Use at most 40 percent of CPU time doesn't work

hello,

i've set boinc to Use at most 40 percent of CPU time in 'General preferences' but setiathome_5.15 still uses almost 100% of the cpu time. is there a way to fix this? please note that i've already click 'Update preferences' on the web page and 'Update' in boinc manager. boing is version 5.4.9.

thank you.

Hi
I think you missunderstood the behaviour.
If you have multiple projects, lets say seti, climaprediction and whatever then you can say seti should use 40 %, climaprediction should use 35 % and whatever should use 25 % of the available time.
Additionally: as far as i remember this are not percentages, but numbers who are used in relation to each other. So you may have seti 60(%?) climaprediction 210(%?) and whatever 30(%?) and it will use seti 20%, climaprediction 70% and whatever 10%
regards
GriLLe
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In the heaven of Gates, you pay the Bill

so it's for the next version. thanks a lot. :) hope it gets implemented quickly. the fan is quite noisy with 100% cpu usage.
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Hi
I think you missunderstood the behaviour.
If you have multiple projects, lets say seti, climaprediction and whatever then you can say seti should use 40 %, climaprediction should use 35 % and whatever should use 25 % of the available time.
Additionally: as far as i remember this are not percentages, but numbers who are used in relation to each other. So you may have seti 60(%?) climaprediction 210(%?) and whatever 30(%?) and it will use seti 20%, climaprediction 70% and whatever 10%
regards
GriLLe
--
In the heaven of Gates, you pay the Bill

Don't know if this will help but if you have a Dual-core CPU, you can assign Affinity to the boinc.exe process in Task Manager (assuming Windows XP) - I was able to assign 1 of the 2 logical CPUs to the boinc process and then consequently, all spawned work was limited to a max of 50% Total CPU - this keeps my fans from getting noisy! Precisely why I was exploring this too :-)

Yeah, I noticed this, too. OK, next version.

Aside from the fan, running 100% CPU pushes the processor temp up 10-15 degrees celsius over dead idle (as well as pushing the fan speed up 2k rpm). Blame the chip/mobo makers for giving us all this monitoring capability we didn't use to have. On older systems we could remain blissfully ignorant.

(Yeah, I know, it's still running way under redline.)

I am actually having the same exact problem wiht my system. Not only am i heating up my cpu, i get my nice handy dandy alarm (whihc i know how to turn off, but leave on anyways because im UBER paranoid). I figured to try the "use at most 1 cpu" before i found this thread, and i think it may have helped, but my Seti is down right now, so im not entirely sure yet. I will check up w/ you guys later.

btw, he meant almost 100% of cpu usage by, in the task manager it would say "CPU USage: 100%" i think what Boinc is trying to do, is automatically fill up any left over un-used virtual memory with it's own processing capacity.
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I believe my result was: before i was processing 2 seti projects simultaneously and now one of them is running (and obviously faster) and the other two are in "preempted" status... w/e that means. I guess it worked though because now i can play games and run boinc at the same time w/o overheating.

I think your problem is solved ; )

the only drawback is you will be earning credit slower this way insted of multitasking, but i guess thats better then lowering the lifespan of your cpu.
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he meant almost 100% of cpu usage by, in the task manager it would say "CPU USage: 100%" i think what Boinc is trying to do, is automatically fill up any left over un-used virtual memory with it's own processing capacity.

the other two are in "preempted" status... w/e that means.

Boinc Manager 5.4.11 is still not managing the CPU time allowed in 'General preferences'. setiathome_enhanced5.15 still uses almost 100% of the cpu time...
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That's correct. The new upcoming 5.6.x versions of BOINC use this setting in preferences. All public clients before 5.5.8 (alpha version) do not.
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Jord

- BOINC FAQ Service
- BOINC User Wiki

Real is just a matter of perception.

That's correct. The new upcoming 5.6.x versions of BOINC use this setting in preferences. All public clients before 5.5.8 (alpha version) do not.

BOINC 5.6.x is abandoned. The next public update will be 5.8.x, which will include the new (and simpler) GUI.

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Jord

- BOINC FAQ Service
- BOINC User Wiki

Real is just a matter of perception.

Any ETA on when this will be released? I just got boinc working after giving up a year ago and getting no reply in the forums. I am guessing it was flawed boinc software since today it installed fine and is working fine. :-)

I am effectively unable to run boinc AT ALL if I can not throttle its usage. I can not chance it effecting other operations running on the system. My server at home records my TV shows. it has 4 TV Tuners. I will not risk corrupting a recording just to run this program. (the old software NEVER had this problem and NEVER got in my way it was transparent and in the background and forgotten just like it should be :-( it auto throttled itself to never interefere with what the computer was doing.

If the software is going to interfere with my normal usage of the machine it can not be allowed to run at all. So any eta on a throttleable version ? do any of the beta's support the throttling ?

Also how do I make this software minimize to the tray ? ie I dont want to see boinc at all when it starts up save for that little G in the systray section. right now it opens boinc and I have to manually CLOSE it even when I set it to run minimized it runs minimized to the task bar and I have to close that to get rid of it.??

Thanks
Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

(the old software NEVER had this problem and NEVER got in my way it was transparent and in the background and forgotten just like it should be :-( it auto throttled itself to never interefere with what the computer was doing.