Posts by Alpacaman

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc not using enough system memory after increase (Message 76032)
Posted 19 Feb 2017 by Alpacaman
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Thanks Christian,

There are no idle CPUs in VM1 & 2; maybe I'll experiment with adding more sub-projects.

Cheers, A.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc not using enough system memory after increase (Message 76031)
Posted 19 Feb 2017 by Alpacaman
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Thanks Jord, very helpful!
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc not using enough system memory after increase (Message 75946)
Posted 15 Feb 2017 by Alpacaman
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Hi Juha,

Here are the outputs:

VM1:
rhino@dizzy:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 4046576 762312 1812728 9632 1471536 2989456
Swap: 2097148 0 2097148

VM2:
rhino@pierre:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 4046576 756724 2216336 9768 1073516 3004296
Swap: 2097148 0 2097148

VM3:
rhino@corinne:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 4046728 811404 523088 15028 2712236 3159008
Swap: 4194300 0 4194300

Sorry, I don't know how to use a non-proportional font here to line up the columns. Also, I can't see how to insert pics directly, as you did.

Many thanks, R.
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4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc not using enough system memory after increase (Message 75887)
Posted 13 Feb 2017 by Alpacaman
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Hi Juha, thanks for your reply. I just checked Boinc Manager and they're all running two tasks: 1 for each configured CPU, I guess. All three VMs are doing (exclusively) the same thing: running Boinc against WCG projects, so they *should* be using the same amount of RAM. I got the figures from the VMware management GUI ... hopefully you can see this screen grab:

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The VM1 & 2 figures are creeping up ... although still a long way from that of VM3.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc not using enough system memory after increase (Message 75831)
Posted 10 Feb 2017 by Alpacaman
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Howdy folks ... I have a VMware server with three VMs, each installed with Ubuntu 16.04, 64 bit; VMs 1 & 2 were created with 2GB RAM and VM 3 with 4GB. After installing Boinc (7.6.31 x64), everything ran fine (with World Community Grid projects); however, when I later increased RAM on VMs 1 & 2 from 2GB to 4GB (shutting down the OS, then VM, before restarting), they're still only using 2.43GB and 1.96GB RAM respectively after almost 24 hours. VM 3 has been consistently using 4.09GB. How can I make VM 1 & 2 use more memory? All Boinc instances are set to use 75% max memory when computer is 'in use', 100% when not; none of the servers are being used for anything else.

Many thanks!
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : How can I stop host from processing any new tasks? (Message 65839)
Posted 5 Dec 2015 by Alpacaman
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Wonderful ... obvious really! I was looking under "Tasks", but it's under "Projects".

Many thanks Juha.
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : How can I stop host from processing any new tasks? (Message 65808)
Posted 4 Dec 2015 by Alpacaman
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I periodically shut down & move servers ... how can I get Boinc to finish processing tasks without downloading any new ones? I tried aborting individual tasks (am doing World Community Grid projects), but it simply downloads - or at least begins another. In most cases, I could leave a server running until it finishes its current workload, then shut it down without "wasting" CPU time.

I'm running Boinc 7.4.2.3 x64 on most hosts.

Many thanks in advance!



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