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Bert

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Message 63858 - Posted: 26 Aug 2015, 22:15:27 UTC

that is, is there an automatic way to do this?

For example, I'd like to run 2 tasks while the system is in use, and 4 tasks if the system has been idle for a while. (BOINC manager 7.4.23 only has a compute-while-in use option, so it's either totally on or totally off.)

TIA for any pointers
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Message 63860 - Posted: 26 Aug 2015, 23:48:58 UTC - in response to Message 63858.  
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Similar question came up a week or so ago on the WCG forums, and then again, the original querying making his own script after hints on batch+boinccmd to change number of jobs running while he was gaming.
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Message 63862 - Posted: 27 Aug 2015, 5:30:44 UTC - in response to Message 63860.  

thanks; I poked around here, http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/forums/world-community-grid-wcg.68/ but couldn't find the thread yet.

The man page for boinccmnd does show that it could be possible. It'd take me ages though as I'm a novice programmer, especially when it comes to command scripts which I hardly ever do and don't quite grok.
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Message 63912 - Posted: 29 Aug 2015, 18:56:23 UTC - in response to Message 63862.  

If you run Gnome, Cinnamon, MATE, Unity or some other desktop environment that uses Gnome Session Manager, you can use the scriptlet in this post as a starting point.

Set up two global_prefs_override.xml files, one for idle and another for in-use. When state changes copy corresponding xml file to global_prefs_override.xml and tell BOINC to re-read config files.
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