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1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : Milkyway is choking out other projects and idling at the same time (Message 73558)
Posted 17 May 2022 by martixy
Post:
I'm on an 8C16T cpu.

I keep BOINC running at 25% or 50% at times.

When I first added this project, it began running 4CPU tasks, 1 at a time. When a task finishes there is idle time until the next one starts.
At the same time it will not allow any other project to run. Several of the projects I run have stalled (hence me adding this one), but one is active, and Milky way stopped all progress on it. Resource allocation is equal among all projects. So 50/50 in this case.

There was also another recent thread that suggested creating an app_config.xml file.

I created the following file:
<app_config>
	<app>
		<name>milkyway_nbody</name>
		<max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
	</app>
	<app_version>
		<app_name>milkyway_nbody</app_name>
		<plan_class>mt</plan_class>
		<avg_ncpus>1</avg_ncpus>
		<cmdline>--nthreads 2</cmdline>
	</app_version>
</app_config>

with the intent of allowing it to run a couple of tasks concurrently, to eliminate the idle time I was seeing.
This config pegged my CPU at almost 100%, disregarding boinc's usage limits.

Then I deleted the app_config, and now Milkway is no longer doing nbody WUs, but it is doing multiple seperation WUs.
And still choking out other projects.




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