Hi Gordon, On Monday 01 May 2006 11:15, Gordon Haverland wrote: > The mechanism by which the boinc-client(s) applications runs is > a little coarse grained. If a person used their computer interactively > at nearly 100% usage, and then left it alone for long periods (compared > to 3 minutes or whatever), then the boinc-client would probably working > about as well as could be expected. But, if I am using my computer > (with dual CPUs) in such a way that the only interaction I have with > the computer is with a mouse, I can have both CPUs sitting at 100% > usage, two boinc-clients getting most of that CPU usage, and still see > acceptable performance. But the moment I touch the keyboard, the > boinc-client detects a "user" is present, unloads the application, > and CPU usage slips to 10% or less.
Set "Do work while computer is in use?" to "yes" on your "General preferences" page: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=global > Wouldn't it be better to > just "nice" the program and let the scheduler deal with allocation > cycles? That is already done. The BOINC core client starts each application with a nice value of 19 (least favorable scheduling). > I've tried a few times to get graphics (setiathome), and looked for > HOWTOs on the Internet. So far, the only thing I can see is a plot > of my work done over time, which is almost a straight line. Not > very exciting that plot. :-) It would be nice if there was an > easy/reliable way to see the statistics of what I am doing, like the > pre-boinc setiathome client. As far as I know the Linux version of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for BOINC does not support graphics yet. However the KBoincSpy program (which is a alternative to the BOINC Manager) shows some interesting stuff about each single WU. Maybe this is something for you. You can install it with: apt-get install kboincspy Grüße, Frank -- ,''`. Frank S. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : http://www.thomas-alfeld.de/frank `. `' GPG Key ID: 0xDC426429 `-
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