Ok, first thing to do is being able to find where to put your xml file when you finally do make one. Since we are going to be limiting the number of work units, you can change your setting of use at most back to 100% or leave it at 90%
Follow these steps to display hidden files and folders.
Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, and then click OK.
This should now allow you to see where the data files are in einstein@home folder
(each --> means click to the next folder)
Computer then click on Local Disk-->ProgramData--->BOINC--->projects--->einstein.phys.uwm.edu.
This is where place the app_config.xml as well
ok, here is what a very simple app_config.xml should look like
11
Now to create the app_config.xml
Open Notepad
Copy and paste the above 3 lines into notepad.
Here you have to be careful
Click save as
you should have a pop up screen.
change save as type to "All files"
Next Type in app_config.xml (be sure to put .xml)
It's going to ask you are you sure about the xml Yes you are
At the bottom of the pop up make sure the Encoding say ANSI
Make a note of where it is going to be saved to and click save
Now you just need move that file from where it was save to the Einstein folder
Once you do that, you are going to want to make sure that BOINC Manager reads the config file
In the Advance view of the BOINC Manager click Advance from the pull down.
Select read Config files
It should now read that file. If all is good, you should not get any notifications of an error in the boinc manager notification area. If there is a problem, you will get a notification.
When Boinc begins to crunch again, you should only have 11 total work units running.
Let us know how it goes..
Edit..
If you ever need to go back and edit this file, always right click and use Notepad to edit that .xml
Wow, thank you for taking the time to write that very detailed guide. One question though: Won't that just limit the amount of concurrent einstein@home tasks, as opposed to limiting all concurrent tasks from any project?
There's nothing to stop you creating app_config.xml files in other project directories, one for each different project if you really want to. There's a lot of fine-grained configuration available for both the BOINC core client (cc_config.xml) and individual science apps (app_config.xml).
When individual projects provide different science runs with different apps, you can handle all of them in the one app_config.xml if you need to by just adding extra stanzas for each additional app. It's all documented on this page. The client configuration is shown first and application configuration is under a separate heading towards the bottom. Any science app not included in app_config.xml will still be used (if allowed by project preferences) using normal default values for items otherwise controllable by the app_config.xml mechanism.
Ok, first thing to do is
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Ok, first thing to do is being able to find where to put your xml file when you finally do make one. Since we are going to be limiting the number of work units, you can change your setting of use at most back to 100% or leave it at 90%
Follow these steps to display hidden files and folders.
Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, and then click OK.
This should now allow you to see where the data files are in einstein@home folder
(each --> means click to the next folder)
Computer then click on Local Disk-->ProgramData--->BOINC--->projects--->einstein.phys.uwm.edu.
This is where place the app_config.xml as well
ok, here is what a very simple app_config.xml should look like
11
Now to create the app_config.xml
Open Notepad
Copy and paste the above 3 lines into notepad.
Here you have to be careful
Click save as
you should have a pop up screen.
change save as type to "All files"
Next Type in app_config.xml (be sure to put .xml)
It's going to ask you are you sure about the xml Yes you are
At the bottom of the pop up make sure the Encoding say ANSI
Make a note of where it is going to be saved to and click save
Now you just need move that file from where it was save to the Einstein folder
Once you do that, you are going to want to make sure that BOINC Manager reads the config file
In the Advance view of the BOINC Manager click Advance from the pull down.
Select read Config files
It should now read that file. If all is good, you should not get any notifications of an error in the boinc manager notification area. If there is a problem, you will get a notification.
When Boinc begins to crunch again, you should only have 11 total work units running.
Let us know how it goes..
Edit..
If you ever need to go back and edit this file, always right click and use Notepad to edit that .xml
Wow, thank you for taking the
)
Wow, thank you for taking the time to write that very detailed guide. One question though: Won't that just limit the amount of concurrent einstein@home tasks, as opposed to limiting all concurrent tasks from any project?
Yes, it will only limit
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Yes, it will only limit Einstein.
Ah ok, are you running non-Einstein projects on the CPU?
I was under the impression that you were only doing Einstein.
I've never tried to more than 1 project at a time on the same computer, so I'm not sure if there is a way to do what I think you are asking.
There's nothing to stop you
)
There's nothing to stop you creating app_config.xml files in other project directories, one for each different project if you really want to. There's a lot of fine-grained configuration available for both the BOINC core client (cc_config.xml) and individual science apps (app_config.xml).
When individual projects provide different science runs with different apps, you can handle all of them in the one app_config.xml if you need to by just adding extra stanzas for each additional app. It's all documented on this page. The client configuration is shown first and application configuration is under a separate heading towards the bottom. Any science app not included in app_config.xml will still be used (if allowed by project preferences) using normal default values for items otherwise controllable by the app_config.xml mechanism.
Cheers,
Gary.