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2 Units running at once may be causing me to miss deadlines

Hello. I have 3 computers running BOINC WCG. One of them is a Pentium 4-2.4Ghz that shows 2 units running and is apparently switching back and forth. It think this is causing me to miss deadlines on some units. I only show BOINC being attached to the one WCG Project. Why is this PC grabbing 2 units at once? I can understand my dual core running 2, but am not sure why the Pentium 4 single core would be. Any ideas? Thank you.

[Dec 22, 2007 6:39:46 PM]

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Re: 2 Units running at once may be causing me to miss deadlines

Hello jgreenough,
The Pentium 4 is a hyper-threading CPU, which means that it tells the OS that it can run 2 threads at once. You need to create a special profile (Home, Work or School) and assign that profile to your Pentium 4. Tell it to run at most 1 thread per system.

Lawrence

[Dec 22, 2007 6:45:34 PM]

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Re: 2 Units running at once may be causing me to miss deadlines

Thanks Lawrence. That makes sense. Merry Christmas!

[Dec 22, 2007 7:12:59 PM]

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