It appears that for some reason BOINC isn't reading the app_config.xml files however it is recognising them.

14/08/2014 6:04:11 PM | PrimeGrid | Found app_config.xml
14/08/2014 6:04:11 PM | SETI@home | Found app_config.xml

My SETI@home app config is configured as follows:

<app_config>
   [<app>
      <name>setiathome_v7</name>
      <max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
    </app>]
    [<app>
      <name>setiathome-7.03-opencl_intel_gpu_sah</name>
      <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
	<gpu_versions>
          <gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage>
          <cpu_usage>0.1</cpu_usage>
      </gpu_versions>
	</app>]
	[<app>
      <name>setiathome-7.03-opencl_intel_gpu_sah.exe</name>
      <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
	<gpu_versions>
          <gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage>
          <cpu_usage>0.1</cpu_usage>
      </gpu_versions>
	</app>]
   [<project_max_concurrent>3</project_max_concurrent>]
</app_config>

...however when I have one SETI@home v7 WU running it's going to fetch 2 more for my idle cores. Even though the project max is 3, I have 3 CPU tasks and 1 GPU task running at the same time for a total of 4. What am I doing wrong here?

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You shouldn't have any square [ or ] brackets in there. They are a conventional way of indicating - in the documentation - that some part of the file is optional.

If you don't want to use that element, leave the line(s) out entirely. If you do want to use it, set the value you want, and remove the square brackets.

OH, so that's what it was! I removed the brackets and tweaked things for the Log's complaints and now it's working. Thanks! :)

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One more question: I have one intel GPU on my computer. How can one task be using 1 intel GPU and another be using 0.5?* I don't have 1.5 or 2 Intel GPUs...?

*EDIT: and running at the same time

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Are they all running or are they queued?

Running at the same time.

BOINC is not very good at updating the (displayed, cosmetic) GPU fraction when you add or change app_config.xml - the facility was created in a rough-and-ready way, with the intention of coming back and completing it later, but as always other new ideas are more exciting to work on...

If you see the right number of tasks running, then it's working, and the display will sort itself out eventually - either after a restart, or after more tasks are fetched, I still haven't worked out exactly what the trigger is. But it'll get there, and you don't have to worry in the meantime.

what I've seen so far is that the current tasks won't update their numbers, but any new tasks fetched will have the correct numbers. Thanks everyone for the help!

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Hi numbermaniac,

I am trying to do the same thing with my owner application distributed from my own boinc server.

I tried to insert an app_config.xml file into the /var/lib/boinc-client/project/myproject@ip/

but I found nothing changes.

Which log file are you checking?
Do I need to restart the boinc client to make it read the app_config.xml?

Thanks in advance!

Wei

Hi numbermaniac,

I am trying to do the same thing with my owner application distributed from my own boinc server.

I tried to insert an app_config.xml file into the /var/lib/boinc-client/project/myproject@ip/

but I found nothing changes.

Which log file are you checking?
Do I need to restart the boinc client to make it read the app_config.xml?

Thanks in advance!

Wei

Once the app_config.xml is in the project directory, all you need to do is, in Boinc Manager, go Advanced > Read config files.

Claggy

Thanks for the reply, Claggy

Do you know if I can do it use command line tools? I dont want to use the Boinc manager GUI.

Or if I restart the Boinc client, will it read the config file by default? If not, I need to use the Boinc manager to do it again and again?

Thanks,

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Thanks for the reply.

Do you know if I can do it use command line tools? I dont want to use the Boinc manager GUI.

Or if I restart the Boinc client, will it read the config file by default? If not, I need to use the Boinc manager to do it again and again?

Thanks,

Thanks for the reply, Claggy

Do you know if I can do it use command line tools? I dont want to use the Boinc manager GUI.

Or if I restart the Boinc client, will it read the config file by default? If not, I need to use the Boinc manager to do it again and again?

Thanks,

It you restart Boinc it should read it by default,

You can also use command line tools:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool

--read_cc_config should read it (as well as the cc_config.xml), But I couldn't get it to work on Boinc 7.4.22 for x64 Windows.. Does work, but seemed to produce an error code, the Event Log does show a re-read:

C:\Program Files\BOINC>boinccmd --read_cc_config
retval 0

13/10/2014 20:08:32 |  | Re-reading cc_config.xml
13/10/2014 20:08:32 |  | Using proxy info from GUI
13/10/2014 20:08:32 |  | Not using a proxy
13/10/2014 20:08:32 |  | Config: GUI RPCs allowed from:
13/10/2014 20:08:32 |  | P5N-E-SLI
13/10/2014 20:08:32 |  | SAMSUNG-R700
13/10/2014 20:08:32 |  | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, coproc_debug, cpu_sched, sched_op_debug
13/10/2014 20:08:32 | Albert@Home | Found app_config.xml
13/10/2014 20:08:32 | climateprediction.net | Found app_config.xml
13/10/2014 20:08:32 | Einstein@Home | Found app_config.xml
13/10/2014 20:08:32 | PrimeGrid | Found app_config.xml
13/10/2014 20:08:32 | SETI@home Beta Test | Found app_config.xml
13/10/2014 20:08:32 | SETI@home | Found app_config.xml

Claggy