On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:53:10 +0200, Louis Holleman
<louis@holleman.demon.nl> wrote:

Hi,

I've been running Seti Classic since 1998, and Boinc since last
november. Initially using Boinc 4.13 but lately I've been forced to
upgrade since Boinc no longer took new units.
Especially my main machine is behaving sluggish lately. I always
praised the way the client behaved amongst other s/w running, you
hardly would notice there was some app running eating up all remainder
of available cpu. This is completely different running Boinc 4.35 or
whatever it is now. Two times already now I was forced to completely
restart this machine because things messed up terribly. 
FWIW: this machine primarily runs a hub server connecting 3 other
servers which do run on 3 other machines (which also run Boinc but
nothing more than that).
This hub needs a bit of ram and a bit of cpu, nothing more.
Furthermore, this machine runs my email client, usenet client,
internet explorer and a bunch of other apps like Word or whatever
might be needed. It is my main working machine. No bloody games which
require tons of cpu or ram, just ordinary stuff. I don't convert video
into digital stuff or burn 5 dvd's daily either. This morning (after a
restart already 2 or 3 days ago) I was doing the regular usenet stuff
and the thing went bananas again.... forcing me into a restart again.
I'm gonna skip using Boinc on this machine for a few days, see what
happens next but if the results show me Boinc is interfering with
other programs running, this machine will simply quit running Boinc.
Maybe even the other machines too. I don't mind offering spare cpu to
a decent project, but the project shouldn't be interfering with my
regular stuff.

Louis

I currently have 17 machines running Boinc and do not have any of the
issues you are describing! On your main machine that is giving you
some trouble how much ram do you have? How did you set up Boinc to
run? As a service? I think it IS a good idea to stop Boinc for a few
days to see if it is the problem, but I would guess that you will find
that it is not. What kind of video card are you running? Do you use
the screensaver? How much free harddrive space do you have on that
machine?
You say the machine goes "bananas", what do you mean? Does it just
kind of lock up and you have to reboot because you can't do anything
with it? If so how long have you waited? How fast is the cpu?
Have you run a virus check and an anti-spyware program lately?