"Odysseus" <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca> wrote in message 
news:odysseus1479-at-5D69AD.00073328072006@news.telus.net...

I'm far from Windows-savvy, but that's what I gather from postings I've
seen in various project forums: for each new WU, BOINC launches a fresh
process, which doesn't 'inherit' affinity settings from the previous
instance of the app.
-- 
Odysseus

Yep... I did some playing around the other night to see different behaviors. 
Not that I doubted f/george, just was curious to see it "in action".

Changed to affinity on one of my computahs to just one processor, but after 
it sent the results, it went back to using both.

Then was curious to see what would happen if I ended setiathome processes 
from the task manager (Win2003 Server, Boinc running as a service.)  The 
processes aborted all right, but when they were automatically re-launched, 
Boinc went and downloaded two new ones and started all over.  The lost WU's 
were over 90% complete.   Serves me right for playing.  :-)

Cheers,
Eric