Can't get 100% CPU load on both CPUs

[KSMarksPsych]

Posted by: Date: 11:53 AM 02-20-2007 (This is version 5.4.11_i686-pc-linux-gnu, but the bug submission options don't include this version.)

I've set all my preferences the same on the various project Web pages, including 100% CPU and use-at-most 2CPUs, but I can't get more than 50% + 50% load, usually both on the same CPU which doesn't help much with cooling.

I run a command-line client with no manager. I've tried using BAM to set my options but it didn't help and I've disabled it. This is a dual-Opteron-246 box with 4GB memory, running Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.6.20. I installed my own i686 client; I'm not using the Gentoo ebuild because the client it creates can't fetch work for my platform - it just sits silently not doing anything. I'm currently attached to four projects: SETI, QMC, Climate Prediction and Einstein.

I fell into a nasty trap on the BOINC Web site, and innocently downloaded the latest recommended version. Only hours later, after no processing at all and after I'd dug through the .xml files in my boinc directory, did I find that I can't run that client because I'm behind a proxy. Downgrading again seemed to be accompanied with http problems still, so I removed the entire boinc directory and attached again to the four projects using the command line and my project keys. BOINC is now running, but it refuses to obey my settings. I'm doing my best to offer my (fairly substantial) computing resources to the community, but it's not easy.

I don't know which Component to select, so I've guessed at the scheduler.

[anonymous]

I think the 'throttle' only works from 5.8. Some project profile pages show the version with which an option becomes effective, some dont.

On windows a 2 core full throttle shows as 50% each of total CPU resource i.e. going full tilt. Dont know about linux.

[davea]

I think all this has been fixed. -- DPA