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Former Member
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I came in this morning to find one of my machines complaining about virtual memory being low, I got to snooping around and found BOINC.EXE eating 1.5GB of Virtual Memory. I checked the message log and the only thing in it was constant reports of detecting activity, suspending computation, and then it tried to resume immediately (its set to wait 5 minutes), and said the same thing again. It apparently was majorly confused, and consumed all the memory it could eat. I restarted the service (BOINC 5.10.45) and it seems to be ok now. Has anyone else ever had this happen, and if so, was there a fix for it? System is Windows 2000 SP4, fully patched.
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Sekerob
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Yep, but that's been a long time ago that I saw BOINC.exe itself start devouring memory by the truckload.... 600/700mb. Just looked at my service install and it takes 16mb ram and 65mb vm after a good week uptime.
----------------------------------------We've had a few reports of clients continuously going from computing to idle and back, which suggests that some other scheduled process could be kicking in.... spam/av scanners, file indexers and the like Best is to disable screensaver completely, start e.g. Process Explorer in an admin session (MS free product) and watch detail CPU activity to see what pops up.
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Former Member
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There is no AV/Spyware application running on this machine, so we can rule that out. Also the standard Windows logon screen saver was running. Curiously, I did notice that BOINCTray.exe had apparently terminated on its own; it was not in the process list. Since the BOINCTray is responsible for detecting activity, perhaps that had something to do with it.
I'll be keeping an eye on it. THis machine has been running BOINC for a long time, first time I ever had any issue with it at all, so I was quite surprised. No changes/updates/installations have been made recently. Thanks. |
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