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    Collatz: ghost app_config.xml?

    I had an app_config.xml file set up for collatz (the application), so that I could run two tasks per GPU. I removed the file to go back to one per. But BOINC is still running 2 per. I tried "read config file". I tried quitting and restarting BOINC. I tried rebooting. I tried also deleting the collatz.config file. All with no luck. I would rather not have to reset the project, which will dork up 300+ tasks, and potentially make it so that I can't get any new work for 245 hours.

    Any idea what's going on?
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    Re: Collatz: ghost app_config.xml?

    Quote Originally Posted by zombie67 View Post
    I had an app_config.xml file set up for collatz (the application), so that I could run two tasks per GPU. I removed the file to go back to one per. But BOINC is still running 2 per. I tried "read config file". I tried quitting and restarting BOINC. I tried rebooting. I tried also deleting the collatz.config file. All with no luck. I would rather not have to reset the project, which will dork up 300+ tasks, and potentially make it so that I can't get any new work for 245 hours.

    Any idea what's going on?
    Just a guess but maybe BOINC is seeing the file somewhere else in the folder tree? Or maybe the project needs a reset?


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    Re: Collatz: ghost app_config.xml?

    You forgot to do the Witch Doctor Dance.


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    Re: Collatz: ghost app_config.xml?

    Once BOINC starts a WU, it stored the settings in one of its XML files in the BOINC (not the project folder). Stopping and restarting won't change the settings for the WUs in progress. So, if it started running two at a time, those two will continue at 0.5 GPUs until they are complete. As a side note, having both an app_config.xml and an app_info.xml doesn't seem to work. I think that is because the app_config uses the app name whereas app_info uses "anonymous" as the app name with a "local" name of the actual app name.
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    Re: Collatz: ghost app_config.xml?

    Quote Originally Posted by Slicker View Post
    Once BOINC starts a WU, it stored the settings in one of its XML files in the BOINC (not the project folder). Stopping and restarting won't change the settings for the WUs in progress. So, if it started running two at a time, those two will continue at 0.5 GPUs until they are complete. As a side note, having both an app_config.xml and an app_info.xml doesn't seem to work. I think that is because the app_config uses the app name whereas app_info uses "anonymous" as the app name with a "local" name of the actual app name.
    Pure conjecture! Have you personally ever had the Witch Doctor dance fail?

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    Re: Collatz: ghost app_config.xml?

    Quote Originally Posted by myshortpencil View Post
    You forgot to do the Witch Doctor Dance.
    Or better yet, the African Anteater Ritual.

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    Re: Collatz: ghost app_config.xml?

    Quote Originally Posted by {KWSN}Gemjunkie[TeaM] View Post
    Pure conjecture! Have you personally ever had the Witch Doctor dance fail?
    Good one, Gemjunkie ROFLOL

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