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Botar
Cruncher Germany Joined: Jun 6, 2006 Post Count: 10 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hullo,
I got me a Macbook Pro about a week ago and migrated from my other Mac (soon to be sold). I had to reinstall BOINC, for I don't know what reasons. On my old machine I didn't have any problem with BOINC crunching away all the time, but on the laptop... well, it gets kind of hot in the nether regions, and eats battery like there's no tomorrow. Therefore I looked for a way to disable crunching while in battery mode, found it, and found it disabled (no checkmark). Now I'm wondering, of course, why BOINC crunches when the laptop is only powered by battery even though it's been explicitly told not to. As a workaround I snooze or shut off BOINC but having to remember to turn it on when I'm recharging isn't really a strong suite of mine. So I'd really appreciate some help :) |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
hmmm, of course you set the Activity menu to "Run based on preferences" and not to "Run always".
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
If you have a macbook where you can't get at the battery (bad design flaw IMHO), I would think twice about BOINC'ing full out on it. Set it to 60% of cpu or something like that. The i5 & i7 cpu run quite hot in those macbooks even without running BOINC.
I have an older macbook that I'm able to easily take out the battery. It runs 30F degrees cooler with it out. Also, I would never run BOINC on a mac without smcFanControl running and upping the cpu fan speed.   |
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Botar
Cruncher Germany Joined: Jun 6, 2006 Post Count: 10 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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hmmm, of course you set the Activity menu to "Run based on preferences" and not to "Run always". Huh. Okay, I guess this is the obvious flaw I didn't see or think of. I'll come back to you tomorrow with the results. If you have a macbook where you can't get at the battery (bad design flaw IMHO), I would think twice about BOINC'ing full out on it. Set it to 60% of cpu or something like that. The i5 & i7 cpu run quite hot in those macbooks even without running BOINC. I realize that. It's the reason I set the processing time percentage to 40-50%, otherwise it gets annoyingly loud. And yes, it is one of the newer ones where it is hard to get the battery out. |
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Botar
Cruncher Germany Joined: Jun 6, 2006 Post Count: 10 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Okay, that fixed it. Well, not so much as fix the program but rather corrected my assumption about it.
Thanks a lot! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
OK, if you plz edit the opening post title and insert [RESOLVED] like my post, folk know case is closed and carries a solution to the *problem*.
BTW, the *Run Always* setting also overrules the 40-50% processor time setting you had, so it will have been *annoyingly loud* ;>) Happy crunching --//-- |
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