Application-locked slots

[smoe]

I run BOINC a former GPU mining rig - 6 GPUs with USB riser cards - that is mostly stable. It appears to be perfectly stable when mixing very I/O demanding projects with some that communicate less and/or that needs power. I would for instance very much like ot have one SETI job (non-demanding) always running, i.e. a slot dedicated to that project, combined with such from Einstein (needs more). If the designated project, SETI in my case, does not provide new WUs then that slot shall remain empty.

With BOINC I can somehow run different applications, but I can not assign resources to them so something gets always executed. For controling maximal power or maximal I/O, however, this would be really nice to have. Also, it somehow feels good to know that some pet project of yours is always active.

[smoe]

The Einstein@Home moderator, Gary, kindly pointed me to the max_concurrent feature in app_config.xml. That fixed it. I still think that this would be nice to see configurable also in the GUI. But I also see that this would open a whole new world of project-specific settings that the GUI (or the command line interface) are not addressing, yet.

[AenBleidd]

@smoe, could this issue be closed now as far as you found a way to achieve what you want?
Project-specific changes is a whole new functionality that is much more complex and should be reviewed and discussed separately.