Throttling on multi-cores by pausing processes at different moments

[Pepo]

I've seen the idea at BOINC dev (a bit confused reasoning down there, but never mind, the main idea stays valid IMO) and had to steal it immediately

OK, what about to randomize the moments, when the running BOINC tasks' processes are paused, instead of pausing them all at one moment? (I understand that it would possibly not have such noticeable effect as it would have on a machine using BOINC's native throttling, as the period in TTh is much shorter than in BOINC, but... the power supply could notice it?)

[fred]

I've seen the idea at BOINC dev (a bit confused reasoning down there, but never mind, the main idea stays valid IMO) and had to steal it immediately

OK, what about to randomize the moments, when the running BOINC tasks' processes are paused, instead of pausing them all at one moment? (I understand that it would possibly not have such noticeable effect as it would have on a machine using BOINC's native throttling, as the period in TTh is much shorter than in BOINC, but... the power supply could notice it?)

This is not a bad idea, I will see what's possible.
Randomize is probably not the best solution as it messes up everything.  But spreading out the throttling over time may be a solution.

[Pepo]

Randomize is probably not the best solution as it messes up everything.  But spreading out the throttling over time may be a solution.

OK, that is really a better wording :-)
I think that the more cores, the higher power consumption spikes...
(It would be very good in the client, with its very long intervals, but unfortunately it is implemented there the cheapest possible way,  suspending the whole computation.)

[fred]

V. 3.2 will use a randomized scattering pattern over 4 threads.
This seems to drastically eliminate the throttling spikes from 5C to 2C on my notebook.
And best of all it doesn't add to the overhead.
Removed all threads from the throttling that are not doing much. This eliminates almost half of the threads on Seti.
Thanks Pepo for the great suggestion.

[Pepo]

Sounds promising, I'm looking forward!