f/f george wrote:

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:02:48 -0400, mijikin <mijikin@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

[...]

post, computer becomes sluggish when boinc is running. If I move the mouse around continually, the mouse pointer will pause briefly every second or so, this is annoying. I also seem to experience frequent timeouts when trying to access the net while boinc is running, although this might be a coincidence.

This seems to be an area of concern! If your mouse stops moving you
are taxing your computer to the max and it is having to store the

[...]

Do you have a lot of disk activity while this is happening?

Are you running USB or USB attached devices?
Are you using a 'win-modem'?
Are you using a graphics chip on your motherboard, or a graphics card?

Good luck,
Martin