[quote]Have 512mb on a 1.2ghz cpu with w2k. I can no longer get work units after finishing the last one.

3/4/2007 12:16:54 AM|rosetta@home|Message from server: Your preferences limit memory usage to 460.34MB, and a job requires 476.84MB
3/4/2007 12:16:54 AM|rosetta@home|Message from server: No work sent
3/4/2007 12:16:54 AM|rosetta@home|Message from server: (there was work but your computer doesn't have enough memory)

Change preferences to 95%, change pagefile to 2gb, still can not get any work.

Your prefs at 95% would be enough for 477Mb, 0.95 x 512 = 486 (now there's a nostalgic number!) so I am guessing that you have shared memory with your video card, yes? If not, I am totally confuzdled.

If so, you could go into the BIOS and reduce graphics memory to the smallest setting and see if that helped. Or possibly (used to be the case, don't know if it is still true with modern cards) there might be a program that came with the card to adjust the amount of video memory.

If BOINC's 477Mb is 477 x 1024 x 1024 then you need to get the video down to around 35Mb. If BOINC's 477 is 477 x 1000 x 1000, then that corresponds to about 454 x 1024 x 1024, and you need a video allocation < 58 Mb, or maybe 56Mb depending on rounding, etc. So either way a setting of 32Mb would show whether that is the way forward.

Remember, if you change any settings, to note what they are now, so that you can get back to where you are now if the effect on your system is too horrible...

R~~

Have 512mb on a 1.2ghz cpu with w2k. I can no longer get work units after finishing the last one.

3/4/2007 12:16:54 AM|rosetta@home|Message from server: Your preferences limit memory usage to 460.34MB, and a job requires 476.84MB
3/4/2007 12:16:54 AM|rosetta@home|Message from server: No work sent
3/4/2007 12:16:54 AM|rosetta@home|Message from server: (there was work but your computer doesn't have enough memory)

Change preferences to 95%, change pagefile to 2gb, still can not get any work.

Your prefs at 95% would be enough for 477Mb, 0.95 x 512 = 486 (now there's a nostalgic number!) so I am guessing that you have shared memory with your video card, yes? If not, I am totally confuzdled.

If so, you could go into the BIOS and reduce graphics memory to the smallest setting and see if that helped. Or possibly (used to be the case, don't know if it is still true with modern cards) there might be a program that came with the card to adjust the amount of video memory.

If BOINC's 477Mb is 477 x 1024 x 1024 then you need to get the video down to around 35Mb. If BOINC's 477 is 477 x 1000 x 1000, then that corresponds to about 454 x 1024 x 1024, and you need a video allocation < 58 Mb, or maybe 56Mb depending on rounding, etc. So either way a setting of 32Mb would show whether that is the way forward.

Remember, if you change any settings, to note what they are now, so that you can get back to where you are now if the effect on your system is too horrible...

R~~