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1) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Project recently started using too much memory? (Message 277)
Posted 8 Dec 2009 by k6xt
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In the BOINC Manager, under Advanced, Preferences, in the Disk and Memory Usage tab, I suggest lowering the memory usage to 50% or lower when the computer is in use and 75% or 80% when the computer is idle. This should cause BOINC to run at most three NFS@Home tasks at a time. If you have another, low memory project also active, BOINC should run one of those in the fourth slot.


When I started in on distributed computing (Sept 99) the explanation was that SETI would instantly release whatever resources were required when another application needed them. I took this to mean any application, not just user requests for CPU cycles and memory. Until lately that has seemed true. Implicit in your recommendation is that NFS will NOT release resources as needed by user or PC. Is that true, or have I read too much into this?

I took the 50% suggestion but set idle memory down from 100 to 95% try that for a time.

Regards
Art
2) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Project recently started using too much memory? (Message 268)
Posted 5 Dec 2009 by k6xt
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Wondering why one of my PCs was brought to its knees I just discovered the high memory use. I don't mind doing the work but need a way to stop just NFS processing but not the rest of the projects I'm running. So far I don't see a way to stop just NFS when I sit down and use the PC, without stopping all computation. Is there a way?

The undesirable alternative is to stop receiving these WU. Each of my 4 processors is taking a half GB of the 2GB available making the PC almost unusable. Takes me 5 minutes just to get into Boinc Manager to shut it down.

Thanks Art





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