You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: A important warning to everyone trying to run cosmology@home in cpus with more than 8 threads.
Thanks for the advice, I am only crunching Cosmology on a PC without VitrualBox so I haven't run into this problem but I will bookmark this article for future reference.
I have used app_config.xml to restrict memory hungry projects on my low spec computers but this is a much more detailed fix than I would have created on my own.
In windows, make sure you are using the UTF-8 enconding, and not the ANSI one
I have created ANSI encoded (default encoding for Notepad) app_config.xml files on Windows without any problems but it's also advice I will keep on file in case the encoding does ever cause issues for me.
Fellow BOINC hackers can find general information about the use of app_info.xml at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration
thats not hacking its pretty well known you can create and edit app xml files , you can even run multiple threads on GPU's , that too is not hacking its called configuring your setup.
I meant hacker as in a computer operator using some ingenuity to overcome a problem. Since the use of app_config.xml requires knowledge of the BOINC system beyond its everyday use I consider it a basic hack.
I was using the word hacker as way of creating a distinction between users who are willing to take extra steps to optimize their systems and users who prefer automatically configured settings or GUI based configuration tools.
Some definitions of Hacker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker (definition 1)
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hacker (definition 1.1)
I did not intend to imply malicious or unauthorized activity.
Hacking depends a lot on context . Manipulating images used to be called hacking too. Its one of the most peculiar examples of language evolution.