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[alexander]

(note, for some insane reason VB blocks anything with a $ in front of it... so i HAD to not use the code tags)

Here's what i did so far to get limiting, working:

after following the normal installation steps do the following:

copy the code above into limiter.c file in wherever your BOINC directory is.

compile it:

gcc limiter.c -o limiter

now lets go and edit an init.d script:
nano -w /etc/init.d/boinc

first, you will see a lot of defined values. Take a moment and add one more to it

MAX_FREQ=60

now go to section that says

echo -n "Starting BOINC client as a daemon: "
su $BOINCUSER -c "$BOINCEXE $BOINCOPTS" >>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRORLOG &
sleep 1
PID=`pidof -s -x -o $$ -o $PPID -o %PPID $BOINCEXE`
if [ $PID ]; then
[ -d $LOCKDIR ] && touch $LOCKDIR/boinc



add this just after that line

# rather dirty way of doing this
./limiter $PID $MAX_FREQ &


this will start the limiter when you start the service

now only to kill it when you are done

go to section that says:


cd $BOINCDIR
if [ ! -f lockfile -a ! -f $LOCKDIR/boinc ] ; then
echo -n "BOINC is not running (no lockfiles found)."
echo_success
else
echo -n "Stopping BOINC client daemon: "
killproc $BOINCEXE && echo_success || echo_failure
# clean up in any case
rm -f $BOINCDIR/lockfile
rm -f $LOCKDIR/boinc


now lets add one more line to it

killall limiter


save, restart service, do a ps -ef f, make sure limiter is in there, do a top, to make sure that whatever boinc is doing, it is not exceeding whatever max percent utilization, and we are in game