priority setting question

[jasong42]

Hey, guys, you don't know me, but I was hoping you could help anyway:

For the past month, I've basically been a DC wanderer. The project that I consider the most valuable for society in general(Find-a-Drug), just isn't exciting anymore. So I've been wandering around trying out different projects. Riesel Sieve, Folding@Home,climate prediction. I've decided, for the time being, to run two projects at once on my computer. Other than the annoying fact that Riesel Sieve uses up space on my taskbar(as a minimized window) I barely notice them.

Here's the thing: I discovered that if I set the other program Einstein@home at Below_Normal and left Riesel Sieve at Low, they both almost exactly shared resources. The thing is every time E@H starts a new work-unit it resets to Low, at which point Riesel Sieve totally takes over and hogs all but about 6-10% of the available cpu. At the moment, I simply correct the problem in the Task Manager. But I'm hoping for a better solution. Any ideas?

Your help is appreciated.

 

[Insidious]

I had similar experiences when I was trying to run two DCs at the same time. Some DC projects just don't "work and play with other children" as well as others.

(I think it was DF and TSC that didn't cooperate well for me)

This is always a part of my consideration of which projects to run. You may even want to consider using task scheduling to run each, alone at different times of the day or days of the week.

-Sid

 

[jasong42]

Originally posted by: Insidious
This is always a part of my consideration of which projects to run. You may even want to consider using task scheduling to run each, alone at different times of the day or days of the week.

-Sid

The last time I tried to do a scheduled task, I discovered that Service Pack 2 had screwed it up, and attempting the fix just generated another error. I'll try again, just in case they've fixed the problem since then.

 

[jasong42]

I'm getting the same error(grrrrrrr, you suck Bill Gates). I set it to run at 8pm, so I might get lucky. Fingers crossed.

 

[GLeeM]

Some DC programs have the ability to set priority - Folding@Home can be set to "idle" or "low" priority from the client, no messing with Task Manager.

SETI Driver allows setting the client to Idle, Low, Normal or High.

Some clients by default run at "Idle", others at "Low", this makes it tough to run more than one project the way you want to.

I use this to my advantage! I have dialup connection. If I am not there when WU finishes, the computer could sit idle. Solution: run one at Low and another at Idle, when the client set to Low finishes the client set to Idle starts crunching.

Folding@Home allows setting CPU usage to whatever percent I want. (The reason for this setting is to set lower if computer is overheating ) I set to 90% so the client set to idle does move along a little while waiting for F@H WU to finish. (This is on a dual HT computer running four clients, actually five counting the one set to idle).

Some may take exception to this, but it's my ship and I am the Captain

 

[jasong42]

Originally posted by: jasong42
I'm getting the same error(grrrrrrr, you suck Bill Gates). I set it to run at 8pm, so I might get lucky. Fingers crossed.

8:07 pm (no joy)

 

[Insidious]

That's a bummer.

What kind of error is it giving you?

I really don't have any advise to add except to say that you might have picked two projects that just aren't going to behave as you want.

Luckily there are so many to choose from

-Sid

 

[jasong42]

Originally posted by: Insidious
That's a bummer.

What kind of error is it giving you?
-Sid

0x80070005
But, I already checked into it, and the solution just generates another error about 90% of the way through the instructions.

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: jasong42
The thing is every time E@H starts a new work-unit it resets to Low...

Have you tried asking why the priority change on ne WU start on the E@H forums, if there is such a thing?

Hope you get it resolved. Post back if you do, it may come in handy for others.