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Old 12-01-2010, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by mswhin63 View Post
Best to use other computers if it is critical to use processor power. I don't think it will be glitchy just using more processing power limiting your own. I believe it is possible to only use resources when not in use, but I don't know.
BOINC apps can be set to run all the time and they run at very low priority. The box can always be 100% busy, but still responsive. You are more likely to have issues if you don't have enough memory. On one box with 1.5GB RAM I have two copies of World Community Grid running and they are using about 40MB of memory each. Another box with 4GB RAM has two copies (BOINC has been told to only use 2 CPUs out of 4) of WCG running different projects - one is using 9MB, the other 90MB.

It makes no difference to the response time - only the power usage.
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