I'm trying to get seti to utilize a small cluster of computers (running on openmosix 2.4 kernel). It only seems to run one instance of "setiahome-5.27" at a time. How can I force more then one process to run?

-Nick

I'm trying to get seti to utilize a small cluster of computers (running on openmosix 2.4 kernel). It only seems to run one instance of "setiahome-5.27" at a time. How can I force more then one process to run?

-Nick

Two places to check:
"Use x processors" setting in your general preferences.

Failing that, you can hack it with ncpus tag (under options tag) in the cc_config.xml.

I failed to mention I'm using the command line version, but you lead me in the right direction. The file i needed to change under linux is

{homedir}/slots/0/init_data.xml

When i change the <p_ncpus>1</p_ncpus> to <p_ncpus>2<p_ncpus> and restart boinc_client it resets back to 1. Is there another way to do it?

I failed to mention I'm using the command line version, but you lead me in the right direction. The file i needed to change under linux is

{homedir}/slots/0/init_data.xml

When i change the <p_ncpus>1</p_ncpus> to <p_ncpus>2<p_ncpus> and restart boinc_client it resets back to 1. Is there another way to do it?

That's not the right setting. The init_data.xml file is overwritten whenever the task starts up. There should be a file (create it, if needed) called cc_config.xml in your main BOINC folder. Make sure the option looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<cc_config>
<log_flags>
</log_flags>
<options>
<ncpus>2</ncpus>
</options>
</cc_config>

Success! I created the cc_config.xml in the home folder (of the user). I see two processes running under top now. The processes still do not want to migrate, but i think thats a openmosix issue. Thanks for the help DJStarfox.

I don't think BOINC works with the mosix shared memory system. The BOINC client uses shared memory to communicate with the science applications. So the science application running on another node would have to attach to the shared memory of the BOINC client on the master node... which I don't think is possible.

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