Bug#365582: wishlist: nice and graphics

[Frank S. Thomas]

Hi Gordon,

On Monday 01 May 2006 11:15, Gordon Haverland wrote:
> The mechanism by which the boinc-client(s) applications runs is
> a little coarse grained.  If a person used their computer interactively
> at nearly 100% usage, and then left it alone for long periods (compared
> to 3 minutes or whatever), then the boinc-client would probably working
> about as well as could be expected.  But, if I am using my computer
> (with dual CPUs) in such a way that the only interaction I have with
> the computer is with a mouse, I can have both CPUs sitting at 100%
> usage, two boinc-clients getting most of that CPU usage, and still see
> acceptable performance.  But the moment I touch the keyboard, the
> boinc-client detects a "user" is present, unloads the application,
> and CPU usage slips to 10% or less.

Set "Do work while computer is in use?" to "yes" on your "General preferences" 
page: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=global

> Wouldn't it be better to 
> just "nice" the program and let the scheduler deal with allocation
> cycles?

That is already done. The BOINC core client starts each application with a 
nice value of 19 (least favorable scheduling).

> I've tried a few times to get graphics (setiathome), and looked for
> HOWTOs on the Internet.  So far, the only thing I can see is a plot
> of my work done over time, which is almost a straight line.  Not
> very exciting that plot.  :-)  It would be nice if there was an
> easy/reliable way to see the statistics of what I am doing, like the
> pre-boinc setiathome client.

As far as I know the Linux version of SETI at home for BOINC does not support 
graphics yet. However the KBoincSpy program (which is a alternative to the 
BOINC Manager) shows some interesting stuff about each single WU. Maybe this 
is something for you. You can install it with:
  apt-get install kboincspy

Grüße,
Frank

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