Posts by Nigel Feilden

1) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Just a bit of messaging would help me and the project (Message 62597) Posted 25 Jun 2020 by Nigel Feilden Post: I joined this project in Jan 20 and received no jobs for several months. Then I noticed a week ago there had been an unexplained 5 GB of internet data off my normal 20 GB/month. I thought that was Microsoft doing something or other with an OS update. And I noticed that everything seemed to be loading really slowly. The light dawned a couple of days ago while looking at Task Manager to see what was busy - and there were these two jobs taking up 54% of cpu between them. They had long names starting with wah2~. So I looked at properties and found they were located in the BOINC folder. Aha moment. Looked in BOINC manager and found they had allocated themselves 100% of my computer - I am pretty sure I left it set that it should be when I was NOT using the computer. So put that right and everything speeded up remarkably. Also, I now leave my computer on, with wifi OFF, when I am not using it, including at night. My point is that an email or SMS to let me know that jobs had been downloaded would have been, if nothing else, polite and encouraging. It would also mean that the jobs would have been completed more quickly.