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RueiKe Send message Joined: 14 Feb 16 Posts: 492 Credit: 378,512,430 RAC: 785 |
With the arrival of summer, my power bill is getting excessive again, so I have investigated possibilities to manage cost more effectively. Not sure how different power rates are in Taiwan vs the rest of the world, but here we have a couple of options to consider. I am currently on the default plan with the following calculation:
Weekends and weekdays from 10:30pm - 7:30am are charged at a rate of 1.8NT/KWH in summer and 1.73 non-summer. Weekdays non-summer are charged 3.88NT/KWH Weekdays summer 10-12,13-17 6.20NT/KWH, 7:30-10,12-13,17-22:40 are 4.07NT/KWH. Anything over 2000KWH in the 2 month billing period has an adder of 0.96NT/KWH.
# m h dom mon dpw command 0 10 * 6-8 1-5 pauseSETI.sh 0 17 * 6-8 1-5 resumeSETI.sh Any suggestions on how to implement the same rule in Windows10? TaskScheduler doesn't seem anywhere near as flexible as crontab. Doesn't seem like I can implement a don't compute time in the middle of the day in boincmgr Daily Schedules. GitHub: Ricks-Lab Instagram: ricks_labs |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
Doesn't seem like I can implement a don't compute time in the middle of the day in boincmgr Daily Schedules.Why not? Set the times you want BOINC to do calculations, and if not during four hours of the day in the middle of the day, omit those. E.g. calculate from 16:00 to 12:00 - that'll do calculations all day, excluding those four hours between 12 and 16. You can set these overrides for all days (top option) or per day. What's not possible is to set multiple time slots, like 16:00 to 08:00 and 10:00 to 12:00 on the same day. But otherwise, just play with the 24 hours. Edit: and if power use is really your concern, consider going for other devices. I'm running a couple of Android devices which among themselves, the 200mm fan they lie on and the 12V adapter powering the fan, use about 1 KWH a week. Just saying. ;-) |
RueiKe Send message Joined: 14 Feb 16 Posts: 492 Credit: 378,512,430 RAC: 785 |
Thanks for the feedback. I am trying out those settings now. Maybe it needs to shift a day in order to only impact weekdays? I don't want to significantly reduce my contribution to SETI, just manage the cost of it. Set the times you want BOINC to do calculations, and if not during four hours of the day in the middle of the day, omit those. |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
You have 24 hours to play with. Just don't think of it as a strict 24 hours, only counting from 00:00 to 23:59, you can go through midnight with the settings, and have the start time this day and the end time tomorrow. If you set it for the main "Only use between" hours, it'll do it every day of the week. Setting separate days with separate hours, you need to check the check box before the day and set separate hours. So if Main is 16:00 to 12:00, but you want Saturday and Sunday to run 'always', check Saturday and Sunday and set times 00:00 - 23:59 The present versions of BOINC still have the one minute lost time bug, where at 23:59 BOINC will pause and continue at 24:00 (0:00). That's being fixed in a future version - I don't think it made it into the just released 7.12.1 Do know that you can use these overrides in Linux as well. You can copy the <start_hour>N</start_hour> and <end_hour>N</end_hour> and if you set them the overriding days from your global_prefs_override.xml file and make/copy them into a global_prefs_override.xml file on the Linux system(s). From mine: <start_hour>21.083333</start_hour> <end_hour>6.000000</end_hour> <day_prefs> <day_of_week>0</day_of_week> <start_hour>0.00</start_hour> <end_hour>23.98</end_hour> </day_prefs> <day_prefs> <day_of_week>6</day_of_week> <start_hour>0.00</start_hour> <end_hour>23.98</end_hour> </day_prefs> Yes, the values above show 'weird' numbering, but these are correct for 21:05 - 06:00 and 00:00 - 23:59 So take the values as they are, don't change them. |
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