One 'gotcha' to be aware of:

If you are going to run more than one project under Boinc, then you should set in the user preferences:

Leave project applications in memory while activities are suspended?
(applications will always consume swap space if 'yes')    *YES*

Otherwise, a project is forced back to whatever was its last checkpoint when restarted after a preemption. Setting "yes" and so leaving the project in memory permits it to continue from the preemption point without loss of progress.


Happy crunchin',
Martin