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Message 114271 - Posted: 17 Jul 2024, 12:33:28 UTC

System:
Windows 10
i7-4790k (4th Gen Hyper-Threading CPU 2014)
BOINC 8.0.2
GeForce/nVidia RTX 2060 Mini OC 6G
M.2 2TB SSD

The local BOINC computing preferences are set to use 5/8 (62.50%) of the cores but the BOINC client still assigns all 8 logical cores - sometimes.

The reason I set 5 of 8 cores is so the OS background tasks can run unimpeded.

The individual project preferences are default - 100% of CPUs. The local BOINC client preferences (should) override these.

I have Two projects
Einstein@home   40% resource share
LHC@home        60% resource share (Windows VirtualBox tasks)

Each project has a variety of task types.
Einstein has CPU and GPU tasks that run natively on Windows.
LHC has only Linux native tasks and runs them on Windows within VirtualBox.

For example:
"O3 1.07" Einstein GPU tasks take 0.9 CPU core and 1 GPU, so it sneaks past the preferences for 5.9 CPU cores used total.  Not a problem.

"ATLAS Simulation 3.01" LHC tasks have all 5 available cores assigned to them, so no other CPU tasks should run.  But sometimes they do:-  5 LHC cores plus some Einstein CPU tasks and the GPU.  8 cores used total.

So without the overhead of free CPU cores for Windows background tasks, the tasks complete more slowly.

So to reiterate; it seems that sometimes the "Use at most x% of the CPUs" setting has no effect.
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Message 114274 - Posted: 17 Jul 2024, 16:22:03 UTC - in response to Message 114271.  

Have you tried, Options>Read local prefs file? I have no idea whether it will make a difference or not. The other thing that springs to mind is that as of a few iterations ago, the computing preferences has different sections for when computer is in use and when it is not in use. (I tend to make sure they are both set to the same.
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Message 114277 - Posted: 17 Jul 2024, 21:36:44 UTC

The Einstein tasks exhibiting this at the moment are of type:
Running                                 Gamma-ray pulsar search #5 1.08 (FGRPSSE)                               LATeah2101F_1352.0_826417_0.0_1
Running                                 Gamma-ray pulsar search #5 1.08 (FGRPSSE)                               LATeah2101F_72.0_2496_-8.2e-11_0
Running                                 Gamma-ray pulsar search #5 1.08 (FGRPSSE)                               LATeah2101F_72.0_2496_-8.2e-11_0
Three of these are running.

Also a GPU task and the LHC 5 core ATLAS Simulation:
Running 0.9 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU         All-Sky Gravitational Wave search on O3 1.07 (GW-opencl-nvidia-2)       h1_1549.60_O3aC01Cl1In0
Running 5 CPUs                          ATLAS Simulation 3.01 (vbox64_mt_mcore_atlas)                           6ToKDmYQon5nsSi4ap6QjLDmwznN0nGgGQJmpmIZDmBz3KDmqFK88n_0
Which all adds up to 8.9 CPUs.

Dave - I'm in line with those suggestions and still 8.9 CPUs.
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Message 114278 - Posted: 18 Jul 2024, 4:20:51 UTC - in response to Message 114277.  

Dave - I'm in line with those suggestions and still 8.9 CPUs.
I wasn't that hopeful I have had issues in the past with multi-threaded tasks but as I only run CPDN work except when there isn't any, I don't see the issue often.
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Message 114280 - Posted: 18 Jul 2024, 10:08:30 UTC

But
A blend of different Einstein tasks in the queue seems to give way...
Einstein@home   Waiting to run                          Gamma-ray pulsar search #5 1.08 (FGRPSSE)                               LATeah2102F_88.0_2352_-8.4e-11_0
Einstein@home   Waiting to run                          Gamma-ray pulsar search #5 1.08 (FGRPSSE)                               LATeah2102F_88.0_2420_-7.600000000000002e-11_0
Einstein@home   Waiting to run                          Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_320_0
Einstein@home   Waiting to run                          Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_152_0
Einstein@home   Waiting to run                          Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_1536_0

...to an acceptable 5.9 CPUs running:
Einstein@home   Running 0.9 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU         All-Sky Gravitational Wave search on O3 1.07 (GW-opencl-nvidia-2)       h1_1549.60_O3aC01Cl1In0__O3ASHF1d_1550.00Hz_56335_1
LHC@home        Running 5 CPUs                          ATLAS Simulation 3.01 (vbox64_mt_mcore_atlas)                           6ToKDmYQon5nsSi4ap6QjLDmwznN0nGgGQJmpmIZDmBz3KDmqFK88n_0
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Message 114297 - Posted: 20 Jul 2024, 10:50:18 UTC

This time it's 6.9 CPUs
Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_1544_0_0
Einstein@home   Waiting to run                          Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_24_0
Einstein@home   Waiting to run                          Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_1520_0
Einstein@home   Waiting to run                          Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_288_0
Einstein@home   Waiting to run                          Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b3s0g0.00000_3680_0
Einstein@home   Running 0.9 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU         All-Sky Gravitational Wave search on O3 1.07 (GW-opencl-nvidia-2)       h1_1545.60_O3aC01Cl1In0__O3ASHF1d_1546.00Hz_10148_0

LHC@home        Running 5 CPUs                          ATLAS Simulation 3.01 (vbox64_mt_mcore_atlas)                           6ToKDmYQon5nsSi4ap6QjLDmwznN0nGgGQJmpmIZDmBz3KDmqFK88n_0
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Message 114298 - Posted: 20 Jul 2024, 11:32:11 UTC
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And 7.9 CPUs
Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_24_0
Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_1520_0
Einstein@home   Running 0.9 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU         All-Sky Gravitational Wave search on O3 1.07 (GW-opencl-nvidia-2)       h1_1545.60_O3aC01Cl1In0__O3ASHF1d_1546.00Hz_10154_0_0

LHC@home        Running 5 CPUs                          ATLAS Simulation 3.01 (vbox64_mt_mcore_atlas)                           6ToKDmYQon5nsSi4ap6QjLDmwznN0nGgGQJmpmIZDmBz3KDmqFK88n_0

This, according to Windows Task Manager, is using 100% of the CPU's.
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Message 114299 - Posted: 20 Jul 2024, 12:54:54 UTC
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An hour later -
Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_1520_0
Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_288_0
Einstein@home   Running (0.2 CPUs + 0.33 NVIDIA GPUs)   Binary Radio Pulsar Search (MeerKAT) 0.12 (BRP7-cuda55)                 Ter5_1_dns_cfbf00019_segment_4_dms_200_40000_26_3800000_2
Einstein@home   Running (0.2 CPUs + 0.33 NVIDIA GPUs)   Binary Radio Pulsar Search (MeerKAT) 0.12 (BRP7-cuda55)                 Ter5_1_dns_cfbf00021_segment_1_dms_200_40000_171_6000000_1
Einstein@home   Running (0.2 CPUs + 0.33 NVIDIA GPUs)   Binary Radio Pulsar Search (MeerKAT) 0.12 (BRP7-cuda55)                 Ter5_1_dns_cfbf00019_segment_4_dms_200_40000_26_3350000_2

LHC@home        Running 5 CPUs                          ATLAS Simulation 3.01 (vbox64_mt_mcore_atlas)                           6ToKDmYQon5nsSi4ap6QjLDmwznN0nGgGQJmpmIZDmBz3KDmqFK88n_0
7.6 CPUs used by BOINC but 100% of CPUs in use (because of and including Windows background tasks).
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Message 114300 - Posted: 20 Jul 2024, 12:58:17 UTC

Please check that you have Activity set to "Run based on preferences".
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Message 114301 - Posted: 20 Jul 2024, 14:03:37 UTC
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Finaly the LHC ATLAS Simulation task completed (2d:08:54:54).
Now with just Einstein tasks running:
Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_1520_0
Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_288_0
Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b3s0g0.00000_3680_0
Einstein@home   Running                                 Gamma-ray pulsar search #5 1.08 (FGRPSSE)                               LATeah2101F_1464.0_351439_0.0_1
Einstein@home   Running                                 Gamma-ray pulsar search #5 1.08 (FGRPSSE)                               LATeah2102F_472.0_122320_0.0_0
Einstein@home   Running (0.2 CPUs + 0.33 NVIDIA GPUs)   Binary Radio Pulsar Search (MeerKAT) 0.12 (BRP7-cuda55)                 Ter5_1_dns_cfbf00019_segment_4_dms_200_40000_26_3400000_2
Einstein@home   Running (0.2 CPUs + 0.33 NVIDIA GPUs)   Binary Radio Pulsar Search (MeerKAT) 0.12 (BRP7-cuda55)                 Ter5_1_dns_cfbf00021_segment_1_dms_200_40000_78_4050000_0
Einstein@home   Running (0.2 CPUs + 0.33 NVIDIA GPUs)   Binary Radio Pulsar Search (MeerKAT) 0.12 (BRP7-cuda55)                 Ter5_1_dns_cfbf00019_segment_4_dms_200_40000_26_3450000_2
An acceptable 5.6 CPUs used ~70%.

Jord - I do now. No change.
I'll get some LHC@home on board and see...
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Message 114302 - Posted: 20 Jul 2024, 18:36:50 UTC

Jord - I'm now running with "Activity -> Run based on preferences".

I didn't mention but I'm using a squid local http cache for the LHC project, set up as described in their tutorial.

Got another LHC task.
The BOINC manager registered it as running but there was no CPU activity. After 20 minutes it started to register as using one CPU. After 10 more minutes it had registered as using 5 CPUs.
This had no effect on the three Einstein tasks.

Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b5s0g0.00000_288_0
Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b3s0g0.00000_3680_0
Einstein@home   Running 0.9 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU         All-Sky Gravitational Wave search on O3 1.07 (GW-opencl-nvidia-2)       h1_1547.60_O3aC01Cl1In0__O3ASHF1d_1548.00Hz_36591_1

LHC@home        Running (5 CPUs)                        ATLAS Simulation 3.01 (vbox64_mt_mcore_atlas)                           1ktNDmpgQp5nsSi4ap6QjLDmwznN0nGgGQJme0FTDmoROKDmiwDROm_0

Which all adds up to 7.9 CPUs and Windows Task Manager registers 100% of CPUs in use.
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Message 114305 - Posted: 21 Jul 2024, 2:30:53 UTC
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Can you please post the contents of your global_prefs.xml file and if it exists the global_prefs_override.xml file?
You can open these files in Notepad, you don't need an XML editor.
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Message 114306 - Posted: 21 Jul 2024, 10:01:57 UTC
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global_prefs.xml
<global_preferences>
    <source_project>https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/</source_project>
    <source_scheduler>https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome_cgi/cgi</source_scheduler>

<mod_time>1691646125</mod_time>
<idle_time_to_run>60</idle_time_to_run>
<run_if_user_active>1</run_if_user_active>
<run_gpu_if_user_active>1</run_gpu_if_user_active>
<max_ncpus_pct>100</max_ncpus_pct>
<cpu_usage_limit>100</cpu_usage_limit>
<suspend_cpu_usage>0</suspend_cpu_usage>
<ram_max_used_busy_pct>100</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
<niu_max_ncpus_pct>100</niu_max_ncpus_pct>
<niu_cpu_usage_limit>100</niu_cpu_usage_limit>
<niu_suspend_cpu_usage>0</niu_suspend_cpu_usage>
<ram_max_used_idle_pct>100</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
<suspend_if_no_recent_input>0</suspend_if_no_recent_input>
<run_on_batteries>1</run_on_batteries>
<cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>180</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
<disk_interval>60</disk_interval>
<leave_apps_in_memory>0</leave_apps_in_memory>
<work_buf_min_days>1</work_buf_min_days>
<work_buf_additional_days>1</work_buf_additional_days>
<disk_max_used_gb>40</disk_max_used_gb>
<disk_min_free_gb>500</disk_min_free_gb>
<disk_max_used_pct>0</disk_max_used_pct>
<vm_max_used_pct>100</vm_max_used_pct>
<max_bytes_sec_down>0</max_bytes_sec_down>
<max_bytes_sec_up>0</max_bytes_sec_up>
<daily_xfer_limit_mb>0</daily_xfer_limit_mb>
<daily_xfer_period_days>0</daily_xfer_period_days>
<dont_verify_images>0</dont_verify_images>
<confirm_before_connecting>0</confirm_before_connecting>
<hangup_if_dialed>0</hangup_if_dialed>
</global_preferences>
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Message 114307 - Posted: 21 Jul 2024, 10:04:25 UTC 

global_prefs_override.xml
<global_preferences>
   <run_on_batteries>1</run_on_batteries>
   <run_if_user_active>1</run_if_user_active>
   <run_gpu_if_user_active>1</run_gpu_if_user_active>
   <suspend_if_no_recent_input>0.000000</suspend_if_no_recent_input>
   <suspend_cpu_usage>0.000000</suspend_cpu_usage>
   <start_hour>0.000000</start_hour>
   <end_hour>0.000000</end_hour>
   <net_start_hour>0.000000</net_start_hour>
   <net_end_hour>0.000000</net_end_hour>
   <leave_apps_in_memory>0</leave_apps_in_memory>
   <confirm_before_connecting>0</confirm_before_connecting>
   <hangup_if_dialed>0</hangup_if_dialed>
   <dont_verify_images>0</dont_verify_images>
   <work_buf_min_days>2.000000</work_buf_min_days>
   <work_buf_additional_days>0.000000</work_buf_additional_days>
   <max_ncpus_pct>62.500000</max_ncpus_pct>
   <niu_max_ncpus_pct>62.500000</niu_max_ncpus_pct>
   <niu_cpu_usage_limit>100.000000</niu_cpu_usage_limit>
   <niu_suspend_cpu_usage>0.000000</niu_suspend_cpu_usage>
   <cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>180.000000</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
   <disk_interval>60.000000</disk_interval>
   <disk_max_used_gb>40.000000</disk_max_used_gb>
   <disk_max_used_pct>0.000000</disk_max_used_pct>
   <disk_min_free_gb>500.000000</disk_min_free_gb>
   <vm_max_used_pct>100.000000</vm_max_used_pct>
   <ram_max_used_busy_pct>100.000000</ram_max_used_busy_pct>
   <ram_max_used_idle_pct>100.000000</ram_max_used_idle_pct>
   <max_bytes_sec_up>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_up>
   <max_bytes_sec_down>0.000000</max_bytes_sec_down>
   <cpu_usage_limit>100.000000</cpu_usage_limit>
   <daily_xfer_limit_mb>0.000000</daily_xfer_limit_mb>
   <daily_xfer_period_days>0</daily_xfer_period_days>
</global_preferences>
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Message 114308 - Posted: 21 Jul 2024, 11:31:20 UTC 

Einstein@home   Running                                 Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,long) 1.33 (BRP4X64)            p2030.20200310.G177.84+00.33.S.b3s0g0.00000_3680_0
Einstein@home   Running (0.9 CPUs + 1 NVIDIA GPU)       All-Sky Gravitational Wave search on O3 1.07 (GW-opencl-nvidia-2)       h1_1547.60_O3aC01Cl1In0__O3ASHF1d_1548.00Hz_28808_1

LHC@home        Running (5 CPUs)                        ATLAS Simulation 3.01 (vbox64_mt_mcore_atlas)                           1rTNDmnDYp5nsSi4ap6QjLDmwznN0nGgGQJme0FTDmtBPKDmjq3TFm_0
6.9 CPUs ~90%
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Message 114309 - Posted: 21 Jul 2024, 20:01:33 UTC - in response to Message 114306.  

What if you go to the project website and set the max CPU percentage to be used here too to 62.5%?
They're now 100% from the website.

I'm wondering if your BOINC actually uses the local preferences.
Can you post the first 30 or so lines of the event log (CTRL+SHIFT+E)?
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Message 114310 - Posted: 21 Jul 2024, 20:17:49 UTC
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This is the entire Event Log of a startup with Activity suspended.
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Starting BOINC client version 8.0.2 for windows_x86_64
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, benchmark_debug, proxy_debug
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Libraries: libcurl/8.7.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3.1
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Running under account Guy Ollerearnshaw
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (driver version 560.70, CUDA version 12.6, compute capability 7.5, 6144MB, 6144MB available, 6509 GFLOPS peak)
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (driver version 560.70, device version OpenCL 3.0 CUDA, 6144MB, 6144MB available, 6509 GFLOPS peak)
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | app version refers to missing GPU type intel_gpu
21/07/2024 21:09:56 | Einstein@Home | App version uses missing GPU 'intel_gpu'
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | app version refers to missing GPU type intel_gpu
21/07/2024 21:09:56 | Einstein@Home | App version uses missing GPU 'intel_gpu'
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Windows processor group 0: 8 processors
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Host name: DESKTOP-QAB8PRM
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3]
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movebe popcnt aes f16c rdrandsyscall nx lm avx avx2 vmx tm2 pbe fsgsbase bmi1 smep bmi2
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | OS: Microsoft Windows 10: Core x64 Edition, (10.00.19045.00)
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Memory: 31.74 GB physical, 36.49 GB virtual
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Disk: 1.82 TB total, 566.15 GB free
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Local time is UTC +1 hours
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | No WSL found.
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | VirtualBox version: 7.0.18
21/07/2024 21:09:56 | LHC@home | Found app_config.xml
21/07/2024 21:09:56 | LHC@home | Theory: Max 3 concurrent jobs
21/07/2024 21:09:56 | LHC@home | CMS: Max 1 concurrent jobs
21/07/2024 21:09:56 | LHC@home | General prefs: from LHC@home (last modified 10-Aug-2023 06:42:05)
21/07/2024 21:09:56 | LHC@home | Host location: none
21/07/2024 21:09:56 | LHC@home | General prefs: using your defaults
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Reading preferences override file
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Preferences:
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -  When computer is in use
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -     'In use' means mouse/keyboard input in last 60.00 minutes
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -     max CPUs used: 5
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -     Use at most 100% of the CPU time
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -     max memory usage: 31.74 GB
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -  When computer is not in use
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -     max CPUs used: 5
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -     Use at most 100% of the CPU time
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -     max memory usage: 31.74 GB
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -  Store at least 2.00 days of work
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -  Store up to an additional 0.00 days of work
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -  max disk usage: 40.00 GB
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | -  (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Setting up project and slot directories
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Checking active tasks
21/07/2024 21:09:56 | Einstein@Home | URL https://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 12910697; resource share 40
21/07/2024 21:09:56 | LHC@home | URL https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/; Computer ID 10730901; resource share 60
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Setting up GUI RPC socket
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Checking presence of 981 project files
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Using proxy info from GUI
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Using HTTP proxy 192.168.1.155:3128
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | Suspending computation - user request
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | [proxy] HTTP_OP::no_proxy_for_url(): https://einsteinathome.org/rss_main.php
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | [proxy] returning false
21/07/2024 21:09:56 |  | [proxy]: setting up proxy 192.168.1.155:3128
21/07/2024 21:09:57 |  | [proxy] automatic proxy check in progress
21/07/2024 21:09:57 |  | [proxy] HTTP_OP::no_proxy_for_url(): https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/notices.php?userid=95350&auth=95350_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
21/07/2024 21:09:57 |  | [proxy] returning false
21/07/2024 21:09:57 |  | [proxy]: setting up proxy 192.168.1.155:3128
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Message 114311 - Posted: 21 Jul 2024, 20:40:01 UTC

Updated both project web prefs.
Appended to the Event Log
21/07/2024 21:30:41 | Einstein@Home | General prefs: using your defaults
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | Reading preferences override file
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | Preferences:
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | -  When computer is in use
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | -     'In use' means mouse/keyboard input in last 1.00 minutes
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | -     max CPUs used: 5
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | -     Use at most 100% of the CPU time
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | -     max memory usage: 31.74 GB
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | -  When computer is not in use
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | -     max CPUs used: 5
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | -     Use at most 100% of the CPU time
21/07/2024 21:30:41 |  | -     max memory usage: 31.74 GB
and
21/07/2024 21:31:12 | LHC@home | General prefs: using your defaults
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | Reading preferences override file
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | Preferences:
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | -  When computer is in use
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | -     'In use' means mouse/keyboard input in last 60.00 minutes
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | -     max CPUs used: 5
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | -     Use at most 100% of the CPU time
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | -     max memory usage: 31.74 GB
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | -  When computer is not in use
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | -     max CPUs used: 5
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | -     Use at most 100% of the CPU time
21/07/2024 21:31:12 |  | -     max memory usage: 31.74 GB
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Message 114312 - Posted: 21 Jul 2024, 21:02:22 UTC
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I restarted BOINC.
It started running an LHC 5xCPU task and an Einstein GPU task that uses 0.9 CPUs.
5.9 CPUs total.
I suspended all the GPU tasks and no other tasks started.
5.0
Result!

Thank you for that.
But I still cant use the local prefs to quickly make changes if I really want to...
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Message 114313 - Posted: 21 Jul 2024, 22:05:01 UTC - in response to Message 114312.  

It started running an LHC 5xCPU task and an Einstein GPU task that uses 0.9 CPUs.
5.9 CPUs total.
Yes, but that's normal. The Einstein task runs on the GPU, all the CPU is used for is to translate the data of the task to something the GPU can handle, then transport that data to the GPU and back, so you'll see that this core isn't maxed out at 100%. There's not much we can do about that, that CPU use is always needed to help the GPU. Until there's an option to natively run tasks directly on the GPU (I wouldn't hold my breath, it ever comes to that).

The LHC tasks are multithreaded (seeing the mt in the name), so these use the maximum allowed CPU cores.
You should not see any other tasks running at such a time, and if you do, maybe they're strays. Always try to exit BOINC & see if nothing stays in memory - if there is something left behind, then these are strays, kill their run. Before restarting BOINC.

But I still cant use the local prefs to quickly make changes if I really want to...
You ought to be able to do that now.
Although changes to the GPU always requires a BOINC restart. Maybe a safe way is to do that for CPU changes as well.
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