On Fri, 19 May 2006 10:31:42 -0400, Big Bob Smith
<YouCantHandleTheTruth@nonya.net> wrote:

Howdy All

I've run into a bit of a puzzler when running BOINC on one of my home
PCs. The problem/symptons as follows - hope someone has seen something
like this before and has a solution.

This PC is a 2G Pentium 4 with 2G of RAM....it has been running Seti
and BOINC for over 3 years without incident. In the last 3 months when
running BOINC ..the BOINC process shoots up to the "normal" 97-99% of
CPU useage and stays there ..for about 2 minutes. At about 2 minutes
in the "System" process in Task Manager starts up (it normally is 2%
or less) and runs steadily @ 50% of CPU - but only while BOINC is
running.........shut off BOINC and it drops back to under 2%.....

50% of the cpu would indicate that you have HT or even a dual core and
the second core or the HT part is not now crunching. If you have
either a dual core or HT check your Boinc settings and make sure they
are set to allow 2 cpus, at least, to bring it up to 100%.