There is a a free program for Windoze machines that will do that. It called Threadmaster. It is a series of registry entrys. It can be found at the BOINC.dk site(downloads) for SETI or at threadmaster.tripod.com for general use.

Bob
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Thanks for the information, I'll let some of my friends know; too bad I have all Mac OS X and UNIX machines here.

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There is a a free program for Windoze machines that will do that. It called Threadmaster. It is a series of registry entrys. It can be found at the BOINC.dk site(downloads) for SETI or at threadmaster.tripod.com for general use.

Bob
visit www.thaitrinkets.com

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AFAIK, there is no affinity setting for BOINC apps so you cannot chose which processor to use.
There is a setting though on your General options (Your Account web page)
"On multiprocessors, use at most: n " - You can use this to set howmany processors BOINC should schedule work for. The default is 2. If you have 2, make this setting 1 and BOINC will only use 1.

As for 'maintaining one for myself'. You don't really need to worry about this, BOINC applications run at the lowest prioity so it only gets the CPU cycles that nothing else wants to use. Your own work and applications will always preempt the BOINC apps and get as much CPU as they want, just when the want it.

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You have options to limit disk and memory usage, but it would be nice to be able to specify how much of a processor should be used--by processor. For instance, I wouldn't mind my second processor being used up by BOINC/SETI but I'd like to maintain one processor all for my self.

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