Hi tekennelly

I can answer and/or point you to discussions for some of your questions.

reduce the amount of I/O activity? I don't know of anyway other then what you have already done. Someone else may have the answer(s)

move the BOINC work files? The easiest way I have found is to:
1) Uninstall BOINC
2) Copy the data folder to the new drive, be sure to copy all files and sub-folders
3) Re-install BOINC using the Advanced Options and point the data location to the BOINC data folder you created on the new drive.

If you don't know the location of your BOINC data directory open the messages tab and scroll up to the top. You should see a line near the very beginning that looks like this:
12/23/10 04:19:15 PM Data directory: C:\WCG\Data

In the above mine is located on the C: Drive in a folder named \WCG\Data

is anyone using a RAM disk? This thread https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,30244 has a good deal of discussion with mixed results. Also, if SSD is an option for you look at this thread https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,30330


By increasing the checkpoint time you are increasing your risk of losing CPU cycles if you shutdown BOINC or the system. On a restart BOINC will pick up from the last checkpoint written. The farther you space them the more time lost on a restart.

eliminate checkpointing? Can't answer that one.

Leave apps in memory comes into play if an active task is suspended. If unchecked when the task restarts it will go back to the last checkpoint. Again, risk is lost cycles. I don't think this option will make any difference in you IO load if selected or not other than the possibility of some increased paging if selected.

Bill P