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Id like to run seti instances as a percentage of the total amount of processors available. For example, I have a 4 processor machine that Id like to only run seti on 2 processors. With the classic version, you'd just start up 2 instances of seti@home.

I know its not possible to bind a seti instance to a processor, but what Im trying to do is to only use 50% of the available resources, leaving the rest for other tasks.

How can I accomplish this? In my testing so far on freebsd5.4, I see it automaticially uses 100% of the resources available.

Thanks.

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I got the same sort of problem except the inverse ...

I have a dual P3 system and the BOINC software only sees on processor. I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 and I do have an SMP kernel compiled ...

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I have SETI/BOINC running on a box with 4 dual core CPUs (8 way), in my user preferences on the website I set the maximum number of CPUs that can be used by BOINC to 7 and I always have a core free on the machine.

I'm not sure if you can limit the number of CPUs used on every machine individually, but that global preference seems to do the job.

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I have SETI/BOINC running on a box with 4 dual core CPUs (8 way), in my user preferences on the website I set the maximum number of CPUs that can be used by BOINC to 7 and I always have a core free on the machine.

I'm not sure if you can limit the number of CPUs used on every machine individually, but that global preference seems to do the job.

Well - the issue really becomes strange when you have multiple systems with multiple preferences.

For example, I have a couple of 4 way boxes, a couple of 2 way boxes and a couple of single processor cpus. Sure, I could use the pre-defined "home" "school" and "work" preferences and set one for 1 processor, one for 2 and one for 3. But what if I want to further relegate machines based on hours or other preferences. I have to define them into their 3 preset catagories, with no ability to add new sets of preferences.

Really now, If they are going to keep stats and preferences for each computer, they should be able to keep this very basic resource usage information. Developers???

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