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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Hey, remember me? You never answered, and I'd love to help you get it set up, so just let me know hehe.

Here's the last post:

alpha_fruit · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:38 am Post subject:

I'm sorry, I wasn't ignoring you, just didn't see your answer. I have a friend who is very sick so my small mind has been occupied.

Thanks for the tips, I will try and place it in my sig line now.

Thanks. #ni-1

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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Like I said, if you do other non-BOINC projects, let me know and I can help you setup a Free-DC account. It is, as the name suggests, free. It's just a lot more involved than BOINCStats to set up hehe. I'm not afraid though.
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alpha_fruit · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:15 am Post subject:

See it works, I may have to stop WCG cause it hogs all my CPU usage. I've looked for a couple of days to find the place where I only change it to use only 20%. I had to turn off Folding@Home and thats a no-no on my PC's.
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A Shrubbery · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject:

Are you using the BOINC WCG or the grid software they have?

If BOINC, you can't throttle the cpu usage, but you can limit it to only one CPU. Some of the newer development BOINC are getting into percentages, but they are development versions.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Actually that's not true. You CAN change how much resource WCG BOINC gets, but like most things it's not in the standard BOINC way. Here's how:

1. Go to the WCG home page, and log in:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org

2. Click on My Grid.

3. Click on Device Manager.

4. You should see your computer(s) listed, and their Profile probably says Default. Click on Default.

5. You will now be presented with a ton of options, including run times, Internet times, CPU usage, RAM usage, project selection (since WCG is made up of other projects), when to run, etc. Change them to suit your needs.

If you only have one computer doing WCG, you can set the new options as the default profile, and you're done (the next time your client talks to the project it will pull the new config, or you can just force an update). If you have more than one, you may want to create a different profile so you can have one for normal use and one limited to 20% for example.

Now, with all that said, I do not know if it actually works because I have not tested it. Give it a try before just giving up on WCG though, and let us know!
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A Shrubbery · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

Disclaimer: I never claimed to not be an idiot and my opinions should be taken in that context.

You know, I never did see that option and it's listed on all the project preferences. I'll be interested to see if it actually works.
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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject:

I noticed that nobody volunteered to be the one to try it though..... Cool

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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

I have no need to reduce WCGs resource usage, as all my projects (except Maj12) are BOINC so they play nicely together. It's when you're combining a non-BOINC project that's CPU intense with BOINC projects that it becomes more important.
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alpha_fruit · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject:

Me me me, I will try it later, their site is uploading right now.
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alpha_fruit · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:23 am Post subject:

It worked, thanks, now I'm running off to turn F@H back on. I also set it up to only run when this PC is idle, which it is most all day long and at night.
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JerWA · Prince Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA

Glad it worked. Cool

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