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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi ppl,
I decided to install boinc at my work. So I configured it work only at night. Everything is fine, except that, during daytime, when in "suspended" state, boinc was still eating up to 120MB of memory!!! Shouldn't "suspended" mean "do not use any kind of resource"? What I did was shutting it down, but this way there is a high chance that I'll forget to start it again before leaving work =/. Regards, Thiago Souza |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Depends on 2 things
----------------------------------------1. if LAIM (Leave application in memory, when suspended) is on 2. if the job is still before the first checkpoint (may differ per BOINC version) If you switch off 1., you best set the resume time longer also else the client will just go back to last checkpoint again and again until you go home. Each time the mouse / keyboard use is stopped a delay-resume time is ticking, then the job starts if long enough idle, but if then the mouse/keyboard is used before next checkpoint, the app will unload again... etc.
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Former Member
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Hi,
Thanks for the fast reply! I switched 1 off and my memory is back!! Thanks!!!! Regards, Thiago Souza |
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you suspend Boinc during your working hours via Boinc's schedule feature you do not need to set LIM off because the science applications will soon be swapped out of the RAM until night and they will be present only in the swap file. Unless you have so much RAM that there is no need for the operating system to do so.
----------------------------------------You will see them in the task manager but with no active memory. If instead you are using the feature "don't run while I am using the computer" that Sekerob described then the above is no longer true and you should set LIM off if you don't have plenty of RAM. But in that case a science application will have a chance to reach the next checkpoint only during long breaks of your using the computer. Cheers. Jean. |
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