On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:27:26 GMT, f/f george <george@yourplace.com>
wrote:

I currently have 17 machines running Boinc and do not have any of the
issues you are describing! On your main machine that is giving you
some trouble how much ram do you have? How did you set up Boinc to
run? As a service? I think it IS a good idea to stop Boinc for a few
days to see if it is the problem, but I would guess that you will find
that it is not. What kind of video card are you running? Do you use
the screensaver? How much free harddrive space do you have on that
machine?
You say the machine goes "bananas", what do you mean? Does it just
kind of lock up and you have to reboot because you can't do anything
with it? If so how long have you waited? How fast is the cpu?
Have you run a virus check and an anti-spyware program lately?

Hi George,

first of: machine is an AMD Athlon 1.9 Ghz, fitted with 768 mb of
DDR-400. Generally speaking, free ram as shown while machine does its
stuff is around 580 megs. 
C-drive, where Boinc sits too, shows about 8.4 gigs free out of 15.6.
I reckon Boinc runs as a service, kicking in on start-up. Preferences
are default, it runs 24/7, no limits, and SETI is its only client. No
graphics shown, I don't use the screensaver. One could say: like the
old cmd line client run thru' Seti Driver. 
Vidcard is a Geforce-4 MX440, with updated drivers, shud be no prob at
all.
The issues I'm having is: the machine feels sluggish after running for
some time. It reacts slowly, i.e. when I open up a drive, it takes too
much time before I get to see its contents. Normally I was able to run
the machine like I do for months, the only reason for restarts in fact
being a stoopid bug in Win2K, which stops pinging after somany days
running time. Best record was somewhere last year when I ran the
system for over 4 months before I needed a reboot and the only reason
I did it was because of the reason mentioned above. The system still
ran perfectly then, and fwiw, it was running Seti + Seti Driver then.
This morning I came down as usual, sat at the screen with my brekkie
and coffee, doing the regular Internet stuff: reading mail, fetching
news, checking out stuff elsewhere with another proggie meanwhile. You
open one window, then another, switch back and forth. The way I've
been running puters for say about 18 years now. While I switched from
one screen to another I noticed one app dropping out, so I tried to
fire it up again but it wouldn't appear. At that point the taskbar and
systray kept building up again, disappearing again, etc. etc. etc. No
more normal working, like the machine froze and unfroze time and time
again. Only way out was to reboot, thank Gawd WIn2K still allows for
that using the taskmanager. Win98 wud have long gone to its
bluescreen, if you know what I mean. 
The same thing happened about 2-3 days ago, I had to reboot too then.
I do have the impression that this behaviour has started since I
upgraded Boinc on this machine. 
I will run complete virus checks and antispyware here, see if it turns
up with something but like I said, running the old Boinc I didn't have
this huge problem at all. 

Louis