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Message 3759 - Posted: 3 Sep 2019, 11:15:54 UTC

Hello,

in my settings I have set to only use 25% of CPUS´s, so one core. But still my machine uses three cores, so I run three WUs in parallel.
This leads to a laggy behaviour of my host. Is the "# of CPU" setting corrupted or is there anything else I am missing? I don´t want to use an app_config.xml if it´s not necessary.
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Message 3760 - Posted: 3 Sep 2019, 12:08:22 UTC - in response to Message 3759.  
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I don't think I have ever seen that, so it is probably something unusual. I would detach from the project, and then reattach. That will recreate some possibly corrupted files.
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Message 3761 - Posted: 3 Sep 2019, 18:33:18 UTC - in response to Message 3760.  

I don't think it is project-related at all.
Your BOINC client doesn't accept the input or it somehow recognized 12 threads/ cores.

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Message 3762 - Posted: 3 Sep 2019, 19:01:38 UTC

The BOINC software controls how many tasks are run, not the project.
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Message 3763 - Posted: 4 Sep 2019, 7:35:27 UTC

Resetting didn´t work. I always thought that the project preferences control how much workunits can be processed.

So what´s exactly the option "Use at most x % of the CPUs" used for?

I know I can control the number of WUs per app_config file, but I thought I can do it via preferences.
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Message 3768 - Posted: 4 Sep 2019, 10:35:41 UTC - in response to Message 3763.  

So what´s exactly the option "Use at most x % of the CPUs" used for?
That might depend on where you set it.
The BOINC Client has an option to use Web preferences. It should be off by default (on the grounds that mine is off, and I don't recall ever having changed things).
So you set 25% of CPUs in your client.
If you run multiple projects you don't really want to have to go round all projects to set this individually.
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Message 3769 - Posted: 4 Sep 2019, 11:02:56 UTC

Are you using local preferences or global preferences?
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Message 3776 - Posted: 5 Sep 2019, 9:29:11 UTC

In the meantime I found out why my machine was laggy, it was because of an Einstein@home GPU WU, so sorry for the trouble guys :-(

I am still confused about the preferences thing but I will try to understand it somehow.

Thanks all
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Message 3790 - Posted: 11 Sep 2019, 10:41:57 UTC - in response to Message 3776.  

In global_prefs_override.xml set <max_cpus> to 1%.
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