I just want to free one core - what is the correct percentage in Preferences?
Thanks

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Approximately 91.666666666666666666666666666667%

I'm not sure which way the rounding is work, so try 91.7, if that runs 12 cores try 91.6%

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The value is an integer however, so anything after the decimal point gets lost.
Which means in this case that 92% to 99% means 11 cores.

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Thanks.
Success with 91.666 = 11 on the Hexacore | 87.5% = 10 which would probably be smarter since its a 3 GPU sys that I run 2 GPU tasks each on

Hoping "web preferences" will work on my 8 core as its a 2 GPU sys that I prefer either all 8 or 7 cores

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Hoping "web preferences" will work on my 8 core ...

If all your computers use the same "web preferences" (there are 4 sets of "web Computing preferences")
Setting to 99% (as already noted by Ageless):
Use at most 99% of the CPUs

... will free 1 core - no matter if the CPU is 8 core, 12 core, 2 core, 64 core ...

Of course if you set any value in Local preferences (e.g. "Disk and memory") the "web preferences" will not matter
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/w/?title=Local_preferences&oldid=6117

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