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instead of worrying about the slider, use FAHControl. You can set the CPU and the GPU independently.

Coronablaster wrote:Joe_H, Why don't they just fudge the issue of the number of cores available to a WU? Have an optional setting that would always boost CPU use to "Full" temporarily when downloading WUs, then return it to wherever it had been before. I can't believe the WU take long to download. No one would even notice.

It wouldn't make any difference in the download time, just which WU was assigned. But adding additional options and features to the client and server code has its costs. Up to now the F@h Consortium has had a single paid developer to handle that code, they have had to prioritize work that gave the most improvement to the science.

FAHClient is can be made smart enough to do that. An enhancement request should be posted in https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-issues if it's not already there.

A 3rd party app could also be developed to do just that. Somebody can start from HFM.net (with @harlam357's permission, of course) as a template. It is smart enough to monitor FAHControl's logs for end-of-WU and beginning-of-WU. A control procedure can be written that changes the number of CPUs.