On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:49:07 GMT, f/fgeorge <ffgeorge@yourplace.com> wrote:

example. When I got this new machine and found I had 2 processors I
re-installed seti. Which promptly grabbed 100% of both processors time. I was
cranking out units like flapjacks, but couldn't do anything else.

In Boinc it is easy to leave it at 2 and adjust the settings in your
account, view or edit Seti@home preferences and then adjust the
resource share. That will let you say put Seti at 900% and Einstein at
100%, seems funny but the total is out of 1000%. Now my Seti runs 90%
of the time and Einstein runs 10% of the time.
You can even set the max cpus to 1 instead of 2 in your account, view
or edit general preferences.

I'm not sure, I didn't check to see if boinc was PHYSICALLY using just 1 CPU
when I fired it up and saw both CPU's performance window showing 100%. I just
went and physically assigned it to just CPU 1 with the xcpu program.
It then went down to 50% to less on the CPU0 and 100% on CPU1.
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