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So I've been running alot of atlas tasks lately and I was wondering if there is a way to only get certain core count tasks.
Last night I got slammed with 16 4 core tasks and ran out of Ram. I took a look at the max cores option in preferences but that seems to be max number and below so if set it to 8 I could still get other lower core count tasks.
Is there any way to do this, or do I just need to keep an eye on my box for out of memory exceptions.

I took a look at the max cores option in preferences but that seems to be max number and below so if set it to 8 I could still get other lower core count tasks.

Just use that option - I don't remember ever being issued a lower core-count task, assuming the cores actually exist.
It's "max. cores" because some of us have a range of different machines: max. 8 allows a four-core machine in that locale to get four-core tasks.

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Cool thanks for the info.