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Message 1909259 - Posted: 28 Dec 2017, 13:48:17 UTC

With the new boinc, configuration has changed. I have a GTX 1060 running around 38% utilization.
The normal places that the changes are made appear to no longer exist:
app_config.xml - can't find
co_proc.xml - contains data that is clearly not being read

I'm running (on this rig) Mint 18.1, dev0=GTX1060, dev1&2=GT730's

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Message 1909262 - Posted: 28 Dec 2017, 14:08:31 UTC - in response to Message 1909259.  

The app_config.xml is not created automatically, you have to create one by yourself. Here is information about it: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration#Application_configuration
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Message 1909265 - Posted: 28 Dec 2017, 14:23:38 UTC - in response to Message 1909262.  

Thanks!

Seems odd that this file - even if blank - wouldn't be created automatically anyway. If for no other reason so people could spend a LOT less time
looking for something that doesn't exist...while I have found a few places that state this, none actually stated where the data dir resides.

var/lib, usr/bin, etc/boinc-client....

Again, Thanks Harri!
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Message 1909312 - Posted: 28 Dec 2017, 19:49:59 UTC - in response to Message 1909265.  

while I have found a few places that state this, none actually stated where the data dir resides.

var/lib, usr/bin, etc/boinc-client....

It varies from one Linux to the next. Your BOINC event log/messages tab will tell you at the beginning. For Debian based systems it’s /var/lib/boinc-client.
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Message 1909333 - Posted: 28 Dec 2017, 22:42:42 UTC - in response to Message 1909259.  
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With the new boinc, configuration has changed. I have a GTX 1060 running around 38% utilization.
The normal places that the changes are made appear to no longer exist:
app_config.xml - can't find
co_proc.xml - contains data that is clearly not being read

You'd be better off using the command line configuration file for those settings IMHO.
Any changes you make to it are implemented when the next WU starts running. With app_config.xml you have to manually update for any changes to take effect, although that is the file to use to reserve 1 CPU core for each GPU WU being processed.

For Windows the file is named
mb_cmdline-8.22_windows_intel__opencl_nvidia_SoG.txt
and located in the project data folder.
Check for a similarly named file, put your command line values in there & save them. The next WU that starts will make use of those values.
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