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Looks like I can just leave things as is, even if there's a bit of overkill in the process.

[I added the "shutdown" call even though I wasn't sure what it did, but it sounded like something I wanted. When it didn't blow up, I just left it in.]

Windows 10 Pro, client 7.6.21 Every evening after the backup finishes, I run a little program to issue a "PAUSE" followed by a "SHUTDOWN" to the client, which will be followed eventually by Windows' own shutdown. Is the SHUTDOWN to the client worth issuing, or is the PAUSE before...

Thanks for the information. I was under the impression that the capabilities of Intel's embedded GPUs were so limited as to not be useful in this application. If I live so long, maybe I'll see it in my next PC. I do see that Intel is (or is about to start) marketing a more-or-less genuine GPU-only d...

With the arrival of version 7.6.21, I've grown a GPU of sorts, which appears as "gpu:0:2 Gen9p5/GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]" As I understand things, Intel GPUs aren't supported because they're not at all useful. It's marked as "Disabled" in the "Status" display of the contro...

I'd like to be able to see how many cores/cpus are being used by a task without having to bring up the control program and browsing through the log. Poking through the list of available commands, I can find "CPUS" which returns the number set in the config (-1 in the current case) and &quo...

You've convinced me to push things a little harder.

Right now, it's running with 4 cores with no apparent heat or noise problems. When this task finished, I'll try 5. If that holds, I'll try 6, just to see what happens.

Didn't realize there were responses to my whining about the heat. The CPU is an i5-9400, and the PC's a Dell XPS-8930, about 1.5 years old. So, I'm not ready yet to tear it down. I wouldn't be surprised if the box is inadequately cooled, or that I'm just a little too reluctant to push the temperatur...

Just grabbed a current piece of the log. It appears to be trying 130.237.11.145 and 178.174.196.138 repeatedly. I've set the controller up to "Finish" so the current task will be the last, just in case it goes to the same servers. Two other PCs are uploading results as usual, to different ...

Thanks. Maybe I have to look into why this machine runs so hot anyway. The two machines running 4 cores full time (not much else for them to do right now) are stone cold; the antique i3 machine running Linux hits 151F and never higher. The 6-core machine with only 3 cores active runs as high as 160F...

I have 3 very conventional low-powered PCs running FAH in their spare time. Two have 4-core CPUs with the slot CPU count set to -1. But I have one 6-core machine with the CPU count set to 3 because going higher causes overheating. Based on the wording of the config screen, I think the setting of -1 ...