Message boards : Number crunching : Running CPU benchmarks
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eL_nino Send message Joined: 20 Jan 06 Posts: 10 Credit: 45,343 RAC: 0 |
Is there any way to disable "autorun" of CPU bencmaks every few days? |
Feet1st Send message Joined: 30 Dec 05 Posts: 1755 Credit: 4,690,520 RAC: 0 |
It only takes 60 seconds to run... it's how BOINC determines your machine's speed and calculates credit claims and etc. I don't know of a way to disable it. Is it causing your a problem when it runs? Add this signature to your EMail: Running Microsoft's "System Idle Process" will never help cure cancer, AIDS nor Alzheimer's. But running Rosetta@home just might! https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ |
tralala Send message Joined: 8 Apr 06 Posts: 376 Credit: 581,806 RAC: 0 |
Is there any way to disable "autorun" of CPU bencmaks every few days? There is: You can edit your client_state.xml where the benchmark is stored and edit the date to a future date. However the date format in this file is unknown to me but I'm sure there are people who understand this format. |
Christoph Jansen Send message Joined: 6 Jun 06 Posts: 248 Credit: 267,153 RAC: 0 |
Hi el nino, yes, that is possible. You need to shut down boinc and edit your client_state.xml file. in there you find the item <p_calculated>whatever number</p_calculated> Just add 86400 to that number for every day you want to delay benchmarks, 608400 for a week, or whatever you like. But be aware that, in case the BOINC version or your hardware should change, you will be using outdated benchmarks. So do not do it if it is not for a reason. I heard about people who had server crashes caused by the benchmarks (some java problem? not sure any more) and thus turned them off. By the way, the number is the Date since January 1st 1970 counted in seconds, I think UTC. So it is pretty easy to reconstruct in case you do something wrong (just remember the average year has 365.24 days, not 365). |
eL_nino Send message Joined: 20 Jan 06 Posts: 10 Credit: 45,343 RAC: 0 |
It only takes 60 seconds to run... it's how BOINC determines your machine's speed and calculates credit claims and etc. Well, my computer forks 24/7 only because of rosetta but over the day I use my computer for work also, and I had few situation that autorun started Benchmarks and those were then bad because my computer had other things to do at that moment... when I noticed that 1-2 days passed and I lost some credits because of that (arround 2 credits per hour). I know it may be stupid reason, but- that is all, no other problem :) @ Christoph Jansen, tralala -THANK YOU! BTW: Sorry if my english is not so good... :( |
MikeMarsUK Send message Joined: 15 Jan 06 Posts: 121 Credit: 2,637,872 RAC: 0 |
The benchmarks sometimes kills workunits (on CPDN - see this post) due to a timeout which is sometimes exceeded. |
Feet1st Send message Joined: 30 Dec 05 Posts: 1755 Credit: 4,690,520 RAC: 0 |
Well... and I guess it would preempt all the running work... which might mean you lose work since last checkpoint... to avoid that you can set your General Preference to leave applications in memory while preempted. That way you don't lose work everytime the benchmarks kick in. Add this signature to your EMail: Running Microsoft's "System Idle Process" will never help cure cancer, AIDS nor Alzheimer's. But running Rosetta@home just might! https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ |
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