Dear All,

I want to stop BOINC on Linux.

This is the way I have tried.

Go to 'System Monitor' to find the PID. All I can find is Boinccmgr which is sleeping. Obviously I need to find the PID of boinc-client which is obviously the program which takes up the processor power. I don't know where to find the PID for this process. Could anybody help please.

Nevica

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Try boinc_cmd --quit (note the double - symbol]. The command is in the Boinc directory.

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Thanks,

boinc_cmd --quit

did work but how do I start boinc_cmd up again.

How do I find boinc_cmd PID because it does not appear in 'system monitor' list or under ps command?

Nevia

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What distro? It sounds like you installed from a package manager.

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Kathryn :o)

What distro? It sounds like you installed from a package manager.

I am running Linux Debian (Lenny).

Kernel Linux 2.6.24.1-amd64

GNOME 2.22.1

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Obviously I need to find the PID of boinc-client which is obviously the program which takes up the processor power.

It's not. boinc-client starts up project applications, and those use CPU.

In any case, it's a bad idea to kill boinc-client. Always use boinc_cmd --quit. And note boinc_cmd takes way less than a second to do its job (sending a message to boinc-client), so you will probably never see it in a process list.

If BOINC starts on boot, you can probably start it like this: /etc/init.d/boinc-client start. If BOINC doesn't start on boot... then you should already know how to start it, otherwise how did you start it the first time? :)

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