I not sure what going on with my BOINC Manager as I thought it controls the work being done. I have my computer so loaded up what I have been doing is exit the program and so not to have the CPU lock at 100% and and projects I am work does not grin to a halt. But as of late when checking my Windows Task Manager shows that rosetta_beta_5.93_windows_intelx86.exe is running taking up most of the CPU resources and when I use end process to kill the .exe file a few minutes later rosetta_beta_5.93_windows_intelx86.exe is back running again. Could use some feed back on this subject.

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Rosetta (or any BOINC project) will use as much CPU time as is left over, after all of your other applications have done their work. This will often be more then 97%. It runs at a low priority, so it should not delay other applications.

If the heat or fan noise of the resulting 100% CPU utilization is a problem, you can configure BOINC to use less CPU time. This can be controlled in the General Preferences settings via the website, or in the preferences for a specific machine.

Killing tasks is not the way to control BOINC. BOINC is trying to keep your machine busy with useful work during it's idle time. By killing a Rosetta thread, you are freeing up CPU time and BOINC responds by starting another piece of work.

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I have been having similar rosetta 'out-of-control' problems (never before in 3 years of distributed computing). The program would not exit and even Task Manager in Win XP could not stop the runaway program. The only remedy (apart from waiting for an indeterminate time) was to switch off the power to the PC. I had to exit BOINC immediately on start-up to be able uninstall the whole thing (or the fiasco started again). It will not be re-installed until I see that someone has fixed the program. There is some dreadful bug in the latest rosetta versions as I never had this trouble before. It is the same problem on my second Win XP PC also.

If you are describing the issue where tasks reached completion and stopped using CPU, but still took an active slot in BOINC, then DK believes this issue has been resolved. Here is his post.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense