The Linux Help and Tutorial Thread

[OldChap]

Not seeing criticism but we are possibly talking at crossed purposes.

When I am talking about seeing 94% I am referring to the Boinctasks screen which, oddly enough, I am tending to go with because it seems to accurately fit with the amount of lost time (the difference between real time and cpu time for a wu.)

All the while there is 94% showing in Boinctasks there is 100% showing on all bar one thread (98%) in top.

When I was referring to the idle time, that was seen in the info across the top of top: user, system, nice, idle, wait etc.

All together this is saying to me that if it is not the OS being inefficient, seemingly the case judging by the 100% for each thread showing but there is only 6% of idle time when running 15 threads then the losses must lay elsewhere and perhaps a new install would rule out less than optimum "drivers" etc.

It could be lesser hardware causing this but....

I am just following my nose on this and my logic may be faulty too bearing in mind my lack of detailed knowledge on how this stuff actually works..... but it should only cost an hour to find out.

EDIT: I have an issue trying to get a screenshot... what I get just now is a screen that is older than the current screen. any tips on that and I will gladly post.

I changed my value using boinktasks> extra> edit config file> <no_priority_change>1</no_priority_change>

I tried just getting it to read the config file again but had to actually re-start boinc for it to work

You could do this with gedit and just add the above line to cc_config. (listen to me talking to the bearded one ....)

[yojimbo197]

I was wondering if any of you Linux guys who have switched over to the newest BOINC client for 64 bit Linux (7.2.28?) have seen a difference in crunching times as compared to 7.0.65 or .64?


Also, as a Linux newb, I am still learning things about the OS. To that end, did you or do you have to use a command line way of updating to the new version or did you have to uninstall the current BOINC client and then install the new one?

[PoppaGeek]

I was wondering if any of you Linux guys who have switched over to the newest BOINC client for 64 bit Linux (7.2.28?) have seen a difference in crunching times as compared to 7.0.65 or .64?


Also, as a Linux newb, I am still learning things about the OS. To that end, did you or do you have to use a command line way of updating to the new version or did you have to uninstall the current BOINC client and then install the new one?

I have seen no difference but the newer one allows you to use app_config.xml

see this thread on how to update and or install newest Boinc.