
Installed BOINC completely on a Ramdisk in order to spare it from thrashing my Solid State Drive with continuous writes during the Clean Energy Project World Community Grid is hosting. I did this on a computer with 16GB RAM, so I had plenty to spare for a 4GB Ramdisk. The plus side .... * BOINC totally on Ramdisk won't read/write to SSD at all The down-side... * Because of the way I set it up, if I reboot my comp or have power failure, projects currently running and standing by are lost. This means the project servers will time them out when their deadlines show up, since there's no abort command sent to do so prematurely * When comp is powered on fresh, you have to manually tell BOINC to start accepting new work units for your projects again ... have to do that each time your comp boots ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steps: 1) setup Ramdisk (with all files, folders, etc you want on it each time it boots/loads) 2) Install BOINC on Ramdisk (both exe and data folders for BOINC should be on Ramdisk) 3) Open BOINC, and get it setup with your logins, projects you participate in, preferences (eg: network activity, cpu usage, etc), and get it going on a few work units to test out if needed 4) tell BOINC to stop accepting new tasks for your project(s), abort all projects in your queue, and manually force an update so it will completely clean out its work queue 5) With BOINC in a clean-slate state, save your Ramdisk image profile to your SSD. This image will get loaded as your Ramdisk each time <b>...</b>
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