I've searched for a solution but have found nothing related, at least not in the past 3 years.

After approximately 10 minutes all processing stops unless the keyboard or mouse is being used. If the machine is not being used then the CPU use goes from 100% to 0% until you bump the mouse or push a key on the keyboard. BOINC manager stays running the whole time.

Any ideas on how to fix or trouble shoot this would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Scott

System info:

Mac OS X version 10.5.4
2 x 3GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8 procs)
4 Gigs RAM

BOINC version 6.2.15

Check your global_prefs.xml (has loaded in website prefs) or global_prefs_override.xml (local prefs) for the value:
<suspend_if_no_recent_input>0.0</suspend_if_no_recent_input>

This is the setting that unless zero will stop processing after an X amount of time.

Of course, could also be that Mac itself has some sort of power saving kicking in.

Thanks. I searched for both of those files and didn't find either. I went in and "cleared" the setting for CPU, Network, and Memory. Don't know if it fixed the issue yet.

Scott

Check your global_prefs.xml (has loaded in website prefs) or global_prefs_override.xml (local prefs) for the value:
<suspend_if_no_recent_input>0.0</suspend_if_no_recent_input>

This is the setting that unless zero will stop processing after an X amount of time.

Of course, could also be that Mac itself has some sort of power saving kicking in.

Thanks. I searched for both of those files and didn't find either. I went in and "cleared" the setting for CPU, Network, and Memory. Don't know if it fixed the issue yet.

Scott

I just checked and the Mac was idle, so the problem is still there! I have checked all the power settings and they are set to Never. Still searching for the issue.