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Dirk Broer

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Message 955 - Posted: 1 Jul 2026, 14:18:44 UTC

My tasks come to standstill with "Waiting for swap space" all of a sudden.
Same system worked without error before.
Installing ZRAM didn't help either.

BOINC version 8.2.14
RAM 31.14 GB
Cache 6144 KB
Virtual memory 19.57 GB
Total disk space 915.53 GB
Free disk space 559.7 GB
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Message 960 - Posted: 19 Jul 2026, 23:20:37 UTC - in response to Message 955.  
Last modified: 19 Jul 2026, 23:21:21 UTC

My tasks come to standstill with "Waiting for swap space" all of a sudden.
Same system worked without error before.
Installing ZRAM didn't help either.

BOINC version 8.2.14
RAM 31.14 GB
Cache 6144 KB
Virtual memory 19.57 GB
Total disk space 915.53 GB
Free disk space 559.7 GB


Some further system details:
CPU: Intel N100
Level 1 cache size 4 x 64 KB instruction caches, 4 x 32 KB data caches
Level 2 cache size 2 MB
Level 3 cache size 6 MB
Extensions & Technologies
MMX instructions
SSE / Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSE2 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
SSE3 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
SSSE3 / Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
SSE4 / SSE4.1 + SSE4.2 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 4
AES / Advanced Encryption Standard instructions
AVX / Advanced Vector Extensions
AVX2 / Advanced Vector Extensions 2.0
BMI / BMI1 + BMI2 / Bit Manipulation instructions
Deep Learning Boost
F16C / 16-bit Floating-Point conversion instructions
FMA3 / 3-operand Fused Multiply-Add instructions
Gaussian Neural Accelerator 3.0
GFNI / Galois Field New Instructions
SHA / Secure Hash Algorithm extensions
EM64T / Extended Memory 64 technology / Intel 64
TBT 2.0 / Turbo Boost technology 2.0
VT-x / Virtualization technology
VT-d / Virtualization for directed I/O
Security Features NX / XD / Execute disable bit
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Message 961 - Posted: 23 Jul 2026, 17:00:20 UTC - in response to Message 955.  

gaia@home will not work with boinc 8.2.14.
Go back to 8.2.13.
8.2.15 not tested so far.
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