Posts by Soulfly

1) Message boards : Number crunching : 2 graphic cards, 8 gig of system memory and a huge pagefile... (Message 1293) Posted 8 Nov 2019 by Soulfly Post: Just out of curiosity; what are your BOINC preferences settings for memory usage? That is quite a bit of wear on the SSD, although from my experience they usually go well past their TBW lifespan before any serious errors develop. I've got a 60GB OCZ Vertex 3 from 2011 with over 180TBW in one of my BOINC-only systems and (if I recall correctly) the warranty was for 75TBW. A few bad blocks, but nothing showstopping :) I set the memory usage to 95%/95%. The result is that the computer becomes very irresponsive when the tables are read into memory. In other words it was crunching and nothing else. I doubt i will ever wear a SSD down, reaching or exeeding the TBW lifespan. So far i've only lost 2 SSD's due to the SATAFIRM 11 issue that can happen with SSD's with the Phison 11 controller. Exeeding TBW by more than 100% and still going strong is quite good value for the money :) Br Fred
2) Message boards : Number crunching : 2 graphic cards, 8 gig of system memory and a huge pagefile... (Message 1291) Posted 7 Nov 2019 by Soulfly Post: Well - obviously not an ideal solution, but it turned out to be quite productive taking the circumstances into consideration. The rig - https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/show_host_detail.php?hostid=82195. A Q9400 stock speed with 8G DDR3 800 MHz system memory, 2 HD7950 1GHz with 3G DDR5 and a 120G Kingston A400 SSD. Letting 2 cores availible to feed the gpu's when needed and setting the pagefile manually to max at 30G, turned out to work. What i did'nt expect was the wear, or regular punishment of the SSD. 100 hrs of crunching took 3% of the estimated lifetime according to hwinfo. The A400 120G has a 40TBW lifespan, so it is'nt that big a surprise, but i comparison to around 10 days of crunching took more than a couple of years of light desktop use(!) Besides delivering a lot of heat and consuming electricity accordingly, it was a fun exercise to realize old equipment in a somewhat competetive way.