Maybe it's time to change my computer... :)

When I launch fpsieve on windows, it crunches at normal priority, whatever I have specified in the parameters (-z19, -zidle, with space, no space).
It works fine on Linux. Only the windows client.

If I launch fpsieve + prpnet, prpnet is on hold until fpsieve has finished.

Does anybody have the same problems?

Thanks
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Badge Score: 1*4 + 1*5 + 7*6 + 8*7 + 3*8 + 1*9 = 140

Maybe it's time to change my computer... :)

When I launch fpsieve on windows, it crunches at normal priority, whatever I have specified in the parameters (-z19, -zidle, with space, no space).
It works fine on Linux. Only the windows client.

If I launch fpsieve + prpnet, prpnet is on hold until fpsieve has finished.

Does anybody have the same problems?

Thanks

It is a known behaviour to me - FPSieve prevents any other idle priority tasks from runnig, I've reported this before.

For example you can't run BOINC GPU tasks (that runs at idle CPU) while FPSieve it running on all cores - you need to leave at least one core idle.
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PFGW runs at idle priority. Some have suggested that I modify PRPNet to use the idle= parameter in prpclient.ini to tell PFGW to run in normal priority. I might do that for the next release.

I have made a change to set the thread priority in Windows, but I don't really understand priority in Windows so please let me know if it works as it should. The new executable is in fpsieve-0.2.3a-bin.zip

Just tested with fpsieve 023a and it works for me - I'm able to run other idle priority tasks like MW GPU app.

fpsieve-x86_64-windows.exe --priority=idle --blocksize=1024 --chunksize=1024 --blocks=2

Perhaps smaller blocks also helps.
I'm getting up to 29.8K p/sec (4.00x2400) - no significant performance comparing default blocksize/chucksize I think.

(have not tested on servers yet if it slows down other services - I'm running the other sieve there ATM.)
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I just tested the new version with the same range and it's work fine. fpsieve was running with other clients.

Thanks a lot for the fix.

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Badge Score: 1*4 + 1*5 + 7*6 + 8*7 + 3*8 + 1*9 = 140

Thanks for testing the priority option fix, since it seems to work I have made it version 0.2.4.