VERY BAD NEWS!!!
Somebody please help : I am being effectively forced to quit Crunching
Since I started WCG everything's been going great - I setup the client & it's been purring way like a kitten in the background ever since. However since I moved over to Win7-64, its been a nightmare.
The Bonic client (Or Win7) completely disregards it's CPU priority threading so badly that I cant even BOOT my multi-core VM's at all, and any & all other multi-threaded applications are dysfunctional to to the point of straight out pointlessness.
As of today I have to completely remove the Bonic client from my system.
This is especially sad as it co-existed perfectly harmlessness so very very well with the exact same services & VM's on WinXP-32.
The WCG threads ARE automatically setting themselves to idle priority, but it's as though the system just straight up doesn't care - and treats them as though they are near-realtime.
Even if I set the CPU usage lower in the client (which I DON'T want to do anyway as its wasteful, and it ran with 100% usage JUST FINE in XP) it just starts processing in small burst of 100% usage and every time it does that every other multithreaded application grinds to a halt then resumes.
I am very sad about this - Unless anyone knows of a fix this will have to be the end of my participation in this project, which until now has been an absolute pleasure to be part of.
Plz help!