Diskless BOINC Farms

[mitchellds]

Hey Bender,
I ran into the same thing with Cosmo using BoincPe and a 1gb thumb drive. Cosmo is a hog for both memory and diskspace. I switched to a 2gb thumb drive and expanded the ram drive to 1.5gb. Even then I only able by adjusting the local boinc pref to run only 2 cores of the 4 cores on this quad cpu, due to the high memory demand. If I ran more than 2 cores, I'd get errors in the WU's sometimes that were generating.

After toying with this a bit, my conclusion is that you need more. I think a 4gb thumb with most space alloted to ramdrive would do cosmo fine on a quad. Also, as a note, I used the imdisk plugin to get the expanded ramdrive working.

As a side note, I ran other projects on this same setup, like Rosettta, Seti, WCG, etc. and they ran fine. Cosmo was the picky one due to its hog like nature.

[LeBo]

Cosmology is a memory hog...