Terry wrote:
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Thanks for your input. I doubt that I am running out of ram as I have
1gb of ram installed and no other applications running.

Then the only other idea is that you're on Windows and that you've got some anti-virus software going nuts about the Boinc directories changing and being updated regularly. Exclude those folders from scanning?

Or have you got the old "file indexing" enabled...

Good luck,
Martin