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Cruisin'
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25 Sep 2011 17:22:08 UTC
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    I have had to detach from Einstin@Home because it still makes my system sluggish even when my exclusive apps are running. Can you guys look into this please? I would like to help but E@Home needs to behave more. :P

    32bit Windows XP Home
    AMD Opteron 180
    ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard
    Nvidia 450GTS GPU
    4GB DDR 400 Memory

    Claggy
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    Have had to detach from Einstein@Home

    25 Sep 2011 17:44:12 UTC
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      I have had to detach from Einstin@Home because it still makes my system sluggish even when my exclusive apps are running. Can you guys look into this please? I would like to help but E@Home needs to behave more. :P

      I'm really not surprised a old Single Core Computer is sluggish when running CPU and Cuda tasks, since you're been complaining about system chunkiness when gaming, how about using the KISS principle, and just Boinc down before you do any gaming?

      Claggy

      Cruisin'
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      I can buy that. That could be

      26 Sep 2011 0:02:23 UTC
      Message 106731 in response to message 106730
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        I can buy that. That could be it. However other people with system beefier than mine have the same problem with E@Home:

        http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=6890

        32bit Windows XP Home
        AMD Opteron 180
        ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard
        Nvidia 450GTS GPU
        4GB DDR 400 Memory

        Cruisin'
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        If I just shut boinc down it

        26 Sep 2011 3:43:59 UTC
        Message 106732 in response to message 106730
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          If I just shut boinc down it still does not relieve chunkiness unless I reboot system.

          32bit Windows XP Home
          AMD Opteron 180
          ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard
          Nvidia 450GTS GPU
          4GB DDR 400 Memory

          Jeroen
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          You could try Process Lasso

          26 Sep 2011 4:08:19 UTC
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            You could try Process Lasso and set the Einstein@home applications to a lower priority.

            Claggy
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            RE: If I just shut boinc

            26 Sep 2011 7:57:10 UTC
            Message 106734 in response to message 106732
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              If I just shut boinc down it still does not relieve chunkiness unless I reboot system.

              You're also running the 275.33 Cuda 4 drivers that cause GPU downclocking when run with Cuda apps that don't have the threadsafe API in them, a reboot is the only fix.

              See Jason's post at Lunatics:

              Recent Driver Cuda-safe Project List

              The 267.xx are the last drivers that can safely be used without downclocking happening.

              Claggy

              Cruisin'
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              Is Nvidia ever going to

              2 Oct 2011 9:45:29 UTC
              Message 106735 in response to message 106734
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                Is Nvidia ever going to address this?

                32bit Windows XP Home
                AMD Opteron 180
                ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard
                Nvidia 450GTS GPU
                4GB DDR 400 Memory

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