Hello. Currently I'm running Boinc 6.6.36 on OS X 10.5.7. My system config is 2 x Quad-Core Xeon 2.8Ghz with NVidia GT 120 8GB RAM. There is a problem with the Boinc process.

I remember long time ago, when I ran it with my MacBook Pro, all processes went into the category % Nice, now all processes go into the category % User, which slows down my system sometimes when I'm working on other things!

Anything to set? Or is this intentional?

Thanks.

What was your previous version, something before 5.5.4?
Did you ever install BOINC as a daemon?

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Not exactly remember which version it was, probably earlier than 5.5.4. It was around 1 or 2 years ago.

Before I move to Mac Pro, I mostly ran BIOIC on Windows Vista 64bit with a quad-core CPU and 8GB of RAM. Very smooth even I use other softwares at the same time.

Beginning with version 5.5.4, the Macintosh BOINC Manager Installer implements additional security to protect your computer data from potential theft or accidental or malicious damage by limiting BOINC projects' access to your system and data, as described in Client security and sandboxing.

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That means it has to be run as a user process because of the security reasons?

It's not so convenient.

I think I have to limit the maximum resources allocate to the program to 90%. It slows down my daily tasks when I make it 100%.

I remember long time ago, when I ran it with my MacBook Pro, all processes went into the category % Nice, now all processes go into the category % User, which slows down my system sometimes when I'm working on other things!

Does it really slow things down? Did you notice it slow things down? Or are you just saying it does because you saw it's not "nice"?

Last I heard, this is a display bug in Mac OS X Leopard: BOINC *is* setting itself as nice as it always did, but Process Monitor says otherwise. So you shouldn't be having any slowdown.

But don't quote me on that, I may be remembering wrong :)

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BOINC slows down my applications. I feel it when I surf the web, not to say using other applications such as Photoshop and After Effects.

I read on other website saying that it's a OS X 10.5 bug, so BOINC share same execution priority as other applications.

Not exactly sure how to solve this.