It's really meaningless to say that BOINC is faster than UD (or vice versa). The platform just manages the science app. It's the science app that does all the work, so the same app running on Windows under UD will run at almost the exact same speed under BOINC. The only real benefit BOINC has is being able to take advantage of multi-processor machines, as UD is currently unable (without 3rd party software) to take advantage of more than 1 CPU. But comparing apples to apples, the grid platform doesn't matter.

Also, setting the application to High priority doesn't do anything. It's still running as the lowest priority on the system. I've gone into detail on why this is, but you have to really understand Windows scheduling and how priorities work. Besides, what's the point of changing the priority? To get it to complete a few seconds (literally) sooner? Assuming your machine isn't busy doing something else, it's working away on the workunit. Typically your CPU is working on the workunit >90% of the time.

HPF2 seems to be overly sensitive to PC use compared to other sciences ..... if i leave the machine alone it goes substantially faster. Anyway, it finished, loaded an FAAH, and the CPU time shot up to the throttle setting, which HPF2 refuses to do..... something not right, but what?

Edit: Not to Bump to the top... yes Halfcard, that's what i said. I copied the science and daemon names from explorer and added it in all places i can think of for the throttle and security software... identical to what I did for FAAH or GC or HDC in the past ..... given the science name is same for UD to before the restart, i really not expected to have changed anything but the daemon name..... and that does not need CPU time....nanoseconds.

Okay, so here it is: Forced the client profile after a "speedy" progression on a FA@H to just send as next a fresh HPF2 (v 5.1.2.0), which it promptly did. It still is ignoring my throttle settings. Difference is, during the FAAH I de-activated Avast Antivir () and installed NOD32 v 2.7..... ergo, it's not the antivir. In the 8 hours Wall-clock it received only 15 minutes CPU time but is advancing....very slowly. Any process, like starting BOiNC on the machine will take the idle CPU time available. Who's got ideas?

With 5.1.2.0, the announced smoother progress % is working fine... it's now on 8.4%

Zigfried, thanks, but the finesse is in starting BOiNC and it getting all the idle time up to throttle level.... i.e. no covert processes stealing low level idle time. There's no spyware or smapware-watch ... periodic thorough scan is enough (including rootkitrevealers)... hey i use a proper browser :D

It's now 20% progress, 13 wall-clock hours and 30 minutes CPU time.

The machine zooms as always.... maybe a too-smart smapware caddy.... switching HPF2 of from the UD profile until the issue can be identified.

ciao