Hey guys!

Just want to report some troubles with the boinc client mentioned in the header. My MacBookPro fan's ran up to 5500 rpm after installation of Mountain lion (Fresh setup) and installing latest version of client. (.31) The temperature rose up to 90 degree Celsius. I contacted Apple Support and we found out, that if boinc is shut, the temp. drops and fans run slow as expected and as ever. It is not sufficient to pause the client. It must be closed to bring temp of Mac down. I then found an .28 version and installed it. And as expected (because it was the version before installing ML) everything was fine. Until today, when my CPU temp grew up to 93 degree celsius. I stopped boinc and the temp. is now at normal level.

i am using boinc client since 2001 but never had such problems.

Can anyone confirm these issues as well?

And (much better) does anyone can explain this behavior and provide a solution? If not, I can't run boinc anymore because of damage of my machine. This would be a mess.

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Which project was running and with what kind of application?
Which year is your MacBook Pro from, or else what kind of CPU is in it?
Is it possible that a (built in) GPU caused the heat up?

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Hi,

my MBP is a 17" i7, April 2011, 8 GB RAM, SSD.

I didn't enable GPU processing when machine is in use. So I can exclude GPU causing the heat up.

I am participating in SETI, Einstein@home, Milkyway, Cosmology and LHC T4T (not running; I got 1 WU finished, then client didn't work anymore.)

Settings so far: Use 90% of CPU (to get almost 7 to 8 cores processing) but use only 19% Processor time. With Lion, this kept the temp low and fans quiet.

What do you mean with application?

Cheers,
Rick

What do you mean with application?

E.g. on SETI you see:

Run only the selected applications
SETI@home Enhanced: yes
Astropulse v505: no
SETI@home v7: no
AstroPulse v6: yes

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=project


You may also tell which is the actual process running, e.g.:
setiathome_6.05_i686-apple-darwin
astropulse_6.02_i686-apple-darwin

Mac Activity Monitor:
http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/mac-os-x/mac-os-x-activity-monitor

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