Posts by TIR0

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : exclusive_gpu_app *.exe not working in 6.10.24 (Message 30305)
Posted 22 Dec 2009 by TIR0
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Oh, I somehow overlooked it.
Is it somehow possible, never the less?
I use a program, which needs much CPU, but doesn´t need GPU at all.
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : exclusive_gpu_app *.exe not working in 6.10.24 (Message 30300)
Posted 22 Dec 2009 by TIR0
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Hm, everything seemed to be fine so far, but now I realized that exclusive_app also stops GPU computation, but I would like to only stop CPU-computation for one app. Why doesn´t it work?
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : exclusive_gpu_app *.exe not working in 6.10.24 (Message 29535)
Posted 17 Dec 2009 by TIR0
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I use the german version of BOINC Manager,
I see the following options when clicking on the boinc-symbol in the taskbar:

Öffne BOINC Manager...
BOINC anhalten
über BOINC Manager...
Beenden

Boinc anhalten means suspend Boinc, for me. Maybe this is the snooze function you are talking about.
Anyway, I´m extremely brave, I will now install version 6.2.28 :D
Hm, why is the wcg-boinc-manager available in version 6.2.28, but the normal Client is only version 6.2.25, anyway, I´m installing version 6.2.25 now.
Oh, big mistake here, I mean version 6.10.25, there´s no wcg-6.10.28 client!

Good, now I see the GPU-Snooze function.
But it won´t stop CPU-computing, better than nothing.
Is there any version history somewhere? What was done in version 6.10.25?
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : exclusive_gpu_app *.exe not working in 6.10.24 (Message 29516)
Posted 16 Dec 2009 by TIR0
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Umm, I can´t find a beta 6.10.25 anywhere. Or is this beta (alpha?) only for linux?
I don´t have the snooze-feature.
5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : exclusive_gpu_app *.exe not working in 6.10.24 (Message 29506)
Posted 16 Dec 2009 by TIR0
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Ah, thanks for renaming.

The GPU stops almost instantly (2 sec),
Now I have let run one app that should stop CPU computing for about 10 min:
GPU computation has stopped, but the CPU still computes and boinc even requests new tasks and starts them.

Some info:
I have set the preferences in all the project home pages to stop CPU computing, when user is active but GPU should still compute while user is active. But I have set up Boinc-Manager to always compute.
Maybe this could be the reason. But why then GPU-computing stops?
Maybe I have to set always compute on the project pages and change BOINC to look for the preferences online. Hm, I´ll try it out.

Yes, that was the problem.
But why BOINC doesn´t just stop computing, when an exclusive app is running, no matter what options I have set somewhere.
I usualy wanted to let boinc always compute, but when I do something demanding, I could switch to read the online preferences, resulting in computing only when inactive. Now when I do something demanding (like HD Flash Video in the webbrowser..., and I can´t use the <exclusive_app> command, because my webbrowser is always on) I´ll always have to stop computing completely and when I forget to set it back, it will not compute at all, until I realize it some day.

Is it somehow possible to stop computing when flashplayer is running? The Taskmanager doesn´t show flashplayer in the list.
6) Message boards : BOINC Manager : exclusive_gpu_app *.exe not working in 6.10.24 (Message 29487)
Posted 16 Dec 2009 by TIR0
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The one project that runs on the GPU stops computing properly. But the others, that run on the CPU, don´t.

Here´s my cc_config.xml:

<cc_config>
   <log_flags>
	</log_flags>
   <options>
	<exclusive_app>1.exe</exclusive_app>
	<exclusive_app>2.exe</exclusive_app>
	<exclusive_app>3.exe</exclusive_app>
	<exclusive_app>4.exe</exclusive_app>
	<exclusive_gpu_app>a.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
	<exclusive_gpu_app>b.EXE</exclusive_gpu_app>
	<exclusive_gpu_app>c.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
	<exclusive_gpu_app>1.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
	<exclusive_gpu_app>2.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
	<exclusive_gpu_app>3.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
	<exclusive_gpu_app>4.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
   </options>
</cc_config>


I´ve renamed the actual names of the EXEs to 1,2,3,4,a,b,c.
The <exclusive_app> doesn´t stop GPU computing either.

PS: The tread name should be:
<exclusive_app>*.exe</exclusive_app> not working in 6.10.24
(somehow the <></> were deleted with the content inside.)
Could you please rename it?
7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : exclusive_gpu_app *.exe not working in 6.10.24 (Message 29481)
Posted 15 Dec 2009 by TIR0
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Hi all, I have a problem.
I can´t get boinc to stop computing while a specific app is running. However, the <exclusive_gpu_app> command in the same file works fine.
Boinc also recognizes the file correctly and tells, computing won´t be done while *.exe is running. When the app is running boinc stops GPU-Computing, but the CPU work still continues.
I´m running the beta version 6.10.24, could this be the reason?



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