Posts by Carren

1) Message boards : BOINC client : Latest version using more resources (Message 11874) Posted 29 Jul 2007 by Carren Post: OK, I decided to uninstall the test version and went back to 5.8.16 (downloaded from the boinc site). I've installed it, but when it tries to connect to the server it's giving me an error message - "problem with SSL CA certificate". It then defers communications. Also, which files from the previous installation (that are still sitting in my home directory) should I copy to the new BOINC directory, so that it can pick up where it left off, or am I better to just dump those and let it start from scratch?
2) Message boards : BOINC client : Latest version using more resources (Message 11872) Posted 29 Jul 2007 by Carren Post: Yes. It is a test version. An old one at that, but there hasn't been a newer alpha release (we're up to 5.10.16 for Windows and Mac). FWIW, 5.10.8 has been running pretty much flawlessly on Unbuntu. I'm booted into Windows right now so I can't check on memory usage. But I would try a downgrade and see if that clears things up. If it does, I can report it to the alpha list for you (or you can register and do it). It's also possible that some of the more recent check-ins fix the issue. I'm looking at this one from 5.10.14 - Client: radically faster (on Win) version of dir_size() (from John McLeod) OK, thanks. I'll give it another couple of days and take closer note of the memory usage. If necessary I'll downgrade back to the stable version. Thanks for the help!
3) Message boards : BOINC client : Latest version using more resources (Message 11871) Posted 29 Jul 2007 by Carren Post: I have 1GB RAM and boinc appears to be using about 100GB more than it was before. How could it be doing that? So if the 100GB was a typo, what is it using more? 100MB or 100KB? Big difference. Reciting from memory, BOINC uses around 4MB of memory in my Linux. Sorry, that was a typo. Should have been 100MB.
4) Message boards : BOINC client : Latest version using more resources (Message 11858) Posted 29 Jul 2007 by Carren Post: Latest version = ? Did you install from Berkeley or from your distro's package manager? I installed it via apt-get from terminal (I don't use the package manager). It's version 5.10.8 - but I'm looking at the debian site now and I see now that it appears to be the test version not the latest stable. Maybe I should downgrade it ....
5) Message boards : BOINC client : Latest version using more resources (Message 11854) Posted 29 Jul 2007 by Carren Post: I've been running boinc on Fedora Core 6 for some time, with no real problems. I've just switched distros and am now running Sidux (based on Debian). I've also upgraded to the latest version of boinc. I'm not sure whether it's the change of distro or the change of boinc version, but boinc now seems to be using a lot more RAM than it was before. I have 1GB RAM and boinc appears to be using about 100GB more than it was before. I've also noticed that my dual processor is getting hotter now - my laptop fan used to come on when the temps got close to 50C, but would go off once the temp dropped a few degrees. Since switching to the new version my fan seems to run constantly and my temps are sitting around 55C. If I stop boinc, things return to normal. This difference definitely seems to be related to upgrading to the latest version. Is this a known issue with the latest version?
6) Message boards : BOINC client : Suspending a project (Message 4320) Posted 13 May 2006 by Carren Post: This is probably a stupid question but ... I'm currently crunching two projects on the same machine (one at 60% resource share and the other at 40%) If I suspend one, will BOINC automatically set the remaining project a 100% resource share, or do I have to change my BOINC resource allocation manually? If you suspend the one project then you are telling BOINC "I don't want you to do this." so yes, it'll crunch the other one full time. I suspected that was the case but figured I better double check. Many thanks! :-)
7) Message boards : BOINC client : Suspending a project (Message 4314) Posted 13 May 2006 by Carren Post: This is probably a stupid question but ... I'm currently crunching two projects on the same machine (one at 60% resource share and the other at 40%) If I suspend one, will BOINC automatically set the remaining project a 100% resource share, or do I have to change my BOINC resource allocation manually?
8) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Boinc Manager in Linux - shortcut? (Message 2644) Posted 17 Jan 2006 by Carren Post: Hi, I'm new to Linux but used to running seti/boinc on a Windows machine. I've installed boinc on Ubuntu and I'm wondering whether there is any way to get boinc Manager to run all the time without having to be minimised to the taskbar. I gather there is no tray feature under linux as there is in Windows. Is there a shortcut or something I can use when I want to see the manager, or do I have to do it via terminal all the time?
9) Message boards : BOINC client : Installing the client in linux (Message 2609) Posted 15 Jan 2006 by Carren Post: I just downloaded the linux version and followed the instructions for intalling a self-extracting archive, but when I type in the <i>sh boinc_5.2.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh<i> command it tells me that directory doesn't exist. I thought that command was supposed to create the directory? Can someone please tell me how to do this?

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