Hi

it's my first post so, nice to meet you people. I've been running BOINC few months and I'm happy to contribute with my humble laptop to your goals.

Just one question. I've noticed that, just when windows is doing nothing, BOINC starts to you know, make his job. But, even when I'm doing something like enter in Internet or whatever, I've idle resources that I wish BOINC take advantage. I'm not sure if it's possible.

Scenario: were are playing a game which takes a 80% of cpu but we have 20% free. Can I setup BOINC to take a little 5% even in this circumstances? Or BOINC just do his job when Windows is completely in pause?

Apologies for my english!

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In your online computing preferences, uncheck Suspend when computer is in use.
If using the local preferences (Options->Computing preferences) set it up there.

Best keep the GPU to only do work when the computer is not in use, as else this may interfere with the screen refresh (check Suspend GPU computing when computer is in use in either place).

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Thanks!

Let me ask some more question. Why with the package comes the Vbox ? I mean, it seems the Boinc Manager just run in the host, not in a vm of Vbox so, why install vbox?

I think will be cool to, have a windows vbox machine and then, inside it, install the boinc manager instead of running boinc in your physical machine, dont you think?

Vbox is needed for some projects.
If you aren't running any projects that need it then either don't install it, or if you have installed it you can safely uninstall it.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Also, as you can see on https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php, there is a version with the VBox installer included and one without. As said, if you do not run projects with VirtualBox, there's no need to download and install it with BOINC.

I think will be cool to, have a windows vbox machine and then, inside it, install the boinc manager instead of running boinc in your physical machine, dont you think?

It is possible to do that.
It's possible to make different VMs with different versions of Linux and run BOINC in all of them. No need to stare yourself blind on Windows only. VBOx allows for the running of multiple VMs at the same time.

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Hi

thanks for your replies. I understand that Vbox is not mandatory but I always prefer to virtualize this kind of task. At least you can isolate some problems, well, I'm pretty comfortable doing that so recently I installed virtual machine and I'm runnig Boinc 64 bits.

Now problem is I've setup SETI home project and I don't know the reason but is unable to download the tasks o process them.

I've added another one just for test (rosetta) and works fine.

Boinc tells me "There is no work available to process" (translated from spanish). Then it says "process suspended".

I've tried to remove it, added againt, no success.

Do you have any idea of how to fix it?

Thanks!

For the past 18 hours or so, the project was down. Looking at the server status page (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_status.html) things seem to be coming back up now.

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Ouch, I have no idea of that. Thanks for pointing me right ;)

Best,

R