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Brian Stewart

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Message 5126 - Posted: 28 Jul 2006, 2:07:51 UTC

I hust upgraded to an Athlon X2 4600+.
BOINC runs on both cores, but it only ever uses 50% of my CPU.

Is there a way to make it maximize both cores?
Or is there a way to make it run 2 tasks at once?

And yes, I have set it to use 2 CPUs in the general preferences.
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Message 5127 - Posted: 28 Jul 2006, 2:33:47 UTC

It already uses 100% of both CPUs. I take it you are checking this through Windows Task Manager? You see two instances of your project's application running at 50%? That's because 50+50=100%.
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Message 5129 - Posted: 28 Jul 2006, 8:11:46 UTC

No, total was 50.
One instance of the current project app was running at 50%.

5 minutes after I posted this trhead, however, it fixed itself.
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Message 5131 - Posted: 28 Jul 2006, 15:13:57 UTC

Mysteries of computing. ;-)
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Message 5135 - Posted: 28 Jul 2006, 17:59:08 UTC

Thats a problem of HT and Dual Core CPUs where two WUs finished at the same time and only one part of CPU is running next WU. Solution: suspend any WU
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