new folder, few basic questions

[MTB2Live Live4Comps]

hello guys. i figured this was a good way to put my wasted CPU cycles to work, but i've got a few questions
Gentoo Linux, F@H 5.02 set up as a boot-time background service
1) if i stop the service and restart it again, does it pick up where it left off or does it need to restart from the beginning (of that WU)?

2) is there anyway i can set it to use a maximum of say 90% cpu? i have it set to a nice of 19, but this still doeesn't cooperate well with Wine, which demands relatively real-time CPU cycles. for everything else it's fine so it's not a huge deal, just curious. i know there were some kernel-hacking projects that had modified CPU schedulars for 2.4.xx but...meh. i'm on 2.6 anyway. so can this be set locally from the program?

thanks guys!
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[magnusvir]

Answering your questions:

1) It picks up from where it left off depending on how you set up checkpoint frequency.
2) you can set cpu usage to whatever you want. when you run the config, say "yes" for advanced options and type in CPU usage.

 

[Carnival Forces]

hello guys. i figured this was a good way to put my wasted CPU cycles to work, but i've got a few questions
Gentoo Linux, F@H 5.02 set up as a boot-time background service
1) if i stop the service and restart it again, does it pick up where it left off or does it need to restart from the beginning (of that WU)?

2) is there anyway i can set it to use a maximum of say 90% cpu? i have it set to a nice of 19, but this still doeesn't cooperate well with Wine, which demands relatively real-time CPU cycles. for everything else it's fine so it's not a huge deal, just curious. i know there were some kernel-hacking projects that had modified CPU schedulars for 2.4.xx but...meh. i'm on 2.6 anyway. so can this be set locally from the program?

thanks guys!
1481 points and going strong woot

yeah, do what magnus said

why do you want it set to 90% of idle cycles? remember, it'll only request 100% of what you're not using...so if you're using 30%, and there's 70% left, it'll request 70%...

 

[unhappy_mage]

hello guys. i figured this was a good way to put my wasted CPU cycles to work, but i've got a few questions
Gentoo Linux, F@H 5.02 set up as a boot-time background service
1) if i stop the service and restart it again, does it pick up where it left off or does it need to restart from the beginning (of that WU)?

2) is there anyway i can set it to use a maximum of say 90% cpu? i have it set to a nice of 19, but this still doeesn't cooperate well with Wine, which demands relatively real-time CPU cycles. for everything else it's fine so it's not a huge deal, just curious. i know there were some kernel-hacking projects that had modified CPU schedulars for 2.4.xx but...meh. i'm on 2.6 anyway. so can this be set locally from the program?

thanks guys!
1481 points and going strong woot

Hey, another gentoo guy! Yep, it'll resume from wherever it was (default is 15 minute checkpoints, IIRC), and you can nice it down some more, it'll get enough cycles. You could also set it to a lower percentage of CPU to use like magnusvir said, but it's probably best to just leave it at 100% and nice it down some.

HTH

 

[MTB2Live Live4Comps]

when i do advanced options, it comes back with

Core Priority (idle/low) [idle]?

is this where i can put a CPU percentage? i don't see any other promts relavent.
edit: nope, only two options are idle/low. i'll just stick with stopping F@H whenever i need Wine. it's not that bad knowing that it will pick up where it left off.

having it set on idle works perfectly for everything but Wine. it's weird. Anything that's running under Wine has substantial lag and slow interaction. but i can have F@H, a couple compiles running, and be encoding music and everything else will interact at full speed. it's just Wine for some reason appears to need a dedicated 5-10% for itself, all the time.

 

[Kvothe]

This page explains the order of the advanced options, stick with idle for the option you've posted, the next thing you'll be prompted for is the amount of CPU % you'd like to use.

 

[Carnival Forces]

This page explains the order of the advanced options, stick with idle for the option you've posted, the next thing you'll be prompted for is the amount of CPU % you'd like to use.

yeah, if you select "low" it'll request some CPU cycles you may be using

that's really odd...WINE shouldn't do that.

any other *nix folders using WINE experiencing this?