Hi all,

I've recently rejoined the World Community Grid, as I part want to help out (of course) and part had a spare computer, that did nothing and thus was free to run the BOINC agent 24/7. I figured it would be stupid to not let it do some good, instead of just laying in a corner inactive :)

Anyways, it's a 2 Ghz MacBook Pro CoreDuo with 2 GB RAM and plenty of hard-drive space, running Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.1, so it ought to be able to crunch some numbers :)

However, when running BOINC Manager, set up via the website to run as "Maximum Output" and further tweaked to let it use almost all of the avalible memory/swap-space and so on, I consistently get only about 50% processor utilization, when looking at the graphs from the Server Manager application.

You can see a screenshot here: http://www.boelskifte.dk/files/boinc_proc_graph_24h.jpg witch shows almost perfectly 50% processor usage in the last 24 hours. That's about half of what I'd like it to churn out :)

The machine has been running no other apps except BOINC Manager 5.10.29, and is fully powered (e.g. not running on battery) and is, by the way, freshly installed and set-up.

Anyone got any idea, why it uses no more than 50% of the available processing power? Is the BOINC Manager even able to utilize the dual-cores of the Intel CoreDuo processor? It must be, right?

Can I tweak anything to get it to use all the available power of the machine, I feel I'm wasting valuable cycles here ;-)


Cheers,
Thomas from Denmark