I use multithreading app_config from https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/forum_thread.php?id=6&postid=3795
<app_config>
<app>
<name>srbase4</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>srbase4</app_name>
<cmdline>-t8</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>8</avg_ncpus>
</app_version>
</app_config>
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I did a test on my old PC with 6 cores with app_config and its running with 6 CPUs, you need to change the app_config.xml before you are running BOINC.
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I ran it on relatively new Ryzen 3 3100.
Maybe they end so quickly they don't have a chance to saturate more than one core?
This task ran for 28 seconds and used 1 second of cpu time with -t8
https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/result.php?resultid=95392242
I believe most of the time is taken by copying 34 mb llr2.exe to slots directory.
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I ran it on relatively new Ryzen 3 3100.
Maybe they end so quickly they don't have a chance to saturate more than one core?
This task ran for 28 seconds and used 1 second of cpu time with -t8
https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/result.php?resultid=95392242
I believe most of the time is taken by copying 34 mb llr2.exe to slots directory.
Due the short runtime its useless to run on multicore, it will slow down your calculation and not run on full cpu speed on single core.
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Why can't srbase softlink to llr2.exe?
Like this <soft_link>../../projects/srbase.my-firewall.org_sr5/llr2.exe</soft_link>?
Now it copies 34 mb file to each slot.
It is slow on hdds and uses up ssd resource.
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