Just for completeness, does anyone know if Affinity works with a BOINC 5.10.45 Service install?

In other words, is this a BOINC 6 'feature' or a Service 'feature'?

Lawrence

Hi Rick.

I use a fabulous little utility called "Bill2's Process Manager" which is a rules based affinity and priority manager. The site is in French, but the download link in the upper right hand corner of the linked site gives you the latest version. The app does have a setting for English but the help file is French only. But it's a pretty easy app to figure out for a cruncher so no big deal..

For instance, I am running 3 cores of 2 Quads on WCG with the 4th core on each being used to feed a F@H GPU client. I set up a rule in Bill2 using the "Boinc.exe" as the executable file (since I found this controls the science cores) and set Boinc's affinity to cores 0-2. I set the F@H GPU client affinity to core 3 and both programs have been happily co-existing for about a month now. You can set the rule for foreground setting, background or both. It's a pretty slick little app with a built in task mangler to see where things are setup and control them manually. I found this to be one of only a handful of affinity managers that would reliably have my affinities stick across various ending/restarting of an app like the F@H "FAHCore_11.exe" that the GPU client uses. Each time a WU finishes and uploads, the core shuts down and restarts. Normally it resets the processor affinities, but being a rules based manager, Bill2 just puts it back to what the rule is set for.

It might do what you need. Worth a shot.

edit: forgot to mention this is on 6.2.18

Cheers.