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I found using spacers at the feet of the notebook to have a larger air gap under the unit on a hard surface did a great job of helping cool it. Much more so than one of those "notebook coolers".

and remember that the whole project was launched, with the first standalone 'classic' applications, after Windows 98.

Yes, memory managers like Memmaker shunted aside a bunch of stuff to make a bigger memory space... That was exactly what you needed to do if all you were going to use the machine for the next few hours for was gaming. My memory is telling me that Memmaker actually used a boot floppy with a dedicated, purpose built .ini file that didn't even load anything that wasn't required for the intended application to run. Perhaps later versions of Memmaker did move things to swap from within a running Windows OS, I will not challenge you in that, just raise a mental eyebrow and wonder if we're talking about the same software. It doesn't matter in the end though.

So putting a bunch of Stuff that the OS doesn't need into swap file where it will never be accessed, exactly as you say, seems to be a win/win situation.

Also, on Windows 98, if I recall correctly, there were still effective memory manager programs designed to clean up the way that Windows allocated memory in order to allow high RAM usage applications to run faster.

Memturbo was a RAM defragmenter iirc and Memmaker was a startup application to build a memory allocation with as little waste as possible.

Has anyone tried disabling TCP fix after relocation of servers?

In last 12h i could not get GPU task, any reason for that?
When Seti come up i get normaly about 20 task, but now, 100 CPU task and no GPU task.

Does somebody know?

According to the "eeny meeny miny moe" principle. ;-)

I thought it was going to be rock, paper, scissors?

I think it may be better to buy a used gamming PC for 200$ and do 10x to 50x more.

MW also runs CreditNew - they certainly tend to run latest server version (with all the problems that entails).

A follow on question:

I switched back to running BOINC 6.10.60 because 1) my downloads were hanging which 2) kicked in the ridiculously long project backoff times in BOINC 7.X.X. The hangups have been largely eliminated by adopting the TCP fix. My transfer rates are glacial, but downloads are now consistent. For those of you running the newer BOINC Windows versions, does the TCP fix help with your backoff situation?

22/03/2013 22:47:55 rosetta@home Started download of rb_03_12_36962_70171_h002__synp_aah002_07_05.200_v1_3.gz
22/03/2013 22:54:33 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
22/03/2013 22:54:33 rosetta@home Temporarily failed download of rb_03_12_36962_70171_h002__synp_aah002_07_05.200_v1_3.gz: HTTP error
22/03/2013 22:54:35 rosetta@home Started download of rb_03_12_36962_70171_h002__synp_aah002_07_05.200_v1_3.gz
22/03/2013 22:54:38 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Once you've returned a result you should just sit back and wait. If your result is validated you will get the credit, if it isn't you won't. Just remember S@H is already looking at data that has taken years to get to us, and many cases that recording of that data is about a year old.

The idea of selecting your wingmen, either by name or by pool, has been discussed many times before. The reason its not allowed is historic, but its basis is to reduce the possibility of folks fiddling their results to enhance the credit awarded.

BTW, most of the inconclusives have nothing to do with the "dettached" or no longer active hosts,

Ha ha, I was just trying to save some people a wait. If that is a bad thing, excuse me.

Good one, that fixed it.

Is there a way to use the proxy in boinc for download only ?

I would recommend you try the fix in the Windows TCP Settings thread first.