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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.  
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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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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
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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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Message 1016 - Posted: 12 Sep 2026, 19:27:09 UTC - in response to Message 955.  

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


My distro made me update to 8.2.15: same behaviour
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Message 1017 - Posted: 14 Sep 2026, 2:11:14 UTC - in response to Message 1016.  

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


My distro made me update to 8.2.15: same behaviour


This happened at Einstein too because the tasks used too much back and forth data transfers and the ram couldn't keep up. The idea is not MORE ram but IS FASTER ram. We solved it by running fewer tasks at one time, but you like us probably are running multiple tasks which will be 'suspended but kept in memory' so until every running AND partly run suspended tasks the problem will continue.
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