There is nothing special needed. BOINC should be able to handle/control the memory requirements as those get passed on a workunit basis. Checkpointing should still be working and should checkpoint every 15-30 minutes from my tests.

Thanks,
-Uplinger

These will not finish in 36 hours on any of my machines. Looking in the slot directory, it seems to be consistently doing one step every 4.2 seconds. With 50000 steps, that would be ~53.8 hours. BOINC is estimating a little over 54 hours.
BTW, thunderstorms rolled through in the middle of the night so had a chance to test checkpoint/restart. WU successfully restarted from last checkpoint.

Just aborted all 5 WUs received here... No way were they going to be completed in time...

You are correct, the first 400 sent out were 50k steps. I had changed only one of the variables when loading them. I will increase their deadlines for those to be 5 days on the system. This will prevent them from being sent out for additional copies.

Also, I'm changing them so going forward, the children of them are set to 10k steps. I am sorry about this, and thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Thanks,
-Uplinger

Edit: All deadlines for workunits in progress right now have an additional 4 days to complete. Your client will still report them as potentially being too late, this is because the report deadline is not updated to the client.