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Message 74383 - Posted: 25 Nov 2016, 23:11:40 UTC

I have been running SETI at Home for years with no problems until recently. For reasons that elude me, within the past several weeks, the BOINC screen keeps suspending crunching the SETI data on the grounds that the CPU is busy. I’m running the latest BOING (v. 7.6.22) on a Mac running El Capitan. I have not made any modifications to my system preferences and can’t find anything on SETI to indicate that they’re having server problems. Anyone have a clue why I might be getting this CPU busy message 24/7? Thanks much.
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Message 74409 - Posted: 26 Nov 2016, 18:30:42 UTC - in response to Message 74383.  

You have some other program running that is using more CPU than the threshold set in Computing preferences in "Suspend when non-BOINC CPU usage is above --- %".

You can
- use some Task Manager like tool to see what program is that and decide what to do to it
- set the threshold higher
- completely disable "Suspend when non-BOINC CPU usage is above --- %"
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