Posts by Bill S

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC error causes Firefox process to chew up CPU cycles (Message 6332)
Posted 5 Nov 2006 by Bill S
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The Firefox issue ONLY seems to happen in association with the BOINC issue. I've left my laptop up for days at a time and have not experienced any problems with Firefox. That's why I think it's strictly an issue that is caused by some start-up sequence of BOINC.

The only Firefox add-on/extensions I have are the defaults, DOM Inspector and Talkback, plus McAfee's SiteAdvisor.

Wonder if, because it takes a little while for my wireless G network to be established, if this is making BOINC upset? My other computers are hardwired Ethernet.
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC error causes Firefox process to chew up CPU cycles (Message 6326)
Posted 5 Nov 2006 by Bill S
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Done.
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC error causes Firefox process to chew up CPU cycles (Message 6324)
Posted 4 Nov 2006 by Bill S
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I've got BOINC Manager 5.4.11 running on three Windows XP systems. I only have this problem on my laptop. After booting, I'll open the BOINC manager. It will correctly display the status of running tasks. Then, after a short time (less than a minute?) the tasks will vanish and the window opens saying "BOINC Manager - Connection Error" "The password you have provided is incorrect, please try again."

(Note that I don't have to have the manager open for this problem to occur.)

I close that window, select Advanced | Select Computer and click OK and the client again displays the tasks. I don't now why it's doing this.

But it's the final issue that bugs me. Sometimes after this sequence of events occurs, I'll notice my laptop slows to a crawl, as though something is eating up the CPU. I'll check. It's Firefox! I'll close all my browser windows but there's still a Firefox process and it's still eating up the CPU cycles. If I end the Firefox process using the Windows Task Manager, everything returns to normal.

Any idea what's going on here?

I'm running the latest version of Firefox (2.0) but this happened in previous versions too. I have the latest Windows XP fixes from Microsoft. I'm running BOINC Manager 5.4.11. I have McAfee software too.

Help!
Bill
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : SETI@home project vanished from Projects tab! (Message 4008)
Posted 21 Apr 2006 by Bill S
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Had a problem where the SETI@home project suddenly vanished from the projects tab. Also, the Project and Application columns of the Work tab were blank for all work units, regardless of the project. This happened on two of my computers on April 20th.

For a little more information see thread:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=30153

- Bill



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