1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC has taken over my PC! (Message 1393) Posted 1 Dec 2005 by Les Howarth Post: I recently installed BOINC after using SETI@home with few problems for several years. Everything is up and running and seems to be fine, except...it is clear that BOINC is grabbing ALL of my spare CPU capacity ALL of the time. This seems much more agressive than SETI@home which just used to tick along in the background using 3% or something. My problem is that this PC is used in the living room and running the CPU at 100% all the time triggers the cooling fans and it's remarkably noisy. The relief when I disable BOINC is just wonderful. As well as the noise pollution, I doubt this is doing much for my PC's health. So, can you let me know how I can stop BOINC doing this and gain some real control over how it uses my PC, please? If not, I think I'll have to give my PC, my ears and my electricity bill a rest and allow my PC's idle capacity to become idle again. Cheers, Les www.leshowarth.com

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