Hi

New user here. I just installed CPDN, and downloaded my first work unit, which is running.

I'm using a 4-core i7, and my understanding is that BOINC usually assigns one work unit to each core, so it should be using all 4 cores. I have this set up under computing preferences, but there is no sign it's downloading any more work units.

At the time of writing there are still (a few!) work units to download, but that seems to be declining fast.

Is there a problem? How do I configure it to use all four cores?

Thanks.

On the BOINC Manager main page, go to Tools. There are four tabs there. Go through each one and make sure you are not limiting some computer resource that would cause tasks not to be downloaded.

Also, Climateprediction only allows you to download tasks once per hour.

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Hello Nutbeem

Welcome to the project.

The 2 options for setting the number of cores used, are in the 1st of the 3 preference sections on your user account, the one called Computing preferences

The first one is a number, and was from the days when computers only had a few cores.
The 2nd one is a percentage, and allows for a very large number of cores.

However, you should also check the Event log in BOINC, to see if there are any messages about why BOINC isn't downloading more.
One possibility is that it started with one model, and then went into the one hour wait until it could ask for more. But in the meantime you've clicked the Update button, possibly lots of times. This would have the effect of constantly resetting the wait back to one hour.

Thank you!

And we are now out of work. Back to feast or famine.

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Hi Nutheem, In case you can't find the event log, it is under the Advanced tab which opens it up in a new window. This took me a long time to find a few updates of BOINC ago!

I have an Intel i7 cpu with four cores and eight logical processors. I have the problem of processor being overused. All of the Hadam work units use all eight even though I have prefs set to use only four both on the local prefs and the Boinc prefs. As a result, my computer slows to a crawl when CPDN wu's are running unless I go into Windows 8.1. task mgr. and manually set processor affinity to four. What is going on here? I don't want to suspend crunching of CPDN wu's when I'm using the computer. Other projects I participate in don't present this problem even when they are using all eight processors. As well, CPDN hadam "exited with zero status but no 'finished' file" as in the log below:

3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | cc_config.xml not found - using defaults
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.42 for windows_x86_64
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Running under account Administrator
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 630M (driver version 327.02, CUDA version 5.5, compute capability 2.1, 2048MB, 1918MB available, 250 GFLOPS peak)
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 630M (driver version 327.02, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 2048MB, 1918MB available, 250 GFLOPS peak)
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Host name: HPENVY20PC
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770S CPU @ 3.10GHz [Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9]
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm vmx smx tm2 pbe
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1: Core x64 Edition, (06.03.9600.00)
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Memory: 7.95 GB physical, 8.34 GB virtual
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Disk: 913.73 GB total, 827.82 GB free
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Local time is UTC -5 hours
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | VirtualBox version: 4.3.8
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | Asteroids@home | URL http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/; Computer ID 69438; resource share 100
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | climateprediction.net | URL http://climateprediction.net/; Computer ID 1310407; resource share 100
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | Einstein@Home | URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 10342975; resource share 100
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | eon2 | URL http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/; Computer ID 3057920; resource share 100
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | Milkyway@Home | URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 560631; resource share 100
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | Cosmology@Home | URL http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID 207034; resource share 100
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | Einstein@Home | General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 24-Mar-2014 17:42:06)
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | Einstein@Home | Host location: none
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | Einstein@Home | General prefs: using your defaults
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Reading preferences override file
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Preferences:
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | max memory usage when active: 4071.69MB
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 8143.38MB
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | max disk usage: 100.00GB
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | max CPUs used: 4
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 90%
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | Not using a proxy
3/30/2014 9:29:06 PM | climateprediction.net | Task hadam3p_anz_n9cj_2012_1_008599731_0 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
3/30/2014 9:29:06 PM | climateprediction.net | If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
3/30/2014 9:29:06 PM | climateprediction.net | Task hadam3p_anz_n8uv_2012_1_008599095_0 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
3/30/2014 9:29:06 PM | climateprediction.net | If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
3/30/2014 9:29:06 PM | climateprediction.net | Task hadam3p_anz_n6yu_2012_1_008596646_0 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
3/30/2014 9:29:06 PM | climateprediction.net | If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
3/30/2014 9:33:30 PM | Milkyway@Home | Computation for task ps_modfit_15_3s_modbpl_128_wrap_1_1393972940_4608313_1 finished
3/30/2014 9:33:30 PM | Milkyway@Home | Starting task de_modfit_15_3s_modbpl_128_wrap_1_1393972940_4418624_2
3/30/2014 9:48:57 PM | eon2 | Sending scheduler request: Requested by project.
3/30/2014 9:48:57 PM | eon2 | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA
3/30/2014 9:49:00 PM | eon2 | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
3/30/2014 9:49:00 PM | eon2 | No work sent
3/30/2014 10:02:05 PM | Einstein@Home | General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last

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Jupiter 56

In the list that you posted it says:

3/30/2014 9:25:51 PM | | max CPUs used: 4

And your list of models shows there are only 4 running.

If you're talking about processor activity, then that will most likely be due to Windows swapping high activity processing activity around among the cores to even out the heat build up in any one part of the processor chip.
Windows has always done this in the background.

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The exited ... etc message has been there for years.
I think that's when the work is using up so much processor time that BOINC doesn't get a chance to talk between the "client" and the "gui" for x amount of seconds. It then gets worried about not knowing what the client (worker) part is doing.

But there are so many of these long time messages that I may have it confused with something else.

Anyway, not much that you can do. It'll either clear up, or the task will die.

That machine has a high percentage of failures to completions. The failures checked have an extraordinarily high number of interruptions logged. Do you have Prefs set to 'leave in memory' when suspended? If not, that's asking for trouble... [interrupt]

Oops, Les beat me to it. Good on ya, Les!

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Thanks to all.

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Jupiter 56