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Zxian
Zxian
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RE: 1) In your preferences

Message 78588 in response to message 78587

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1) In your preferences settings, the setting

On multiprocessors, use at most X processors

should be set to X=4 if you want to use all four cores on a quadcore, obviously. Note that the default is X=2.

Actually... the default is 16. It's been this way on just about every BOINC project I've joined in the past year.

Klimax
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RE: RE: 1) In your

Message 78589 in response to message 78588

Quote:
Quote:

1) In your preferences settings, the setting

On multiprocessors, use at most X processors

should be set to X=4 if you want to use all four cores on a quadcore, obviously. Note that the default is X=2.

Actually... the default is 16. It's been this way on just about every BOINC project I've joined in the past year.


This is interesting,since yesterday I installed fresh BOINC oń another computer and noticed,that it is set to 2.(After project contact-EAH :-) )

Winterknight
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RE: RE: 1) In your

Message 78590 in response to message 78588

Quote:
Quote:

1) In your preferences settings, the setting

On multiprocessors, use at most X processors

should be set to X=4 if you want to use all four cores on a quadcore, obviously. Note that the default is X=2.

Actually... the default is 16. It's been this way on just about every BOINC project I've joined in the past year.


Its 2 from the web site page, but 16 if you use the preferences page in the manager with the global_prefs_override.xml file.

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