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Jools

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Message 39582 - Posted: 11 Aug 2011, 18:29:24 UTC
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BOINC Version: 6.12.33 (x86)

Windows XP - fairly clean build.

Application: Test4Theory@Home

BOINC Manager is regularly showing "Paused: Other work running", then switches to "Running".

Looking at Performance in Task Manager, it shows the CPU usage going up down at regular intervals - the Processes are only VirtualBox.exe and System Idle Process - with occasional AVGIDSAgent.exe (AVG) using around 5% of the CPU.

I have BOINC Manager preferences of Use no more than 100% of the processor and Do work after idle for 0 (Run Always).

Why so slow?
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Message 39585 - Posted: 11 Aug 2011, 19:51:19 UTC - in response to Message 39582.  

This is the "Suspend work if CPU usage is above 25%" option that interferes, since VirtualBox is using a lot of CPU. You can either set this option to a higher percentage or zero to disable it, or decrease the "Maximum CPU % for Virtual Machine" option in the T4T project preferences.
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Message 39587 - Posted: 11 Aug 2011, 20:10:20 UTC - in response to Message 39585.  

Thanks Jord.

I'll try that.
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