I have not seen any of this. I am running 3 WU at a time on a triple core amd machine with 4 GB of ram. Granted I am running a raid 0 setup with average read/write speed of about 250 MB/s. The WU do take 10 to 15 seconds to start, but I can use the computer just fine during that time.

I think WCG has done a lot to facilitate some recent projects that don'€™t fit the mythical set and crunch idealism. Even with this effort I lost a couple of GPU tasks, probably as a result of a CEP2 task starting up at a bad time; just happened to have the wrong mix of heavy RAM tasks running -€“ it'€™s one thing choosing to run 3 or 4 different WCG projects along with one or two lightweight non-WCG projects, but what Boinc decides to download and run at any given time is still a game of chance. Anyway, it adds to the experience, and helps you appreciate when things are working well.

Hmm I thought this was common with CEP2 or I'd have asked earlier!

Looking at settings, I bumped up my VM settings. BOINC startup follows. Thanks!

I only run one CEP2 unit at a time; the other 3 cores are running other WCG projects.
12/29/2010 00:38:24 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_intelx86
12/29/2010 00:38:24 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
12/29/2010 00:38:24 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3

12/29/2010 00:38:24 Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 7]
12/29/2010 00:38:24 Processor: 6.00 MB cache
12/29/2010 00:38:24 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx smx tm2 pbe
12/29/2010 00:38:24 OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
12/29/2010 00:38:24 Memory: 3.25 GB physical, 5.09 GB virtual
12/29/2010 00:38:24 Disk: 921.69 GB total, 686.87 GB free
12/29/2010 00:38:24 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 9800 GT (driver version 18618, CUDA version 2020, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 339 GFLOPS peak)
12/29/2010 00:38:24 World Community Grid URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 723164; resource share 8000
12/29/2010 00:38:24 World Community Grid General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 19-Nov-2010 23:17:30)
12/29/2010 00:38:24 World Community Grid Computer location: home
12/29/2010 00:38:24 World Community Grid General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
12/29/2010 00:38:24 Reading preferences override file
12/29/2010 00:38:24 Preferences:
12/29/2010 00:38:24 max memory usage when active: 2494.05MB
12/29/2010 00:38:24 max memory usage when idle: 2992.86MB
12/29/2010 00:38:24 max disk usage: 40.00GB
12/29/2010 00:38:24 max CPUs used: 4
12/29/2010 00:38:24 don't use GPU while active
12/29/2010 00:38:24 max upload rate: 86016 bytes/sec
12/29/2010 00:38:24 (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
12/29/2010 00:38:24 Not using a proxy

That's it.
Edit: Running down my small cache of DDDT-2 now before letting CEP2 back in. Was reminded last night when I forced the one beta I got to start up and watched it happen again. Will see what happens with more VM.

Hi all,
Actually I had something similar happening at my end as well. Looking at the thread I decided to add the same option to my cc_config.xml file as well.
Hence went to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration , realized it option, changed my cc_config.xml file to reflect the same.

$ sudo leafpad /etc/boinc-client/cc_config.xml
<!--
This is the configuration file cc_config.xml of the BOINC core client.
For a complete list of all available options and logging flags and their
meaning see: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ClientMessages
-->
<cc_config>
  <options>
  <save_stats_days>60</save_stats_days>
  <start_delay>90seconds</start_delay>
  </options>
  <log_flags>
    <task>1</task>
    <file_xfer>1</file_xfer>
    <sched_ops>0</sched_ops>

    <cpu_sched>0</cpu_sched>
    <cpu_sched_debug>0</cpu_sched_debug>
    <rr_simulation>0</rr_simulation>
    <debt_debug>0</debt_debug>
    <task_debug>0</task_debug>
    <work_fetch_debug>0</work_fetch_debug>
    <unparsed_xml>0</unparsed_xml>
    <state_debug>0</state_debug>
    <file_xfer_debug>0</file_xfer_debug>
    <sched_op_debug>0</sched_op_debug>
    <http_debug>0</http_debug>
    <proxy_debug>0</proxy_debug>
    <time_debug>0</time_debug>
    <http_xfer_debug>0</http_xfer_debug>
    <benchmark_debug>1</benchmark_debug>
    <poll_debug>0</poll_debug>
    <guirpc_debug>0</guirpc_debug>
    <scrsave_debug>0</scrsave_debug>
    <app_msg_send>0</app_msg_send>
    <app_msg_receive>0</app_msg_receive>
    <mem_usage_debug>0</mem_usage_debug>
    <network_status_debug>0</network_status_debug>
    <checkpoint_debug>1</checkpoint_debug>
  </log_flags>
</cc_config>

Then asked BOINC to read , btw my boinc is at 6.10.58

$ boinc --version
6.10.58 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

I did see that this feature has been put in BOINC in v 6.1.6 .
On running/parsing the BOINC client 6.10.58 I got the following error :-

Tuesday 18 January 2011 03:29:08 AM IST		Re-reading cc_config.xml
Tuesday 18 January 2011 03:29:08 AM IST		Unrecognized tag in cc_config.xml: <start_delay>
Tuesday 18 January 2011 03:29:08 AM IST		Re-read config file
Tuesday 18 January 2011 03:29:08 AM IST		Config: GUI RPC allowed from:
Tuesday 18 January 2011 03:29:08 AM IST		log flags: file_xfer, task, benchmark_debug, checkpoint_debug

Please let me know where I am going wrong with the above ?

oh ok, my bad. did the correction, now no issues.