My preferences say only run projects when PC is inactive (I often use the client settings to say run all the time).

The Boinc Client on my XP PC (not the latest client) does not run projects when the PC is active. The Boinc Client (v5.10.13) on my Vista Home Premium Laptop runs projects all the time, even when the PC is active.

Has anyone else encountered this?

Also, it would be really useful if the settings (such as the number of CPUs and %age CPU to use) had a second setting, for when PC is in use. Thus I could set BOINC to use 60% of 2 CPUs when no mouse or kb activity, but only 30% of 1 CPU when the PC is in use.

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The Boinc Client (v5.10.13) on my Vista Home Premium Laptop runs projects all the time, even when the PC is active.

See previous thread on this subject (from May-Aug 07)

I've reported issue to Alpha mailing list, but issue still seems to be unresolved. No word that issue has been resolved.

I'm holding off installing BOINC on my Mom's new PC w/Vista till this issue is resolved.

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The Boinc Client (v5.10.13) on my Vista Home Premium Laptop runs projects all the time, even when the PC is active.

See previous thread on this subject (from May-Aug 07)

I've reported issue to Alpha mailing list, but issue still seems to be unresolved. No word that issue has been resolved.

I'm holding off installing BOINC on my Mom's new PC w/Vista till this issue is resolved.

The issue only seems to be on a service install. I just tried it on my single user install and it worked fine.

9/8/2007 4:25:23 AM||Suspending computation - user is active
9/8/2007 4:25:23 AM|DepSpid|[cpu_sched] Preempting spider_117851_0 (left in memory)
9/8/2007 4:25:23 AM|DepSpid|[cpu_sched] Preempting spider_117854_0 (left in memory)
9/8/2007 4:25:23 AM|sudoku|[cpu_sched] Preempting A0410192930_11__alpha8_0 (left in memory)
9/8/2007 4:25:23 AM|sudoku|[cpu_sched] Preempting A0410192843_11__alpha8_0 (left in memory)

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Kathryn :o)

I can confirm this problem as well. Service install, doesn't matter if I run it as Local System or as a user with "Log on as a service" permissions. I was going around in circles for a while because I couldn't duplicate it on my home Vista unit, but, I'm running it as "Single User" and not Service Install.

There's a potential for quite a bit of lost CPU time here, I'm going to have to put these units on a schedule that bars crunching between business hours, instead of being able to crunch when the units are idle.

You can't make BOINC use a certain amount of a core. When you make it use only one CPU, it actually means "run only one app at a time". That app will be using some of a core and some of another...

Probably a service cannot monitor user activity due to the new security *cough* "features" in Vista.

It is a part of the Vista security setup. All services run in desktop 0. The first user runs on desktop 1. Lower priority tasks cannot initiate communications with higher priority tasks without some serious help from the higher priority task.

Vista support will be addressed in BOINC v6.



Jm7

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Kathryn :o)