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ngsmith
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Now that summer time is arriving, and the temperatures are rising, my old P4 Dell is beginning to overheat. Disk temperatures are up, the fans are running overtime and it's a lot louder.
----------------------------------------How can I run down the current tasks and not accept any more tasks? This machine is one of two at home (separate profiles), and the i7 system is running a lot cooler and I need it for daily use. So, I'll still be crunching WCG, just not as much. Win XP, BOINC 7.0.64.  |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Open the BOINC Manager go to the projects tab, select World Community grid and then click the "No new tasks" button in the left.
---------------------------------------- - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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Former Member
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Hello sgsmith,
How can I run down the current tasks and not accept any more tasks? Easy. Bring up BOINC Manager on the computer in the Advanced View, then select the Projects tab, select the World Community Grid project, and then select 'No New Tasks' in the commands menu on the left. That will stop BOINC from downloading new tasks. When Summer is over, bring up BOINC Manager and this time select 'Allow New Tasks' for World Community Grid.That is all you need to do. Lawrence |
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Former Member
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Why do it simple, when you can give it a 'fancy' enhancement, by adding the below instruction to the cc_config.xml, then read in the config:
<exit_when_idle>1</exit_when_idle> Exit when all tasks finished (see --exit_when_idle). New in 6.11 What it does is what it says... if a client is completely is out of work, it allows to power down, and then some 6 months later come to ask why their computer is falling to sleep :p P.S. --exit_when_idle is a one-time parm that can be passed on the command line with boinc when starting the client, so you wont have to remember :D |
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