Hi Frank, I just made some tests On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 16:36, Frank S. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So if I'm right, the client should never leave applications in memory which is > opposed to the other bug you reported. *sigh* :-)
well, it shows of they are related (see below) > Frankly, I don't know. But it would be interesting if you could modify those > values to find out if it affects RAM usage. For example, set them to 25.0 and > 50.0, restart the client and monitor the client's RAM usage. To monitor > BOINC's RAM usage the attached script may be helpful: > $ watch -n 0.5 ./boinc-mem-usage.sh > > In theory, BOINC's total resident set size (in %) should never exceed > ram_max_used_idle_pct. Before the tests I got: $ egrep "ram_max_used_idle_pct|ram_max_used_busy_pct" /etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml <ram_max_used_busy_pct>50.000000</ram_max_used_busy_pct> <ram_max_used_idle_pct>90.000000</ram_max_used_idle_pct> $ ~/tmp/boinc-mem-usage.sh Host's total memory: 4058168 KiB 3963.05 MiB Host's total swap: 0 KiB 0.00 MiB BOINC's total resident set size: 1231356 KiB 1202.50 MiB BOINC's total virtual memory size: 1331948 KiB 1300.73 MiB BOINC's total resident set size: 30.3% BOINC's total virtual memory size: 32.8% Then I set: $ egrep "ram_max_used_idle_pct|ram_max_used_busy_pct" /etc/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml <ram_max_used_busy_pct>25.000000</ram_max_used_busy_pct> <ram_max_used_idle_pct>50.000000</ram_max_used_idle_pct> guess what? $ ~/tmp/boinc-mem-usage.sh Host's total memory: 4058168 KiB 3963.05 MiB Host's total swap: 0 KiB 0.00 MiB BOINC's total resident set size: 1629944 KiB 1591.74 MiB BOINC's total virtual memory size: 1782020 KiB 1740.25 MiB BOINC's total resident set size: 40.2% BOINC's total virtual memory size: 43.9% The problem is that the process put on hold due to "Waiting for memory" are indeed *left in memory* so my machine went trashing (I got to kill boinc from a laptop). If you need some other tests, simply ask (I'd like to see boinc bug free :) ). Cheers, Sandro -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]