Comment 30 for bug 128357

@ comment #18

Under Linux (at least for CPU apps, don't know about GPU) your BOINC tasks take a lower "niced" priority and so will give up their CPU slices to other things (you on the computer) by nature of how the thread scheduling works... Unless you've set SCHEDULE=0 (manually, it comes turned on, =1) then the child processes of BOINC also get "niced" down. So I think Daniel's point was that you don't really need to suspend BOINC like you do in Windows (again, I suspect this may not fully apply if you're doing GPU crunching). You can read anything on Linux thread priorities or "Nice" and will have surpassed my knowledge of this topic though.