Even though I have told the BOINC manager to run based on my preferences, and not checked the preference box that allows Boinc projects to keep running while the computer is in use, it appears that the Boinc manager is not always honoring this setting. Running Boinc on a SuSE 11.2 Linux system, and top will show me that BOINC projects are active, while I am using the computer. Why? This is NOT polite and it makes my system sluggish in responding to my commands....

Marc...

P.S. Apparently no version info to pass along about the BOINC manager I am using....

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Marc Chamberlin

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Apparently no version info to pass along about the BOINC manager I am using....

Sure there is: BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Help->About BOINC Manager.

As for the preferences, I assume you used the local preferences?
Try to clear them (BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Advanced->Preferences->Clear; or in the 6.12 versions BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Tools->Computing preferences->Clear) and set them again; or when you're using the preferences from a project web site, make sure you aren't running the local preferences as these will override the web-based preferences. In that case, clear the local preferences and don't set them again.

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That's odd, I looked under Help again for the About Boinc menu and it was not there. But I restarted the Boinc manager and there it was! Must be gremlins in my puter! Anywise version is 6.4.5

As for the preferences, yes I am referring to the local preferences menu, not the web based ones. I followed your suggestion and cleared/reset the preferences so that Boinc processes won't run while I am using the computer. It appears that Boinc will honor those setting immediately after I updated those preferences, but if I go away for awhile, then come back to using my computer, Boinc does not appear to notice that I am again using the computer. TOP will report that the Boinc processes are still running. But if I relaunch, or reopen the Boinc manager and again update the preferences, then it honors the settings and shuts off the Boinc processes.

So it appears that once Boinc starts running processes again, it no longer notices things like mouse and window activities going on elsewhere. If this was operating correctly, then asking TOP to report what processes are running and what CPU percentages are in use, should NEVER show me Boinc processes, since the very act to opening up a shell window and running TOP means I am again active on the computer! And because of my preferences settings, Boinc should therefore be suspending it's activities and not allowing them to continue.

I don't expect an immediate suspension to occur, once I am active again, either. Shortly after I am active though, it should reach a point where it is safe to suspend and do so.. But as I said earlier, these processes keep running until I open the Boinc manager again and reset the preferences... And I have experimented doing all kinds of activities like reading mail and browsing the web, running other programs etc... Boinc simply doesn't notice...

Marc...

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Marc Chamberlin

Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc.
His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications.
To boldly go where no Marc has gone before!

BOINC idle detection has been very difficult to get it working right under Linux. It won't be there in 6.4.5; that version is ancient at best (December 2008).

If you can stand the wait, wait for BOINC 6.12 to be released as that one will have the idle detection working. We're at present testing these versions, there's bugs in them still, so please don't upgrade to any of the latest 6.12 beta versions yet.

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