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Message 1245809 - Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 10:17:31 UTC

Am I missing something here.....

This rig here shows I have like 164 WU's to crunch, I let my cache run dry, as a just in case measure, to start using a couple CPU cores.
I went to check out the folder, there appears to be WU's in the folder, but BOINC is showing nothing.
Are them queued for download or s there 164 WU's lost in space??????
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Message 1245852 - Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 12:36:46 UTC

Are you sure you have not toggled Boinc Manager to show active tasks only?

Check: if the button says 'show all tasks' - then press it and you should see all tasks again.
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Message 1245864 - Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 12:51:17 UTC - in response to Message 1245809.  

Am I missing something here.....

This rig here shows I have like 164 WU's to crunch, I let my cache run dry, as a just in case measure, to start using a couple CPU cores.
I went to check out the folder, there appears to be WU's in the folder, but BOINC is showing nothing.
Are them queued for download or s there 164 WU's lost in space??????

The files you see in your folder are probably just lost or orphaned files. Sometimes BOINC doesn't seem to delete a file once it is finished. Then as it no longer has a reference to the file it remains. I find several on various machines after a few months. Fred's reschedule tool has a function in it to check for lost files. Which lets you delete them easily.
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Message 1245889 - Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 13:37:45 UTC

I'll check when I get home from work...
I don't recall changing anything but it's possible......

Also, what could I use to keep two WU's on core 5 & 6???
going to start using a couple cores with the gpu on there...
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Message 1245974 - Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 16:37:32 UTC - in response to Message 1245889.  

I'll check when I get home from work...
I don't recall changing anything but it's possible......

Also, what could I use to keep two WU's on core 5 & 6???
going to start using a couple cores with the gpu on there...

There are several ways to keep BOINC & the processes on specific cores/threads of the processor. Here is one way, using windows affinity settings.
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Message 1246182 - Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 22:08:16 UTC
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Ok, I think I understand, I want:

My BOINC folder is on D:, and everything is in there.
Make a batch file with this in it and should be good to go??? (I copied and pasted your example and made a few changes.)

D:
cd boinc
rd notices /s /q
start /affinity 60 D:\BOINC\BOINC\boinc.exe --skip_cpu_benchmarks --detach
start D:\BOINC\BOINC\boincmgr.exe /s

This will start BOINC on it's own and have the manager to monitor it correct???
Right now I just use boincmanager to fire everything up.....
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Message 1246193 - Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 22:25:46 UTC - in response to Message 1246182.  

Ok, I think I understand, I want:

My BOINC folder is on D:, and everything is in there.
Make a batch file with this in it and should be good to go??? (I copied and pasted your example and made a few changes.)

D:
cd boinc
rd notices /s /q
start /affinity 60 D:\BOINC\BOINC\boinc.exe --skip_cpu_benchmarks --detach
start D:\BOINC\BOINC\boincmgr.exe /s

This will start BOINC on it's own and have the manager to monitor it correct???
Right now I just use boincmanager to fire everything up.....


D:\BOINC\BOINC\ is your folder?

That should do what you want. The command boinc.exe --detach launches the BOINC client by itself. The next line launches the manager so you can fiddle with or see what is happening. On most of my systems I don't even bother running the manager.

You could also use
start /affinity 60 D:\BOINC\BOINC\boincmgr.exe /s
If you prefer to start it with the manager.

rd notices /s /q I don't know if you want that or not.
It kills the notices folder on each start up. As I use the older 6.10 manager with the 6.12 client I don't see any notices. So I kill it on start up in the event they build up a lot of stuff in there.
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Message 1246198 - Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 22:42:21 UTC

I will try that...

Before I installed BOINC I made a BOINC folder, then put everything in there, the program data folder and the main BOINC folder....heh
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Message 1246202 - Posted: 14 Jun 2012, 23:13:04 UTC - in response to Message 1246198.  

I will try that...

Before I installed BOINC I made a BOINC folder, then put everything in there, the program data folder and the main BOINC folder....heh

Makes sense to me.

My main system at work looks more like this:
D:\BOINC\ Where BOINC resides.
D:\BOINC Apps\ Where my downloaded versions of BOINC, opt apps, rescheduler & such reside.
D:\BOINC CMD scripts\ Where I have all my boinccmd scripts to control my machines across the network.

I think it might drive me insane if I had them in a folder like you do. As having nested directories named the same as the parent makes me want to merge them.

Also I stopped using the CD command in favor of PUSHD. So if you wanted you could streamline it down to just:
pushd %~dp0
start /affinity 60 boincmgr.exe /s
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Message 1246257 - Posted: 15 Jun 2012, 2:05:26 UTC
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I will try that, I like stream lining.. also, working great so far, had to use /affinity E, wasnt sure if running 2 CPU task's plus the GPU on just 2 cores would work, so using 3 cores right now, working pretty good......


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Forgot to say thanks for all the help........ :D

Thank you...
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Message 1246260 - Posted: 15 Jun 2012, 2:07:21 UTC - in response to Message 1245852.  

Are you sure you have not toggled Boinc Manager to show active tasks only?

Check: if the button says 'show all tasks' - then press it and you should see all tasks again.


Thats exactly what happined..... Thank you...

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Message 1246409 - Posted: 15 Jun 2012, 12:58:08 UTC - in response to Message 1246257.  

I will try that, I like stream lining.. also, working great so far, had to use /affinity E, wasnt sure if running 2 CPU task's plus the GPU on just 2 cores would work, so using 3 cores right now, working pretty good......


Ninja EDIT:
Forgot to say thanks for all the help........ :D

Thank you...


Something I just thought of which might be important. However you might already be doing it, but figured I should mention it in case someone else comes across this info.
If you are not using the option to limit the % of CPU's you will probably still need to do that. When I had done this before and forgot to set that BOINC would still run 8 CPU instances on my i7-860. It would just run them all on the cores I specified. Running 8 instances on 2 or 4 cores isn't really the desired result.
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Message 1246658 - Posted: 15 Jun 2012, 23:57:01 UTC

Ya, she's rock'n 2 cores for the CPU app, one on each...


By the way, for a 6 core CPU, 40% uses 2 cores.... ;)
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Message 1246664 - Posted: 16 Jun 2012, 0:17:04 UTC - in response to Message 1246658.  

Ya, she's rock'n 2 cores for the CPU app, one on each...


By the way, for a 6 core CPU, 40% uses 2 cores.... ;)

Figured it was better to mentioned it than not.
Using 2 out of 6 anything in the range of 33.33-49.99% should do it. IIRC entering 33.00% would cause only 1 of 6 to be used. Silly computers and doing exactly as they are told!
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