I have a computer with 256 MB RAM. Rosetta client uses approx. 126 MB of virtual memory. What does bother me is that approx. 111 MB of it stays pinned in RAM when I suspend the Rosetta client. Windows XP simply cannot page it out to a pagefile. This degrades my pc so much that I have to restart BOINC every morning before I can use it in a normal way thus losing the work from the last checkpoint. This is not the case with the SETI@home client which can stay kept in memory until the end of a working day when I resume it allowing it to run during the rest of day and a whole night. Less than 1 of 60 MB of virtual memory allocated stays pinned in RAM, all the rest is paged out to a pagefile.

Would it be possible to change/recompile the Rosetta client in such a way that most of the virtual memory used by it is not pinned (locked) in RAM when the client is inactive (suspended)?

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Set you General Preferences option
http://www.boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/prefs.php?subset=global
Leave application in memory .... to NO.

This will effect all projects though.

rosetta @ home just needs more memory, I am supprised you can live with WindowsXP with just 256Mb without running BOINC projects.

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Team mauisun.org

I have got 1Gb RAM,and Boinc has used 500Mb approx........!-_-!

Roy, with 2 CPUs, more memory is used to keep both busy.

Evgen, Rosetta memory pages are not "pinned". They will swap out just like all of your other Windows applications when Rosetta is suspended.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense