Boinc requires 64 meg of ram free AFTER the OS loads, not counting
space for the workunits.

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:19:32 -0000, gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston)
wrote:

Greetings;

 I'm in the process of rebuilding my farm, which I plan to set
up with all the dedicated crunchers having no local drives at 
all, simply booting from a server. This approach requires creating
a ramdisk to use as the root Linux filesystem.

 I've found a good article on doing this at:

	http://frank.harvard/edu/~/coldwell

and plan to model my setup on this. One of the issues that he mentions
is memory usage; there needs to be a minimum of 64MB for the root
filesystem, plus some for the application (BOINC and S@h in this case)
and whatever workspace the application needs.

 So, if anyone can tell me what the total memory requirement for the
Linux kernel, BOINC, S@h, and workspace is, I can start getting the
extra memory together and install it as I prep each of the nodes.

 Thanks,


 Gary