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Don Send message Joined: 23 Aug 17 Posts: 7 Credit: 2,418,000 RAC: 6 |
Is it possible to exclude applications from running on a project. For example I run SETI@Home on my Surface Pro and I would like to exclude AstroPulse from running. The SP is not on all the time and AP takes so long to run that I don't want to run it. I've looked at the app config xml file but could not see any way to do this. Maybe I missed it. Thanks |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
You can exclude Astropulse from all your machines easily in your account settings... click your name top-right then SETI@home preferences, click Edit preferences and uncheck AstroPulse v7. If you want to restrict on only one machine you can do this by editing app_info.xml (not app_config.xml as you indicated.) There will be a section with "<app_name>astropulse_v7</app_name>" in it. You can remove this (back the file up first of course!) |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
If you want to restrict on only one machine you can do this by editing app_info.xml (not app_config.xml as you indicated.)He's not using the anonymous platform, but stock applications instead. @Don, To stop running AP on the SP only, you'll have to put it on a location of its own. Normally - by default- everything starts at location --- (or default). To change this, so you can set separate preferences for it, do: - log in to your account here at Seti - go to your account at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/home.php - at the Computing section look for Computers on this account and click View - find the one that's the Surface pro and click Details - at the bottom change Location from --- to work (for instance) - click the Update Location button - go back to your account at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/home.php - click preferences for this project https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=project - scroll to the bottom and click "Add separate preferences for Work" - click Edit preferences - uncheck Astropulse v7 under Run only the selected applications - if checked, uncheck If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications? - click Add preferences If need be, go back to your account at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/home.php and set up separate computing preferences, although it's easier to do so via the local preferences. Last, open BOINC Manager on the Surface Pro, and Update the project. That gets the preferences in you set above and from that moment onwards, it won't ask for AP anymore. Of course, if you have set up via an account manager, you'll have to change the location there. |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
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Don Send message Joined: 23 Aug 17 Posts: 7 Credit: 2,418,000 RAC: 6 |
Thanks for the replies. app_config was typo on my part. @Ageless - exactly what I wanted to do. I have two NAS devices that run 24 x 7 and they can run AstroPulse. Setting a separate location for the SP solved it! I'm surprised that you can't do it via app_info.xml. It seems to me to be the logical place to do it. Doesn't matter, it's done. Thanks again. Don |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
I'm surprised that you can't do it via app_info.xml. It seems to me to be the logical place to do it.The app_info.xml file is used for the anonymous platform, where you tell BOINC which applications to use and have to supply those applications yourself - as opposed to downloading them directly from the project. It's not really a logical place when project settings are much easier. So I do think you confuse this with the app_config.xml file, which is the application configuration file. But through that file you tell the applications how to run, what resources to use. Not whether they should run or not. For documentation on this: - Anonymous Platform - Application Configuration |
Don Send message Joined: 23 Aug 17 Posts: 7 Credit: 2,418,000 RAC: 6 |
Sorry. I keep saying app_info when I mean app_config. :-( |
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