Too little memory or space

[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.

[PoorBoy]

Below is how I set up my Disk and Memory Preferences for all the BOINC Projects and it has served me very well. Notice the Use at most Preference is set to 100 Gbytes, hardly any of my Hard Drives are actually 100 GB's, some are as small as 36 GB but I still get work.

I think the next 2 Preferences actually Over-ride the First one unless you do really have a 100 GB Hard Drive. Thats the only reason I can think of why I get work when my Drives aren't 100 GB's. Anyway you can try these settings and see if they work for you, if they don't then do as Mitchelld's says and try a setting smaller than what your Hard Drives really are ... Good Luck


Use at most = 100 Gbytes
Leave @ least = 0.001 Gbytes free
Use @ most = 90% of total disk space
Write to disk @ most every = 60 seconds
Use @ most = 90% of page file (swap space)
Use @ most 95% of memory when computer is in use
Use @ most 99% of memory when computer is not in use

[gatekeeper53]

Congrats Poorboy on hitting 3,000,000 that's a lot of crunching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lagu]

Thank you mitchellds and PoorBoy,

You are right. Most peoples have not 100 GB of free disc space. I have on my new Intel C2D because I not download any music’s or movies. I had chosen more space than I had on my AMD 64. I have 70 MB free and choose 100 GB, an impossible combination. Yes new users as for example not have a team and is forced experiment with Boinc preferences can end either with a solution by themselves or a fail. I agree they should have a default setting or there should be a written notice how much memory and space their WU really need.

I had 2 preferences, home and general as I think they had different settings. I have corrected that and at least I got work. I have changed “Use at most disk space” to 0.5 GB. However, I also removed Boinc and installed it again. I downloaded their newest Agent yesterday. It was a while since I ran Boinc so I have forgotten how to manage the preferences.

I do not like the fact all my computers as run Boinc change settings when I change my preferences. For example if I change my preferences by my AMD I should choose 1 core but if I make that my Intel gets I core too but should have 2. That mean I must choose 2 cores even if I only have 1. However, it works well yet.

I have copy our settings PoorBoy. Seems work. Their WU´s is huge, from 113-177 MB.

[PoorBoy]

Congrats Poorboy on hitting 3,000,000 that's a lot of crunching!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Terry, at least somebody bothered to notice ...

[vaughan]

Woot! PoorBoy I just noticed now.

Congratulations.

That is a mighty fine piece of crunching there.

[Lagu]

My apologies for not discover your exploit. I was too engaged on my own mess with Cosmo so I did not discover you had crossed the 3.000.000 barrier. I can tell you are a mush valuable member as always help our team hold a high spirit and avoid us decrease our productivity. A very good effort and well done PoorBoy.

[Lagu]

Yesterday I got Cosmo to work. When I checked Boinc agent earlier this morning 1 Wu was done. Then the old problem was there where their server told me it needs 212 MB more. I tried some more settings but to no vain. I decide to remove Boinc and reinstall it and after that, I got more work. Only one as I always did. I read in the forum how other members can receive a lot of WU’s at once. How can I do that? What should I write in the preferences?

[LeBo]

Go to network activity and put it to connect about 3 to 4 days with a 2 day buffer..

[Bender10]

Come on PoorBoy. We will all notice eventually...

Congratulations!!