Program keeps stopping
1 Sep 2013 10:40:52 UTC
Topic 197177
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Firstly I do not understand most of the questions on this message board let alone the answers, so if you can help please do so in laymans language.
BOINC appears to work on four different sets of data at a time and each set appears to take up in the region of 25% of the available computer. As a result processing keeps stopping and I get a message saying that Einstein at home is not running and then it starts up again.
Is it possible to reduce the number of units of work it is working on to just two so that they run all the time.
Thanks in anticipation of a response
Program keeps stopping
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Yes it's possible to reduce the number of units to run at the same time. To set it up just go to your account and click on the link "Computing preferences" or follow this link.
Then scroll down and click on "Edit preferences" and change "On multiprocessors, use at most 100% of the processors" to 50% to use 2 of the 4 cores. The option above it that talks of the number of processors are for older versions of Boinc and is no longer used.
While you're there read through the different options so you can set it up to your liking and if you have question I or someone else will do our best to answer them. I would check out the setting for "Suspend work if CPU usage is above 25%" and set it higher, maybe above 50%. I have it set to 0 and thus it's disabled so the Boinc will never suspend regardless of what else might run. Boinc and Einstein run at the lowest priority and gets out of the way of most other programs one run on a computer and have almost never interfered with the use of my computer, and if it does it's easy enough to right click the icon down by the clock and suspend it.
Thanks very much for
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Thanks very much for responding. I have reset my preferences and will see how it goes.
Thank you also for responding in language I could understand :-)
I hope all goes well and you
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I hope all goes well and you have a improved experience!
If not just ask again and someone will try to help you, we've all been novices =)
Having carried out all that
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Having carried out all that was suggested this has not solved the problem.
I am getting the message "no running Tasks" Computing suspended because processor usage is high"
There are still 4 pieces of work being worked on and each takes up around 25% of the computer processing. I increased the Disk:use at most to 200 but that appears to have made no difference.
This problem only started very recently and there are no other processes taking place using losts of processing space.
Any ideas please
RE: I am getting the
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Then you obviously don't have carried out all what was suggested. ;-)
Reread the part of Holmis's post about "Suspend work if CPU usage is above 25%" and set it higher.
Gruß
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
The setting "Suspend work if
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The setting "Suspend work if CPU usage is above 25%" will suspend Boinc and Einstein if anything else on the computer use more than the set percentage.
As I wrote earlier I have it set to 0 (zero) to disable this function so that Boinc and Einstein will never get suspended.
As both I and Gundolf have said set it higher or to 0 to remedy the problem.
Thanks for the reply. I set
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Thanks for the reply. I set it to zero but the problem still remains
There might be a delay before
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There might be a delay before the setting is used as Boinc needs to contact the project servers before it knows about the new setting. This can be done manually by opening Boinc and in "advanced view" on the projects tab, click on Einstein to highlight it and then on the left click on "update".
Another possibility is that you have set local prefs via Boinc. These are located in the "Tools" menu and "Computing preferences", local prefs always override the online ones so if these are set either change them instead or clear them to revert back to the online prefs again.
The setting "Suspend work if CPU usage is above 25%" is called "While processor usage is less than 25%" in the local prefs.
Thanks very much. I changed
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Thanks very much. I changed the localpreferences as well and that appears to have solved the problem
Good to hear that you got it
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Good to hear that you got it sorted! =)