On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 10:53, Terry Coles <d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> wrote:
> dependency issues > (Oh yeah, this is another advantage of containers, in that the dependencies all come with it...) > I then decided that life was too short and installed boinc from the > package > manager. This is now running and the current task is expected to take 5 > hours. All four cores (8 threads) are shown as running at 100% in > KSysGuard; > that might put my son off running this. Apart from that I am running the > Rosetta@Home Biology task and according to the BOINC site they have been > focusing on coronavirus since the 6th March. > Do you have the boinc-manager installed? There is a graphical interface, where you can find Options → Computing preferences with inputs like: Use at most [ 100 ] % of the CPUs Use at most [ 100 ] % of CPU time [x] Suspend when computer is on batter [ ] Suspend when computer is in use Further down there is also: Request tasks to checkpoint at most every [ 60 ] seconds which answers your question about how much work might be lost when switching off. Tim. */ -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, post-lurgi 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
