E@H continues to use CPU time when paused (Mac)
27 Jun 2005 21:40:14 UTC
Topic 189429
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I have an overly-fancy Power Mac G5 Dual Processor comp running four projects under BOINC (v4.19); for reasons of my own, BOINC is set to "leave projects in memory" and "use only one CPU".
My problem is this: when E@H gets cycled out by the scheduler, it reports the fact to the logfile (as it's supposed to), but Activity Monitor says it continues to suck up CPU time, rather than going idle. I don't know whether it's actually doing any computation, or if it's just going through a "am I active? no? I need to ask again" loop.
What's going on here?
E@H continues to use CPU time when paused (Mac)
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No one seems to know yet. The newest Beta test for Macs still does it (v4.44 for BOINC and 0.02 for Einstein). There have been several threads in the forum about this problem, but so far, the project apparently has higher priority tasks. I suspended E@H for about 4 months or so, hoping they'd get it fixed in the BETA version...but they haven't. They are aware of the problem, though. I'm currently away from home so I can't suspend again, and my computer is continuing to run both SETI and E@H, with SETI pausing gracefully when it's supposed to, and E@H not. I have no peblem at all with SETI and CPDN taking turns as they should, but when I swap e@H in either in place of one of the others, or in additon to them, it refuses to play nice.
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