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. 

I'm running 4 machines P to P through a gigabit network (CAT5e) to a
switch to a router. Besides being behind the router each machine has
its own firewall.

I've found that running BOINC 4.45 causes the clocks on the three
machines running BOINC to run slow.  Shut BOINC down and the clocks
keep good time.  I did not have this problem with earlier versions of
BOINC.

I've not had any crashes, but the odd time has messed with a number of
apps including seti.

These are not small machines.  3.2 Gig XP Plus Athlon with two gigs of
RAM and a terabyte of storage.  The slow one is out in the shop and
normally used for storage, or work out there. It is a 2.0Gig XP Plus
with one Gig of RAM and 1.2 Terabytes of HD space. 

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

The 4th machine which is a 3.4 Gig, 64 Bit  Athlon with 2 Gig of RAM.
It has 320 Gig of hard drive space internal and a 300 Gig external USB
drive.  It does get all that stuff although about the only "game"
would be practicing with an instrument flight proficiency simulator.
It does burn a lot of DVDs, does a lot of photo processing including
the use of two scanners.  it also gets used for programming.  That is
the reason it's not running BOINC.

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.

The messing with the clocks which I have tied directly to the use of
BOINC 4.45 can really mess with some of the apps.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Louis