Posts by Mark

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : What does idle mean on a headless server? (Message 18808)
Posted 24 Jul 2008 by Mark
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Can someone tell me what "idle" or "not in use" means to boinc? Does it mean no one is on the console -- no keystrokes or mouse movement? Or does it mean the CPU is relatively idle?

I am running boinc on 20, 8 core headless servers (Dell 1950s) under Debian. These servers are only used about 20% of the time, but when they are in use I need all of them and would like boinc to suspend and unload its jobs and get out of the way until the system is idle for 5 minutes.

According to the docs that look possible, but that is not how its working on my systems. I never see boinc suspend or stop running jobs on any of the cores when the machine is under load. Is this because boinc is determining idle by keystroke and mouse movement and not CPU? If so, is there anyway to make it work on a headless machine?

For the record, I am running 5.4.11 client on Debian 3.1. In all respects boinc works flawlessly.

Thanks,

Mark




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