I have installed boinc with the seti program. As soon as I boot up my computer, there are four instances of setiathome_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe running, that are maxing out my processor.

I've had to uninstall it for now, as obviously this is unacceptable.

Can anyone offer advice? I'd like to take part in this program, but cannot have my machine taken over by the thing.

Jeff

As soon as I boot up my computer, there are four instances of setiathome_6.03_windows_intelx86.exe running, that are maxing out my processor.

BOINC is designed to do exactly that!

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

Not only is BOINC designed to do exactly that, you'll also notice that these tasks run at a very low priority, so that any other task that's needing CPU, will get it.

BOINC can be set to use less than that amount of CPU cores. In the general computing preferences, or the local advanced preferences, use the "On multiprocessors, use at most X% of the processors" for that. The local advanced preferences override the web-preferences.

But even then, as long as you've done regular maintenance on your system, cleaned out the dust-bunnies regularly, then BOINC can easily do this. Added to that, by default BOINC will be suspended for as long as the user is active. It will only run when the user is idle. Only when you change that preference, will it run always, even immediately at Windows boot-up.

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