Posts by Bud

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC running even though suspended (Message 63978) Posted 1 Sep 2015 by Bud Post: Update: After rebooting, BOINC is now behaving properly, so maybe this problem was just an aberration.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC running even though suspended (Message 63974) Posted 1 Sep 2015 by Bud Post: Einstein@Home is hogging 50% of one of my cpu's even though I have manually suspended BOINC. The BOINC Manager reports "Status: Project suspended by user", the BOINC Manager Event Log also reflects this. Yet BOINC Manager also shows the project continuing to run, steadily increasing the Elapsed and Remaining times, and my Mac's Activity Monitor reports a steady 50% cpu usage. This has never happened before and I having been using this setup for many years. Before I manually suspended BOINC, it reported being suspended automatically due to computer in use, but it was using 50% cpu so I tried to manually suspend it. I am using BOINC Manager 7.6.7 on a Mac running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. I have only 2 projects scheduled: SETI@home and Einstein@home, and only Einstein is active.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : com.apple.IconServicesAgent using 99% CPU in Mavericks (Message 51925) Posted 7 Jan 2014 by Bud Post: Thank you Gary and Charlie for all your help. I checked and there was no ID conflict. So, assuming my problem is due to the Mavericks upgrade, I uninstalled BOINC, leaving only the BOINC Data file in the main library/application support. Then I reinstalled it. SUCCESS, at least for now. I'll continue to monitor, but here's what happened. Installation required a reboot. Shortly thereafter the com,apple.IconServicesAgent process (user boinc_master) appeared and started using various amounts of cpu between about 40% and 60%. After about a minute it settled down to 0%. It has remained at 0% for about 20 minutes now, so hopefully the problem is solved. I really appreciate all your support.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : com.apple.IconServicesAgent using 99% CPU in Mavericks (Message 51914) Posted 6 Jan 2014 by Bud Post: I also have a com.apple.IconServicesAgent with me as the user that mostly registers 0% cpu usage. I sometimes also have a com.apple.IconServicesAgent with "user" boinc_project that also always uses around 99% cpu. Plus, I have 2 lsregister processes for users boinc_master and boinc_project that use about 20% cpu each. This amounts to 2.5 of my 8 processeors If you can tell me how, I'll post an image of Activity Monitor showing this. If I delete any of the 3 com.apple.IconServicesAgent processes, they immediately regenerate themselves.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : com.apple.IconServicesAgent using 99% CPU in Mavericks (Message 51892) Posted 5 Jan 2014 by Bud Post: I just discovered that even if I don't launch Boinc, com.apple.IconServicesAgent for "user" boinc-master runs anyway (and uses its normal 99% cpu)! So, I either have to uninstall BOINC or I may as well let it run. I have 8 processors, so draining 100% of 1 processor is not the end of the world. I can notice the slow-down but it is currently only a nuisance. I don't relish restoring BOINC settings if I uninstall it, so I guess I'll just let it be for now.
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : com.apple.IconServicesAgent using 99% CPU in Mavericks (Message 51834) Posted 30 Dec 2013 by Bud Post: Thanks for the options, Gary. I don't want to do a clean install of Mavericks because it will take me days to reinstall/reconfigure all my apps. I also don't want to revert to Mountain Lion as everything else is working just fine at the moment. I agree that this is an Apple O/S bug as the Mac forums are abuzz with complaints about com.apple.IconServicesAgent cpu usage although I haven't seen anyone else mention BOINC in this context. Also, no one seems to know if Apple is even aware of this bug let alone working on it.
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : com.apple.IconServicesAgent using 99% CPU in Mavericks (Message 51825) Posted 28 Dec 2013 by Bud Post: Since upgrading to Mavericks, my computer runs slow. I traced the problem to the process com.apple.IconServicesAgent. This is a system process and I cannot disable it. I have 2 instances of it, one for my login account and one for "user" boinc_manager. The former mostly uses 0% cpu but the latter is pegged at around 99% cpu usage. The only solution I have found so far is to disable BOINC. I will have to leave it disabled until I can find another solution. Shutting down BOINC is not sufficient to solve the problem; it also requires a reboot. So this is a royal pain. Besides, I have had BOINC running on my various Mac computers for many years. I don't want to shut it down.
8) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Is there a way to hide Boinc Manager in the Dock? (Message 40626) Posted 10 Oct 2011 by Bud Post: I am using OS 10.7 Lion on a Mac. My dock is cluttered and I would like to control Boinc only from the menubar. Is there a way to do this? Perhaps Info.plist can be modified? It was suggested in an OS 10.5 thread to add the key "LSUIElement" with the string value "1". I know how to use a text editor to edit Info.plist (found in BOINCManager: Contents) but I don't know the complete syntax to use.
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC icon fails to work in Snow Leopard (Message 28595) Posted 9 Nov 2009 by Bud Post: Since upgrading MAC OS to Snow Leopard, when I click on the BOINC icon in the Menu Bar, nothing happens. I can still run BOINC from the dock. Does anyone have a suggestion on what to do? Is there, perhaps, a preference file that I should try zapping?

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