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speedy67:
Hi all,

First of all thanks to all who contribute in making these wonderful optimized apps available.

A while ago, after upgrading to the 2.2B app, I (and several others) noticed that the science app no longer started at the lowest priority (nice 19) but at normal priority (nice 0). A little inconvenient in most situations, but nothing a cron job can't handle.

Just now, after upgrading to the 2.4 app on two of my Linux boxes, the system speed slowed down to a crawl and I noticed the newest science app was running at very high priority (nice -10).

Any suggestions about how this is possible, and if there is anything I can do about it besides letting cron renice the science app to lowest priority every minute?

Box1: Athlon643000+ / Ubuntu 5.10 kernel 2.6.12 / Boinc 5.2.13 / 2.4_Linux32_kernel_2.6_AMD_SSE2

Box2: P4 1.70GHz / Ubuntu 6.06LTS kernel 2.6.15 / Boinc 5.8.16 / 2.4_Linux32_kernel_2.6_Intel_SSE2

Greetings,
Sander

Crunch3r:

--- Quote from: speedy67 on 15 Aug 2007, 01:36:15 pm ---Hi all,

First of all thanks to all who contribute in making these wonderful optimized apps available.

A while ago, after upgrading to the 2.2B app, I (and several others) noticed that the science app no longer started at the lowest priority (nice 19) but at normal priority (nice 0). A little inconvenient in most situations, but nothing a cron job can't handle.

Just now, after upgrading to the 2.4 app on two of my Linux boxes, the system speed slowed down to a crawl and I noticed the newest science app was running at very high priority (nice -10).

Any suggestions about how this is possible, and if there is anything I can do about it besides letting cron renice the science app to lowest priority every minute?

Box1: Athlon643000+ / Ubuntu 5.10 kernel 2.6.12 / Boinc 5.2.13 / 2.4_Linux32_kernel_2.6_AMD_SSE2

Box2: P4 1.70GHz / Ubuntu 6.06LTS kernel 2.6.15 / Boinc 5.8.16 / 2.4_Linux32_kernel_2.6_Intel_SSE2

Greetings,
Sander



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Try using the 2.4 Kernel app. That would fix it.

speedy67:

--- Quote from: speedy67 on 15 Aug 2007, 01:36:15 pm ---
Just now, after upgrading to the 2.4 app on two of my Linux boxes, the system speed slowed down to a crawl and I noticed the newest science app was running at very high priority (nice -10).


--- Quote from: Crunch3r on 15 Aug 2007, 02:01:37 pm ---
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Try using the 2.4 Kernel app. That would fix it.


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Thanks... it seems to be starting at nice 19 now. Are there any significant other differences between the apps for 2.4 and 2.6 kernel (for instance is one faster than the other?  ;D )

Greetings,
Sander

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