Windows 10 - 64bit. But his VBox is just 5.0.32 if his signature is to be believed. I have advised him to update to 5.1.14, so thanks for that catch.
-- Jord van der Elst. On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Robert Miles <robertmi...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Does he run 32-bit applications under 64-bit Windows Vista? I've found > that nearly > all 32-bit programs running under 64-bit Windows Vista cause Windows to > load > enough svchost.exe modules to approximately double the amount of memory > these > programs use. This happens even if these 32-bit applications are > unrelated to BOINC. > I have not seen this happen under Windows 7 or Windows 10. > > Also, which version of VirtualBox is he using? I found that the 5.0.* > versions do not > work properly for the VM applications I run, but the 5.1.* versions run > much better, > without using a lot of extra memory. > > Note that he may be seeing that problem only when running VM tasks. So it > might > be more reasonable to turn off VM tasks on all the servers which allow it, > drop any > BOINC projects that don't, and then keep BOINC running for the remaining > projects > and possibly add a few more. > >> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 11:24:47 +0100 >> From: Jord van der Elst <els...@gmail.com> >> Subject: [boinc_dev] Project application using more memory than it >> reports to BOINC >> >> Hi David, >> >> A user on the BOINC forums reported that he was now getting ready to get >> rid of BOINC, because it would use his whole memory and then even more, >> swapping to page file and there was nothing he could do about it. (ref >> https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=11494) >> >> He states to be running into this problem when running ATLAS GARL tasks, >> that use 2GB per task, which he appeared to run 10 of at the same time, >> using then 20GB of memory. A bit troublesome on a system using 16GB. >> >> So stopping that, he switched to LHC and running the LHCb simulation he >> now >> runs into to same problem. Here however there is a thread explaining why >> that is (https://lhcathome.cern.ch/sixtrack/forum_thread.php?id=4072): >> the >> LHCb tasks use 2GB of memory but report they only use 480MB per. So BOINC >> thinks they use 480MB, but they really do use 2GB. >> >> These all run in VirtualBox for as far as I understand, so perhaps that >> there's a bug in the wrapper how the memory usage is being read. In any >> case, shouldn't BOINC always poll the actual memory in use and stop using >> more when all of the available RAM has been consumed, even if there are >> free CPUs? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- Jord van der Elst. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
