Existing users, 
Everything is normal in 10.4
I noticed that after upgrading to MacOS 10.5, BOINC (no matter what version I use between 5.10.20 and 5.10.28) runs as a "user" process instead of a "nice" process. I think this is a problem with MacOS 10.5 because using the renice command doesn't change this.
5.10.28 runs doesn't slow down the system nearly as much as the other versions, but still doesn't work the way it did in 10.4
This is something to be aware of so you know to quit (or snooze) BOINC if you need performance from an app (until this is fixed that is).
BOINC
Share projects and distribute resources.
Version: 6.10.17
Slows down system in 10.5 - ANTJedi
It doesn't seem to be BOINC, and the process still seems to act 'nice' on my system....but there's no 'nice' visible at all anymore in Leopard. At least none of the 'tools' (gui and cmd line) show 'nice' anymore--not even for things like spotlight indexing. the 'nice' command still changes the 'nice' priority of a process, and you can still see a process's 'nice' level/setting in ps & top, however the Kernel doesn't seem to present that info to any of the info/status tools (including Apple's own Activity Monitor). It's not a BOINC thing though, it's a Kernel-level Leopard thing.Reply to This
Thursday, December 27 2007 @ 04:26 AM PST