Posts by Natan

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinccmd --set_proxy_settings does not enable the proxy (Message 21319)
Posted 18 Nov 2008 by Natan
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So, what should I do now?

The link to report bugs in the Wiki goes to an nonexistent page: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_Help#Report_a_bug
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc 6.2.19 not releasing memory (Message 21318)
Posted 18 Nov 2008 by Natan
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you need to set at the Rosetta site is called "Leave applications in memory while suspended?" You can set it to "No" and that will solve the problem for you.


I checked that before coming here, this option is not set. That is why I asked if this was a bug. I have a max of 200 or 300 MB of RAM, but BOINC uses 1.5GB easily with all those processes waiting for memory.


Don't set your preferences so low, especially for a project like Rosetta, which is stable and uses less memory than many other BOINC projects. Set your memory preferences to 95% for both idle and working.


I set this option to a lower values because it was hurting my performance. But thinking now, this didn't happen before, and started after I upgraded from 5.something to 6.2.19 (yes, it was a long jump, not sure where this bug was introduced).


In fact, if BOINC uses too much memory it will stop running the app anyway, and your messages tab will have a message for you telling you that there is not enough memory to run your preferred project, so there are failsafes for this kind of thing.


That is exactly the problem. It seems that this is not working as expected.
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : boinccmd --set_proxy_settings does not enable the proxy (Message 21219)
Posted 13 Nov 2008 by Natan
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Hi. I use some batches to switch proxies during the day, and I'm using boinccmd to do it.

Currently, I can change the proxy settings but what happens is that everytime I do it, the proxy is disabled, and I must manually go into the BOINC Manager > Options and enable it back.

I couldn't find any command to enable it by command line. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc 6.2.19 not releasing memory (Message 21218)
Posted 13 Nov 2008 by Natan
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Hi.

I'm using BOINC 6.2.19 with Rosetta (win xp 32 bit) on a dual core with 1GB of RAM. I recently set it to use only 20% of RAM while I'm working, and 60% while idle.

I usually have 1 day task buffer, and that gives me about 25 task on queue anytime.

My problem is that since I set it to use 20% of RAM (200MB), BOINC starts 2 tasks, one of them uses most of the RAM and the other goes waiting for memory (each job usually requires about 150MB of RAM).

For some reason, when the job stops because of lack of memory, it doesn't close the process and keeps it there using memory. That should be ok. The problem is that BOINC then starts the next task hoping it will be able to run it, and the same thing happens.

After 1 hour, I have 20 tasks suspended by lack of memory, and 20 processes consuming 50-80MB of RAM each, and my RAM and swap goes to space.

Does anyone have the same problem or know how to avoid this? This seems like a bug to me.

Thanks



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