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Nikolay

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Message 97040 - Posted: 25 Mar 2020, 5:17:28 UTC

It could help effectively use my laptop: e.g.: I want to provide 80% of CPU when I'm not using my laptop and 20% when I'm using my laptop. I need each time when I'm using laptop to set minimal CPU usage but when I'm stopping to use my laptop I need to increase CPU usage again
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Message 97052 - Posted: 25 Mar 2020, 16:20:52 UTC - in response to Message 97040.  
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There are controls for the gpu to achieve that in your Preferences. But not for the CPU. Only global % can be set. There is a BOINC github development issue raised on this problem of allowing finer cpu controls but it has not been implemented or pulled into the code yet.
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/2993
and one of the earliest requests for this feature you want.
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/41
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Message 97084 - Posted: 26 Mar 2020, 17:10:30 UTC

If you have a quadcore, it can be set to 75% (3 out of 4 cores running at 100%), plus, if you're running any program, boinc will slow down any running projects, to accommodate the need of the program you're running.
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