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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have a mac pro running boinc. If I change the number of cores from 4 to 2 in my setting, will this actually work and use only 2 cores? If so, any way to specify to use one core per processor? Trying to keep the heat down.
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Yes it will reduce usage to only 2 cores. There is currently no way to specify which cores BOINC will use, that is up to your OS.
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Bearcat
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Changed to 2 cores yesterday. Checked activity monitor and saw all 4 cores running like it spread the work load over all 4. Not sure if the OS is doing this or what. Heat still about the same. A few degrees lower only.
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Former Member
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Hello Bearcat,
All that BOINC specifies is the number of threads (well, processes) to run. The OS decides where to run the threads. Lawrence |
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