On 12/2/09, William <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't BOINC supposed to always run everything at the lowest possible > priority? Shouldn't that prevent BOINC from ever "bogging down" or > otherwise "interfering with" the computers it runs on?
The owner of the computer is who decides if it's interferring or not. This guy installed it on computers he didn't own. And BOINC does cause slowdowns in certain cases. For example, if it uses enough RAM to make other apps swap out. Or if it doesn't, then it's still pushing some disk cache out of RAM. Modern operating systems try not to have any free memory, using anything "free" for disk cache instead (really free memory is wasted memory). -- Nicolas _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
