Hi all;
On my fairly new laptop I added Boinc and Seti about 2 months ago. A few weeks later I added Rosetta and ever since then my poor computer takes forever to boot up. I ran anti-virus and spyware checks, did the ctl-alt-delete thing to see if anything else was running but other than boinc being active they were all normal. Before Rosetta this particular laptop took about 2 minutes to boot, not its more than 5 minutes. The only thing I can think of is that Boinc is up and running before the boot up is completed which is taking up resources. Is there any way to delay boinc actually doing any work until the boot process is completed? Any other ideas?
Thanks,
John

Hi,

well, then just do not select you want to launch BOINC at startup and start it manually when you wish. I have a laptop too, CoreDuo. Running Rosetta 100% and no problems at all.

Jakub

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Hi,

well, then just do not select you want to launch BOINC at startup and start it manually when you wish. I have a laptop too, CoreDuo. Running Rosetta 100% and no problems at all.

Jakub

Yeah I guess I could do that. There is no problem otherwise. I just hate trying to remember to start it up everytime. Thanks,
John

Is there any way to delay boinc actually doing any work until the boot process is completed? Any other ideas?

Not sure if it will help, but have you set the flag in your General Preferences so that BOINC does NOT run while your computer is in use? Be sure to update to the project after you change a preference in order for it to take effect.

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my poor computer takes forever to boot up.

If you are running Boinc NOT as a service, and I mean that Boinc starts from your Startup folder, you can try the following method to delay its starting until Windows starts up.

Please see this thread and my post there referring to the utility program DelayRun and a link to that program.

Use caution when going to that forum - it is the Seti forum and there's a whole lot of upset users there lately.

I might suggest delaying Boinc startup for as long as 30 seconds.

Have you tried installing as a service? Or is that the problem? If you want the screensaver or graphics there is a workaround to enable it when Boinc is running as a service.

Without knowing just what exactly is running in memory during startup.. it could be that with the installation of BOINC and attachment to R@H that your memory requirement increased past what's physically available.

To find out if that's the case, after you've gotten to your desktop, hit CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up your task manager, go to the performance tab. Look at the Physical Memory (K) box and note the total RAM. Then look at the Commit Charge (K) box and note the total. In general if the Commit Charge total is within 32,000KB of the Physical Memory total, Windows has already begun to make use of the Page File on your Hard Drive thus slowing your machine more and more as demand increases. The best fix is a memory upgrade chip with 512MB or more capacity. You can't ever have too much RAM but I'd not suggest any more than 3GB in a WinXP (32-bit) system, per Microsoft.

If you google a bit you can find "Microsoft Bootvis" and install it to get an idea of what is running, when it runs, and how much memory, etc is going on while your system boots.

Hope that helps.

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Hi all;
On my fairly new laptop I added Boinc and Seti about 2 months ago. A few weeks later I added Rosetta and ever since then my poor computer takes forever to boot up. I ran anti-virus and spyware checks, did the ctl-alt-delete thing to see if anything else was running but other than boinc being active they were all normal. Before Rosetta this particular laptop took about 2 minutes to boot, not its more than 5 minutes. The only thing I can think of is that Boinc is up and running before the boot up is completed which is taking up resources. Is there any way to delay boinc actually doing any work until the boot process is completed? Any other ideas?
Thanks,
John

I had a similar problem before and found out that while I had Boinc in the start up, the AVP was also starting up at the same time...the two clients were at logger heads with each other. This is just a possiblity worth checking out.

You are kind of short on memory from what I could tell. My XPHome after startup runs with 393Mb memory used with Rosetta (1 WU) running. I would think that even if you don't have alot of physical memory that unused parts of Windows would be paged to harddisk and allow you to comfortably run Rosetta. I wouldn't run 2 WUs at a time though.