taskkill – kill pocesses under windows from command line

Found a useful windows command line function – “taskkill”. This is used to kill tasks or processes under windows from command line. The syntax is:

taskkill /F /IM notepad.exe

Also noticed that this command sometimes does not work nice. It writes to the output that the task, whitich remains running, is killed. Comment this [...]

September 19th, 2006 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Side Notes | 7 comments

vtu@home time to completion problem

There was a problem with time to completion. BOINC Manager used to show 00:00:00 time to completion. The WU generator code was:

wu.rsc_fpops_est = 1e100; wu.rsc_fpops_bound = 1e110;

This was not understoood by compiler and WU created was always *_est “-8″ and *_bound “-8″. This caused the zero time to completion problem. The problem [...]

September 11th, 2006 | Category: Side Notes | 7 comments