"Running High Priority" is a misnomer. What it really means is "Running before the earlier tasks". These tasks run at the same low priority as the others.

You may have got some repair or betas.

Edit: Also you may have too big a work buffer.

Hello snoekie,

The problem with Dragon Natural Speaking (or other program) may be caused by BOINC, but Running High Priority has nothing to do with it. That just means that the BOINC scheduler is using an alternate set of scheduling rules but the selected project is running the same as ever.

Instead, let us look at other ways of accommodating your software. We should look at the first part of your Messages Tab on BOINC Monitor to see what sort of system you have. On the assumption that you have N cores, I suggest you free up a core in your preferences so BOINC only uses N-1 cores.

Lawrence

added: BOINC Monitor - - pre-nap. Sigh . . .

I just read down through the help comments you got. These people are "top shelf". You can totally control how much of your machine BOINC uses, in the preferences in BOINC Manager.

In Processor usage, You do not really need to cut anything but the number of cores (e.g., if it is a hyper threaded quad, cut to six cores (75%), and "Use at most..." I have one desktop at 60% and all of my laptops at 50%.

I am running 6 i7 machines, five HT quads and one HT six core. BOINC does not get every core on any machine. I don't think that "Connect about every..' and "Additional work buffer..." will hurt you. They just set the number of WU's queued up.

Let me tell you, this is not hard. I am not very literate I/T wise, these guys always need to help me, and we all, together, get it done.

I also at the same time am doing audio and video work, blog work, etc.

We will be delighted to have any number of cores or threads you wish to lend to the enterprise.

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I think that anyone running WCG with its bent toward biological/medical issues could be happy at GPUGrid.

I have read the posts, and did do a reply but obviously didn't post it.

I respect the views expressed

The notation was "Running, High Priority". Now to me, as a native English speaking person, that can only mean one thing high priority being the order of the day. Several observed "running high priority", when I posted "Running, high priority" and the comma is significant. In the process it is using massive resources averaging about 55% with frequent spikes into the 90s and even 100%. I have noted this over a period of time, but really haven't done much about it except when dictating when I snooze the grid.

Currently (and I didn't change anything), it is just "Running".

As for how to split things, perhaps easy for the techies, but all I know is my WP prog, how to run Nat Speak, post emails and browse the web (when the mood takes me), usually news. But it was frustrating having to wait seconds over the last few months for a page to load, or for 10-15 seconds for the WP prog to load, and on occasions for any reaction. The workings of the minutiae of computers have me stumped, because they come up with some alien intelligence phrases, which mean not a lot to me (in fact cause puzzlement), but probably everything to you.

Hello snoekie,
Not to worry. The first thing is to double click on the BOINC Manager icon. If it comes up in the Simple view (the one with a picture) select the Advanced view in the Menu. Then select the Messages tab. Scroll it up to the beginning of the messages. Click on Copy Selected Messages and, holding down the Shift key, select the first page. Then post these messages in this thread. This will tell us about your computer so that we can suggest changes to your preferences. Your preferences are located at WCG at My Grid - Device Manager - (Selected Profile) which might be Default, Home, Work, or School, depending on which you chose.

High Priority on a running task means the scheduler is worried that it might not return the task on time so it is running it without regard to the normal first in / first out logic of the scheduler algorithm. It has no effect on the Windows OS priority, which is a different thing.

Lawrence