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I noticed that my BOINC manager was constantly contacting host. Thought "Hmmm whats this all about?" I started dinking around on my PC and noticed that the BOINC process was eating a lot of CPU time. This shouldnt happen unless its just starting. I also noticed increase times on my Seti WU's. So I decided to suspend FreeHal. BOINC process stopped eating CPU time. All I can assume is freeHAL uses the BOINC process to run its computations and at the same time limits the actual CPU time the WU's are shown running.
This makes me highly suspiscious of the FreeHal project. If my BOINC manager is constantly polling for a connection and the boinc process is using massive CPU time when the Freehal WUs are "processing" it seems to me this is almost if not an explicit process hijacking. FreeHal is now gone and I won't touch it again.
 
Truth is after all a moving target
Hairs to split, and pieces that don't fit
How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit - Getty Lee
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Joined: 7/7/2006
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I haven't had a problem at all with Freehal besides trying to get work sometimes...strange how you are having problems with it and boinc at the same time..
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Joined: 2/24/2007
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What I noticed was BOINC looking for a connection. and if you spend a few seconds while FreeHal WU's are running you'll see BOINC.exe in your task manager running more than just idle. BOINC.exe shouldn't be using any CPU cycles. it just sits there. My BOINC.exe was running as if it was a 5th WU on my quad
Truth is after all a moving target
Hairs to split, and pieces that don't fit
How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit - Getty Lee
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Joined: 4/28/2007
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FreeHal has always ran as a 3rd wu on my dual core machines. I havn't had any problems with it yet though. Guess I'll have to look into it a little more thoroughly when I get home. Have there been any complaints or suspicions on other boards?
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Joined: 7/7/2006
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boinc.exe doesn't use any cpu cycles on any of my fleet that i run freehal on...must have been a fluke for you..
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Joined: 7/5/2006
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No problems for my fleet either, it is a Alpha project so I don't doubt it wigging out on you.
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Joined: 7/7/2006
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I found that FreeHal slowed down the computer a bit, so I stopped running it a while back.
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Joined: 7/9/2006
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Your symptoms sound just like what I go through at the warehouse, using an XP64 box as an ICS host. All the clients connected to it, boinc manager will do the same. I've narrowed it down to an ICS/NIC issue, as while I can see the network fine, net access can become spotty, a reboot clears it up. No FreeHal at the warehouse either.
Boinc Manager freaks if there is lost connectivity to the net.
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Joined: 2/24/2007
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I'll give the NIC a reboot too see if that heals the problem. It seems odd that BOINC would be slamming away on a CPU when freehal was active and the activity stopped after I suspended FreeHal.
Truth is after all a moving target
Hairs to split, and pieces that don't fit
How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit - Getty Lee
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Joined: 7/9/2006
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It's really getting bad, it's gobbling resources and disc access gets pretty high. Since he started over a few days ago, I can't keep it going. Not really trying, just dumping it.
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Joined: 2/24/2007
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so freehal borked you too?
Truth is after all a moving target
Hairs to split, and pieces that don't fit
How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit - Getty Lee
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Joined: 7/9/2006
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yep, same symptoms as you. Oh well, something else will come along or maybe the kid will fix FreeHal..
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