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Thread: PC freezes in 5 minutes or becomes very very slow. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello friends,
I am running BOINC for the world community grid. I have installed it on my desktop which is a AMD 9950 X4 black edition,Nvidia GPU(dont remember the series,just know its 2gb ddr5 ram)...2 gigs of RAM(m upgrading tomorrow to 4 gigs)...I am running Linux Mint 11(Katya),which is based on Ubuntu 11.04. My problem is the system either hangs after 5-10 minutes or becomes snail slow...like,it becomes unusable,i cant even open the explorer or the terminal,and as its unusable or freezed,i cant even see what the problem is. What shall i do,kindly recommend. Regards,Akshay Sulakhe PS:- I dont know the BOINC version m running,i dont want a frozen pc now.. :P |
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Former Member
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Certain projects have certain system requirements. Running said project on a system without those requirements would cause freezes or slowdowns. You may have selected a project to participate in that is taxing your system to much.
You can in the advanced options determine when Bionic goes into suspension such as when the cpu usage exceeds a certain percentage. You can also tell when Bionic runs such as when there is no activity for a certain period of time. You can also determine how many cpu cores are used for Bionic. This means a lower amount of tasks but depending upon your system requirements will mean you don't tax your system to much. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=minimumreq |
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Former Member
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Another possibility is to uninstall BOINC. If everything starts working again, you may have installed BOINC incorrectly. In which case, ask how others installed BOINC on your OS.
Lawrence |
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steffen_moeller
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Have you installed BOINC from upstream or the Ubuntu package? What project are you running? BOINC itself basically does not need any resources. It is the scientific application that takes it all, which is only installed once BOINC is run. So, while interesting, it does not really matter which version you are running.
BUT: Please specify what scientific app is running when you have those problems. You can constrain the app to one less resource hungry in your WCG personal page. An overview you find e.g. here http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-...l/2011-August/003417.html |
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Former Member
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Hello all,
Thanks for the quick reply....well,installing BOINC was not that difficult....i guess it was some problem with the OS,it had started freezing at unknown times also....removed it,installed ubuntu 11.10..and now everything is working like a charm...thank u all for the replies....many thanks again... :-) |
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Former Member
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still searching how to close the thread... :P
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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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still searching how to close the thread... :P Simply go to your opening post, click on the Edit button and add [RESOLVED] to its title ("Post Topic" at the top).And thank you for your feedback.  |
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