Thread 'Boinc Yeilding Processor Process to Firefox 3.0.1'

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Jacob Send message Joined: 6 Aug 08 Posts: 5	Message 19255 - Posted: 6 Aug 2008, 20:19:59 UTC Hello ~ Since upgrading to Firefox 3.0.1, I've noticed Firefox to be tremendously slow to load pages. After watching this for a while, I've noticed in Task Manager that boinc.exe does not yield processor time to Firefox, when I request a new page. When I exit boinc.exe Firefox is fine. Can you suggest a way to resolve this - without terminating BOINC? ID: 19255 ·

Jacob Send message Joined: 6 Aug 08 Posts: 5	Message 19258 - Posted: 6 Aug 2008, 20:32:49 UTC - in response to Message 19256. Boinc.exe taking time? It's barely uses any cycles. - Well, when it can, boinc.exe uses ALL available processor capacity. How's the speed of navigating around in BOINCmgr.exe? - BOINCmgr.exe runs just fine and seems brisk. - I thought it might also make sense to upgrade to BOINC 5.10.45 (from 5.4.11). ID: 19258 ·

Jacob Send message Joined: 6 Aug 08 Posts: 5	Message 19259 - Posted: 6 Aug 2008, 20:34:45 UTC - in response to Message 19256. Boinc.exe taking time? It's barely uses any cycles. How's the speed of navigating around in BOINCmgr.exe? >>[quote]Boinc.exe taking time? It's barely uses any cycles. Well, when it can, boinc.exe uses ALL available processor capacity. ID: 19259 ·

Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 20 Dec 07 Posts: 1069	Message 19261 - Posted: 6 Aug 2008, 21:10:32 UTC - in response to Message 19259. Boinc.exe taking time? It's barely uses any cycles. How's the speed of navigating around in BOINCmgr.exe? Well, when it can, boinc.exe uses ALL available processor capacity. Yes, it can, but it doesn't (shouldn't). It only does housekeeping tasks every few seconds. ID: 19261 ·

Jacob Send message Joined: 6 Aug 08 Posts: 5	Message 19262 - Posted: 6 Aug 2008, 21:22:24 UTC - in response to Message 19261. Last modified: 6 Aug 2008, 21:23:28 UTC Boinc.exe taking time? It's barely uses any cycles. How's the speed of navigating around in BOINCmgr.exe? Well, when it can, boinc.exe uses ALL available processor capacity. Yes, it can, but it doesn't (shouldn't). It only does housekeeping tasks every few seconds. My apologies. Looking more closely, I see it is 'rosetta_beta_5.' that is using all available processor capacity and not yielding. ID: 19262 ·

Jacob Send message Joined: 6 Aug 08 Posts: 5	Message 19263 - Posted: 6 Aug 2008, 22:37:18 UTC OK. I'll move this inquiry to Rosetta@home. ID: 19263 ·

John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 147	Message 19267 - Posted: 7 Aug 2008, 0:51:45 UTC - in response to Message 19262. Boinc.exe taking time? It's barely uses any cycles. How's the speed of navigating around in BOINCmgr.exe? Well, when it can, boinc.exe uses ALL available processor capacity. Yes, it can, but it doesn't (shouldn't). It only does housekeeping tasks every few seconds. My apologies. Looking more closely, I see it is 'rosetta_beta_5.' that is using all available processor capacity and not yielding. BOINC sets the priority for its tasks very low (just barely above idle). Some programmers think that they can do a better job of CPU management than the operating system and stop if the system is not completely idle, but they forget that there are such things as long term low priority tasks. If this is true, it is a FireFox bug, not a BOINC bug. BOINC WIKI ID: 19267 ·

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