Hello everyone,
I just checked the system control of my Linux PC.

In the statistics of the system control I found out, that the usage of
Memory is permanently is at 37,9 per cent and the usage of SWAP memory is permanently at 19,1 per cent.

Wanting to change this, I checked my BOINC settings, both the online ones and the
settings in the BOINC Client itself.

The online settings are as follows:

Disk Usage
Use no more than: 99.0 Gigabytes of disk space
Leave at least: 0.1 Gigabytes of disk space free
Use no more than: 99.0 % of total disk space
Write to disk at most every: 60.0 seconds
Memory Usage
Leave applications in memory while preempted?
Use no more than: 100.0 % of memory while computer in use
Use no more than: 100.0 % of memory while computer idle
Use no more than: 100.0 % of virtual memory


The settings in the Client itself are as follows:

Use not more than 99.0 Giga of Harddisc
Do not use more than 100 Per cent of Processor

Currently I have set the settins of the client as valid, and not the online settings.

In other words: The computer uses the settings in the clients

If I make the online settings valid, I get the following message:
Sa 27 Mär 2010 15:57:36 CET||Host location: none
Sa 27 Mär 2010 15:57:36 CET||General prefs: using your defaults
Sa 27 Mär 2010 15:57:36 CET||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 503.54MB
Sa 27 Mär 2010 15:57:36 CET||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 503.54MB
Sa 27 Mär 2010 15:57:36 CET||Preferences limit disk usage to 0.76GB

Note: To make sure, that the online settings are really valid, I made the client send a sheduler request. I got the resoponse as follows:
Sa 27 Mär 2010 16:00:57 CET|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 3 completed tasks
Sa 27 Mär 2010 16:01:01 CET||A new version of BOINC (6.10.17) is available for your computer
Sa 27 Mär 2010 16:01:01 CET||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php to get it.
Sa 27 Mär 2010 16:01:03 CET|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks

Still the usage of memory and swap memory does not change.

The only thing that changes (compared with using the settings of the client itself) is, that CPU usage is now gining up and down from 50 per cent to 99 per cent instead of being steadily at 99 per cent, how it was when I used the settings in the BOIC client itself.

In other words: On my linux system it is better to use the Client settings instead of the online settins, because then CPU usage is better.

But: In both cases, SWAP memory and memory usage is too low, at 40 per cent memory usage and 20 per cent of SWAP memory usage.

My question now is: Is there any other possibility left to improve memory and SWAP memory usage?

I now that my question might be tricky. Thank you for any help in advance.
Greetings
Martin Schnellinger