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Ingleside
Veteran Cruncher Norway Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Post Count: 974 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I just looked at current settings: 1. Switch between applications now 60 mins. I remember that it had been 30 minutes. 2. Leave applications in memory is NOT checked. What are your suggested settings? The "default" may not be what I want, because I want to throttle it back, and pause when I am using it. #1 has little meaning since you're only running a single BOINC-project, except if you've got so much work cached that you'll starting to run "high priority". #2 As Sekerob has already mentioned, it's highly recommended to run with "Leave applications in memory" turned ON. Only if it's so little available memory that it's constantly starting swapping to disk, can it be better to turn it off.  "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." |
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Lighthouse
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 283 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks to all! I'll toggle LAIM on and see what happens.
----------------------------------------The computer at issue has 6GB RAM installed, but I understand that Windows will only use 3 to 4 because it is Vista 32-bit. I tend to open a lot of programs at once, and hate to wait for virtual memory swap, thus the maxed-out RAM. Hopefully BOINC will not take very much of it. As usual, the Tech Support here is superb, worth at least 10-times what it costs!   |
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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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I want computing to stop when I use the computer. If this is a must for you then LAIM ON is the key parameter. If this is causing too much swapping you can either think of closing some programs sometimes (it is generally a good practice anyway**), or/and you can use Sekerob's System Requirements Matrix for choosing the projects with the smallest RAM footprint. What is great in the current choice of WCG projects is that the projects with the smallest RAM requirements are also those with the highest checkpointing frequency, which is important too with your usage profile.Regarding throttling back, you can do it if you really like it but it has no effect on comfort of use and it will only decrease the checkpointing frequency. It is useful only if your processor is running too hot, which should not be the case if your Q6600 is not overclocked. Happy crunching. Jean. ** Some (many?) programs tend to forget to release memory that they will never use again and are using more and more RAM as time goes. Therefore closing them and restarting them only when needed is usually helping to keep your system's memory space "cleaner". |
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