Mike Hunt Hertz 111 ESQ wrote:
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Barry i had to delete BOINC it was makeing my P.C very slow ,  crashing O.E  . I think
there is something wrong with their system , I went back to seti@home classic , until they
fix it up >. I run XP he celron 20 gig and i still don't know why it slowed so much   ???

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Nah... The problem is with the priorities (and scheduling) in WinXP and OE. There are various 'critical path' tasks that get executed at a low priority! This means that if you have anything else running at that priority or above, instead of getting a graceful slowdown you can get a BSOD.

If you are trying to run setiboinc as a service, make sure that it runs at the lowest priority. It will still get all the spare CPU time.

I've got boinc and a few other things set running at low priority and all is fine. Still got a very responsive machine (linux).


BTW: Netscape is a good alternative to OE, and it won't crash your machine as often.

Good luck,
Martin