Hi everyone
there is a suggestion to make:
it would be a lot faster to create a ram drive and run boinc from there, that would give us at least 20% faster computing!!
any ideas about??
thnx in advance
stathis

I don't think that boinc would run a lot faster on a ram drive, since it's more CPU intensive than it is accessing memory...
But even if one were to gain only a few percent, I think that there would be several people interrested since just a few extra cobblestones would mean a lot to some of us ;-)

The hardest thing to overcome with that idea, would be when you're powering the PC down - The data from the memery would need to be written to the disc, or be lost forever...

There is another thing you could do, which is more or less the same:
Under your preferences, there is a setting controlling how often Boinc/Seti will access the harddrive: General preferences > Write to disk at most every xyz seconds.

By setting this setting very high (600 seconds equals 10 minz) Boinc will load sufficient data in the mermory, and only write it to disc every 10 minutes. The downside is, that if you have a crash, or power outtage you could lose as much as 10 minutes (or higher, depending on the setting) worth of work.

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