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I am running Windows 7 Professional on an i7 with 12 GB of memory. I ran into some difficulties with some work I was doing. I looked through Task manager and found about 1 and a half dozen wfc_gfam_vina_6.11_windows processes running. They seemed to be consuming a lot of CPU and memory. So, I killed them off. Then I stopped WCG and my system started running just fine.
I have to leave the system running for 2 weeks at a time for testing. Normally, this is not a problem. This is the first time I found WCG to be causing problems. I have been running it for a long time successfully. I am wondering if this is due to WCG expecting a reboot of the system more frequently than every 2 weeks. Maybe a bug that leaves zombie processes running that don't get cleaned up except by a reboot. I don't want to turn WCG off but if this is going to be a problem than work has to come first. Please help if you know something about this problem. Please don't post snide or unuseful comments. If you don't know something about this don't post. Thanks. |
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Former Member
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Hi, welcome too to the WCG forums,
----------------------------------------How many core/threads are in that system? You'd see two processes per GFAM(VINA] task, a controller taking few seconds per job and the worker, which takes all the spare time. They're actually not so big [I'm running 8 concurrently for weeks now and they sum to about 600MB peak use, with another 600MB in virtual memory]. They perform at about 99.2% efficiency on an idle system. [W7-64]. The systems is very responsive, so unsure what may cause this on your system. It's been up since the last patch Tuesday, so it wont be memory leaking either. edit: On memory leaking, what BOINC version and what mem/cpu usage does boinc.exe and boincmgr.exe themselves show? Is your security software open to allow BOINC to communicate over localhost [port 31416] and also have an exemption on the science apps. ideally the whole BOINC data directory? Norton seemingly has a dis-grunt with VINA based applications so finally ditched it few days ago and reverted to old trusted Alwil-Avast. --//-- P.S. The last line could truly have been dispensed of. All members are very helpful on these forums. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 8, 2012 3:37:53 PM] |
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