At start up Boinc is giving the following:

1/25/2006 4:31:58 PM||Starting BOINC client version 5.2.13 for windows_intelx86
1/25/2006 4:31:58 PM||libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8 zlib/1.2.3
1/25/2006 4:31:58 PM||Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC
1/25/2006 4:31:58 PM||Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz
1/25/2006 4:31:58 PM||Memory: 509.99 MB physical, 1.97 GB virtual
1/25/2006 4:31:58 PM||Disk: 37.24 GB total, 7.20 GB free

So, it says there is plenty of disk space avilable.

However it doesn't get work. If I force an update to Seti, I get these messages:

1/25/2006 4:58:17 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent
1/25/2006 4:58:17 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
1/25/2006 4:58:17 PM|SETI@home|Message from server: No disk space (YOU must free 2276.2 MB before BOINC gets space). Review preferences for minimum disk free space allowed.

Up until a few days ago, BOINC was working fine on this machine. I have restarted the machine, and uninstalled and reinstalled BOINC.

What gives?

Charles

What are your settings under Disk and memory usage?

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settings in Preferences are:
Use no more than 50GB
Leave 10GB free (whoops?)
Use no more than 50% of available memory
Use no more than 50% of virtual memory

Boinc Manager shows:

Seti at 3.18MB
Rosetta at 4.57 MB


On the possibility that the "leave 10GB free is the issue, I just lowered it to 5GB.

Charles

Folowup. Changing the preferences to "leave 5GB free", cleared the problem. I suggest that the message be improved to indicate the setting that is limiting operation.

Charles

I've had this same problem, on and off since first installing Boinc. (I used to do Seti@home way back when, but this is essentially a fresh start.)

For me it says:

2006-03-04 12:02:22 [rosetta@home] Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
2006-03-04 12:02:22 [rosetta@home] Message from server: Not enough disk space (only 100.0 MB free for BOINC). Review preferences for minimum disk free space allowed.
2006-03-04 12:02:22 [rosetta@home] No work from project


And yet, then, it starts processing, the CPU is high, and the % complete increases.

Platform: MacOS X 10.4
Client: Boinc menubar app

Oh, and I have 60 GB of disk free.

Michael H.
Have you told BOINC how much space you have?
You do this in one of your preference settings on your Account page.
And don't use a figure that is greater than what is actually available.