Which projects offer the smallest memory footprint? When running on an eight core system, 150k projects consume a full gig of memory. I'm looking for the smallest footprint projects to be able to maximize work while minimizing impact on the system. Thus far, I've found that SETI and Einstein seem to be running in the 50-60k range. Climate Prediction, Rosetta, and WCG were all pigs, coming in at the 100-160k level. What other projects have similarly small memory utilization?

Mike

Memory footprint is actually a hard metric to define. Some projects have a large virtual footprint, but the working set is pretty small, sometimes much smaller than the working set of other projects with smaller virtual footprint. Moreover, many projects have varying memory needs, going from tiny to huge even several times during its life-time.

I didn't answer your question, since the data that you want is hard to get, beyond my anecdotal observations above. But I believe that the next release of the client will address your problem by considering the system as a whole, including the memory used by projects suspended in memory.

HTH

from my personal experience: try ABC, aqua or SHA-1 - stay away from QMC and lattice. QMC-alphas are a special case - memory consumption is quite ok, but they generate huge (and i mean HUGE) loads of disk-I/O. they will fry your drives on a V8..