I would like to add a second project and allocate one CPU to POGS and eleven CPUs and one GPU to SETI@home (Intel six core processor, single graphics card).

I do not want BOINC manager switching tasks and leaving others suspended so to do this do I:

Set Switch between tasks every N minutes to 0 in BOINC manager - will this stop the suspend and resume cycle and let the active work unit run to completion?

Set SETI@home Resource Share to 923 and POGS Resource Share to 77?

I think that should average out to 1/12th total CPU capacity and no GPU to POGS without switching work units in and out. Would like to check before I change my settings and POGS downloads a lot of work units.

Many thanks

Switching between task every X minutes, the X must be a positive number greater than zero. So look at your tasks results and see what the longest time a task takes to complete and set the number of minutes to a value greater than that. You have a 12 core processor, so to run 11 Seti tasks take 11/12 = 0.9166667, so go to your Seti project preferences on the Seti website and set your resource share for Seti to 90% and on the POGS website set its resource share to 10%. POGS has no GPU apps so you don't have worry about it sending a GPU task. Too use one of the 11 cores for a Seti GPU task use the following example of an app_config.xml file in the Boinc Seti project folder:

<app_config>
 	<project_max_concurrent>11</project_max_concurrent>
  	<app>
    		<name>setiathome_v8</name>
    		<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
    		<gpu_versions>
      			<gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage>
      			<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
    		</gpu_versions>
  	</app>
        <app>
    		<name>astropulse_v7</name>
    		<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
    		<gpu_versions>
      			<gpu_usage>1</gpu_usage>
      			<cpu_usage>1</cpu_usage>
    		</gpu_versions>
  	</app>
</app_config>

It will take awhile, but you should eventually end up running your desired results of 11 Seti tasks, one of which is a GPU task, and one POGS task.

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I would like to add a second project and allocate one CPU to POGS and eleven CPUs and one GPU to SETI@home (Intel six core processor, single graphics card).

I do not want BOINC manager switching tasks and leaving others suspended

Why?

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Grant
Darwin NT

The current BOINC managers do not support concurrent sharing very well. There are ways to do it, but they do require very careful editing of files, and do tend to be unstable. The BOINC project sharing model is based on a long time balance between the projects, not an instant answer, thus to "beat the system" takes some effort and luck.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Must admit I was confused when I set the share to POGS to 7.7% and SETI@home to 93.3% that BOINC manager then went and started 12 POGS work units and kept staring new POG work units when one finshed. That wasn't the deal I was looking for! I had assumed the share % was from when I attached the new project, but it looks like BOINC manager was trying to get POGS to catch up to 7.7% of my RAC for SETI@home.

So I am now using an app_config file like this for POGS:

<app_config>

<project_max_concurrent>1</project_max_concurrent>

</app_config>

The app_config file seems a better way to limit to one CPU, downside is that if SETI@home runs out of work no more POGS jobs will start. This there way to say only download and start POGS work units if no work for SETI@home? I think that is the way I would like it to work.

BOINC manager was trying to get POGS to catch up to 7.7% of my RAC for SETI@home.

Yes that is the way it works.
You could start with 1%, then 2% .... until it catches up.

The app_config file seems a better way to limit to one CPU, downside is that if SETI@home runs out of work no more POGS jobs will start.

Correct, when hard coded limit is there it won't start more tasks unless you change the setting.

Many thanks, I have set POGS share to 1% and suspended new POGS work unit downloads for awhile.

Is there any method by which you can run POGS only if no new work units are available from SETI@home? I guess what I would like is a backfill project rather than a % split across the two projects.

Set POGS resource share to 0.