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Message 58382 - Posted: 2 Jan 2009, 20:14:43 UTC

Hello,

i got 16 gigs of ram

is there a way to use it more effectively with BOINC?

thanks
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Message 58400 - Posted: 3 Jan 2009, 2:24:25 UTC - in response to Message 58382.  

I think Rosetta is currently a 32-bit application so each Work Unit is limited to 4GB of RAM. Most WUs only use about 150MB - 200MB.

If you have about 32 active cores in your system, you might start to utilize some of that RAM.

Good Luck and keep crunching!
Thx!

Paul

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