i am running the client on a computer with susu 9.1. the computer swap memory is:
SwapTotal: 136544 kB
SwapFree: 136528 kB

however, when i check my account/computers it says that i have
swap space: 0

i re-ran the benchmarks, but it didn't fix it. the client is running very slowly (showed only 15 minutes of cpu time after running for 3 hours and 15 minutes on the computer with nothing else running). what do i need to do to fix this? thanks,
-eric

I don't think swap space is currently being checked. All of my hosts show swap size of 0 also - though they all have it.

However, something is most definately taking your cpu time. Run the command top in a terminal and it will show you what is getting what percentage of your cpu.

The output will be something like this:

[darren@platinum darren]$ top

top - 19:23:03 up 4 days, 10:48, 3 users, load average: 1.17, 1.06, 1.03
Tasks: 110 total, 2 running, 108 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 2.0% us, 0.7% sy, 97.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 904988k total, 873832k used, 31156k free, 58952k buffers
Swap: 811240k total, 9028k used, 802212k free, 506192k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28556 darren 39 19 17820 14m 2696 R 97.5 1.7 115:32.39 setiathome_3.08
2752 root 15 0 185m 53m 140m S 1.7 6.1 55:43.14 X
28787 darren 15 0 20680 12m 16m S 0.3 1.4 0:00.71 gnome-terminal
28822 darren 16 0 2172 1060 1964 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.04 top
1 root 16 0 1580 516 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.12 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.77 events/0

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As you see here, seti at the moment is getting 97.5% of my cpu. To stop it after you see what's running, just press ctrl-c. Depending upon what else is running and taking the cpu, you may or may not be able to do much about it.

> I don't think swap space is currently being checked. All of my hosts show
> swap size of 0 also - though they all have it.
>
> However, something is most definately taking your cpu time. Run the command
> top in a terminal and it will show you what is getting what percentage of your
> cpu.
>
> The output will be something like this:
>
> [darren@platinum darren]$ top
>
> top - 19:23:03 up 4 days, 10:48, 3 users, load average: 1.17, 1.06, 1.03
> Tasks: 110 total, 2 running, 108 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 2.0% us, 0.7% sy, 97.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si
> Mem: 904988k total, 873832k used, 31156k free, 58952k buffers
> Swap: 811240k total, 9028k used, 802212k free, 506192k cached
>
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 28556 darren 39 19 17820 14m 2696 R 97.5 1.7 115:32.39 setiathome_3.08
> 2752 root 15 0 185m 53m 140m S 1.7 6.1 55:43.14 X
> 28787 darren 15 0 20680 12m 16m S 0.3 1.4 0:00.71 gnome-terminal
> 28822 darren 16 0 2172 1060 1964 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.04 top
> 1 root 16 0 1580 516 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.12 init
> 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
> 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.77 events/0
>
> ---------------------
>
> As you see here, seti at the moment is getting 97.5% of my cpu. To stop it
> after you see what's running, just press ctrl-c. Depending upon what else is
> running and taking the cpu, you may or may not be able to do much about it.
>
>
> <a> href="http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=user_statistics&userid=24497">
>
>
thanks, i'll try that. my other computers run win2000 and 2000pro and the swap space shows up correctly on them.. maybe it's just a linux problem.


**edit - it was an nvidia-installer that got hung up and was taking all of the cpu time. thanks much! got it killed and boinc is now much happier.

> thanks, i'll try that. my other computers run win2000 and 2000pro and the
> swap space shows up correctly on them.. maybe it's just a linux problem.

fwiw, swap shows up correctly for my Solaris clients but not linux clients.

Cheers,
~Al

I have 446504 KB of swap space on my Linux box, but BOINC does non see it.I have 224.88 MB of RAM but BOINC sees 218.84. All other parameters are OK.

apparently linux reporting from boinc is a bit borked, I also noticed the lack of swap reporting from the linux client, as well, the time here is currently -6 UTC, and is set correctly on my linux machine....under my computers you'll see UTI -6 on both the windows XP machines, while the linux box is reporting -5...an obvious problem translating daylight savings transitions from the linux client...