Throttling BOINC

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:45 pm

Coming soon to a BOINC client near you the ability to throttle BOINC to use x amount of processor time, will hopefully be working fine and included in the next release of BOINC

UBT_Grumpy Old Bloke · Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:16 pm

That's good to hear, and about time too. Thread Master works OK but it's a pain having to keep an eye out and modify the registry when the executables change.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:20 pm

I have not tested it as yet might give it ago later and see if it actually works, just need access to my SETI account to alter the options

Edit: site is back online will give it a go

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:25 pm

Well it worked fine set it to use 5% of the CPU time, it crunched for around 2 seconds then suspended all processing for around 10 seconds and did that over and over again.

I suppose its a step in the right direction

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:04 pm

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:I suppose its a step in the right direction

Not quite what we had in mind. Just before I came over to the team there was a lot of heated debate on WCG updating the Winders agent with 70% throttling that the user could not alter. As I used Boinc, I didn't mind but just couldn't see the logic behind the decisions. It was extremely unpoular with the overclockers as you can well imagine. :twisted:

Oh well, thanks for being the guinee pig. :D

(Did I just mention pigs again?????)

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:12 am

Right not going to be coming out to play as quickly as some people hoped for

After numerous discussions and a little bit of soul searching we have decided to abandon the 5.6 release and refocus our efforts on the 5.8 release.

I want to say you all have done a great job in stabilizing the 5.6 client which will pay off big for the 5.8 release.

We basically ran out of time to get 5.6 out to the public and still leave a big enough window that we could work on the simple GUI and memory management changes and not blow our commitments to WCG. Asking you all to test two different clients at the same time would have presented quite a few problems for everyone.

So we are going to move on to 5.8 to keep things simple and keep everyone sane.

We have some work to finish up in order to be able to get a 5.7 beta client out for testing, as soon as we finish those work-items we'll release a new client with the simple GUI and better memory management support.

Again, we want to thank you all for the great work you did for 5.6 and hope you'll put as much effort into the 5.8 release