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Larry Tipton

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Message 28554 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 21:30:03 UTC

I'm running Boinc on a Ubuntu 9.10. Even though I have the preference set to only run when the user isn't active, it still runs and eats up CPU time. Has anyone else had this problem and how did you deal with it. I want Boinc to use as much CPU as it needs when I'm not on the computer, but it's being a HOG.
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Les Bayliss
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Message 28555 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 21:55:34 UTC - in response to Message 28554.  

I'm running Boinc on a Ubuntu 9.10.
Which version of BOINC?


... I have the preference set ...
Preferences are in 2 places:
1) On your account page of the project server
2) In your BOINC manager menu under Advanced, which over-rides the other settings for that computer.
Did you check both?

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Message 28557 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 22:45:13 UTC

Boinc 6.4.5

I haven't checked the settings on the project server. When I run Boinc under windows I never have this problem.
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Larry Tipton

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Message 28558 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 22:47:12 UTC

I see that Boinc is up to 6.10 now... I'll install a later edition and see if that helps.
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Larry Tipton

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Message 28560 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 23:03:26 UTC

For some reason the newer version won't load on my system... apt-get doesn't get the newer version, and when I down load the file from Boinc my system doesn't know what to do with it... Let me rephrase that, I don't know what to tell my system to do with it. Any help?
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Message 28562 - Posted: 7 Nov 2009, 23:57:10 UTC - in response to Message 28560.  

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Ubuntu

BOINC 6.10 has a fix for the Linux idle detection not detecting mouse movements and keyboard taps correctly.
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Message 28567 - Posted: 8 Nov 2009, 8:16:20 UTC - in response to Message 28560.  

For some reason the newer version won't load on my system... apt-get doesn't get the newer version, and when I down load the file from Boinc my system doesn't know what to do with it... Let me rephrase that, I don't know what to tell my system to do with it. Any help?


You won't be able to get it from the repos until the package maintainers build it and push it out.
Kathryn :o)
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