I really do

but I refuse to let a project determine how much resource it gets

I've got an app_config.xml file that sets a limit of four cores

when it starts BURP even says "Running four CPUs"

But it actually uses 8!

maybe I'll check back in a while to see if you take care if this, maybe not

But for now.I'm outta here

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Hm, that's strange.
Can you post the app_config again here?
I doubt the manager version 7.12.1 you use simply ignores the settings, but could be.
Maybe it just needs a little tweak.

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<app_config>
<app>
<name>blender</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>blender</app_name>
<cmdline>nthreads 4</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>4</avg_ncpus>
<plan_class>mt</plan_class>
</app_version>
</app_config>

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That commandline looks a bit odd - did it get eaten by the forum? (also doesn't BOINC already add the threadcount to the commandline automatically with the current plan class?)

If you post a link to a completed result you can check towards the very top how many cores it was launched with. Check the number following the small "-t" parameter. That is the thread-count (in this case 32):

Executing blender.exe -noaudio --factory-startup -y -b in -P clirender.py -- -F PNG -T 16 -t 32 -f 18 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0

Just assuming that you want to set this specifically for one app, otherwise it is much easier to set the overall CPU limit for BOINC.

Executing blender.exe -noaudio --factory-startup -y -b in -P clirender.py -- -F PNG -T 16 -t 1 -f 222 0.79976565 0.0 0.816901 0.5


As I said, BOINC Monitor said "running 2 CPUs" But resource Monitor showed 8 CPUs in use by Blenderc and only this WU and three others were running on my MT Hex core system,(I limit BOINC as a whole to 11 "CPUs")

<app_config>
<app>
<name>blender</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>blender</app_name>
<cmdline>nthreads 4</cmdline>
<avg_ncpus>4</avg_ncpus>
<plan_class>mt</plan_class>
</app_version>
</app_config>

Hm, Janus could be right.
While older BOINC version doesn't seem to have a problem with it (my client version always worked with this config, the new one might be quite stricter.
Try change it to
<cmdline>-- nthreads 4</cmdline>
or
<cmdline>- nthreads 4</cmdline>
and see what it does. Not quite sure at the moment show the syntax should look like.
I can't check it, don't want to change my client version right now since it's running WUs without checkpoints. ;-)

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Per BOINC WIki it should be:

 <cmdline>--nthreads 7</cmdline>

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration

OK, changes made

waiting for WU to become available

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That was it

Thanks for the assistance,guys

Running on only three cores as planned