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Message 119748 - Posted: 22 Jul 2026, 18:10:44 UTC
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I have 2 nvidia RTX 5050 cards and they crunch boinc.One card sits idle saying “waiting for swap space”. My swap is 32 gig, no programs are currently using any swap at all. i turned off hibernate and sleep. i have 32 Gig of DRAM and my motherboard is an ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z790 HERO with an i9-13900KF I also see this on an i9-9900 with 2 different cards. Both PC's are running Milkyway@home and Einstein@home. I think this began fairly recently
oh:
# free
               total       used       free         shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        32594652     4079576    21481716       56228     7533160    28515076
Swap:       32599104           0    32599104

Can anyone point me to a solution?
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Message 119749 - Posted: 22 Jul 2026, 20:16:16 UTC - in response to Message 119748.  

If you are running Linux read through the GitHub BOINC bug tracker (still in progress) for
Waiting for swap space limits running tasks on Linux
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Once a new release with the fix is released, this should resolve the problem.
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