As you can see from the screenshot below, exclusive apps don't seem stop computation as expected.



System Specs:
Windows 7 32-bit
BOINC Manager 7.0.25

Please check that Activity is set to run based on preferences.
As here it works:

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It was set to run according to preferences.

Change it to run always and back and it now works.

I am running version 7.0.28 of BOINC Manager on Ubuntu 12.04. The "Add" button doesn't work right on the "exclusive applications" tab for computing preferences. Only some programs are listed, while others in the same folder are missing from the folder list. Regardless of what programs I select to add, none are saved when I close BOINC Manager and reopen it.

When I tried to select "exclusive applications" using the BOINC Manager GUI, the list would show "/usr/bin/gimp-2.6", but would not show "/usr/bin/vlc" in the list of programs to add to the list. I clicked on the icon to open the location text box and typed "/usr/bin/vlc", but got an error that " 'vlc' is not an executable application ".

I manually edited the cc_config.xml file in the BOINC data directory with the options below, and restarted the PC. When I run BOINC Manager, the programs I added to the cc_config.xml file are shown in the "exclusive applications" list, but the BOINC tasks continue to run whether these programs are running or not. I have "network activity" and "run based upon preferences" selected under "Activity".

I have selected to use both GPU and CPU while my computer is in use. I have selected to suspend BOINC tasks if CPU usage is greater than 50%, which works okay for most things. BOINC CPU tasks don't seem to cause me much problem with these settings, but GPU task wreck havoc with graphic tasks such as GIMP and playing videos with VLC.

Has anyone had luck with the "exclusive applications" and BOINC on Linux?

Thanks,
Greg

<cc_config>
  <log_flags>
    <task>1</task>
    <file_xfer>1</file_xfer>
    <sched_ops>1</sched_ops>
  </log_flags>
   <options>
    <exclusive_app>/usr/bin/vlc</exclusive_app>
    <exclusive_app>/usr/bin/gimp-2.6</exclusive_app>
    <exclusive_app>vlc</exclusive_app>
    <exclusive_app>gimp-2.6</exclusive_app>

    <exclusive_gpu_app>/usr/bin/vlc</exclusive_gpu_app>
    <exclusive_gpu_app>/usr/bin/gimp-2.6</exclusive_gpu_app>
    <exclusive_gpu_app>vlc</exclusive_gpu_app>
    <exclusive_gpu_app>gimp-2.6</exclusive_gpu_app>
    
  </options>
</cc_config>