just picked up 2 more

Win7 64, Vista 64 and XP 32 all able to go into suspend immediately with 6.16

I have tested suspending WUs (after waiting for new individual checkpoints to be started), then shut down the service and finally rebooted on all my machines due to basic housekeeping today.

I was lucky enough to be speaking to the author of BoincTasks today and I offered to make a video of what I perceived to be a bug. Just as I was about to start making it, I saw the first of these betas coming in so naturally deployed my 'beta-net' in order to grab 1 beta per each available thread.

This is the maximum amount of betas that will be sent, isn't it?

So far I have 4 running on my Quad running Vista 64bit, 1 on same machine under an XP Home VM, 1 on same machine Ubuntu 10.04 virtual machine, and hopefully once I get a chance also running Snow Leopard on a third virtual machine. Trying to see if there are any problems running this many at once on one piece of hardware.

I guess this is going to be a "mixed" review...

I got 2 betas running in the same set-up that I reported video hiccoughs in with the first beta batch. My initial impression was that I got less severe and less frequent stuttering -- so that I would have thought most people wouldn't seriously complain about it. But to really keep an eye on task stop/starts, memory usage, page faults etc. I started the task manager too. When I did experience video stutters I couldn't correlate them to any obvious events in the task manager. But then at one point the whole display stopped updating for perhaps 10 or 20 seconds and that threw me so hard I wasn't looking closely enough to see if there were any correlations or not. Maybe it's just that WinXP is poor at some aspects of memory or task management, 'cos it certainly seemed to be a system-wide fault. I definitely got the impression that WCG contributed to it, but I couldn't really say it caused it. I don't have enough tools (or expertise) to go any deeper.

Just my 2p. Do with it what you will.