[linux] boinc ran "nice", now as normal work?

> My boinc-client ran "nice" until i changed "max no. of cpus on SMP systems" to
> a lower value. Now it runs as a normal process, not "niceified".
>
> Any idea what that could be?

I have no idea what causes it, but 1 of my systems is doing the same thing - as well as a few other weird things (though I haven't changed the max cpu settings).

On mine, occassionally it will start with the einsten program running as a nice process, but most often it runs as a user process. This same system won't switch from seti to einstein, though it will switch from einstein to seti. When it pauses seti and goes back to einstein, the log reads normal but the process simply doesn't start back up. To make it even more maddening, top always shows the einstein process as sleeping, even though it shows the cpu at 100% and I'm watching the einstein wu progress.

I've wiped out the einstein executable and let it download again hoping that would fix it, with no luck. I've also installed 4.23 in a new directory but it still runs as a user process (seti's down, so I haven't been able to attach the new version to seti to see if it fixes the pausing problem).

Darren