The BOINC manager needs a small change.

hat · Oct 5, 2009, 08:14 AM

I am talking about this:

I think it would be a lot better to have it set up so it detects the threads you have and gives you a drop down menu that allows you to choose however many threads you want to run. If I had an i7 I might choose 6 threads so I can have one core free... or if I had a tri-core I might choose 2 to leave the 3rd core free..

hat · Oct 5, 2009, 06:59 PM

What, no comments?

mike047 · Oct 5, 2009, 09:09 PM

I have always run 100%, even on my daily driver without issue.

If you have gaming issues, turn off the crunching while you game and back on when you're done.

CRUNCH/FOLD hard and often

FordGT90Concept · Oct 5, 2009, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hat

I am talking about this:

http://i38.tinypic.com/2j5z5nt.png

I think it would be a lot better to have it set up so it detects the threads you have and gives you a drop down menu that allows you to choose however many threads you want to run. If I had an i7 I might choose 6 threads so I can have one core free... or if I had a tri-core I might choose 2 to leave the 3rd core free..

I agree. I'd rather it only use 6 of 8 threads rather than 8 threads and throttle them (idle % of time). I do end up killing WCG quite often because it screws with audio on a lot of games.

hat · Oct 6, 2009, 03:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mike047

I have always run 100%, even on my daily driver without issue.

If you have gaming issues, turn off the crunching while you game and back on when you're done.

CRUNCH/FOLD hard and often

I would rather free up one core than turn it off every time I want to do something. Hell, WCG lags windows media player...

mike047 · Oct 6, 2009, 08:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hat

I would rather free up one core than turn it off every time I want to do something. Hell, WCG lags windows media player...

My media player works fine, must be my antique AMD 180

dhoshaw · Oct 6, 2009, 12:14 PM

If I had an HT proc, I would probably like to be able to use 7 threads for crunching and keep 1 free for everything else. However, with my Q9550 I run at 100% on all cores and have to pause if I want to do any work (games? I've forgotten how to play games since I started crunching and folding

).

[Ion] · Oct 6, 2009, 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hat

I would rather free up one core than turn it off every time I want to do something. Hell, WCG lags windows media player...

Really?

I haven't had this issue on the Pentium M, the Q9400, the E6550, or any of the P4/Celerons. All of them are running XP Pro SP3. I've had issues with F@H GPU causing lag in applications such as WMP, but only the GPU client and never with WCG.

Hicks · Oct 6, 2009, 06:17 PM

Go into your WCG profile for your particular cruncher that you only want 6 or 8 or whatsever cores & change it.

Under advanced options:
Processor usage:

Mindweaver · Oct 6, 2009, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hicks

Go into your WCG profile for your particular cruncher that you only want 6 or 8 or whatsever cores & change it.

Under advanced options:
Processor usage:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/attach...1&d=1254852971

I think that's processors not cores. If you're running an i7 with 4 cores and 4 ht, total of 8 threads.. by setting it to only run 6 processors would not work for threads. Because you're still only using one processor. I could be wrong, as i've not tested it. Easy enough to test though.. just set it to 1 and see if WCG still uses all cores and ht threads.

You can always go into windows Task Manager, and set Processor Affinity for each process.

Hicks · Oct 6, 2009, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mindweaver

I think that's processors not cores. If you're running an i7 with 4 cores and 4 ht, total of 8 threads.. by setting it to only run 6 processors would not work for threads. Because you're still only using one processor. I could be wrong, as i've not tested it. Easy enough to test though.. just set it to 1 and see if WCG still uses all cores and ht threads.

You can always go into windows Task Manager, and set Processor Affinity for each process.

Well I dont have an I7 yet, but i know from having Movieman on my account before, I had to change it to 8 cores because he had 2 idle when I had it set to 6. That was on the one DP he added for me.

Mindweaver · Oct 6, 2009, 11:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hicks

Well I dont have an I7 yet, but i know from having Movieman on my account before, I had to change it to 8 cores because he had 2 idle when I had it set to 6. That was on the one DP he added for me.

I don't have an i7 either..

but i hope to have one someday... hehehe That's good to know about your findings.

JrRacinFan · Oct 6, 2009, 11:18 PM

Can't you do this in Task Manager by setting an affinity to which core you would like to utilize?

EDIT:

Yes you can!

It only lasts until the project your crunching reports it though.

Oct 5, 2009, 08:14 AM	#1
hat Maximum Overclocker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 12,247 (5.10/day) Thanks: 2,056 Thanked 2,045 Times in 1,555 Posts System Specs	The BOINC manager needs a small change. I am talking about this: I think it would be a lot better to have it set up so it detects the threads you have and gives you a drop down menu that allows you to choose however many threads you want to run. If I had an i7 I might choose 6 threads so I can have one core free... or if I had a tri-core I might choose 2 to leave the 3rd core free.. __________________ My Heatware “Inb4 smartphone LN2 overclocking.” -radrok

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Oct 5, 2009, 06:59 PM	#2
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Oct 5, 2009, 09:09 PM	#3
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Oct 6, 2009, 12:14 PM	#7
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Oct 6, 2009, 06:17 PM	#9
Hicks Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 70 (0.05/day) Thanks: 14 Thanked 19 Times in 18 Posts	Go into your WCG profile for your particular cruncher that you only want 6 or 8 or whatsever cores & change it. Under advanced options: Processor usage: Attached Thumbnails __________________ “Screw Prime,OCCT or linpack,Save a child from cancer while stress testing.” -RAMMIE

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