Process no longer running as "nice".

Robert Mark
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After upgrading to Mac OS 10.5.2 and 5.10.45, the processes are no longer running as "nice". How do I restore this?

Jim Milks
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Process no longer running as "nice".

We need more information. I'm not sure what you mean by "nice." Is BOINC slower now? Or does BOINC crash? What is your Mac? A G5? What versions of OS X and BOINC software were you running before the upgrade? Finally, do you have an anti-virus program? If so, what type of anti-virus do you have? The reason I ask is I've recently encountered problems with McAfee VirusScan on non-Intel Macs.

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RE: After upgrading to Mac

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After upgrading to Mac OS 10.5.2 and 5.10.45, the processes are no longer running as "nice". How do I restore this?


This has also been reported in the SETI@home Mac Q&A forum. I guess it’s something the BOINC developers will have to address in a future version.

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RE: RE: After upgrading

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After upgrading to Mac OS 10.5.2 and 5.10.45, the processes are no longer running as "nice". How do I restore this?

This has also been reported in the SETI@home Mac Q&A forum. I guess it’s something the BOINC developers will have to address in a future version.

From what I've read in the quoted forum, it's not a BOINC bug but actually a bug in the Leopard kernel. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=44823&nowrap=true#708137

And the processes are still running in max nice mode, but the bug in the Leopard kernel causes several tools to report the wrong "niceness" for the science apps.

The bug has been reported to Apple and should be fixed...some day. :-)

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Elphidieus
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Even after 10.5.6, there's no

Even after 10.5.6, there's no fix in sight...

It's even worse with Snow Leopard, Activity Monitor doesn't even show the percentage of "niceness".

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