Hi Folks,

Been running Boinc for years now, been using Seti since classic was standard so that has been well over a decade. Currently running Climate prediction, Seti, Milkyway, GPUGrid, and Einstein. I have had a lot of times when I have to turn off BOINC because I just need more of my computer for me. This is just a bit of a pain and what is worse is that I will forget to turn it back on. I think 99% of the problems could be solved if I could tell BIONC to only use 3 out of 4 cores or 1 out of 2 cores on my dual core, when I am using the computer - it can have it all when idle. I just can't find the settings. I found one that made everything seesaw in the task manager. I have been searching for help on this for quite a while, so any help is appreciated. Thank-you so much King Furball






Athlon x2 5000 2.0 Overclocked to Athlon Phenom X4 with 6mb l3 cache 2.7 GHZ with Geforce GTX 465

1. Use the "On multiprocessors, use xxx% of the processor Enforced by 6.1+" option to set the amount of CPUs you want to use. In case of a quad core and you want to use 2 or 3, 50% or 75%. These values are integer numbers, meaning that when you fill in any value between and including 75 and 99, that 75% of total CPUs will be used.

2. You could also opt for using a cc_config.xml file with the exclusive_* options. That way, whenever any of the programs you exclude are in memory, BOINC pauses work completely, to continue it after you exited the exclusive program.

E.g.

<cc_config>
<options>
<exclusive_app>scalc.exe</exclusive_app>
<exclusive_app>utorrent.exe</exclusive_app>
<exclusive_gpu_app>notepad.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
</options>
</cc_config>

With the above example, whenever I would open Open Office Calc, or uTorrent, BOINC would suspend calculations on the CPUs, while opening Notepad would stop work on the GPU only. Only for as long as I have any of those programs open.

One line per exclusive application.

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