Since upgrading my BOINC core to 5.8.11, I have occasionally seen Rosetta's reported status to be "Waiting for memory". It is possible other projects are doing this as well, but if they are, I have not noticed it.

I have removed the memory limits, and bumped my swap file to 2GB but still, that one machine is showing this status from time to time. It does seem to be running wu's however, so whatever it is whining about cannot be that serious.

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Since upgrading my BOINC core to 5.8.11, I have occasionally seen Rosetta's reported status to be "Waiting for memory". It is possible other projects are doing this as well, but if they are, I have not noticed it.

I have removed the memory limits, and bumped my swap file to 2GB but still, that one machine is showing this status from time to time. It does seem to be running wu's however, so whatever it is whining about cannot be that serious.

yes, i notice the same issue on my V8 , and I have 4 Gigs ... running 8 threads ... eath thread was taking up to 250Mbyte ... I think it is a set of workloads that are larger than usual. yes ... Vista use quiet some Bytes ...


running out of memory when you have 4 gigs is kind of weird on BOINC.
I am installing Vista 64bits, and i ll try to see what happen when you get 8 Gigs.

who?

This one one of the many arguments going on during the alpha testers tested the 5.8 series, since by defualt it is
use at max 90% while not in use
use at max 50% while in use

in use is defined as keyboard/mouse input.

Of course at the time, rosetta used an old server version and single project users of just rosetta a home had no easy way of changing it.

But you can now, though 100% still doesn't behave the same (from reports) as being complately open before.

The other thing is it may not reach that total at the start as rosetta increased memory usage as it goes along.... I foget how the developers have tried to over come the problem of the tasks never getting enoguh memory.
So Who? check your settings and stop showing off ;) ,lol

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Sorry for bringing up this old thread. So what should be the recommended actions one should take if a new task is stuck at "Waiting for memory"? I actually shut down all of my memory-intensive programs but nothing happened.

What it is waiting for is for other BOINC activity to require less memory... or for you to allow BOINC to use more memory.

When I mention "other BOINC activity", that pertains more to multi-processor systems, and getting more of the CPUs actively running BOINC. Since your machine only has 1 CPU, there really isn't much that can happen to reduce BOINC's use of memory. On a multiple processor machine, BOINC might complete another WU and thus have that memory become available for the task that was waiting.

How much memory you allow BOINC to use is defined in your General Preferences. You can define % of memory while computer is in use, and while it is not in use. If you make a change there, then your machine must update to the project for the change to take effect.

Increasing the % of memory BOINC is allowed to use may allow the task to run, but may make BOINC's presence on your machine more noticible. It may take longer to start applications, or to become responsive after having been idle.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Hmmm... I see! =)
It turns out that my decision to reduce the amount of memory for BOINC was unwarranted since the BOINC client doesn't use much memory at all.

I'd set the "max memory to use when idle" at 30% and "max memory to use when computer is in use" at 10%. Now, both values are set at 50% since this computer has 1 gb of memory as my computer often has up to 100 mb spare memory in worst case scenarios.

Thank you for the explanations. :)