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icepack

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Message 45794 - Posted: 26 Sep 2012, 8:56:45 UTC

Hello,
i was wondering, if the cpu usage can be regulated. I am asking, because when i run boinc with a project, my cpu usage goes to 100% and stays at this level.
My PC gets louder and this is disturbing me.
Or, are there projects, which don't use the 100% ?
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Message 45799 - Posted: 26 Sep 2012, 13:19:29 UTC - in response to Message 45794.  


Use TThrottle:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=68948&postid=1277084#1277084





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Message 45802 - Posted: 26 Sep 2012, 15:32:42 UTC - in response to Message 45799.  

thank you for your answer.
is there something just for the cpu-usage ?
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Message 45807 - Posted: 26 Sep 2012, 20:23:53 UTC - in response to Message 45802.  

BOINC has got throttling capability right there in the preferences. Seek for "Use at most 100% of CPU time" and reduce it to whatever amount you want. Mind, this will not set the CPU to use that value constantly, but it will run/suspend work on a 10 second basis according to the value you set.

E.g. 80% means BOINC runs applications for 4 seconds, pauses them for 1 second, runs for 4 seconds, pauses them for 1 second.
60% means 2 seconds run, 1 second pause, 2 seconds run, 1 second pause, etc.

If that's not to your liking, then you can use the third party application Threadmaster. This can be set to a value and use that value in a sustained way.
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Message 45813 - Posted: 27 Sep 2012, 6:49:59 UTC - in response to Message 45807.  

Excellent, thank you very much. :)
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