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Thread: BOINIC eating disk space 6.2.28 XP |
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jfilby
Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 7, 2006 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi, Upgraded to 6.2.28 from 5. something. Since that time I have "ran" out of disk space twice. I started at 2 GB allowed... then it stopped downloading as the disk area was "full" and I bumped it to 4GB and today hit that mark so now I am at 7GB. What can be done about this insatiable need for space? Doesn't Boinic clean up after itself? Ran 5.something for 3 years - did not even know I had a disk space variable - now .. it wants my hard drive all to itself.
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Sekerob
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Can you please post the start up log of BOINC, without the extra I.
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Former Member
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It sounds like you made an error when installing BOINC.
If you install BOINC to (for example) C:\ then it will include everything in C:\ when calculating the space it uses. This is the most common situation. Fix it by reinstalling BOINC, being careful when choosing the data directory. |
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jfilby
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Hi - first - the start up log... not sure where that is.. hints on how to pull that data would be helpful. Directory location - c:\Program Files \ BOINIC.... so not sure if something else needed to be created to limit sizing. Total Disk info in BOINIC claims 13.78mb used out of 17GB free.... and Disk used by BOINIC projects is 7.99mb
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Former Member
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If you don't know where the messages are, where did you see the message you are reporting? I'm a little confused.
Please will you post the actual lines from the Messages tab that you are concerned about? Thank you. |
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Sekerob
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Does not matter if you're in simple view where there is the message button or the advanced view message tab. Scroll to top, select 30 lines or so and hit the copy selection button to paste it in your next post. It's good as sure your data directory is shared with other files and given the rapid growth, possibly root where the swap file resides.
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Sekerob
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The program is called BOINC btw
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Sekerob, that was my first thought. Now, I suspect the error was misreported and there is a problem with the minimum free disk space or one of the other parameters. jfilby claims BOINC only reports 13.78 MB used.
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jfilby
Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 7, 2006 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi, I sent another note, on an error I received when uploading the message log to this form. When that is sorted out, I will try again. In the interim, I was looking at the logs and the following seemed to stick out.
9/1/2009 1:30:12 PM|World Community Grid|Finished upload of X0000091360196200708101100_1_0 9/1/2009 3:43:00 PM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 4 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Task X0000091371317200708241324_0 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project. 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Restarting task X0000091371317200708241324_0 using hcc1 version 606 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work sent 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for Help Fight Childhood Cancer 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for Influenza Antiviral Drug Search 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for FightAIDS@Home 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for Help Conquer Cancer 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for Nutritious Rice for the World 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for The Clean Energy Project 9/1/2009 3:43:01 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: The preference you set for maximum disk space used by BOINC has been exceeded by 13.62 MB. 9/1/2009 4:02:27 PM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 3 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 9/1/2009 4:02:33 PM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks I did the reset as the top of the log suggested - no luck. Directory is c:\Program Files\ BOINC |
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jfilby
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Update - ran the reset again - went to Advanced preferences and changed disk to 5.00GB - and got two new tasks...
9/4/2009 8:59:03 AM|World Community Grid|Message from server: The preference you set for maximum disk space used by BOINC has been exceeded by 4.32 MB. 9/4/2009 9:21:31 AM||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 13-Jul-2006 22:50:46) 9/4/2009 9:21:31 AM||Host location: none 9/4/2009 9:21:31 AM||General prefs: using your defaults 9/4/2009 9:21:31 AM||Reading preferences override file 9/4/2009 9:21:31 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 507.18MB 9/4/2009 9:21:31 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 912.92MB 9/4/2009 9:21:31 AM||Preferences limit disk usage to 4.66GB 9/4/2009 9:22:21 AM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 30240 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 9/4/2009 9:22:26 AM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 2 new tasks 9/4/2009 9:22:28 AM|World Community Grid|Started download of wcg_hcmd2_maxdo_6.14_windows_intelx86 9/4/2009 9:22:28 AM|World Community Grid|Started download of wcg_hcmd2_maxdo_graphics_6.14_windows_intelx86 Not sure why playing with the disk allocated impacts only mb of processing, but apparently it does. Hope this helps as well. |
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