Hello from Berlin !

I wonder if there is a possibility to change the number of used cpus at any time without restarting the boinc client and so force the applications to restart at last checkpoint.
Currently I use a little script, that modifies global_prefs_override.xml and stops and restarts the client.

Perhaps there is some boinc api method to call to do this ?

Regards, Frank

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Change the number of CPUs through your preferences site, update BOINC for that project. At the next switch time for applications, the next number of CPUs will be used.

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That's the normal way, but this doesn't fulfill my needs.
I want to change the used cpus immediately by running a shell script.
The original reason to do this was noise reduction, because my dual core box makes much noise while using 2 cpus for boinc, so i decrease it at morning to one cpu, and when i leave the office i increase it to 2 cpus, because no one is at the office any more and would be irritated by the noise.

Regards, Frank

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Ok, I found the solution:

boinccmd --read_global_prefs_override

does the job.

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