I'm running SETI and Einstein but have not gotten work for either for 5 days. Rebooting doesn't help. If I do an 'Update', Einstein says no disk space allocated but I've allocated 3GB in BOINC preferences. SETI says something similar.

I can't think of anything I might have done that would cause this to happen. Does anyone have any suggestions on what's wrong and how to fix it?

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message log, and if possible, can you increase the space..?

I'm not sure what you mean. I've increased the allocated disk space from 2GB to 3GB but the the messages still say NO disk space or 0.0 space available.

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What does BOINC tell about disk space after a restart?

03/08/2009 15:32:38||Preferences limit disk usage to 1.86GB

And is the message really about disk space or about lack of memory?

Gruß,
Gundolf

Are you by chance using local preferences? These override web-preferences.
You can see if you are using local preferences, when you start up BOINC and see "reading preferences override file" in among the preferences messages.

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Here is the entire message list after a restart. Note the last one says disk useage is limited to 0.0 even though I set the value to 3GB. What's wrong?


8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Starting BOINC client version 6.6.36 for windows_intelx86
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Running under account Administrator
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2600+ [x86 Family 15 Model 28 Stepping 0]
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 3dnow mmx
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Memory: 958.42 MB physical, 2.26 GB virtual
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Disk: 219.72 GB total, 139.56 GB free
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Local time is UTC -4 hours
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM No CUDA devices found
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM No coprocessors
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Not using a proxy
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM Einstein@Home URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 1998880; location: home; project prefs: default
8/9/2009 1:32:38 AM SETI@home URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID: 5018601; location: home; project prefs: default
8/9/2009 1:32:39 AM Einstein@Home General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 08-Aug-2009 16:08:47)
8/9/2009 1:32:39 AM Einstein@Home Computer location: home
8/9/2009 1:32:39 AM Einstein@Home General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
8/9/2009 1:32:39 AM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 239.61MB
8/9/2009 1:32:39 AM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 862.58MB
8/9/2009 1:32:39 AM Preferences limit disk usage to 0.00GB

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8/9/2009 1:32:39 AM Einstein@Home General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 08-Aug-2009 16:08:47)
8/9/2009 1:32:39 AM Einstein@Home Computer location: home
8/9/2009 1:32:39 AM Einstein@Home General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults

Your computer is set to use preferences from the home venue, but there are none set. Make sure you change the preferences in the correct venue.

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Actually, the last line says Preferences limit disk usage.

So, on one of your projects, in Computing preferences, you've got one of the first 3 options under Disk and memory usage set incorrectly.
It should be fairly obvious which.

edit
Beaten to it.

Here is the entire message list after a restart. Note the last one says disk useage is limited to 0.0 even though I set the value to 3GB. What's wrong?

Actually, there are three entries that control disk space usage. Here are mine:

Use at most 2 GB disk space 
Leave at least 0.05 GB disk space free 
(Values smaller than 0.001 are ignored)
Use at most 50% of total disk space

which transform this

03/08/2009 15:32:36||Disk: 29.98 GB total, 13.86 GB free

into this

03/08/2009 15:32:38||Preferences limit disk usage to 1.86GB

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

I found the problem. My preferences were set to leave at least 150GB free. When I stored a 4GB video file last week, BOINC could not allocate the specified 3GB for the projects since that would violate the requirement to leave 150GB free. I reset the parameter to leave 75GB and it downloaded 12 new tasks.

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