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#71

Questions / Re: Negative Memory Usage

Last post by fred - December 04, 2025, 10:36:47 AM

What 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.

#72

Questions / Re: Negative Memory Usage

Last post by mmonnin - December 04, 2025, 10:20:40 AM

It's specifically O4MD tasks.

What 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.

#73

Questions / Re: Negative Memory Usage

Last post by fred - December 04, 2025, 07:17:32 AM

I 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.

#74

Questions / Re: Negative Memory Usage

Last post by fred - December 03, 2025, 08:15:00 AM

OK added to the list, use unsigned number.
https://github.com/efmer/BoincTasks/issues/3

#75

Questions / Negative Memory Usage

Last post by mmonnin - November 30, 2025, 12:56:48 PM

The 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.

#76

Wish List / Re: Multiple priorities

Last post by fred - November 17, 2025, 01:51:02 AM

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?

You could do that in the External tab.

#77

Wish List / Re: Multiple priorities

Last post by drawerEchoes - November 16, 2025, 03:28:55 AM

Yes, 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?

#78

Wish List / Re: Multiple priorities

Last post by fred - November 15, 2025, 10:39:25 PM

Look for a program to change the priority of an exe, like Process Lasso

#79

Wish List / Multiple priorities

Last post by drawerEchoes - November 15, 2025, 05:37:11 AM

I want to use the same device for both BOINC and fishnet, a distributed stockfish analysis program for lichess. Since fishnet may be processing analyses requested by a user who is waiting, I would like to be able to prioritize fishnet processes over BOINC, while still using TThrottle to manage the CPU temperature.

If it was possible to run two separate instances of TThrottle, that would work, since I could set one temperature for the one managing BOINC and another temperature for fishnet. But if I combine both into one throttle, neither gets priority over the other and they both run slow.

Ideally, though, you could control priority of certain background processes when handling the throttling, all within one TThrottle UI.

#80

Questions / Re: Can't change refresh rate ...

Last post by fred - October 30, 2025, 05:03:48 PM

Have you removed the option to change the refresh rate in the tasks view?  I've looked everywhere!

I'm using 1.96

Extra -> BoincTasks settings -> View -> Refresh rate -> Normal or manual