How to configure resource share via command line

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scottd

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Message 68749 - Posted: 4 Apr 2016, 6:33:25 UTC

Hi,
I have a headless Ubuntu box running BOINC Client 7.2.42.
Could anybody show me how to configure resource share settings via command line? (e.g. I don't want the client to use 100% of CPU time)

Thanks.
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Message 68751 - Posted: 4 Apr 2016, 9:42:54 UTC - in response to Message 68749.  

Think you can't. It's a setting that is input at/in each project's web location profile. In effect, a share number applies to all hosts attached to the same project account... you can't have a different value per-host.
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Message 68752 - Posted: 4 Apr 2016, 10:02:57 UTC
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"I don't want the client to use 100% of CPU time" isn't actually a Resource Share question - it's in the Global Preferences set. You can set that through the website of any one of the projects the machine is attached to (and you have a choice of four 'venues' - default, home, school, work - if you don't want it to apply to all your computers).

Or you can set local preferences just for that machine using a global_prefs_override.xml file - the current documentation describes doing this from the Manager GUI, but you could create the file in a text editor instead. Not directly from boinccmd, though.
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Message 68779 - Posted: 4 Apr 2016, 15:36:43 UTC - in response to Message 68752.  

Thank you. I got it.
Although this may not be a usual case, but it would be great if there were more documentation on setting up via command line.
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