on 3 minutes inactive, 100 % (when 0 means no limitation), each day between 00:00 and 00:00, switch between applications every 60 minutes, on multiprocessor systems use 100%,
and use or utilize at most 100,00 % of CPU time (0 means no restriction).

Anyway, batteries are unticked, when computer is used is ticked (I never have changed that one) and use CUDA is either ticked or unticked, depending on whether I want any tasks that are in my task list to be running, or if not so, preventing any new such tasks being run should they be downloaded.

In any instance, these tasks are supposed to be running by low priority by means of the Manager.

But I happen to to some factorization tasks as well. These tasks are supposed to be using the CPU only.

If processing from non-BOINC related tasks exceeds 50 % processor usage, tasks running in BOINC Manager are becoming suspended, or at least waiting to run.

Why am I not seeing the 50 % processor usage in the settings anymore?

Also, if I should run a Seti@home GPU (CUDA) task, I am of course supposed to be experiencing a corresponding screen lag.

But is a CUDA task supposed to become suspended or waiting to run only because the CPU on its own may be using more than perhaps 50 % of the total resources available for tasks that are not related to BOINC?

Right now I do not find any answer to this question.

Thanks for answers!

First, I would set your screensaver to "none" and leave BOINC as top window, so you can watch it when computer is idle. With your "active" settings, as soon as you move your mouse your computer is active, and will shutdown SETI, so every time you go to look, it will be "waiting to run".

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I lost my factorization tasks when starting up today because it hung up.

In fact I do not use a screensaver because I am using the graphics card for computing, meaning PrimeGrid PPS Sieve at the moment. Possibly I will return back to running Seti@home CUDA tasks later on.

Also I have only the icon for nVidia in my system tray only. Instead I am keeping a tab on the integration of the different environments, including options and possibilities as they are being used when just running Windows.

For now, probably a couple of infections may be affecting performance, but for several reasons I will rather need to get back to this should a more serious problem arise.

Right now a pop-up box is coming up all the time warning me that the CPU temperature is 80,0 centigrade. I have opened up the windows to the outside and also have turned on the cold switch on my heater fan (running at double speed right now).

If this problem does not go away, I will either shut down BOINC Manager or possibly the monitoring application itself.

Having this box popping up all the time becomes a nuisance in the end and at least the rest of the system is running.

Again this running thing happening which became a problem of sorts.

Definitely good for you (or at least the project), but the Seti@home tasks take precedence over the PrimeGrid tasks when it comes to the running.

So, when receiving new tasks either because some tasks become finished, or I manually adjust the running of the different tasks between the two projects (not all the Extended Sierpinski tasks may be running simultaneously, perhaps I choose to change a little which ones are running and which ones are not), the ESP LLR's get "Waiting to Run", while the Seti@home tasks, which at times may come in dozens at a time starts running instead.

This manual intervention as well as those tasks apparently starting up on their own when manually adjusting these things are a little awkward to be dealing with and handle and right now both my keyboard and screen became slow, because I chose to start up a PrimeGrid Genefer World Record task which I got a short time ago.

Edit: The Genefer WR task jumped back to (almost the) start when adjusting the running of the tasks, but right now this task is running. I will try getting 1 % into it before suspending it. In no hurry here.

Really worse than that is when a Seti@home CPU task runs out after 12-14 hours.

Right now a pop-up box is coming up all the time warning me that the CPU temperature is 80,0 centigrade

I would guess that you have set a "rule" in TThrottle that is showing that window. If you have that application, just throttle it back to 75 or 78C.

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Not using TThrottle, but thanks for the reminder.

Possibly having a look at it later on instead.

Suspending the Genefer task right now. 1.75 % completed after some 2 hours 15 minutes.

I really should have kept both graphics cards inside, but the speaker sound is a quite important thing to have as well.

A small pity is that for now I have yet to be installing the software and the drivers for the card. I really should be doing this when first making this choice.