I have BOINC Client 6.10.11 & 6.10.13 installed on all my Box's, something I noticed with both Client is the boinc.exe will use up to 25% of the CPU or 1 full Core. This goes on continually, it drops to 0% CPU usage and then will jump as high as 25%. I noticed this on 2 Different Box's that are both Win XP Pro 64-Bit Box's. I haven't checked the other Box's yet to see if they show the same boinc.exe CPU Usage.

Something else I noticed with Client 6.10.13 is that at the end of the Status String in the BOINC Manager it shows 2 )) instead of 1 ) > Running (0.28 CPUs + 1.00 NVIDIA GPUs (device 2)) ...

I noticed this on 2 Different Box's that are both Win XP Pro 64-Bit Box's.

Any GPUs on those systems? If so, which kind?
Else, which projects do you run? Do you see the extra load on any specific project (aka, like Seti@Home with a VLAR on the GPU could do that)?

Something else I noticed with Client 6.10.13 is that at the end of the Status String in the BOINC Manager it shows 2 )) instead of 1 ) > Running (0.28 CPUs + 1.00 NVIDIA GPUs (device 2)) ...

Normal closure for an embedded extra ( .. I've made all bold in your message.

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I noticed this on 2 Different Box's that are both Win XP Pro 64-Bit Box's.

Any GPUs on those systems? If so, which kind?
Else, which projects do you run? Do you see the extra load on any specific project (aka, like Seti@Home with a VLAR on the GPU could do that)?

Something else I noticed with Client 6.10.13 is that at the end of the Status String in the BOINC Manager it shows 2 )) instead of 1 ) > Running (0.28 CPUs + 1.00 NVIDIA GPUs (device 2)) ...

Normal closure for an embedded extra ( .. I've made all bold in your message.

I'm running ATI 4870's on 1 Box & NVIDIA GTX 280 & 295 on the other Box. Both GPU's are running Collatz Wu's & the CPU's are runing EDGeS@Home Wu's.

I don't see the Double )) on the end of the String in the 6.10.11 Client, only the 6.10.13 Client ...

I'm running ATI 4870's on 1 Box

How many?

& NVIDIA GTX 280 & 295 on the other Box.

Any of these have a double GPU?

I don't see the Double )) on the end of the String in the 6.10.11 Client, only the 6.10.13 Client ...

So? It's text only. It doesn't mean anything to the running of BOINC.

But as I said, it's normal closure. You do the same in calculations, where ((x + y) * 3) = Z. Only here it is ( text ( device nr ))

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2 ATI 4870 Single Core Video Cards in 1 Box & a Single Core 280 and a Double Core 295 in the other Box ... Do you need their Serial Numbers too ... ;P

I know it doesn't mean anything to the running of BOINC but it looks wrong to me, but then that's just me I guess ..

Do you need their Serial Numbers too ... ;P

Their prices, what stores you got them from and their colour, please. :-D

I know it doesn't mean anything to the running of BOINC but it looks wrong to me, but then that's just me I guess ..

It could be something to do with the multiple GPUs they have to feed.
Don't you have one system with only a single GPU that you can test with if you see the same behaviour?

I'll make a note to the developers in any case.

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Don't you have one system with only a single GPU that you can test with if you see the same behaviour?

Unfortunately not Jord ... :( ... All my Box's have Dual 4870's or Dual 4850 X2's or Dual GTX Series 200 Cards ... Some people just have no luck at all ... :P

I have 2 5870's coming & they should be here tomorrow, I'll pull 1 Card out of the Box their going into & see if the boinc.exe still uses the CPU excessively & get back on it tomorrow or the next day if the 5870's don't come tomorrow ...

I'd do it now but I don't like to pull the Video Cards unless absolutly necessary, they can be a Bitch to get running again once you pull them when their in Dual Configurations. I've spent as much as 12 hr's getting them to run right once I've pulled some of them ...

OK, I'll test one or two Collatz on my single GPU then.

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Weird, I just checked both Box's and didn't see any boinc.exe CPU usage at all on either one of them ...

My boinc.exe doesn't use the CPU that much. It's a process called csrss.exe (Client Server Runtime process) that's taking up a lot of CPU cycles, though.
So could it have been that those systems were doing benchmarks?

My HD3850 is running at 108C, but even the GPU load isn't that high (according to GPU-Z). Between 0 and 3%. Oh well.

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Steve, next time you see this behaviour can you check:
- That BOINC isn't doing CPU benchmarks?
- That the process taking up the CPU/core really is boinc.exe, not (like in my case) csrss.exe?

You can report back here.
Albeit, if it's csrss.exe that is taking up the CPU, you may want to report it on the Collatz forums. Then it's a thing with their application that Andreas wants to know about (I'm sure ;-)).

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Okay will do Jord, I'm pretty sure it was the boinc.exe & not the csrss.exe that was taking up the CPU but I'll make sure the next time I see it doing that ... Steve

I'm running ATI 4870's on 1 Box & NVIDIA GTX 280 & 295 on the other Box. Both GPU's are running Collatz Wu's & the CPU's are runing EDGeS@Home Wu's.

Is it possibly the EDGeS tasks? When each task starts, a 73MB file is copied from the project directory to the slot directory and many of these tasks only last 1 minute or less. If running on a quad or i7 w/HT, maybe more than one tasks starts at the same time and the copying is taking one core.

I am running EDGeS on a dual core and if 2 tasks start at the same time, the system becomes unresponsive for approximately 5-8 seconds until the 73MB file is copied into both of the slot directories.

Could be the EDGeS, I had to stop running them on a Couple Box's last night because they were wreaking havoc with them and they wouldn't run worth a darn. After I stopped running the EDGeS & switched over to the NFS Wu's those Box's ran okay again .

Steve, next time you see this behaviour can you check:
- That BOINC isn't doing CPU benchmarks?
- That the process taking up the CPU/core really is boinc.exe, not (like in my case) csrss.exe?

You can report back here.
Albeit, if it's csrss.exe that is taking up the CPU, you may want to report it on the Collatz forums. Then it's a thing with their application that Andreas wants to know about (I'm sure ;-)).

Had the same thing happening again while running Edge & Collatz on 1 Box last night, the boinc.exe was taking up 25% of the CPU and the System was very unresponsive and Continually Rebooting itself. It was definitely the boinc.exe & it wasn't running CPU Benchmarks.

I ended up dumping all the Edge Wu's & the 2 running Collatz Wu's to get the System Stable again. Don't really know getting rid of which one did the trick as the system was so unstable I couldn't get into the BOINC Manager to see what was going on.