I just started getting Rosetta Wu's this morning. I am already seeing them freeze and restart multiple times till they finally make it to 10% or so. Is this a known problem or could it be my pc. I am running Win 7 64-bit, 8 megabytes ram, 1T Hard drive, 50G allocated to Boinc

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I would guess it's due to one of three settings in Boinc Manager:

In "disk and memory usage" do you have "Leave applications in memory while suspended" checked?

In that same tab, what do you have under "Memory usage... Use at most xx% when computer is in use"

In "processor usage" is "While computer is in use" checked?

Danny

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I would guess it's due to one of three settings in Boinc Manager:

In "disk and memory usage" do you have "Leave applications in memory while suspended" checked?

In that same tab, what do you have under "Memory usage... Use at most xx% when computer is in use"

In "processor usage" is "While computer is in use" checked?

Danny

Leave applications in memory while suspended... No

Use at most 50% when computer is in use.

Yes... while computer is in use.

Would you recommend me changing any of those settings?

Yes - I'd recommend changing "Leave applications in memory" to checked.

That means that if BOINC Manager decides to pause a task, it'll get pushed out to the page-file if necessary, but you won't lose the progress from the last checkpoint when it resumes.

HTH
Danny

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1 picture is worth a million words.
Those symptoms seem to be the default "suspending BOINC activity when CPU usage is above 25%" and "not leaving applications in RAM when suspended".
This causes the WU to suspend everytime the CPU usage is above 25% (like when opening word, chrome, WMP... etc) without checkpointing in time and "resetting".
If you allow the WU to run uninterrupted (but still under the lowest priority possible, as to not disturb normal PC operations), you'll avoid this. By checking "leave application in memory", you'll also avoid having to lose some work when you suspend BOINC to render something or play some 3D games... etc.

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