SETI and affinity

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Hi Husky
There was a small utility in the resource kit for Windows 2000 called
imagecfg which among its uses allowed you to modify a win32 exe file to
always use particular affinity settings, however you cannot download it
directly from Microsoft. You could try using a free application called XCPU
instead, but this does not have the ability to modify the exe permanently,
so you would need to launch the application by making a short cut such as
'C:\path\xcpu.exe -a 1 -c c:\path\targetprogram.exe', if you wanted to have
the program start with Windows you could place the short cut in the Windows
Start Menu 'startup' folder.

http://www.appliedvisual.com/xcpu.htm

Mark
 
'C:\path\xcpu.exe -a 1 -c c:\path\targetprogram.exe', if you wanted to have
the program start with Windows you could place the short cut in the Windows
Start Menu 'startup' folder.

http://www.appliedvisual.com/xcpu.htm
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Sounds to me like it doesn't modify the exe at all. It's worth a try. seti
boots thru the registry boot up vs the startup which makes me think seti will
have been up and running for awhile before the startup gets around to telling
it to use P1.

more pix @ http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html
 
No it doesn't modify the exe your just specifying the launch conditions,
which is why I said 'this does not have the ability to modify the exe
permanently', in contrast to imagecfg which does. The start up method was an
example, so if your using the registry to start Seti you could just modify
its startup string to call through xpcu. If it works acceptably for you with
Seti of course.

Mark
 
Well I haven't heard anything from SETI yet. You'd have thought this would have
been an issue long before now. I can sit here watching seti at 99-100% out of
the box, select it in processes and change the affinity to 1 and it goes
straight to 49%. And this is with it set to the lowest usage. I hate to think
what it would do with realtime set.
There was a whole page of examples on how to run the program. I'll probably try
it today.
No it doesn't modify the exe your just specifying the launch conditions,
which is why I said 'this does not have the ability to modify the exe
permanently', in contrast to imagecfg which does. The start up method was an
example, so if your using the registry to start Seti you could just modify
its startup string to call through xpcu. If it works acceptably for you with
Seti of course.

Mark
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more pix @ http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html
 
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