Hi all,
Just realized that I have one instance of conhost.exe running for each task slot.
With 5 CPU tasks and 2 GPU tasks running, there are 7 instances of conhost.exe. Is this normal ?
I am running the stock apps :
setiathome_8.05_windows_x86_64.exe
setiathome_8.22_windows_intelx86_opencl_nvidia_SoG.exe

...Grete...

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Hi all,
Just realized that I have one instance of conhost.exe running for each task slot.
With 5 CPU tasks and 2 GPU tasks running, there are 7 instances of conhost.exe. Is this normal ?
I am running the stock apps :
setiathome_8.05_windows_x86_64.exe
setiathome_8.22_windows_intelx86_opencl_nvidia_SoG.exe

...Grete...

It would be considered normal for most systems.
There are changes that can be made to the OS so it doesn't do that, but that would disable pretty much all of the "pretty" GUI features. Which may or may not be desired.

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It would be considered normal for most systems.
There are changes that can be made to the OS so it doesn't do that, but that would disable pretty much all of the "pretty" GUI features. Which may or may not be desired.

Oh ok...tnx !
Just had to ask, as I could swear they weren't there before. I'm probably wrong (it happens).. ;-)

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From my BOINC FAQs:
Conhost.exe is the console wrapper Windows uses for console based applications.

BOINC doesn't start it directly. When an application is launched, the Windows application loader determines what sub-system the application belongs to and then proceeds to launch the correct sub-system before launching the application.

In any case, it is a Windows thing. The science application would have to change its application type to a windowed application instead of a console application.

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From my BOINC FAQs:
Conhost.exe is the console wrapper Windows uses for console based applications.

BOINC doesn't start it directly. When an application is launched, the Windows application loader determines what sub-system the application belongs to and then proceeds to launch the correct sub-system before launching the application.

In any case, it is a Windows thing. The science application would have to change its application type to a windowed application instead of a console application.

I see I haven't done my homework like I should have...sorry about that ! And tnx for the replies.

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