On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 17:09:42 GMT, Josef W. Segur
<jsegur@frontiernet.net> wrote:

f/fgeorge <ffgeorge@yourplace.com> wrote:

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:32:14 GMT, "Eric" <nospam@no.nospam.not> wrote:

I'm going to play with CLI (Win) and see how that goes.  Eventually, hoping
to switch these dumb boxes to Linux as well.  I'm assuming Boinc for Linux
is probably very streamlined...

The CLI for Boinc is not faster than the regular boincmgr.exe program,
in fact the manager runs the CLI. Just one of the things they fixed.

When BoincMgr.exe 4.45 is running (even minimized to the tray), it does
use some CPU cycles: about 3% on my 200 MHz Win95 system, or ~6 million
CPU cycles per second. That may be a negligible amount on faster systems,
but it is slightly more efficient to run the Boinc core client as a
service or in a console.

With Boinc running that way, BoincMgr.exe can be run when needed, then a
File | exit will kill it but the core client continues running.

Yes I agree about being able to run it just thru the CLI, although the
few times I did it I did not notice any difference. I was testing it
on an AMD63 3200+ machine so the difference may not be as noticeable
as on your machine. Currently this machine uses an optimized version
of the software and does a unit in about 90 minutes. Before the
optimized version it was taking about 2 hours 20 minutes.