What John is looking for is called "Leave Non-GPU tasks in memory when
suspended", used to be "Leave applications in memory".
With this switched on, tasks that suspend keep their whole state in memory.
With it switched off tasks that don't checkpoint start from the beginning,
tasks that checkpoint
It depends. If you suspend a task and return all the memory, then you lose any
forward progress since the last check point. There is a setting that allows
the removal from memory (or at least there used to be), but I don't remember
what it is. A suspended task's memory can go to swap with no
From what I've seen, when BOINC suspends workunits, this DOES NOT free the
memory they are using.
It looks like BOINC should not be allowed to start a workunit without
checking
whether enough memory is still free, and it should then be required to
repeat
this check before starting the next one
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
wrote:
> Does he run 32-bit applications under 64-bit Windows Vista? I've fo
