Rosetta@home shows 1.58 GB being usage. The Rosetta project shows, but there are no tasks being used or listed. So how do I get rid on that disk space or have Rosetta to using it? I do have that project set to allow more tasks.

In reply to Rumrunner46's message of 31 Jan 2025:

Rosetta@home shows 1.58 GB being usage. The Rosetta project shows, but there are no tasks being used or listed. So how do I get rid on that disk space or have Rosetta to using it? I do have that project set to allow more tasks.

There are close on 2 millionRosetta tasks available to process at the moment so you should be getting them.

How much memory do you have free and allocated to Boinc?

As an aside, as far as I know, and you may already know, the 1.5 GB in use is a database that is downloaded for use by tasks, and stays so it isn't downloaded fresh every time.

If you're planning on not crunching Rosetta tasks (in the short term), you can select it and choose "Reset Project" to free up the space, or detaching from Rosetta altogether. Otherwise you can set it to allow task and hope you get some of the ones in the work queue.

The status page has two sections for available tasks: one is what's being actively released, and the other, larger number (usually listed in the upper right) I think is a total number that the project will 'eventually' want analyzed.

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I have 1.7 GB being used by BOINC, and 98.30 GB free for BOINC.

There's 'use up to XX%', and 'leave at least YY free'. Any conflict?

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In reply to JLDun's message of 1 Feb 2025:

There's 'use up to XX%', and 'leave at least YY free'. Any conflict?

BOINC will use whichever is most restrictive so if using XX% would mean less than YY free then "Leave at least YY free" would overrule it.

I don't see any conflict. Thanks

Thanks. I did not know that 1.5 GB was just a database. I thought it was tasks to be run.

I have Rosetta set to get new tasks, but this is what happens when I click on update. The following is reported in my event log.
2/1/2025 1:23:59 PM | | Preferences:
2/1/2025 1:23:59 PM | | max memory usage when active: 16244.74 MB
2/1/2025 1:23:59 PM | | max memory usage when idle: 29240.53 MB
2/1/2025 1:24:00 PM | | max disk usage: 100.00 GB
2/1/2025 1:24:00 PM | | max CPUs used: 18
2/1/2025 1:24:00 PM | | (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
2/1/2025 1:24:28 PM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
2/1/2025 1:24:31 PM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2/1/2025 1:24:31 PM | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; AMD/ATI GPU: )
2/1/2025 1:24:32 PM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
2/1/2025 1:24:32 PM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds

2/1/2025 1:24:31 PM | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; AMD/ATI GPU: )

Are you running other projects?
What are your cache settings?
Are you using a manager like Science United?

Right now I'm running 5 projects, but I have had as many as 8 projects. And I am using Science United. Where do I increase my cache value?

I am using Science United

I don't use SU personally, so I don't know if there's a way to do it through the (SU) website, but I know the BOINC program has some setting you can change "locally", that can override web-based preferences. I'm not certain that it will actually do so when connected through SU- again, I don't use it and am attached to each project "as myself". (One thing I've picked up is that each project will see you as SU, so you won't be registered to do things like posting, under your own 'name'. At least that's the impression I have from reading certain other posts, elsewhere.)

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I have 32 GB of memory of which 18 is being used. If you're talking about disk space, then I have 432 GB free, and I've allocated 100 GB for BOINC.

In reply to Rumrunner46's message of 1 Feb 2025:

Right now I'm running 5 projects, but I have had as many as 8 projects. And I am using Science United. Where do I increase my cache value?

You need a smaller cache- if you run with more than one project, you're better off with no cache at all. 0.05 days and 0.01 additional days is plenty.
The bigger the cache, the longer it takes for work already in the cache to clear before you can do work for another project that may have had no work when the cached filled up on projects that did have work at the time.

And as far as what project you run or don't run- that is up to Science United to decide. If you want to control which projects you do and if some get more processing time than others, then you need to detach from Science United & attach to each project you want to do using the BOINC Manager.

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Grant
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Thank you very much for your assistance. I will try lowering the cache.

I've lowered my cache (I think), but still get the message below"
2/4/2025 6:04:35 PM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
2/4/2025 6:04:38 PM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2/4/2025 6:04:38 PM | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; AMD/ATI GPU: )
2/4/2025 6:04:39 PM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
2/4/2025 6:04:39 PM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds

Let some of your other tasks return, then check again.

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In reply to Rumrunner46's message of 5 Feb 2025:

I've lowered my cache (I think), but still get the message below"
2/4/2025 6:04:35 PM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user
2/4/2025 6:04:38 PM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
2/4/2025 6:04:38 PM | Rosetta@home | Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; AMD/ATI GPU: )
2/4/2025 6:04:39 PM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed
2/4/2025 6:04:39 PM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds

As JLDun said, allow what you have already got in your cache to be processed.

Until then, BOINC won't download more work as your cache setting is now smaller. But once the existing cache has been reduced, then it will start getting work again- however, being under Science United, there's no guarantee you'll get work form Rosetta (and there have been issues there for some months now with people being allocated work, but unable to download it due to problems with one or more of the download servers security certificates, requiring an entry in the affected system's hosts file).

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Grant
Darwin NT.