A lot of my latest tasks say "waiting for memory" for a long time. I do not understand why this happens, since most of my RAM is free, and no other task is working. They are just sitting there, saying waiting for memory. I reset the project, and they were gone because of the reset. I got another task, and it said it again. What should I do?

Review the preferences you have set in your BOINC Manager. People get confused knowing their machine has a lot of memory. But the preferences define how much you wish to allow BOINC to use. You can specific a % to use while the machine is in-use, and a % to use while idle.

Sometimes your settings leave you right in the middle where the task only has enough memory when the machine goes idle. So it only runs when you can't see it.

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the % of memory is 97% when in use. Also, what does swap space mean? can that also be a problem?

I see you have a Core 2, with 2GB of memory. So, 1GB per CPU should be plenty. I would not expect you to see the message you described if you are allowing BOINC to use most all of that memory.

Where did you set the 97%? On the website? On on the client?

Open your BOINC Manager, go to the advanced view, click the "Advanced" pulldown menu, click "Preferences...", and then click the "disk and memory usage" tab. The settings you see there are what is currently in effect for your machine. Does it say 97% as well?

Swap space is an area on your hard disk where information is placed when the applications you are running try to use more then the 2GB of available memory.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense