i have used a program that tells me that BOINC for seti is using most of my cpu power. i just recently upgraded to a hyperthreading cpu, how do i get this to use less of the cpu?

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i have used a program that tells me that BOINC for seti is using most of my cpu power. i just recently upgraded to a hyperthreading cpu, how do i get this to use less of the cpu?

BOINC is using all left over CPU-cycles... BOINC should be running at lowest priority... As soon as another program needs the CPU BOINC should let go of the resources... I don't know of a way to let it only use this or that much CPU...

With a hyperthreading CPU you could ofcourse tell it only to use one CPU since it sees hyperthreading as two cpus... I think there is a setting somewhere "On multi CPU systems use this many CPUs" Check the settings. Setting that to 1 might make it use less CPU-time on your computer or you could simply manually turn it off if you feel it is degrading performance when you do something important.

/LinuxSam

i have used a program that tells me that BOINC for seti is using most of my cpu power. i just recently upgraded to a hyperthreading cpu, how do i get this to use less of the cpu?

BOINC is using all left over CPU-cycles... BOINC should be running at lowest priority... As soon as another program needs the CPU BOINC should let go of the resources... I don't know of a way to let it only use this or that much CPU...

With a hyperthreading CPU you could ofcourse tell it only to use one CPU since it sees hyperthreading as two cpus... I think there is a setting somewhere "On multi CPU systems use this many CPUs" Check the settings. Setting that to 1 might make it use less CPU-time on your computer or you could simply manually turn it off if you feel it is degrading performance when you do something important.

/LinuxSam

There is a setting in the users Account manager that provides this. After initially examining a system if you have HT, you will have a default of two processors listed . This can be changed to one, if the user prefers. As for task management, the SE program is alrady set at the lowest priority. Other than limiting the program to one process at a time on a HT system, I don't see any further choices.

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I realized the dead-end roads I ended up taking weren't always my fault. Many thanks to all that have helped in this - and you know who you are.
TheBeatenPath

Seems I was wrong about not being able to limit the CPU-usage...

look here: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/download_network.php

And check out Threadmaster could do what you are asking for.

The other facts about BOINC using spare CPU-cycles are correct though...

/LinuxSam

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