Hi,

I usually monitor my computer using HWInfo64 and after seeing the shear amount of data being written to my SSD, probably due to default 60 second checkpointing setting in BOINC client, I believe there should be a suggestion given to increase the value.

Okay, I run 64 simultaneous threads which probably makes the matter worse faster, but in the course of 15 days or so there was 2000 GB, Yes 2TB written to my SSD (no other write intensive tasks on the PC during this time). In HWInfo64 I could also see that my "Remainning SSD Life" had decreased from 99% to 98% due to all the writes. Now, a few days ago I set BOINC settings to checkpoing at most every 600 seconds instead and now the SSD abuse seems to have dropped off significantly.

Of course, if one often closes starts boinc or reboots the PC, then 600s would mean a lot of lost compute time perhaps. But as PCs now have many cores even on mainstream segment, as well as SSDs becoming very wide-spread there as well, I believe it is time to revise recommendations and recommend either a RAMDisk or increasing the checkpointing/write-to-disk interval in BOINC settings from 60 seconds.

Has anyone else noticed huge disk writes (especially to SSDs since they are so sensitive to writes) with BOINC default settings, especially if you have many threads (>= 16 perhaps)?