BOINC uses slow cores

[davidpanderson]

(from a user email)
I noticed that BOINC can't use 2, 4 and 6 cores together and instead to use the first two cores (1.8 GHz), it uses the last four (1.44 GHz) when I select "1 core", that should activate only in stressed conditions. Please solve this problem

[ChristianBeer]

This most likely refers to certain ARM CPUs that have fast cores and slow cores.

[Ferroin]

If it's Android or just regular Linux, then it's probably not BOINC but the OS level process scheduler. Linux's scheduler is smart enough (when built with the right options) to put low priority tasks on less powerful (more correctly, more energy-efficient) cores, and short of manipulating it's own CPU affinity (which can't be done on Android, but I would love to have support for for other reasons), there's not really much BOINC could do about this.

[JuhaSointusalo]

Duplicate of #2549