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Message 43113 - Posted: 18 Mar 2012, 19:40:08 UTC

Recently, I'll occasionally find that my computer is lagging, and I check task manager. The culprit has consistently been BOINC, even though I set up its options so as to suspend all tasks when the computer is in use. Is this a bug, and how can I stop it? Here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/NMlbh.png
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Message 43114 - Posted: 18 Mar 2012, 21:58:10 UTC - in response to Message 43113.  

Setting preferences to suspend tasks when the computer is in use does not automatically unload the tasks from memory when BOINC suspends them. Check first and foremost that you do not have "Leave applications in memory when suspended" checked. Check this for the web-preferences, and for the local preferences, which override the web-preferences.



The other case where tasks stay in memory is when they have just started to run, but haven't checkpointed yet before BOINC suspended them.
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