BOINC Settings

[Mike Mitchell]

Does anyone know if, in Computing preferences, the memory settings below are per work unit or all BOINC work units?

Disk and memory usage
Disk: use at most   95% of total
Tasks checkpoint to disk at most every   60 seconds
Swap space: use at most   65% of total
Memory: when computer is in use, use at most   75% of total
Memory: when computer is not in use, use at most   95% of total

The new Ralph were more than 750Meg which is much too much for my laptop.

[Dingo]

I think that is the total for all work units / all of BOINC.  If you only have one task running it will use up to those limits for memory etc.  If you have eight it will use the same limits.  If you do not want Ralph then you can set to no new work.   

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[Mike Mitchell]

I want Ralph to get to 100K at some time. So it would be good if the project can keep running but 750Megs is a lot when two use up twice that. I've set the resources lower and I'll try some more and see if Ralph will send some less RAM hungry types.

Thanks Dingo.

[kashi]

I haven't used it myself but perhaps you could try a recent version of BOINC that supports app_config.xml to restrict the high memory Ralph application to one task at a time.

<app_config>
<app>
<name>name</name>
<max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
</app>
</app_config>

Include one <app> element for each Ralph application you want to configure.

name
   short name of the application as found in the appropriate <name>xxxxx</name> tags in your client_state.xml file.  

max_concurrent
   the maximum number of tasks of this application to run at a given time.

The placement of the app_config.xml is in its respective project folder, e.g. for WorldCommunityGrid it goes into .\projects\www.worldcommunitygrid.org