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Re: Best linux package to use?
6.10.32 ÏS alpha so expected the unexpected... the developer is aware and wrote "first stab at resolving the CPU too high usage issue". You get this even at 100% CPU use setting. Work around for 100% crunchers for now is to select in client Activity Menu Run Always instead of Run based on preferences

To disable this setting you should set zero, not 100%...

It should also be settable in BOINC Managers preferences in next build.
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[Massively OT continued] If you're familiar with the rule book of golf as maintained by the Royal and Ancient [in Scotland], writing the complete manual for BOINC and all it's endless iterations is probably producing a volume twice thicker than War and Piece. Roll your eyes... to disable the throttling one sets it intuitively to 0. [not -1 ;P ] Ingleside, will that be an additional field to Use at Most xxx% of CPU time or an additional field, to keep it simple?

DIRFT, not DRIFT, every time

David  16 Feb 2010
1222 	    - manager: first whack at "suspend if CPU load exceeds x" in dialog
1223 	    clientgui/
1224 	        DlgAdvPreferences*
1225 	    html/ops/
1226 	        cancel_wu_action.php

David  18 Feb 2010
1324 	        - client: fix bug in "suspend if CPU load too high" feature.
1325 	                Forgot to convert between fraction and percentage
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1327 	        client/
1328 	                app.cpp
1329 	                cs_prefs.cpp
1330 	                log_flags.cpp

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I changed my setting to always run. One thing I noticed is 1 core running at around 25%. All my settings have 8 cores running 100%. Not sure if this is ubuntu doing this or not. When I ran this under windows, it always ran 100% for all cores.
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Bearcat, you're best off to revert to 6.10.18, the 6.10.32 version you have is really really alpha. 7 threads on 100%, 1 on 25% when Run Always is on... who knows it's something funky v.v. GPU (dis) functionality. I don't know and think you need to revert to the developers forum to have them dig in.
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[Massively OT continued] If you're familiar with the rule book of golf as maintained by the Royal and Ancient [in Scotland], writing the complete manual for BOINC and all it's endless iterations is probably producing a volume twice thicker than War and Piece. Roll your eyes... to disable the throttling one sets it intuitively to 0. [not -1 ;P ] Ingleside, will that be an additional field to Use at Most xxx% of CPU time or an additional field, to keep it simple?

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Don't play golf. wink

As for the throttling, since the global preference-setting does have full description, it's not difficult to read this description and know how to turn it off...
"Suspend work if CPU usage is above N%
0 means no restriction
Enforced by version 6.10.30+"

Now, on the web-pages, it's a new, separate field under "Processor usage". How it'll look in the BOINC Manager I've no idea, but would guess it's something similar.
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Don't see anything like that in boinc manager. Didn't see it in online either.
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Was the message the following?

Suspending computation - CPU usage is too high

If so, this "feature" was introduced in 6.10.32, I believe. The default value is 25%, meaning if 25% or more of the CPU is going to non-boinc processes then boinc suspends computations. Unfortunately, the detection is flawed in that boinc related processes also can trigger the 25% limit. AFAIK, Seti and Seti Beta are the only two projects that have the option in their web preferences to change the default behavior.

If you have an account at either of the Seti projects, you can change it there and update the Project. Or you can downgrade to an earlier version of boinc from before when this was added to the client.

[ot]Kind of overrides the CPU Time percent, so yes then if 25% is the limit then BOINC will not exceed the differential of 25% and what's used by the system. Did not like it for it takes from initial observation 4 seconds+ to resume... but then who's going to keep it at that low a percent... maybe gamers are won over to allow BOINC to run on using a share rather than killing than suspending the client? Being a Windows slave, will just set it to 0 and continue using ThreadMaster GUI for that rounded, smooth, millisecond level control, co-functioning as temperature control.[/ot]
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Looking for information on which linux disto has the least headache to use. From what I have read so far on the threads, seems ubuntu is fairly painless to migrate to. This will be going on a dual quad core (harpertown) pc I built. Currently using win 7 64bit RC1 but don't plan on buying it. Not bad OS but ready to switch. Any suggestions appreciated.

Evtentualy is Dotsch/UX (www.dotsch.de) a alternative for you. It's a Ubuntu based distribution specialy for BOINC. It works as Live CD, USB stick or Hard disk installation and has tools included to easly setup a diskless server and diskless clients.
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