4 Work Units on 2 cores?

[karl_eller]

So I was getting ready to play some CoD4, and the way I normally do that is set Bionc's affinity to Cores 3 and 4, leaving the other two for gaming.

So I suspended Boinc, went into task manager and set the afinity for Boinc, boincmanager and boincsystray to cores 3 and 4, then resumed my project again.

Checked CPU usage, last two cores are at 100%. Checked boinc... hello, 4 WUs are still being processed?

Screenshot:
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n212/Karl_Eller/lol_quad.jpg
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n212/Karl_Eller/lol_quad.jpg

Now I'm guessing that each WU would take twice as long as normal, but that's still a rather odd phenomenon.

Eller

[Gamekiller]

You wouldn't need to set the cores like that. I play games with boinc at 100% and because it runs at the lowest priority it doesn't affect me at all.

Anyways, that is a rather odd thing to happen.

[[XC] junglemaster]

Yeah, same. I run COD4 on my Quad with no issues...never stopped Boinc just for a game ;) priorities dude :D

[Gamekiller]

Lucky to have a quad though =[

[Martijn]

Yeah, same. I run COD4 on my Quad with no issues...never stopped Boinc just for a game ;) priorities dude :D

With a quad there's no need to stop Boinc :D

[Grafton]

even on a dual you dont need to stop it

[Kristall-99]

i had 2 Wu's going on on my 939 or my 3300+, leaning on the 939 side, no pics to prove it tho =(

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Then again, i coulda glanced over at my dual core laptop and saw it there, then again, i dont even know if it happened to me at all, hah it happened to atleast 1 machine tho

[Gamekiller]

even on a dual you dont need to stop it

I can confirm this, seeing as I'm using a lame dual core. :rolleyes: