Is there a way to limit how many jobs (tasks) are added your cache? Like, only allow 4 jobs maximum in your "in-tray" at any time, for example.

When I want to suspend a project, it'd be nice just to select the "Stop new tasks", and then letting the existing jobs finish gracefully. Otherwise there's 60 or so tasks still left in your cache. I like a clean deck! ;) And it would help my quad-core CPU finish processing multiple jobs gracefully.

Thanks

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I was thinking more along the lines of having X jobs (where X is the number of CPUs/core you have) being processed at any one time, with X more stored in your cache waiting to be executed. Then each time one cpu/core finishes a job, it starts a new one from your cache, and then a new job is automatically requested from the internet to refill the cache back up to X again.

Anyway, I'll tweak the Network Usage settings to achieve something akin to the same effect. :)

Thanks!

It's strangely addictive watching a quad core process all those jobs. I thought it would make the computer a bit sluggish, since BOINC's default usage is set to 100% CPU usage (further confirmed in Windows Task Manager [Alt+Ctrl+Del] - nailed to the roof on all cores!), but it doesn't seem to affect other applications! Good job I've got some decent cooling on there, too. ;)

BOINC is using very little of the cpu time. It's the science apps that do that.
And these run at low priority, so they get out of the way quickly when a non-BOINC program starts up.