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I finally got Windows 10 yesterday and all went smoothly except the BONIC Manager says "Status: Suspended - CPU is busy" almost all of the time. Once in a while I notice that it's running again but that only lasts for a few seconds. So I guess my computer isn't powerful enough and I should uninstall Bonic.
Right now, with two browsers opened to this website, Task Manager > Performance tells me there's about 53-63% utilization while BONIC is suspended. Memory in use: 2.0 GB, Memory available: 5.7 GB. |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
hmmm, yes, hmmm, the W10 initial experience.
 Default BOINC pauses if the CPU is >= 25% busy with non-BOINC efforts. I've measured post-boot up efficiencies of just around 70%, meaning 30% is used by W10... so here is the likely reason if you have that setting at the old default of 25%... increase to 50% is sort of a very save setting I've found as not being adverse to the user.Since this will come back time and again after booting [endless rebuild of file indices] or as simple as the seemingly ever running Windows 10 updates [like I saw today for the 200Mb Nvidia drivers], strongly advise into using Hibernation instead of booting. Then at least you donnt get the indexing rehashing. |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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well I keep that setting of pausing CPU while crunching on 0% -> which means that BOINC will run always!
---------------------------------------- on desktop is running a 100% of CPU time... on laptops the same, but with TThrottle program throttling! |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
BarryII, strongly advise against that last insert. BOINC is designed to pause when the machine is busy with other things [for the user], except the *old* default is generally too low. More over, certain projects could actually suffer time-out failures such as CEP2 is most susceptible to... seen it many a time.
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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BarryII, strongly advise against that last insert. BOINC is designed to pause when the machine is busy with other things [for the user], except the *old* default is generally too low. More over, certain projects could actually suffer time-out failures such as CEP2 is most susceptible to... seen it many a time. well I do have W10 on several machines...& it hasn't got any problem! also, all science is done in lowest priority...but as of FAHB started, all projects run in "high intensity" - something techs didn't look into, but it has been written to them constantly!!! anyway BOINC high priority is a low priority executing...so all other Win10 apps & services execute in higher priority! time-out is sthg that happens...so just crunch away, system will stabilize in a few days...when sys sees that it doesn't have 0,998 of CPU time but only (example) 0,45 in a day...it will stop getting new jobs & some of the jobs might be time-outed...but as the sys stabilizes in Win10 environment, that 0,45 if CPU time will get more to number 1...so it will start asking for more jobs... & about CEP2 research...please read topics there...some special requirements are needed to crunch more than 1 jobs in same time... |
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