Eric wrote:

On the net i set my seti@home preferences to "on copmuters with more than
1 cpu use at most 2 cpu's"
Can i override that for one particular machine? I have a HT P4 that runs
at 74C if i let both threads crunch. I want to reduce that 1 machine to
using 1 Thread and let my other two machines run as normal (using both
threads). Thanks
Eric

Ok, here's the answer ( and BTW right click->set affinity doesn't work in
 Linux that's a windows centric thing )
Set up a  global_prefs_override.xml file and restart BOINC
The file is as shown below:

<global_preferences>
    <run_if_user_active>0</run_if_user_active>
    <idle_time_to_run>3</idle_time_to_run>
    <cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>60</cpu_scheduling_period_minutes>
    <work_buf_min_days>0.1</work_buf_min_days>
    <max_cpus>2</max_cpus>
    <disk_interval>60</disk_interval>
    <disk_max_used_gb>100</disk_max_used_gb>
    <disk_max_used_pct>50</disk_max_used_pct>
    <disk_min_free_gb>0.1</disk_min_free_gb>
    <vm_max_used_pct>75</vm_max_used_pct>
    <max_bytes_sec_down>0</max_bytes_sec_down>
    <max_bytes_sec_up>0</max_bytes_sec_up>
</global_preferences>