I\'m running a 2.80 Celeron PC, 512MB RAM, XP Home Edition. I leave the machine on 24x7.

When running the slab model, I was averaging 3 trickles a day. Since receiving a sulphur model on 9/1, I\'m averaging 1 trickle a day.

In addition to the sulphur model taking twice a long to process a trickle, the BOINC client occasionally stops for no apparent reason. (Getting into the habit of checking Windoze Task Manager to make sure it is still running.)

There\'s a lot of folks out here who are NOT tech weenies and would appreciate some guidance on a) what is happening and b) how to fix it IN SIMPLE ENGLISH.

IMHO, you\'re going to lose folks who throw up their hands and silently slip into the night. No credit = no feedback (RAC) = fewer clients. The project may suffer from fewer clients.

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what BOINC client version are you using? it seems to be running better on later versions. hopefully the \"official\" boinc version will be updated soon (they have been testing 4.72 for awhile; with 5.0 just around the corner).

what BOINC client version are you using? it seems to be running better on later versions. hopefully the \"official\" boinc version will be updated soon (they have been testing 4.72 for awhile; with 5.0 just around the corner).

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I\'m running BOINC client 4.45.

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I\'m running BOINC client 4.45.

BOINC 4.45 has the habit of erroring when suspending CPDN to do benchmarks. It then will not restart CPDN after a benchmark, so it sits there.

User Chris Sutton modified 4.45 to lengthen the time of the timeout for benchmarking, and it has completely fixed this problem for several of us.

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=2921

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I\'m running a 2.80 Celeron PC, 512MB RAM, XP Home Edition. I leave the machine on 24x7.

When running the slab model, I was averaging 3 trickles a day. Since receiving a sulphur model on 9/1, I\'m averaging 1 trickle a day.

In addition to the sulphur model taking twice a long to process a trickle, the BOINC client occasionally stops for no apparent reason. (Getting into the habit of checking Windoze Task Manager to make sure it is still running.)

There\'s a lot of folks out here who are NOT tech weenies and would appreciate some guidance on a) what is happening and b) how to fix it IN SIMPLE ENGLISH.

IMHO, you\'re going to lose folks who throw up their hands and silently slip into the night. No credit = no feedback (RAC) = fewer clients. The project may suffer from fewer clients.

(Sorry for wrong post)

I am not a tech weenie either, furthermore, although my English is not too bad, it is NOT my native language, and, i was about to \"throw up my hands\" :):):)

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I\'m running a 2.8 PIV with 1GB of RAM, XP Home, and leave it on all day, too. Although I\'ve experienced a similar slowdown (2 seconds per time step to 3.25 or so), I haven\'t had the kinds of problems you\'re experiencing. I\'m running BOINC version 4.19, by the way--4.45 kept crashing, and 4.19 is running perfectly smoothly.

Michael

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I\'m running a 2.8 PIV with 1GB of RAM, XP Home, and leave it on all day, too. Although I\'ve experienced a similar slowdown (2 seconds per time step to 3.25 or so), I haven\'t had the kinds of problems you\'re experiencing. I\'m running BOINC version 4.19, by the way--4.45 kept crashing, and 4.19 is running perfectly smoothly.

Michael

I have AMD 2000+ 512 RAM 166 running 4.45B
Should i upgrade to 1024 RAM ? XP Prof Dutch; running 16 h/day

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Ken
Looks like the stopping was answered, it was the running benchmarks.

On most programs the Celeron processor runs slower than a P4, but looks like yours is doing better with CPDN. My P4 2.4 is running about 4.64 secounds on the Sulpher, you are faster, same with the Slab models. From your times it looks as if someone wants to get another system to run CPDN a Celeron is a good buy for that.

BOINC 4.45 stopped twice when for benchamrks when I started the Sulpher model but has not since then, maby yours will stop the benchmarks also.

Just remember to back up your BOINC files now and then as CPDN has a problem with louseing them should the power go out or something like that. From your results page looks like you have worked around that already.
Ray

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Keep on crunching Pizza@Home

I have AMD 2000+ 512 RAM 166 running 4.45B Should i upgrade to 1024 RAM ? XP Prof Dutch; running 16 h/day

Zonk,
SC takes about 65MB memory (with no graphics output). If you had HT Intel of dual-core (AMD or Intel), it would be twice that much. System itself may consume about 100-150 MB and depends on what services are you running (both system\'s like themes, remote desktop and many others that may be considered as redundant for many users and/or 3rd party like SW firewalls, antivirs, messangers, P2P clients...)
It also depends on what else you are doing on this machine - office machine? Game box? Audio/video station?

Generally, 512MB should be enought for common use. Having 1GB would not make CPDN running faster but compputer may run smooter when more apps running together.

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<i>phpBB forum for CPDN, all are </i><a href="http://www.climateprediction.net/board">invited</a>

@ Honza: Thx!

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