Thread 'Boinc 5.10.20 on OS X 10.5 9a581'

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old_user17401 Send message Joined: 13 Sep 04 Posts: 60 Credit: 1,124,063 RAC: 0	Message 31198 - Posted: 31 Oct 2007, 0:02:05 UTC Just installed the latest Boinc on the latest OS X. Got two 80 year models downloaded. All seems to be well, except Activity Monitor is reporting all the CPU usage as normal, not \'nice\' - does that mean the work is not being done at a low CPU priority? The Boinc load did appear to be \'nice\'d under Tiger 10.4.10 . ID: 31198 · Reply Quote

Les Bayliss Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 7629 Credit: 24,240,330 RAC: 0	Message 31199 - Posted: 31 Oct 2007, 2:44:53 UTC If you\'re talking about Leopard as being the latest OS X, then it\'s far too new to know how it\'s handling BOINC. Could be lots of problems. ID: 31199 · Reply Quote

old_user17401 Send message Joined: 13 Sep 04 Posts: 60 Credit: 1,124,063 RAC: 0	Message 31205 - Posted: 31 Oct 2007, 10:58:11 UTC - in response to Message 31199. If you\'re talking about Leopard as being the latest OS X, then it\'s far too new to know how it\'s handling BOINC. Could be lots of problems. Yup, could be. We\'ll see, I\'m running two 80 year models on it. ID: 31205 · Reply Quote

mo.v Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 29 Sep 04 Posts: 2363 Credit: 14,611,758 RAC: 0	Message 31208 - Posted: 31 Oct 2007, 13:20:31 UTC It would probably be wise to back up the complete boinc folder regularly just in case. Cpdn news ID: 31208 · Reply Quote

old_user479737 Send message Joined: 29 Oct 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 82,628 RAC: 0	Message 31224 - Posted: 31 Oct 2007, 21:58:36 UTC - in response to Message 31208. It would probably be wise to back up the complete boinc folder regularly just in case. I am running Leopard with BOINC 5.10.27. I have four 800 hour jobs loaded and running. In the past I found that long jobs would cause BOINC to hang forcing me to monitor it almost hourly so I can \'kill\' Boinc and restart it. With four jobs running it is just too much work. I will stop these jobs and go to other projects where this is not happening and check back later. ID: 31224 · Reply Quote

old_user470766 Send message Joined: 5 Sep 07 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,328,668 RAC: 0	Message 31236 - Posted: 1 Nov 2007, 9:41:57 UTC I\'m running Leopard, too, on a 4 processor system. The ClimatePrediction simulations are not running in Nice mode, and my system was too slow with 4 models running. I\'m backing off to two simulations until this is fixed (either by Apple or the ClimatePrediction programmers). ID: 31236 · Reply Quote

Les Bayliss Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 7629 Credit: 24,240,330 RAC: 0	Message 31300 - Posted: 7 Nov 2007, 12:57:42 UTC Last modified: 7 Nov 2007, 21:31:06 UTC Re: the \"not nice\" in Leopard - it may be a \'red herring\'. See this post on the BOINC/dev board from Charlie Fenton, who is their Mac programmer. edit Looking even more like a bug in Leopard. ID: 31300 · Reply Quote