I have started PSA and am really fascinated by it except I seem to have questions that I cannot find answers to.

I originally started it with the 4 GFN projects at 25% each. I did some of each and then decided to change what I was doing. I updated to remove the two larger GFN and set just 65536 and 32768 along with PPSElow and PPSElow2 all at 25%. I left it run a day but all it was doing was 65536 and not switching. All 4 cores kept doing the same work. I then set 65536 to 0 and set 32768 to 10% and the two PPSElow to 45%. All it did was 32768. Why is it not using the percentages?

Second part of the question, with a Core 2 Quad I could essentially set each core to different percentages, correct? I mean if I wanted one core just to run 524288, one core to run 65536 and 32768 and the other two cores to run PPSElow and PPSElow2, it seems I could do that without any issue, but I want to be sure.

Thanks for your insight on this.

I have started PSA and am really fascinated by it except I seem to have questions that I cannot find answers to.

I originally started it with the 4 GFN projects at 25% each. I did some of each and then decided to change what I was doing. I updated to remove the two larger GFN and set just 65536 and 32768 along with PPSElow and PPSElow2 all at 25%. I left it run a day but all it was doing was 65536 and not switching. All 4 cores kept doing the same work. I then set 65536 to 0 and set 32768 to 10% and the two PPSElow to 45%. All it did was 32768. Why is it not using the percentages?

Second part of the question, with a Core 2 Quad I could essentially set each core to different percentages, correct? I mean if I wanted one core just to run 524288, one core to run 65536 and 32768 and the other two cores to run PPSElow and PPSElow2, it seems I could do that without any issue, but I want to be sure.

Thanks for your insight on this.

I've been rolling the different cores since I discovered I could.

The percentage piece has me for a loop, though. I have not switch in days on them.

As soon as I get the next goal done on PG, I will be moving more cores to the PSA.

As Rick said, to make different cores do different work, you just have to edit prpclient.ini files in each prpclient folder (you can create as many as the number of cores in your host by clicking the appropriate install exe), instead of editing only the master file on the main folder.

AFAIK, percentages set in the prpclient.file are not very accurate (they seem to became more accurate the more work you have done). Those percentages represent the time spent on each subproject and not the number of tasks of each. So, with 25% to each GFN, for instance, you'll get more tasks from the shorter ones than from the longer.

There are two ways to avoid getting work from a specific sub-project: setting it to 0 (you'll only get that type of tasks if no other are available) or by commenting it (//), in which case you will not get that type at all.

You should only comment a port if you have no unfinished work of it to be finished. Otherwise, the 0 setting option is better (the client will finish the work and only move to another selected port upon completion of the unfinished work).

And congrats on the twins!

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Well for example the last 4 days I have set the following:
GFN32768 at 50% and get 5 tasks
GFN65536 at 50% and get 1 task

It has only done GFN32768

Well for example the last 4 days I have set the following:
GFN32768 at 50% and get 5 tasks
GFN65536 at 50% and get 1 task

It has only done GFN32768