Thanks Eagle - I think we've hit on the same solution but by very different means! I messed around with dozens of setting combinations and eventually decided to completely delete BOINC and reinstall. This of course would have the same effect as your suggestion (albeit a little more clumsy!)

I can't be 100% sure everything is sorted yet but a) siti@home is happily computing away (but it always did). b) climateprediction is waiting for another 12 hours because apparently it's already exceeded the daily allocation of results (huh?)

28/05/2007 7:30:28 p.m.|climateprediction.net|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 1 results)
28/05/2007 7:30:28 p.m.|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication for 11 hr 37 min 37 sec


So by tomorrow night I will be able to advise whether the sledgehammer method also works.

Thanks Eagle! Whammo, it started downloading Rosetta workunits after I deleted the local prefs override.

Finally...at last....climateprediction is "ready to start".

I didn't have a global_prefs_overwrite file but I did have a global_prefs.xml file so I took a chance and deleted that. I restarted BOINC and hey presto, all the silly messages stopped and the download started.

I've also been plagued by checksum errors downloading climateprediction. I searched the Bulletin boards and found someone else with the same problem. Seems the CA Firewall causes these! I disabled it before I deleted the global_prefs.xml file and the downloads were perfect.

Unfortunately I guess I'll run into the checksum problem every time I need new work from climateprediction.net Strangely this is not a problem with seti@home.

Thanks to everyone who has chipped in with suggestions over the past month!!

The global_prefs.xml file holds all the preferences that you write to disk when you save your preferences on a project's website and update on that project in Boinc_Manager. So now you do not have any preferences, just the general ones from BOINC.

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Understood. I didn't make any profound setting changes anyway so I guess the defaults will be OK. Once things are settled I'll go back in and see if there's anything I want to change again.

By the way climateprediction has been running for 1hr 15mins with a mere 4,968hrs to go!! SUCCESS!

Hello.. This is my first post here, I hope I'm posting in the right place. Well, straight to business:

I can't run rosetta@home at all; It gives me the following messages:

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14.4.2007 21:47:46|rosetta@home|Message from server: No work sent
14.4.2007 21:47:46|rosetta@home|Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
14.4.2007 21:47:46|rosetta@home|Message from server: Not enough disk space (only 82.6 MB free for BOINC). Review preferences for minimum disk free space allowed.

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Now, I've tried setting resource share up - didn't help. I tried setting more available space, from 1GB to 2GB, but clearly, it isn't using even that much.

I tried to set it manually from prefences on my computer, with no results. It worked fine for a long time but then the issue just came up out of nowhere.

Can you help me? Is there any other way to allocate more disk-space to BOINC and/or separate projects? It's a little odd to me that you can't configure it straight from the program settings either..
Oh, and as it propably is clear but yeah I run seti@home too, rosetta isn't my only project. But as said, there was no problems earlier with this.

Anyway, thanks for any response in advance.

For what it's worth, I am running Linux (Kubuntu 7.04) and 5.9.5 of BOINC. I have a total of 10 partitions on 2 drives, BOINC runs off my home drive, a 20 GB partition off my SATA drive of 320 GB, the rest available for the server exceptt for the boot partition. The other drives contain other distros and a backup drive. The reason I am telling you all this is that my system is also saying I have no space, even though df says I have 85% of my drive free. BTW, I have been fighting a world of problems with SETI, Rosetta and MalariaControl since I restarted my computer after installing Kubuntu. 6.10 worked fine, butrolling back is a huge issue.

Anyway the machine, BigBertha, has an AMD 64X2 4200+ processor in an ASUS M2N-SLIDeluxe motherboard, running with a fan (I don't trust Cool'nQuiet thank you very much. I have 2 GB of RAM nd, as I said,2 hard drives, one SATA and an old IDE drive which I am watching like a hawk with lm-sensors. I have an NVidia 7600 GT video card and an MSI Digital@nywhere ATSC TV card. I am using a Logitech S510 desktop (with lousy drivers, dropping stuff all over the place).
I can continue, but that pretty much describes the good bits, I also have USB based Bluetooth, wireless, etc,

Can anyone tell me what the h**l is going on before I trash the whole thing? Some of these are dear to my heart (SETI, I have been with since Adam was in short pants and my daughter is a malaria researcher, so...)

Thaks in advance,

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I just want to die in peace and dignity, surrounded by my all friends, jst like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

Hello.. This is my first post here, I hope I'm posting in the right place. Well, straight to business:

I can't run rosetta@home at all; It gives me the following messages:

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14.4.2007 21:47:46|rosetta@home|Message from server: No work sent
14.4.2007 21:47:46|rosetta@home|Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
14.4.2007 21:47:46|rosetta@home|Message from server: Not enough disk space (only 82.6 MB free for BOINC). Review preferences for minimum disk free space allowed.

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Now, I've tried setting resource share up - didn't help. I tried setting more available space, from 1GB to 2GB, but clearly, it isn't using even that much.

I tried to set it manually from prefences on my computer, with no results. It worked fine for a long time but then the issue just came up out of nowhere.

Can you help me? Is there any other way to allocate more disk-space to BOINC and/or separate projects? It's a little odd to me that you can't configure it straight from the program settings either..
Oh, and as it propably is clear but yeah I run seti@home too, rosetta isn't my only project. But as said, there was no problems earlier with this.

Anyway, thanks for any response in advance.

For what it's worth, I am running Linux (Kubuntu 7.04) and 5.9.5 of BOINC. I have a total of 10 partitions on 2 drives, BOINC runs off my home drive, a 20 GB partition off my SATA drive of 320 GB, the rest available for the server exceptt for the boot partition. The other drives contain other distros and a backup drive. The reason I am telling you all this is that my system is also saying I have no space, even though df says I have 85% of my drive free. BTW, I have been fighting a world of problems with SETI, Rosetta and MalariaControl since I restarted my computer after installing Kubuntu. 6.10 worked fine, butrolling back is a huge issue.

Anyway the machine, BigBertha, has an AMD 64X2 4200+ processor in an ASUS M2N-SLIDeluxe motherboard, running with a fan (I don't trust Cool'nQuiet thank you very much. I have 2 GB of RAM nd, as I said,2 hard drives, one SATA and an old IDE drive which I am watching like a hawk with lm-sensors. I have an NVidia 7600 GT video card and an MSI Digital@nywhere ATSC TV card. I am using a Logitech S510 desktop (with lousy drivers, dropping stuff all over the place).
I can continue, but that pretty much describes the good bits, I also have USB based Bluetooth, wireless, etc,

Can anyone tell me what the h**l is going on before I trash the whole thing? Some of these are dear to my heart (SETI, I have been with since Adam was in short pants and my daughter is a malaria researcher, so...)

Thaks in advance,

I just realized I am missing a 0 (like I said, lousy driver). My home drive is 200 GB, not 20 GB, not that it makes a whole lot of difference

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I just want to die in peace and dignity, surrounded by my all friends, jst like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

Hi,

A few questions for you:

* Could you copy-and-paste your disk space settings here?

* Could you check to see if you have a global_prefs_overwrite.xml file?

* How much disk space is used by Boinc / used by other stuff / free on that particular drive?

* Where and how big is your paging file?

It's worthwhile having a read through the contents of this thread.

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Hi,

A few questions for you:

* Could you copy-and-paste your disk space settings here?

* Could you check to see if you have a global_prefs_overwrite.xml file?

* How much disk space is used by Boinc / used by other stuff / free on that particular drive?

* Where and how big is your paging file?

It's worthwhile having a read through the contents of this thread.

Using BOINC Manager, the following numbers are shown: (the new gui does not allow for cut&paste)
Use at mot 10 GB disk space
Leave at most 0.1 GB disk space free
Use at most 50% of toal disk space
Write to disk at most every 60 seconds
Use at most 75% of ag file (swap space)
Memory Usage:
Use at most 50% wen computer is in use
Use at most 90% when computer is idle

BTW, I am not sure if I made this perfectly clear (I am starting to sound like Nixon), but the pie chart on the Disk tab shows I have 0 disk space free, even though df (and other tests) all show me wth over 150 GB free. It shows 66.8 MB used by BOINC, 66.8 MB used by other programs and nothing left. However, in a few minutes that will change. The ratio stays pretty constant but the numbers can sway anywhere from what is shown, to 2/3 of it or less. That is the weird part. Up until that point everything was odd but that puts it WA-A-A-Y out there. BOINC appears to be getting file stats info from someplace other than where df gets it, obviously!

If I have to, I will break down and do a new install (it won't be the first time, I can assure you. I have space for about 8 different distros!). I don't lose any work done, but may lose work in hand.

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I just want to die in peace and dignity, surrounded by my all friends, jst like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

Hi,

A few questions for you:

* Could you copy-and-paste your disk space settings here?

* Could you check to see if you have a global_prefs_overwrite.xml file?

* How much disk space is used by Boinc / used by other stuff / free on that particular drive?

* Where and how big is your paging file?

It's worthwhile having a read through the contents of this thread.

Using BOINC Manager, the following numbers are shown: (the new gui does not allow for cut&paste)
Use at mot 10 GB disk space
Leave at most 0.1 GB disk space free
Use at most 50% of toal disk space
Write to disk at most every 60 seconds
Use at most 75% of ag file (swap space)
Memory Usage:
Use at most 50% wen computer is in use
Use at most 90% when computer is idle

BTW, I am not sure if I made this perfectly clear (I am starting to sound like Nixon), but the pie chart on the Disk tab shows I have 0 disk space free, even though df (and other tests) all show me wth over 150 GB free. It shows 66.8 MB used by BOINC, 66.8 MB used by other programs and nothing left. However, in a few minutes that will change. The ratio stays pretty constant but the numbers can sway anywhere from what is shown, to 2/3 of it or less. That is the weird part. Up until that point everything was odd but that puts it WA-A-A-Y out there. BOINC appears to be getting file stats info from someplace other than where df gets it, obviously!

If I have to, I will break down and do a new install (it won't be the first time, I can assure you. I have space for about 8 different distros!). I don't lose any work done, but may lose work in hand.

I am going nuts here. I realized I didn't mention the global_prefs.. file so I went looking for it, only to find that my BOINC directory contains only 10 files, the executables and the .png files, and the locale directory. There are no project files, and no logs (among many missing files). Has there been a major change to the directory structure, or has my BOINC system been completely trashed and I am back to the beginning, again!

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I just want to die in peace and dignity, surrounded by my all friends, jst like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

Maybe you're looking in an old install dir? If you can start BOINC from where you last started it and see any project work units, you surely will be.

I found them using the slocate database; they are at /var/lib, so it is running at the system level, not at the user level. In any case, it is running, but there is another problem. Initially the system reported that the disk was full and the diskspace was occupied about 50% by BOINC and 50% by other applications. Now it continues to be occupied comnpletely, BOINC occupies abot 75 MB and other applications occupy 1.341 x10^42 bytes. I don't own a calculator large enough to hold the digits in order to reduce it to MB, GB, TB or even PB. I cheated and found out that it is 1.16 xE^2i EB (that is exabytes, which is 1024 petabytes...). I don't know what is larger than that. It must be counting all the drives on the planet!

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I just want to die in peace and dignity, surrounded by my all friends, jst like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.