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Stop when done button
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TSFoxe Send message Joined: 24 Jul 08 Posts: 5 Credit: 7,055,258 RAC: 6 |
I would like to be able to have Boinc stop when it has finished a task and before it begins another. An option for putting Boinc 'On Hold' when it reaches a good point. Thanks, t |
web03 Send message Joined: 13 Feb 01 Posts: 355 Credit: 719,156 RAC: 0 |
I would like to be able to have Boinc stop when it has finished a task and before it begins another. An option for putting Boinc 'On Hold' when it reaches a good point. I'm curious - can you explain why you would want to do that? Wendy Click Here for BOINC FAQ Service |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
I would like to be able to have Boinc stop when it has finished a task and before it begins another. An option for putting Boinc 'On Hold' when it reaches a good point. That makes two of us. Most people don't want any idle time spent inbetween tasks. This request seems out of the ordinary. |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
It's already there, for debugging purposes. See Implementation and debugging command-line options, option --exit_after_finish Usage from a command-line or a script (batch file): boinc --exit_after_finish |
TSFoxe Send message Joined: 24 Jul 08 Posts: 5 Credit: 7,055,258 RAC: 6 |
Rather than interrupting a task, I could shut down my computer when everything is idle in order to perform updates and other maintenance. |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
Rather than interrupting a task, I could shut down my computer when everything is idle in order to perform updates and other maintenance. Tasks write to checkpoint files (at least here on SETI and most other BOINC projects) and can resume where it left off after a shutdown. I do this all the time to clean out my systems of all the dust. |
TSFoxe Send message Joined: 24 Jul 08 Posts: 5 Credit: 7,055,258 RAC: 6 |
Rather than interrupting a task, I could shut down my computer when everything is idle in order to perform updates and other maintenance. I understand, I'm just anal. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Rather than interrupting a task, I could shut down my computer when everything is idle in order to perform updates and other maintenance. With most projects you lose more CPU time by not being present when the task ends to turn off the machine than by just losing the average 30 seconds (with the default settings) that you lose when BOINC shuts down gracefully in the middle of working. BOINC WIKI |
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