I didn't find this in forums, so thought I'd document issue.

I'm running BOINC 5.8.16 on Win XP Pro Ver 2002 SP2 on Intel Core2.

On THAT machine, BOINC is attached to only SETI & Predictor. And was able to work on 2 WUs at once (one for each core).

After another of my machines attached for the first time to a new project Superlink@Technion. It appears this disabled using multiple Cores/CPUs on the first machine. [posted at superlinkattechnion]

I modified my SETI preferences (trivial change), and had the box in question UPDATE with SETI.

Multi CPU/Core capability has returned after SETI updated. I've modified Superlink@Technion preferences to allow multiple CPUs also.

I 'guess' that Superlink@Technion default config for mulitprocessor is 1.


Seems to me the 'feature' of using the config of the latest project updated/joined is flawed in that it affects ALL other projects and clients also.

It would make more sense to me if a project ONLY affected work on THAT project. And/or if there were a GENERAL OVERALL BOINC settings location that affects ALL projects equally.

Sometimes there are TOO MANY ways to skin a cat!

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