I have my time split 2:1 between World Community Grid and SETI. My WCG projects are set to Aids, Cancer and Proteome. Virtually always, it runs the Aids project.

Suddenly today, my hard disk started grinding away, slowing down my computer. Turns out it was the Cancer project, which is the first time I've noticed it. Every few hours it does this and then stops after a couple of minutes (that is, it's just processing the data packet without monopolizing my hard disk or CPU). I've never noticed the Aids project doing this, so I'm puzzled why the Cancer project is.

Is there something about the Cancer project that is notably different that would explain why it does this? Is there a way I can make it behave? I find it very annoying and distracting. If I can't get it to stop taking over my computer every few hours, I'll have to reconsider whether to continue with that project, which would be a shame.

I'm running on Win/XP-Pro SP2 with 2GB RAM on a 48GB drive that currently has 28GB free and have a max of 15GB disk space allocated. I'm running BOINC 5.4.11 and I see 5.8.8 is out now, but I'm reluctant to install software that's so new before the worst of the bugs are worked out.

Thanks for any suggestions or explanations.

Starhugger

You'll probably be best off asking this over at WCG forums.

It's a question about their science application, not the BOINC software.

But from what I remember of WCG, some of their science apps are very memory intensive. You're probably swapping stuff in and out of RAM like crazy.

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Kathryn :o)

You'll probably be best off asking this over at WCG forums.

It's a question about their science application, not the BOINC software.

But from what I remember of WCG, some of their science apps are very memory intensive. You're probably swapping stuff in and out of RAM like crazy.

Thanks Kathryn. I'll try there. Yes, according to Windows Task Manager this packet takes up around 200MB in memory! I don't remember what the Aids packets took up, but I don't remember seeing numbers like that. Thanks for replying.

SH