resource HOG
8 Feb 2011 22:07:28 UTC
Topic 195639
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Why does Einstein hog all my resources...memory and cpu? It is set to suspend when I use the pc but it does not. It is set to use less than 30% processor but uses over 50% when I am using my computer. SETI works just fine so why doesn't Einstein? I have suspended all Einstein activity until this is resolved.
resource HOG
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How did you set your pc to "use less than 30% processor"? I am curious.
Under computing preferences I
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Under computing preferences I set "Suspend work if CPU usage is above-
0 means no restriction Enforced by version 6.10.30+ ". But that didn't help.
RE: Why does Einstein hog
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maybe your host is too weak to handle 2 einstein WU's @ a time.
you can try to limit boinc to use only 50% of your CPU's and see if it improves, which is very likely.
RE: Under computing
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This doesn't throttle. It suspends (pauses) the science applications running under BOINC whenever any program external to BOINC uses the amount of CPU cycles, or more of them than the amount you set there. Any other program, but for BOINC or its science applications.
In 6.10 versions there's a bug that the BOINC screen saver is also seen as an external program, and as such this setting will suspend BOINC when the screen saver uses more than the set amount of CPU cycles. That's fixed in the next upcoming version.
Now then, any preference you set in the general computing preferences (or in the local simple and local advanced preferences) will be used by all projects you're attached to. It won't be that Seti will use a preference set here, but Einstein won't. It's BOINC --the managing program through which you attached to the projects-- that uses these preferences, not the science applications themselves.
And thus, suspending Einstein will not fix things for you. Besides, how would you know if anything was fixed, if you didn't allow for the project to continue? It's like waiting in your room in a building on fire, waiting for the fire to die down, not coming out of the room until it has died down. How long will you wait before it gets too hot?