I have found Incredimail & WillHill poker run slowly with Boinc GUI. All other progs eg. Iexplorer, Mozilla Firefox etc are fine. Any else found this? Anyone know why?
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They must be using extremely low priority threads.

BOINC is very low priority, so it gets out of the way of most applications. If something comes along running a lower priority than BOINC, the opposite happens and BOINC holds them up. (people report slowdowns with outlook express for example)

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Incredimail is built on Outlook express so that would make sense. WillHill's poker.exe claims to run at normal priority so maybe there is some background process it uses that is being affected. Only happens on my pentium laptop with wi-fi not on my AMD box. Incredimail issue is on both machines.
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&gt;with wi-fi???
David!

don't beet be, just thinking loud:
wi-fi= a network. A network with am additional IP Number.

Could it be possible, the "low running" Incredimail &amp; WillHill
are "sitting" on the ip protocoll stack (problems with sharing ip stack, resources conflict), running fine without boinc,
but with boinc, lurging?

You did not mentioned what kind of OS you have.

A time ago, under windows98 se, with infrared build-in AND enabled,
The laptop was suffering to, due permanet "watching" the port and looking for an other infrared device.

for testing, try to disable network access at level boinc client/gui and perhaps
the low running apps regaines up

good luck

ric

&gt;You did not mentioned what kind of OS you have.

Both machines run Windows XP SP2. Networked via Netgear router. Laptop wireless, Box with ethernet cable. Infrared is disabled. 1Mb ADSL on router.

SPECS:

Box:
XP PRO SP2
AMD 2500M @ 2230Mhz 202.7Mhz FSB
ABIT KV7 MOBO
1 Gb RAM
400 GB SATA RAID 0
SAPPHIRE RADEON 9800 XT (CATALYST 4.9)

LAPTOP:
XP HOME SP2
MOBILE PENTIUM IV 3.2Ghz HYPERTHREADING
MOBILITY RADEON 9100 IGP
512Mb RAM
60Gb IDE HARD DRIVE

Both stable under Prime95 for 48hrs +
No hardware conflicts.

&gt;for testing, try to disable network access at level boinc client/gui and perhaps
the low running apps regaines up

No difference seen if Boinc netwok access disabled.
Thanks for the sugestion.


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