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Message 201669 - Posted: 3 Dec 2005, 2:00:15 UTC

can I run multiple run_clients on Linux? If so, how?

In the old sah, I created a few dirs, cp the code in each and via a script cd to that dir and run seti, loop for all dirs.

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Message 201686 - Posted: 3 Dec 2005, 2:26:06 UTC

Can I run multiple run_clients on Linux? If so, how?

In the old sah, I created a few dirs, cp the code in each and via a script cd to that dir and run seti, loop for all dirs.

For a multi processor system, know you can let run one boinc client, which starts your configured value of seti@home apps - one process per CPU.
You can configure this on the website/your account/General Preferences/On multiprocessors, use at most X processors.


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Message 201774 - Posted: 3 Dec 2005, 4:01:50 UTC - in response to Message 201686.  

Can I run multiple run_clients on Linux? If so, how?

In the old sah, I created a few dirs, cp the code in each and via a script cd to that dir and run seti, loop for all dirs.

For a multi processor system, know you can let run one boinc client, which starts your configured value of seti@home apps - one process per CPU.
You can configure this on the website/your account/General Preferences/On multiprocessors, use at most X processors.



Indeed, my dual system runs two sah apps, one per cpu. My other linux system has one cpu only. I was hoping I could run multiple instances of the run_client like I used to do with the old classic sah. Thank you for your reply, though.

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Message 201933 - Posted: 3 Dec 2005, 11:39:02 UTC - in response to Message 201774.  


Indeed, my dual system runs two sah apps, one per cpu. My other linux system has one cpu only. I was hoping I could run multiple instances of the run_client like I used to do with the old classic sah. Thank you for your reply, though.

What do you wan't to accomplish with the multiple instances ?

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Message 201989 - Posted: 3 Dec 2005, 13:23:22 UTC - in response to Message 201933.  


Indeed, my dual system runs two sah apps, one per cpu. My other linux system has one cpu only. I was hoping I could run multiple instances of the run_client like I used to do with the old classic sah. Thank you for your reply, though.

What do you want to accomplish with the multiple instances ?


I thought I could contribute more to sah. If not, I'll shut up.

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Message 204568 - Posted: 6 Dec 2005, 12:11:57 UTC - in response to Message 201989.  


Indeed, my dual system runs two sah apps, one per cpu. My other linux system has one cpu only. I was hoping I could run multiple instances of the run_client like I used to do with the old classic sah. Thank you for your reply, though.

What do you want to accomplish with the multiple instances ?


I thought I could contribute more to sah. If not, I'll shut up.

Hi pavlos
Boinc does it all for you, you don't have to run multiple instances.
Running one instance will use ALL of the available CPU (1 x 100%)
If you were to run 2 instances (or more), they would average 50% CPU each (2 x 50%) so you wouldn't gain anything and you may even lose CPU caused by switching between instances (2 x 49%)
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