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Message 1512567 - Posted: 5 May 2014, 18:50:21 UTC

Hi Folks,

I have been running a Mac Pro with Seti for 7 years, a dual quad, runs 8 tasks at once no problem.

Have purchased the new Mac Pro and it runs 8 tasks when it could run 24. Can't figure out what is wrong. Have set the max CPU's to 24. The mac runs 8 tasks assigning each to three threads and then it cycles through those three threads. So 1 is active at 100% and 2 at 0%. I want 24 threads at 100% - is this possible, and if so how?

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Message 1512574 - Posted: 5 May 2014, 19:14:54 UTC - in response to Message 1512567.  

There are two preference settings for telling BOINC how many CPUs to use:

On multiprocessors, use at most	8 processors


On multiprocessors, use at most 
Enforced by version 6.1+	75% of the processors


The first one is for use with BOINC 5.10 and earlier. The second one, in the form of a percentage, is the one to use for all newer versions of BOINC. BOINC is seeing all 24 CPUs on your Mac, so if BOINC is not using them, then it is a preference thing.
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Message 1515890 - Posted: 14 May 2014, 8:55:55 UTC - in response to Message 1512574.  

Yeah I have the same issue. Running seri at home 7.00, I have a 6 core 3.5 GHz mac pro (the new one) yet only running 8 work units, despite CPU usage in the preferences is set to 100%.

Can someone elaborate?

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Message 1515926 - Posted: 14 May 2014, 11:40:19 UTC - in response to Message 1515890.  

Can you post the first 30 lines of your BOINC Event Log?
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Message 1515952 - Posted: 14 May 2014, 12:49:11 UTC - in response to Message 1515890.  

what is the second to last line in preferences say. Where it says "on multiprocessors use at most"?
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