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Donna Turcot
Cruncher Joined: Dec 16, 2007 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline |
Are there optimum preference settings for speed when running SETI and World Community Grid projects? I'm on a Mac G5, 137 GB available on HD; static DSL.
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Former Member
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Well, 100% will get you optimum speed. If there are no other considerations, go for that.
The WCG default of 60% is designed to be safe, green and cautious. |
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Donna Turcot
Cruncher Joined: Dec 16, 2007 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline |
Thanks for your reply but I'm not sure what your answer means. I can set it for 100% but does that or something above 60% interfere with my usage? Optimum, for me, means running them at max w/o compromising my use.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
CPU won't interfere with your computer use. BOINC runs at the very lowest priority, so it simply isn't an issue.
Memory, though, can be a problem. Memory is the usage bottleneck. Whether this is a problem depends on three things: how much memory you have, how much BOINC needs, and how much is used by other programs. Normal computer users like yourself with a decent amount of memory should be absolutely fine with the default of 90% idle, 50% in use. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Am running a 4 core Intel at 100% on Vista without noticing, but if a Mac G5 is inferior to that, put it on Didactylos' 'safe, green and cautious' setting of 60%. That's why WCG created 4 preset profiles one of them being 'Minimum Impact' and another 'Power Saving' for the different comfort zones.
----------------------------------------Seriously, there is no 'optimum' but to experiment and see if 'You' experience any impairment running at 100% or less while using the computer. By design BOINC backs off and only uses 'spare' cycles. You continue to be numero uno as user. Now the secret: 60% means 3 seconds at 100% and 2 seconds pause. If you have not noticed that, you are very likely not going to notice it running 100% all the time. cheers
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Donna Turcot
Cruncher Joined: Dec 16, 2007 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline |
Thank you both......Sekerob and Didactylos. I have 2 GB of memory and 137 GB of disk space available. I'm using very little.
I've set it to use 100% CPU time and have given it 10 GB of disk space; Download/upload speed is set to 380.00 KBytes/sec; memory usage 90% both in use & idle. I'll see if I notice anything. Mac inferior to a PC? LOL. Haven't you been watching the commercials? :-) |
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