when I run both Seti and BOINC at the same time only one will work, they dont share the spare CPU. Is there a way to make them work together?

Why don't you come over to Seti@Boinc? (OK, ATM not a very good idea, but I hope from thursday (8.Feb.05) on it will be more fun again, when the server problems have been fixed.)
I also think that the fora over there are more informative about that than the other;-)
AFAIR from some perifer browsed forum topics, they don't like each other, but I can't tell you from experience, as I started with Boinc, so no old stuff interfering.

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Grüße vom Sänger

I have Seti@home classic (command line version) and BOINC CPDN running on the same machine. After booting, Seti@Home uses up all CPU-time, just like on your machine.
I found out that when I exit Seti@Home and restart it, it now only uses half of the CPU-time with the other half going to BOINC. My guess is that it might be an issue with which software starts first.
Maybe that works for you, too.
(But I am in the process of switching completely to BOINC anyway. I just need to empty that queue for Seti Classic.)

Friedrich

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I love CPDN!
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Maybe a common misunderstanding :

BOINC ressource sharing is a long "time slice" thing, not concurrent sharing of ressources.

After <i>Switch between applications every</i> minutes BOINC will check which project is behind in the percentage calculated from the <i>ressource share</i> values and - if necessary - will switch over to that project.

So if you have SETI set to 50 and CPDN to 100, in average 2 out of 3 hours will go to CPDN, the third will go to SETI.
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If your SETI is Classic and not SETI@BOINC : It makes not much sense to run them at the same time on a single CPU machine without HyperThreading. Running them one after the other will make both work faster.

Switch from S@H classic to S@H BOINC, and your problem will go away. You may have to wait for a day or two for this to happen. When doing this, make certain that you ACTIVATE your account instead of creating a new one.

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