One of my computers is is Pentium III, 500 Mhz, running windows 98SE.

I noticed in my stats the amount of time work is allowed is extremely low:

% of time BOINC client is running 99.0113 %
While BOINC running, % of time work is allowed 0.4221 %

This particular computer sits idle most of the time so it should be allowed to crunch a very high percentage of the time. The background items should not be eating up much CPU time. My settings are for it process data even if the computer is in use.

Any ideas on how to boost amount of time work is allowed???

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What is your General preference setting?
Do work while computer is in use? yes / no

It looks like some other software may be preventing Boinc from doing work by making it seem the user is active.

Solution: set the above preference to YES or in Boinc manager Commands menu set to Run always

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Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470

Are you running the screen saver? On the older machines this is not wise, and it may also think the machine is in use, and not allow processing. Use a blank screen saver, or just shut the monitor off.

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Are you running the screen saver? On the older machines this is not wise, and it may also think the machine is in use, and not allow processing. Use a blank screen saver, or just shut the monitor off.

I do have a screen saver running, but just a simple "slide show" not the Boinc screensaver which i know effects processing time. My preference was set to do work while the computer is in use, so I didn't think a screensaver would have any effect. I'll switch to a blank screensaver and also change the monitor power down settings and see what happens.

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Any screen saver (not just the BOINC one) uses CPU time to process the graphics, sends the info to the graphics card to be output to the screen.

As for the odd problem, I noticed a machine of mine that has a similiar problem. It's an Athlon XP 2600+, runs 24/7 and BOINC is only suspended when the user is playing a graphics intensive game such as The Sims 2. Sometimes in the morning I've awaken to find the machine in sleep mode (or standby). When I wake the computer, BOINC isn't suspended (as it shouldn't be) but somehow the computer still went into power saving mode. I've since disabled any such settings, but her BOINC contribution (while BOOINC running %) is down to 13.xxx%. It's been running without power settings for over six months now and it hasn't increased it's percentage at all.

If anyone has any idea on how to increase this (as it isn't doing it now), I'd appreciate it as well.

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I've gone ahead and disabled screen savers. It does seem like it is processing a workunit the entire time BOINC is running. Now there is a new problem when the last workunit completed, it would not download a new workunit because it said my computer was overtasked based on the low % of time work was allowed. I was able to "force" it to get a new work unit by clicking on update on the project page.

Does anyone know how this is computed or how long it might take for the average to increase? The wiki seems to be out of date for explaining how it is calculated.

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I've gone ahead and disabled screen savers. It does seem like it is processing a workunit the entire time BOINC is running. Now there is a new problem when the last workunit completed, it would not download a new workunit because it said my computer was overtasked based on the low % of time work was allowed. I was able to "force" it to get a new work unit by clicking on update on the project page.

Does anyone know how this is computed or how long it might take for the average to increase? The wiki seems to be out of date for explaining how it is calculated.

I have this same problem too...BOINC runs 98% of the time but claims it only is allowed to work 13% of the time even though it is almost always processing and work units are done in 4-7 hours. It uses 95-98% of the CPU all of the time and is set to run always. As a result I now have only 3 work units downloaded at a time even though it's set to connect every 7 days.

Any help anyone???

Thanks!

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