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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I don't mind donating cycles from my Win XP box. However the normal load meter (taskmanager which shows up in the notification area down in the bottom right corner) becomes useless. It is always pegged at 100%.
I used to look at the meter to see if some application is using way too many cycles and might need to be killed. Maybe somebody with more windows chops than I can create a load meter that uses different colors for low vs high priority tasks and maybe gives the WCG software its own color. In fact, the WCG agent appears as an icon in the notification area. Why not turn that icon into a load meter? |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The crunching is designed to use 100% of the available system at low priority.
In Windows XP look at the processes screen in the windows task manager via ctl-alt-delete. The percentages for each executing task are there. If something else is using a high percentage of cycles, it can be easily identified. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The crunching is designed to use 100% of the available system at low priority. In Windows XP look at the processes screen in the windows task manager via ctl-alt-delete. The percentages for each executing task are there. If something else is using a high percentage of cycles, it can be easily identified. You totally do not understand what I was talking about. Of course I switch to Task Manager to find an application that is hogging CPU cycles. The problem is that the little task manager icon in the notification area becomes totally useless when running Grid because it is always pegged at 100% green. Thus there is no simple way to tell at a glance that some process other than Girid is hogging most of the CPU and needs to be killed. That is why I proposed that the Grid icon that appears in the notification area should become a CPU meter. Say Gird activity is represented with blue and all other activity displays as bright green (as the current Task Manager icon does). Such a little display would really help me in deciding if I need to activate the Task Manager and kill some process. I do not like extra effort when there are easy fixes. |
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Viktors
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Sep 20, 2004 Post Count: 653 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The problem is that the little task manager icon in the notification area becomes totally useless when running Grid because it is always pegged at 100% green. Thus there is no simple way to tell at a glance that some process other than Girid is hogging most of the CPU and needs to be killed. That is why I proposed that the Grid icon that appears in the notification area should become a CPU meter. Say Gird activity is represented with blue and all other activity displays as bright green (as the current Task Manager icon does). Such a little display would really help me in deciding if I need to activate the Task Manager and kill some process. I do not like extra effort when there are easy fixes. We will add this to our list of suggestions. Unfortunately, the software vendor for our Windows agent is not likely to make this change any time soon. Perhaps some motivated developer will add this to the Boinc agent before we get to this on our priority list. You must have an interesting running environment if you have a need to frequently kill processes. In the meantime, if you don't like using the Task Manager, perhaps a tool like the Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com might be useful to you. |
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