Adjustable Delay between the Job(s)

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Adjustable Delay between the Job(s) #5624

Closed mcagriaksoy closed 4 months ago

mcagriaksoy commented 4 months ago

Describe the feature request If there is an adjustable (user controlled) delay between the jobs, would be great. Example:

Do task --> wait XX sec --> Do another task

This solution may be useful in some cases. A delay added by the user can give the system time to recover, or it can give the CPU and GPU temperature a little lower.

AenBleidd commented 4 months ago

On multicore systems BOINC usually runs several tasks in parallel (if configured), and these tasks finish at very different time, so there is no real advantage to leave 1 (or several) core(s) idle for some time. Instead would be better to have implemented these:

mcagriaksoy commented 4 months ago

Yes, you are right, but if process uses GPU and there is a one GPU at the system, some kind of delay*s might be helpful.