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Message 1906813 - Posted: 13 Dec 2017, 19:06:26 UTC

Just noticed that when using BOINC Manager on my PC it grabs nearly 100% of the CPU cycles. Project WorkUnits will be straved of their CPU cycles.

Is there a recommended alternative?

p.s. Recently updated to Windows Creator Fall Edition. No idea if it is related as I hadn't run task mgr before when BOINC Manager was open.
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Message 1906821 - Posted: 13 Dec 2017, 19:39:04 UTC - in response to Message 1906813.  

Not normal. Never seen either the Client or Manager use more than about 2% cpu resources. Did you accidentally raise the Manager priority level?
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Message 1906822 - Posted: 13 Dec 2017, 19:40:11 UTC - in response to Message 1906813.  

How do you have your preferences set up? Are you doing both CPU and GPU or GPU only?

If you are doing both, then Seti will run on all cores unless you change the preferences.
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Message 1906823 - Posted: 13 Dec 2017, 19:47:38 UTC - in response to Message 1906822.  

I believe he was stating that the Manager was using 100% of resources, NOT any project task.
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Message 1906837 - Posted: 13 Dec 2017, 20:49:22 UTC - in response to Message 1906823.  

I think it's Richard's favorite statement, the BOINC manager doesn't crunch any work, it's the applications that use the resources. I think the OP is confusing the 2
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Message 1906845 - Posted: 13 Dec 2017, 21:21:22 UTC
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Apologies, my mistake, Windows shows BOINC Manager using 100% CPU in Task Manager. However, if you click the little > sign against the BOINC Manager process it opens the sub tasks under BOINC Manager and there are the individual Work Unit tasks burning the CPU as expected. Windows Task Manager got me all confused.
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Message 1906850 - Posted: 13 Dec 2017, 21:30:14 UTC - in response to Message 1906837.  

OK, I was confused. Realized he must be talking about Task Manager in Win10. Never realized there was a difference from Win7.
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Message 1906965 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 6:50:19 UTC - in response to Message 1906845.  

Apologies, my mistake, Windows shows BOINC Manager using 100% CPU in Task Manager. However, if you click the little > sign against the BOINC Manager process it opens the sub tasks under BOINC Manager and there are the individual Work Unit tasks burning the CPU as expected. Windows Task Manager got me all confused.

Mine doesn't.
BOINC Client & BOINC Manager for Windows & BOINC System Tray for Windows all have their own lines. The crunching applications (MB_win_x etc) each have their own line further down (list is sorted by Name).

Have you got the Fall Creators Update?
When they added on the GPU reporting they might have made some changes to how the CPU processes are arranged.
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Message 1906966 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 6:58:13 UTC - in response to Message 1906965.  

Apologies, my mistake, Windows shows BOINC Manager using 100% CPU in Task Manager. However, if you click the little > sign against the BOINC Manager process it opens the sub tasks under BOINC Manager and there are the individual Work Unit tasks burning the CPU as expected. Windows Task Manager got me all confused.

Mine doesn't.
BOINC Client & BOINC Manager for Windows & BOINC System Tray for Windows all have their own lines. The crunching applications (MB_win_x etc) each have their own line further down (list is sorted by Name).

Have you got the Fall Creators Update?
When they added on the GPU reporting they might have made some changes to how the CPU processes are arranged.


Yes, just recently installed the Fall Creators Update. I now have GPU reporting and I think that the ">" sign must be new as well as I haven't used it before.

Made me jump when I saw BOINC Manager at 100% CPU! But it is explained by the sub-task grouping in Windows Task Manager.
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Message 1907082 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 22:54:17 UTC - in response to Message 1906966.  

Apologies, my mistake, Windows shows BOINC Manager using 100% CPU in Task Manager. However, if you click the little > sign against the BOINC Manager process it opens the sub tasks under BOINC Manager and there are the individual Work Unit tasks burning the CPU as expected. Windows Task Manager got me all confused.

Mine doesn't.
BOINC Client & BOINC Manager for Windows & BOINC System Tray for Windows all have their own lines. The crunching applications (MB_win_x etc) each have their own line further down (list is sorted by Name).

Have you got the Fall Creators Update?
When they added on the GPU reporting they might have made some changes to how the CPU processes are arranged.


Yes, just recently installed the Fall Creators Update. I now have GPU reporting and I think that the ">" sign must be new as well as I haven't used it before.

Made me jump when I saw BOINC Manager at 100% CPU! But it is explained by the sub-task grouping in Windows Task Manager.


I have Fall Creators and my Task Manager is the same as yours. This is one of the reasons I no longer use the Processes tab (which used to be the main place for information in past versions of Task Manager); I now use the Details tab which gives much of the same information as the old Processes tab in previous versions of Windows.
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Message 1907098 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 23:28:24 UTC - in response to Message 1906965.  

OK, I just looked at the Task Manager again. It is different now than when I looked at it for my original post reply. It now looks like I alway remember it before the FCU. Don't know what changed or what conditions are necessary to hide the sub processes under the Boinc Manager and needing to expand the carat to see the tasks.
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Message 1907183 - Posted: 15 Dec 2017, 4:38:47 UTC

Personally I find the Processes tab in the Win 10 task manager as useful as the Notices tab in BOINC manager.
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Message 1907184 - Posted: 15 Dec 2017, 4:42:03 UTC - in response to Message 1907183.  

Personally I find the Processes tab in the Win 10 task manager as useful as the Notices tab in BOINC manager.

It comes with the OS & can be useful, but I personally use Process Explorer when trying to figure out what's going on.
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