Xkill to do exactly that on frozen windows/progs: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/linux-kill-process-with-xkill/

It's good to see this thread continue. I've just nailed together a new machine for WCG based on the 'wonder' CPU, Intel G3250 . It's a $50 twin core Pentium Anniversary (20 years) which upclocks to around 4.5Ghz. At a push.

Ubu 14.04 threw fits at 4.4Ghz, and as reliability is more important than hot air, I've clocked it back to the standard 3.2Ghz and 50% CPU time. The machine sits by my left ear, so hot air and fan noise must be eschewed, for a quiet life.

So the question is, what is best? Both cores running at 50%, or one core running at 100% in Ubu 14.04?

S.

Well, I'm not a Linux adept, but that was stage 1; tuning for fan howl. One core running at 100% has the BIOS thinking that the sun has landed and whacks the fan up to Max. So we are back at 50/50.

But what generates more points? 100% /1 or 50/50 2?

The only moan for Ubu is the too-frequent kernel updates of the past. They used to break the machine. Lesson 1 for me: turn off all updates. Ubu should be stable by now.

The new Ubu build, 'Trusty Trousers' 14.04 or whatever it's called, seems no less quirky than of four years ago. But it seems solid. The machine is dedicated to WCG so I can apply some of Sekerob's brain to it, and the machine has survived its first night without catching fire.

I don't normally bother with firewalls in Ubu but I've enabled the 'block all incoming' setting as a starting point after reading of incursions on the Boinc channel.

Today is cooler so we are at 75%. 70/70. I will add a liquid cooler, soon, I think, a misnomer as they are all fancooled. :-) .

But they get the heat out of the case instead of spreading it evenly it around the inside.

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Ok, I'll update (downdate) the kernel.

The console monitor is Saidar. The other Linux gripe is the Random Naming of Things. 'Saidar' means nothing to many. Why not call it 'Console Monitor' ?

So, we are up and tasking. Here is a pic of the mighty beast. (With Nixie Clock.)

Let the krunchin' begin:

@Hardnews, your desktop images are way to big... plz shrink to < 800 pixel wide as it else pushes of the edge on mobile/tablets [to which the with of the forum is adapted]. Alt, just edit to post a link... saves bandwidth for mobile users.

On Synergy, the software KVM, more on the product http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20150531034548316/Synergy.html . It appear there a free and a more featured paid version [or compile yourself :]