Too little memory or space

[Lagu]

I should run Cocmology@Home but it is impossible on my AMD64. Their server tells me I have too little memory and need an additional 199 MB. In the preferences, I have chosen 20 GB overall and 50 % usage of the disc. However, when I checked the “Message” it stands the preferences limit disk usage is to 0,47 GB. I have tried change but failed. I have 213 GB free on my Intel and 70 GB on my AMD. If I choose to 100 GB so is it more than what AMD has.

What is wrong? Can anyone give me a advice how I can get rid of that message and got 0,47 to change to a higher level?

[LeBo]

How much RAM memory do you have in the machine. Cosmology is a memory hog...
What OS are you running XP or Vista

[Lagu]

I GB of memory

[LeBo]

What OS are you running..

[Lagu]

WIN XP

[LeBo]

That should be enough RAM then, With my computer, each client being run uses about 100-140 meg of RAM

[gatekeeper53]

You might go into general prefrences and up the % of page file, % of mem when in use and % of mem when not in use. It might help.

[Lagu]

2007-11-20 11:35:17||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.28 for windows_intelx86
2007-11-20 11:35:17||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Libraries: libcurl/7.17.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Data directory: C:\Program\BOINC
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ [x86 Family 15 Model 12 Stepping 0]
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 3dnow mmx
2007-11-20 11:35:17||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Home Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Memory: 1023.48 MB physical, 2.40 GB virtual
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Disk: 76.32 GB total, 70.17 GB free
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Local time is UTC +1 hours
2007-11-20 11:35:17|proteins@home|URL: http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/; Computer ID: 28349; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-11-20 11:35:17|rosetta@home|URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID: 669425; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-11-20 11:35:17|Riesel Sieve Project|URL: http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/; Computer ID: 16098; location: home; project prefs: home
2007-11-20 11:35:17|Spinhenge@home|URL: http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/; Computer ID: 47199; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-11-20 11:35:17|Cosmology@Home|URL: http://www.cosmologyathome.org/; Computer ID: 8875; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-11-20 11:35:17|NanoHive@Home|URL: http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/; Computer ID: 10545; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-11-20 11:35:17|PrimeGrid|URL: http://www.primegrid.com/; Computer ID: 32522; location: home; project prefs: default
2007-11-20 11:35:17|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 185335; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-11-20 11:35:17|Zivis|URL: http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/; Computer ID: 2642; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-11-20 11:35:17||General prefs: from Cosmology@Home (last modified 20-Nov-2007 11:17:21)
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Host location: none
2007-11-20 11:35:17||General prefs: using your defaults
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Reading preferences override file
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 972.31MB
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1023.48MB
2007-11-20 11:35:17||Preferences limit disk usage to 0.47GB
2007-11-20 11:35:52|Cosmology@Home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 64800 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
2007-11-20 11:35:57|Cosmology@Home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
2007-11-20 11:35:57|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: No work sent
2007-11-20 11:35:57|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: There was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated.
2007-11-20 11:35:57|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: An additional 212 MB is needed.
2007-11-20 12:04:50|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: There was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated.
2007-11-20 12:04:50|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: An additional 211 MB is needed.
2007-11-20 12:04:52|Cosmology@Home|Started download of cosmo_icon.png
2007-11-20 12:04:52|Cosmology@Home|Started download of cosmo_slide_01.png
2007-11-20 12:04:54|Cosmology@Home|Finished download of cosmo_icon.png
2007-11-20 12:04:54|Cosmology@Home|Finished download of cosmo_slide_01.png
2007-11-20 12:04:54|Cosmology@Home|Started download of cosmo_slide_02.png
2007-11-20 12:04:54|Cosmology@Home|Started download of cosmo_slide_03.png
2007-11-20 12:04:57|Cosmology@Home|Finished download of cosmo_slide_02.png
2007-11-20 12:04:57|Cosmology@Home|Finished download of cosmo_slide_03.png

I can´t understand why Cosmo dont work but Rosetta does.

My preferences: Disk and memory usage
Use at most 20 GB
Leave at most 20 GB
Use at most 75% of page file
Use at most 95% of memory when in use
Use at most 100% when not in use

Can the HDD have an issue because I have notised a block was wrong and I ran chkdsk. I seems as the data have only a small surface on the HDD and the rest is blocked.

Comments? Solutions?

[Lagu]

I am confused. Cosmos server is a notorious one. The server persists and tells my AMD 64, and AMD Athlon has too little space, and yet they have a disc at 80 and 40 GB respectively. Into my preferences, I have set as follow:
Leave at most 0,001 Gbytes free (This will be ignored and managed by Boinc I think.)
Use as most 90 % of total disk space
Use at most 95% of memory when computer is in use
Use at most 99% of memory when computer is not in use

The setting is more than enough. I have tried all possible settings but to no vain. It is no fun when I always have to mess around it. I think there must be a bug because when I click on “Statistic” Cosmology show I have 2.400 points but there is no graph only a dot. I have discovered if I quiet Cosmo, remove Boinc, (the latest version) then load it again, and attach Cosmo again I got 1 WU. As son that WU is finished their server tells me I need 212 MB additional space. Very strange

On my AMD64 I have 80 GB HDD and use lesser than 10 MB of it. Should there not be enough space? On the other hand, means “space” something other than that I believe.

The only computer as not have any problem is Intel. My Intel has a disk at 230 GB and use 14.3 GB. 213 GB is free.

I can say so much as I have never had such a problem since I began crunch different project. I was hoping help our team but I failed. If I only can use one of 3 computers so is it a very large failure for me.

[mitchellds]

Hey Lagu,
I think the default boinc setting are around 100GB of disk space as found in the boinc/options/preference/disk usage . Turn is way down to something more reasonable to your setup. I.e. 500-700mb

"When I first joined I had the same problem... My computer has 30gig of space, so it wouldn't download any work. Because the phrasing of the option is so confusing I kept on trying to add more space in the preference, wondering what sort of project would use 500gigs. Only when I turned it down to less than the ammount of free space I had on my HD did it start to work."

Now, if you take into consideration that 1)most people don\'t have a 100Gb of free space and 2)all that required messing around with the settings may distract and discourage new users and 3)at the end of the day Cosmo doesn't use near that much - one wonders why that setting doesn't have a default of say, a hundred meg only.

Anyhow, preferences may be defined for up to 4 specific \"locations\". When viewing your general preferences are there any preferences shows for any of the specific locations, school, work, home? And at the very top page of the messages in the BOINC messages tab, you will see two messages such as this:

11/20/2007 2:40:09 PM||Host location: none
11/20/2007 2:40:09 PM||General prefs: using your defaults

So your computer might think it is \"home\" and use preferences for \"home\", but the preferences you reported might be for \"default\".

You could have a corrupt .xml preference file also. You could remove boinc and re-add so a new .xml preference file is created . Just a idea.