Thread 'BOINC Usage Limits'

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Aurum Send message Joined: 15 Jul 17 Posts: 99 Credit: 18,701,746 RAC: 318	Message 57637 - Posted: 14 Jan 2018, 21:08:23 UTC Last modified: 14 Jan 2018, 21:11:07 UTC Please change from percentage to number of CPU threads. Use at most 75% of the CPUs becomes: Use 16 CPU threads ID: 57637 · Reply Quote

astroWX Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 1496 Credit: 95,522,203 RAC: 0	Message 57639 - Posted: 14 Jan 2018, 22:49:15 UTC - in response to Message 57637. Not everyone has greater-than dual- or quad-core boxes. 'Percentage' covers the spectrum: BOINC easily does the arithmetic to produce desired result... "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest. ID: 57639 · Reply Quote

geophi Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 7 Aug 04 Posts: 2187 Credit: 64,822,615 RAC: 5,275	Message 57643 - Posted: 15 Jan 2018, 3:38:49 UTC - in response to Message 57637. Please change from percentage to number of CPU threads. Use at most 75% of the CPUs becomes: Use 16 CPU threads This preference is also a boinc thing, not a cpdn thing. One would need to convince the boinc programmers that that would be a smarter way to go. (It actually changed from choosing the number of cores to a percentage in the preferences quite awhile back.) ID: 57643 · Reply Quote