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Message 68250 - Posted: 12 Mar 2016, 15:56:55 UTC

Since upgrading to 7.6.22, I have, several times, seen work suspended because the "CPU is busy". Watching the task manager, when the BOINC jobs suspend, the CPU usage drops to the background 2 - 3%. After about a minute, it all starts up again. Ive seen and understand the GPU busy, but this CPU busy is new to me and not immeadiately comprehendable. What is the story here.
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Message 68252 - Posted: 12 Mar 2016, 16:09:12 UTC - in response to Message 68250.  

It's something that the preference Suspend when non-BOINC CPU usage is above N % does. Setting this preference to something more than the default 25%, or to disable it to 100%, will stop this message and the suspending.

It's an extra security measure that makes BOINC suspend when another program on your system uses a lot of CPU, which may interfere in the running of BOINC/the science application, or the program that's running (think a backup program).
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Message 68256 - Posted: 12 Mar 2016, 16:45:28 UTC

Great. Found and fixed that.
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