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Gonad the Destroyer®©™ Send message Joined: 6 Aug 99 Posts: 204 Credit: 12,463,705 RAC: 0 |
Am I missing something here..... This rig here shows I have like 164 WU's to crunch, I let my cache run dry, as a just in case measure, to start using a couple CPU cores. I went to check out the folder, there appears to be WU's in the folder, but BOINC is showing nothing. Are them queued for download or s there 164 WU's lost in space?????? |
LadyL Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 0 |
Are you sure you have not toggled Boinc Manager to show active tasks only? Check: if the button says 'show all tasks' - then press it and you should see all tasks again. I'm not the Pope. I don't speak Ex Cathedra! |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
Am I missing something here..... The files you see in your folder are probably just lost or orphaned files. Sometimes BOINC doesn't seem to delete a file once it is finished. Then as it no longer has a reference to the file it remains. I find several on various machines after a few months. Fred's reschedule tool has a function in it to check for lost files. Which lets you delete them easily. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Gonad the Destroyer®©™ Send message Joined: 6 Aug 99 Posts: 204 Credit: 12,463,705 RAC: 0 |
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HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
I'll check when I get home from work... There are several ways to keep BOINC & the processes on specific cores/threads of the processor. Here is one way, using windows affinity settings. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Gonad the Destroyer®©™ Send message Joined: 6 Aug 99 Posts: 204 Credit: 12,463,705 RAC: 0 |
Ok, I think I understand, I want: My BOINC folder is on D:, and everything is in there. Make a batch file with this in it and should be good to go??? (I copied and pasted your example and made a few changes.) D: cd boinc rd notices /s /q start /affinity 60 D:\BOINC\BOINC\boinc.exe --skip_cpu_benchmarks --detach start D:\BOINC\BOINC\boincmgr.exe /s This will start BOINC on it's own and have the manager to monitor it correct??? Right now I just use boincmanager to fire everything up..... |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
Ok, I think I understand, I want: D:\BOINC\BOINC\ is your folder? That should do what you want. The command boinc.exe --detach launches the BOINC client by itself. The next line launches the manager so you can fiddle with or see what is happening. On most of my systems I don't even bother running the manager. You could also use start /affinity 60 D:\BOINC\BOINC\boincmgr.exe /s If you prefer to start it with the manager. rd notices /s /q I don't know if you want that or not. It kills the notices folder on each start up. As I use the older 6.10 manager with the 6.12 client I don't see any notices. So I kill it on start up in the event they build up a lot of stuff in there. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Gonad the Destroyer®©™ Send message Joined: 6 Aug 99 Posts: 204 Credit: 12,463,705 RAC: 0 |
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HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
I will try that... Makes sense to me. My main system at work looks more like this: D:\BOINC\ Where BOINC resides. D:\BOINC Apps\ Where my downloaded versions of BOINC, opt apps, rescheduler & such reside. D:\BOINC CMD scripts\ Where I have all my boinccmd scripts to control my machines across the network. I think it might drive me insane if I had them in a folder like you do. As having nested directories named the same as the parent makes me want to merge them. Also I stopped using the CD command in favor of PUSHD. So if you wanted you could streamline it down to just: pushd %~dp0 start /affinity 60 boincmgr.exe /s SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Gonad the Destroyer®©™ Send message Joined: 6 Aug 99 Posts: 204 Credit: 12,463,705 RAC: 0 |
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Gonad the Destroyer®©™ Send message Joined: 6 Aug 99 Posts: 204 Credit: 12,463,705 RAC: 0 |
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HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
I will try that, I like stream lining.. also, working great so far, had to use /affinity E, wasnt sure if running 2 CPU task's plus the GPU on just 2 cores would work, so using 3 cores right now, working pretty good...... Something I just thought of which might be important. However you might already be doing it, but figured I should mention it in case someone else comes across this info. If you are not using the option to limit the % of CPU's you will probably still need to do that. When I had done this before and forgot to set that BOINC would still run 8 CPU instances on my i7-860. It would just run them all on the cores I specified. Running 8 instances on 2 or 4 cores isn't really the desired result. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
Gonad the Destroyer®©™ Send message Joined: 6 Aug 99 Posts: 204 Credit: 12,463,705 RAC: 0 |
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HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
Ya, she's rock'n 2 cores for the CPU app, one on each... Figured it was better to mentioned it than not. Using 2 out of 6 anything in the range of 33.33-49.99% should do it. IIRC entering 33.00% would cause only 1 of 6 to be used. Silly computers and doing exactly as they are told! SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
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