1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Windows XP Pro Agonizingly Slow w/BOINC 6.6.36 (Message 26067) Posted 17 Jul 2009 by Steve Douglass Post: That was an excellent guess on your part. When I disabled the use of the GPU and set BOINC to use all 8 cores, rebooted, and started BOINC again, things are nice and snappy. Funny, because I run this at home and my video card is also CUDA, and I have never seen any issues. Hmm... Thanks again for the suggestion.

2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Windows XP Pro Agonizingly Slow w/BOINC 6.6.36 (Message 26065) Posted 17 Jul 2009 by Steve Douglass Post: I am running BOINC 6.6.36. Machine is a Dell Precision T3500, with Intel Zeon W3520 CPU @ 2.67 GHz and 3 GB of RAM. OS is Win XP Pro SP3. When I run BOINC, because the system has eight (8) cores, eight processes start. (Well, actually nine, because the video card is CUDA.) The system becomes painfully slow. Click to open any application (e.g., Word, IE, anything!), and it takes 10 - 15 seconds for the application to start. I have tried changing BOINC's configuration to use only 50% of the CPUs, but I still have long delays, but not quite as bad. If I kill BOINC the system is wickedly fast - no delays at all. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

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