Hi,

boinc processes are running in high priority on leopard, thus slowing down all other processes. Boinc used to run on a nice priority to only consume idle CPU time. Any suggestions ?

Thanks !
- Andreas

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To answer my own question:

It seems to be a bug of OSX 10.5.0. Starting anything nice will not work or will not seem to work. So Boinc is probably not to be blamed for this behaviour.

I will continue the beta test I have paid for :-/

- Andreas

Hi,

boinc processes are running in high priority on leopard, thus slowing down all other processes. Boinc used to run on a nice priority to only consume idle CPU time. Any suggestions ?

Thanks !
- Andreas

Hi,

Using OS X 10.5.2, and Firefox is absolutely crippled when rosetta is running. I checked out the ps -Afl to get this info below. (Hopefully, formatted well here, and I'm only showing part of my processes.)

The closer the number is to zero for PRI, aka Priority, the more cpu time a process gets.

You can see that Firefox and Thunderbird get a horrible PRI from OS X at 97, and rosetta processes have the top priority, 12, even over system processes!
And yes, rosetta processes did use the NI, Nice, option to request a low priority from the system.

I'm a little astounded that OS X 10.5.2 is this screwed up.
I suppose we should post this on a message board at Apple to get this addressed?

 
UID   PID  PPID   C     STIME TTY           TIME CMD                                                                    F PRI NI       SZ    RSS WCHAN     S   ADDR
  0     1     0   0   0:25.86 ??         0:31.46 /sbin/launchd                                                       4000  31  0   600816    540 -      Ss   593cc50
  0    10     1   0   0:00.77 ??         0:00.89 /usr/libexec/kextd                                                  4000  31  0    75968   1068 -      Ss   593c310
  0    11     1   0   0:15.07 ??         0:28.72 /usr/sbin/DirectoryService                                          4000  31  0    79236   2924 -      Ss   593c7b0
  0    12     1   0   0:02.28 ??         0:03.35 /usr/sbin/notifyd                                                   4000  31  0   600248    420 -      Ss   593c560
  0    13     1   0   0:06.45 ??         0:09.43 /usr/sbin/syslogd                                                   4000  31  0   601332    484 -      Ss   593c0c0
  0    14     1   0   1:42.83 ??         3:11.65 /usr/sbin/configd                                                   4008  31  0    76980   1564 -      Ss   593be70
 65    15     1   0   0:03.78 ??         0:06.91 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -launchd                                    4000  31  0    77376   1292 -      Ss   593bc20
  1    16     1   0   0:06.62 ??         0:16.50 /usr/sbin/distnoted                                                 4100  31  0    75356    740 -      Ss   593b9d0
 65    18     1   0   0:07.53 ??         0:09.67 /sbin/launchd                                                       4000  31  0   599792    384 -      Ss   593b530
501 44173   153   0   0:00.55 ??         0:01.40 /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/Dashboa    4000  63  0   291804  15564 -      S    10246a00
501 44912   136   0  30:04.53 ??        96:26.15 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -psn_0_1909    4000  97  0   644052 238028 -      S    102467b0
501 45142   136   0   0:00.01 ??         0:00.01 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/KerberosHelper.framework/Resou    4000  31  0    76412    860 -      S    6ded250
 32 53210   179   0   1:45.84 ??        59:01.55 rosetta_beta_5.93_i686-apple-darwin aa t847 _ -relax -looprlx -l    4000  12 19   318008 146788 -      SN   5ef7090
 32 53372   179   0   1:29.99 ??        46:34.87 rosetta_beta_5.93_i686-apple-darwin aa t847 _ -relax -looprlx -l    4000  12 19   319280 148516 -      SN   593b2e0
501 53537   136   0   1:10.99 ??         3:29.72 /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -ps    4000  97  0   391044  73056 -      S    5ef5970
501 53560   136   0   0:07.23 ??         0:17.42 /Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.3.app/Contents/MacOS/droplet -psn    4000  46  0   284484   6304 -      S    6df0090
501 53572     1   0   0:00.01 ??         0:00.02 sh /Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.3.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice /    4000  31  0   600172    676 -      S    6dedde0
501 53605 53572   0   0:03.60 ??         0:13.16 /Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.3.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice.bin     4000  31  0   228908  75544 -      S    593ca00
501 60495     1   0   0:00.48 ??         0:01.12 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Met   84000  14 17   134936   7156 -      SNs  6def750

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I can confirm that this is an Apple bug with OS X 10.5.x
You can chime in here at Apple support:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6662466

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