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Former Member
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I just returned to my machine (WinXP) -- with the agent running of course -- and the initial response was awful. I'm not sure if it took a little while to surrender the cpu cycles or not. It is using vast amounts of RAM, though, and it seems there is nothing I can do about this. I have 1Gig and no physical memory available. The enumerated processes in task manager total about 100kB. I monitor my machine closely for spyware btw.
The result of this RAM usage is that my performance stinks often due to swap file thrashing (such as downloading or burning from the swap file drive). This is really more of a sacrifice than I am willing to make. Please let me know if I have overlooked some feature (snooze seems to have no impact on RAM usage) or if it is not possible for the agent to gobble this much RAM. As it is, though, without a shutdown feature or something that reduces (temporarily) the RAM usage to a reasonable amount, I am likely to remove it from my machine. Please let me know if there is some alternative, as I would like to continue in the project. My own research btw deals directly with protein structure, configurations, and folding. jaybee |
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David Autumns
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jaybee
----------------------------------------Something is amiss with your setup there's no way you should have 1Gb of your memory allocated to the WCG Agent task. My WCG agent currently has about 9Mb of my physical RAM 9,128K and has max'ed out at some point in the process to 32,366K ~32Mb. Are you sure it is the WCG rossetta process that is hogging your system? Regards Dave  |
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jaybee Something is amiss with your setup there's no way you should have 1Gb of your memory allocated to the WCG Agent task. My WCG agent currently has about 9Mb of my physical RAM 9,128K and has max'ed out at some point in the process to 32,366K ~32Mb. Are you sure it is the WCG rossetta process that is hogging your system? Regards Dave The sum of memory usage for UD and wcgrid_rosetta is generally pretty small. The missing memory is probably accounted for by a service, which I can't monitor through Task Manager. Something started hogging memory, though, around the same time I installed the WC client. Failing any explanation, I'll remove the software and see if I notice a significant improvement. jaybee |
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Silly me, the shutdown option is available from the system tray icon. Some leaky app is still devouring my RAM too. Thanks though.
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Silly me, the shutdown option is available from the system tray icon. Some leaky app is still devouring my RAM too. Thanks though. jaybee Well, I have to retract the last statement. A few minutes later, with the same apps open (minus the WC client), I have an additional 350 meg free (and increasing). So I still think the client is somehow gobbling my RAM. jaybee |
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Hmmm... I don't get it... wait! Do you have virtual memory enabled, and if yes, is there enough? My computer uses about ~600MB of page file on my hard drive on average... just a thought...
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Hmmm... I don't get it... wait! Do you have virtual memory enabled, and if yes, is there enough? My computer uses about ~600MB of page file on my hard drive on average... just a thought... Yup, there's plenty of pagefile. The physical memory is what's getting gobbled up. This looks like a Java app. Maybe I have a crappy VM with faulty garbage collection? jaybee |
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I order to test the software, you should reboot your machine to start with a clean slate. Wait a while (an hour?) for everything to stabilize, and don't use anything on your system for the duration. Check memory levels.
Reboot again, and immediately start up the grid client. Let it run for an hour, and then check your memory levels. Exit the client, and check again after 15 minutes or so. Compare your numbers and then you should be able to tell if it is really the grid client sucking up your memory, or some other software you are running, purposely or not. (Have you scanned for spyware and/or viruses?) |
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