48 reads so far and no response?????

martin64, you found the right matrix and indeed it says there in the VM column 380MB. Add that to the physical ram use and you come to ballpark 400MB that WCG is demanding up front as your stick needing to have. Why up front... well not all jobs require the exact same and that is not known up front which is why the actual usage ranges are printed, with a margin for error... would not want jobs too often going into the "Exceeded memory use".

No idea how you can disable swap file on Linux, but you could in BOINC Use at most 0.0% of page file (swap space) and set big enough RAM permission and , which with booting and crunching from USB stick would be 100%, either in use or idle.

Let us know what your solution settings work out to be, but it should be doable without trouble.

Have done this, but it didn't change anything.

Here is the server response:

Message from server: Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 needs 261.44MB more disk space.
     You currently have 138.56 MB available and it needs 400.00 MB.
Message from server: FightAIDS@Home needs 161.44MB more disk space.   [...]
Message from server: Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 needs 52.18MB more disk space. [...]
Message from server: Help Fight Childhood Cancer needs 161.44MB more disk space. [...]

Some more data:

Starting BOINC client version 6.10.17 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU
    P8400  @ 2.26GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
OS: Linux: 2.6.31.6
Memory: 1.85 GB physical, 109.78 MB virtual
Disk: 868.96 MB total, 139.47 MB free
Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1890.14MB

The server message doesn't talk about VM, it talks about 400MB required - confusing, at least.

Regards,
Martin

According the official System Req, the storage needs are 50Mb, same as HCC

Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 64 MB 50 MB Windows1, Mac2, Linux3
Help Conquer Cancer 250 MB 50 MB Windows1, Mac, Linux3

It is logically the disc space / VM which for this stick of 1Gb is awfully little to work with and the log saying there is 109.78 is simply not enough.

Marc,

<i>df</i> indeed gives the correct info. My VM is 82,870,880 blocks of 1k and 8% is in use, leaving 72,777,992 1k blocks.

My suggestion is to fully disable swap file **. If disabling swap file you also free up space on the stick and may reduce stick writes too, presuming the VM runs off that resource. The df command tells the location, which is for me mounted drive /sda5.

I've done it for a long time on a Vista box with 3Gb effective usable RAM until trying to run 4 DDDT2 A-Type... that did not fit.

** If so I'll note it in the matrix. It's rare for OSses not having the VM space available... it does say 109MB when I know HCMD2 needs up to 380MB.

Why not let martin64 do the df command and report on that before getting into these build efforts. Mind you a Live CD having one is kind of hard... this http://swiss.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6424310 and this http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=46462&p=267741 suggesting there is/was something on with this.

We'll learn soon :)