I set this preference:

Connect to network about every

to:

0.1 days

...and yet my firewall's internet use indicator has been going constantly ever since I installed Rosetta@Home and Boinc. Shouldn't "0.1 days" mean "once every 2.4 hours"? What's going on here and how can I make it obey my preference? The internet traffic continues even when I tell Rosetta to go into 'snooze' mode. At that point, the processor traffic stops, but the internet traffic is uneffected.

G'day jhludlow

here is a response to a similar question

There are three parts to Boinc; The Daemon, the Manager, and the Screensaver. The Daemon and the Manager communicate with eachother via an internal port (either 1043 or 31416, and is called "the Loopback address"), this is recorded as network traffic, even though it never leaves your computer. If you lock which ever port you're using, boinc will stop working.

hope this helps

tony

That does a far better job of explaining it than I could :)
Edit: for my bad BBCode

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Here's another description.

Glad to have you aboard jhludlow.

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