Hi all,
I'm using the new 5.4.9 on a G5 iMac and I've gotten this error message a few times since late last night. I noticed it before with an earlier version of the official manager and menubar but it never occured when I switched to MacNNs superbench BOINC.

Does anyone know what this means, whether its a problem I need to worry about and if so how to fix it?

Thanks a million.

Robert

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Hi all,
I'm using the new 5.4.9 on a G5 iMac and I've gotten this error message a few times since late last night. I noticed it before with an earlier version of the official manager and menubar but it never occured when I switched to MacNNs superbench BOINC.

Does anyone know what this means, whether its a problem I need to worry about and if so how to fix it?

For some reason the mac client is able to allocate memory, but not deallocate it - which is what you want it to do when it stops using the memory.

Yes, it's a problem. It is effectively a memory leak and eventually your client will stop processing BOINC packets until rebooted.

There is no fix - the bug is not easily reproducible by those not experiencing it, which thus far includes the BOINC for Mac developers.

See:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=23219

and

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_reply.php?thread=306

I've been having this problem for a while (since at least 5.2.8). No one's come up with a solution that's worked for me. :(

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