Hello, I'd like to understand what Boinc does with workunits which require a large amount of RAM.
I have workunits which require 10 GB RAM. My understandig is, that only hosts which have at least 10 GB free RAM are downloading them and only if 10 GB RAM are free they are started? It is not clear for me what happens when the workunits are running and if and how often Boinc checks their RAM consumption and what Boinc does if they consume too much RAM. A user blames, that he has a system with 8 cores and 16 GB RAM. This systems has more than 10GB free RAM. So such workunits are downloaded and started, 8 of them in parallel at the same time. After some seconds all 8 workunits consuming 10 GB RAM each and the system is havily swaping and nearly unresponsive. Shouldn't Boinc find out, that too much RAM is consumed and suspend some of the workunits? Kind regards, yoyo _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.