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Former Member
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Hi. I've been running the WCG Client on a WinXP-SP2 machine that I wasn't using for a little while now. Recently I started to use it for some minor tasks (surfing, email, etc.) but I noticed that the WCG Client is a huge resource hog. It currently takes up 73MB/282MB (mem usage/VM size) on this machine, which only has 512MB of RAM. So the client is causing me to page whenever I run almost anything like Firefox or Outlook, making the machine crawl.
I want to continue to run WCG but is there a slimmer client out there which isn't such a huge resource hog? Thanks. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It's not the client, it's the science project. WCG have done their best to reduce the memory requirements, but they remain high due to the nature of the problem we are solving.
Most of the time, though, the paged out memory will remain paged out. You really have plenty of memory for the project. If you are experiencing a slow-down, it probably means that you have a problem elsewhere. Things to do are: defrag your hdd, ensure your page file is large enough, ensure no other programs are using more memory than reasonable (do a spyware sweep). Finally, keep an eye on your antivirus software. Security software can sometimes do stupid things with grid computing, and cause an unresponsive system. Norton's particularly bad in this respect. |
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Former Member
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i do not have similar problems with similar systems.
----------------------------------------he should run c-cleaner and ad-aware and then defrag his hard drive. http://www.ccleaner.com/download/ http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-...&subj=dl&tag=top5 the c-cleaner also finds 'issues' and fixes them. this one is great for your registry cleanup: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download414.html [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 1, 2006 5:43:42 AM] |
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Former Member
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i forgot to mention that old problem where mcafee antivirus process named 'mcshield.exe', a real-time browsing scanner, would fight with WCG causing a big slowdown.
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Sekerob
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Firefox is mentioned, and whilst a great browser with all its extensions, there are lots of tweaks for the good and lots of extensions for the bad.....its not unknown for that browser to hog more and more memory into the many hundreds of MB, even when not used. Got it down now to maxing at about 80mb....took me eons to find the baddies and the wrong combos and still eats 20/30/40/50 % CPU time continuously even in idle.
----------------------------------------And before the hords befall upon me, IE7 (Beta 2 & 3), is outdoing Firefox since it copied all of the FFX features.....unfortunately, there you cant disable anything.....200mb easily taken and with every tab a virtual additional copy of the browser memory footprint in added....and as with FFX, can take significant CPU time or hide it under other processes, i.e. when streaming radio/video. From my own monitoring, about max 90mb of the science sits in RAM, the rest, up to that 283mb you mention sits paged out to disk, at the lowest possible priority. signed mum (dad will come by soon)
WCG
----------------------------------------Please help to make the Forums an enjoyable experience for All! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Sekerob at Jul 1, 2006 6:50:19 AM] |
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Former Member
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I've just finished discussing with our favorite healer. He recommends making a paste from baking soda, Canadian maple syrup and dried bat feces. The paste should be energised by placing in a pyramid aligned to the 2nd brightest star in Orion while the moon waxes gibbous. Energising takes 3 days. Then spread the past evenly on a CD and insert into the CD player. If the CD does not autorun then right-click on the CD drive icon and click on Autoplay.
----------------------------------------Claims he learned this procedure while channeling with the spirit of a dead armadillo in the New Mexico desert. Should work then. dad [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 1, 2006 7:15:32 AM] |
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