I have 6GB of RAM swap on my 64bit XP box. My preferences are set to use at most 4% of my swap (which should be around 240MB). However I've got two Rosetta beta 5.85 processes using over 1GB of swap space EACH, and they aren't even ACTIVE! I'm occasionally getting memory low errors (increase swap), and I'm probably causing way more swap events than necessary for something that isn't running. Is there any way to have processes that aren't active actually unload themselves until it is their turn to run? Is there any way to get rosetta to actually limit the amount of swap space they are allowed to use (I wouldn't mind them loaded if I could actually limit their swap space through preferences). If it matters, RAM allowed is also 4%.

BTW, restarting BOINC seems to have unloaded the tasks, but why would it load them in the first place? Do the projects have stated minimums we should be allocating (so if the project needs a minimum of 500MB allocated RAM, 128MB active in typical usage, they should say something so I can open up more RAM and limit number of active per CPU, or leave it CPU uregulated and get more done with less RAM allocations). For now after restarting the BOINC process, I've increased the maximum RAM and SWAP to 8% (e.g. around 160MB RAM, 480MB swap), but none of the Rosetta processes will start, and one has a computational error (maximum memory reached).

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Also to me same problem, rosetta takes too much memory and I have had the wu with error, the wu begin with 200 mb and them go up until a 1 GB, why ??????

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I'm going to have to nix rosetta until they can fix this. It's out of control on my computer.

I have 512mb physical ram. I just looked and it showed 1.2gigs being used. AKA, my system is having to swap out to HD for ram.

The funny thing is rosetta only reports using 40megs each under process manager, but when you kill their processes, my total system memory used goes from 1.2gigs to 300megs.

{...} For now after restarting the BOINC process, I've increased the maximum RAM and SWAP to 8% (e.g. around 160MB RAM, 480MB swap), but none of the Rosetta processes will start, and one has a computational error (maximum memory reached).
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I may be misreading your post. If so, I apologize in advance.

You may wish to review the system requirements for running Rosetta.

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Rosie, Rosie, she's our gal,
If she can't do it, no one shall!

I have 2 GB of ram, Pentium core 2 duo quad 6600, and i have a power supply, all this power on 24 hours to 24 , not I have money to waste uselessly, therefore you find the solution or I always abandon rosette for ever...

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I have 2 GB of ram, Pentium core 2 duo quad 6600, and i have a power supply, all this power on 24 hours to 24 , not I have money to waste uselessly, therefore you find the solution or I always abandon rosette for ever...

Avete un buon calcolatore. =)

Since you have 2GB of RAM, Rosetta probably sends you some of the tasks that require the most RAM.

But, because you have a quad core processor, that 2GB of RAM has to be shared with four tasks, bringing it down to 512MB at most. That is not enough to run those big tasks.

I suggest this:

Go into your preferences and tell BOINC to use at most 2 cores.

When version 5.85 is updated, you could try using all four cores again.

I hope you will stay with Rosetta...

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Rosie, Rosie, she's our gal,
If she can't do it, no one shall!