Per application or project settable affinity of CPUs.

[Ageless]

As posted by David Braun on Predictor Alpha:

I think it would be nice to have a per project or per application preferences such as "use at most N cores for application/project blah", or maybe "when application blah is active use at most N cores.

[Nicolas]

Note this isn't "affinity" in the sense of locking a process to a single CPU (see #15 and #325 for that).

[ohiomike]

I agree, being able to set project a to x CPU's and project b to y CPU's would make project management easier for the user. The percentage is squirrelly to use at best (with 4 projects running, you have to change preferences in 4 different places to set project x to 50% of the load and the other 3 to 16% each. And then Boinc ignores you anyway).

[davea]

What problem does this proposal address? Resource shares (which can be managed centrally with an account manager) do in fact work.

[Didactylos]

ohiomike, projects weights are NOT percentages. If the weights of your four projects are all at the default 100, then to achieve the weighting you describe, set project X to 300. The client then works out the percentages for you.