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#71
Questions / Re: Negative Memory Usage
Last post by fred - December 05, 2025, 10:50:29 AMI tried to replicate, feeding a large number, but it stays positive.
Looks like it's what the BOINC client reports.
Looks like it's what the BOINC client reports.
#72
Questions / Re: Negative Memory Usage
Last post by mmonnin - December 04, 2025, 11:01:55 PMAround 2.6-2.7GB for htop and BM and the screenshot above for BOINCTasks.
#73
Questions / Re: Negative Memory Usage
Last post by fred - December 04, 2025, 10:36:47 AMQuote from: mmonnin on December 04, 2025, 10:20:40 AMWhat do you mean by this? I've mentioned BM shows correctly per my own htop and other users reports.What is BoincTask showing and what is BM showing on the same task.
#74
Questions / Re: Negative Memory Usage
Last post by mmonnin - December 04, 2025, 10:20:40 AMIt's specifically O4MD tasks.
Quote from: fred on December 04, 2025, 07:17:32 AMWhat is the number from the BOINC Manager and the negative number BoincTasks gives.What do you mean by this? I've mentioned BM shows correctly per my own htop and other users reports.
#75
Questions / Re: Negative Memory Usage
Last post by fred - December 04, 2025, 07:17:32 AMI have Einstein tasks with the same size and the numbers are all positive.
What is the number from the BOINC Manager and the negative number BoincTasks gives.
I checked the BOINC Source files and I don't see anything wrong.
What is the number from the BOINC Manager and the negative number BoincTasks gives.
I checked the BOINC Source files and I don't see anything wrong.
#76
Questions / Re: Negative Memory Usage
Last post by fred - December 03, 2025, 08:15:00 AMOK added to the list, use unsigned number.
https://github.com/efmer/BoincTasks/issues/3
https://github.com/efmer/BoincTasks/issues/3
#77
Questions / Negative Memory Usage
Last post by mmonnin - November 30, 2025, 12:56:48 PMThe new E@H O4MD CPU tasks show up with negative memory usage. There is an actual negative sign. Something I have yet to see from BOINC Tasks. htop reports 2.6 to 2.7 GB used as does the BOINC MGR so its only BOINCTasks. I have sorted the tasks by memory usage in the image to show the data is actually negative. The other tasks are from other projects, all of the negative tasks are E@H.
#78
Wish List / Re: Multiple priorities
Last post by fred - November 17, 2025, 01:51:02 AMQuote from: drawerEchoes on November 16, 2025, 03:28:55 AMSince my GPU runs cool enough that throttling is never needed, maybe I can spoof CPU temp as if it were GPU temp, and add one set of processes as if it were GPU processes and control it that way?You could do that in the External tab.
#79
Wish List / Re: Multiple priorities
Last post by drawerEchoes - November 16, 2025, 03:28:55 AMYes, thanks for the suggestion, I am already using Process Lasso and it is a wonderful program. Unfortunately, I am not able to accomplish what I want entirely with Process Lasso + TThrottle.
My understanding is that scheduling priority for programs is mostly (only?) an impact when CPU time is a constraint. Since TThrottle works by reducing CPU time % allowed by a process, Process Lasso's priorities will not have much of an effect when TThrottle is throttling.
And as a background, the problem I am running into is that my CPU cooler is not sized adequately for my CPU, which is a problem I'm working to rectify, but I'm using TThrottle in the meantime.
With TThrottle, I have two options:
1. Throttle only BOINC tasks, attempting to control temperature of other processes (fishnet) by limiting the resources given to it.
Downside: possible to exceed temperature limits if I estimate the resources given incorrectly
2. Throttle both BOINC and fishnet simultaneously.
Downside: higher-priority background process has reduced CPU time along with BOINC. (Due to the above, Process Lasso has little effect in such a situation)
I would prefer a third option that would work similar to how GPU throttling is working:
Process set A (eg CPU BOINC tasks): Setpoint of 70C
Process set B (eg GPU BOINC tasks): Setpoint of 80C
Unlike GPU, which uses a different temperature metric than the CPU throttling, I wish to control both sets of programs with the same temperature metric, but with different setpoints.
Since my GPU runs cool enough that throttling is never needed, maybe I can spoof CPU temp as if it were GPU temp, and add one set of processes as if it were GPU processes and control it that way?
My understanding is that scheduling priority for programs is mostly (only?) an impact when CPU time is a constraint. Since TThrottle works by reducing CPU time % allowed by a process, Process Lasso's priorities will not have much of an effect when TThrottle is throttling.
And as a background, the problem I am running into is that my CPU cooler is not sized adequately for my CPU, which is a problem I'm working to rectify, but I'm using TThrottle in the meantime.
With TThrottle, I have two options:
1. Throttle only BOINC tasks, attempting to control temperature of other processes (fishnet) by limiting the resources given to it.
Downside: possible to exceed temperature limits if I estimate the resources given incorrectly
2. Throttle both BOINC and fishnet simultaneously.
Downside: higher-priority background process has reduced CPU time along with BOINC. (Due to the above, Process Lasso has little effect in such a situation)
I would prefer a third option that would work similar to how GPU throttling is working:
Process set A (eg CPU BOINC tasks): Setpoint of 70C
Process set B (eg GPU BOINC tasks): Setpoint of 80C
Unlike GPU, which uses a different temperature metric than the CPU throttling, I wish to control both sets of programs with the same temperature metric, but with different setpoints.
Since my GPU runs cool enough that throttling is never needed, maybe I can spoof CPU temp as if it were GPU temp, and add one set of processes as if it were GPU processes and control it that way?
#80
Wish List / Re: Multiple priorities
Last post by fred - November 15, 2025, 10:39:25 PMLook for a program to change the priority of an exe, like Process Lasso