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yamiYori
Cruncher Joined: Jun 14, 2017 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline |
I'm running a BOINC agent on the cloud VM. By default, The VM has only 40GBytes harddisk space. So, a second hard disk, which has 500GBytes space, was mounted to '/data'. But in boincmgr, it still shows I have only 40GBytes available. Maybe I need to set the work path? But how?
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It depends on how you installed the agent. But what you are looking for is changing the data directory for BOINC.
When boinc is started, sometimes via a systemd script, you'll need to add this option when boinc is started. --dir <full path>. /usr/bin/boinc --dir /data/boinc You'll want to leave the other options in the system script, just add the --dir option. Thanks, -Uplinger |
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Former Member
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You allocate the allowed space in boincmgr as a percent of total space. Don't know your plans or the number of concurrent jobs running but 40GB is already way way enough.
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supdood
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Agree with lavaflow. I also started running a cloud VM thanks to Google Cloud's free $300 credit trial, and have a persistent disk allocation of 10 GB with no problems running 8 concurrent OPN1 tasks.
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yamiYori
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Thanks, guys.
Now I know how to change work directory. Reply to lavaflow & supdood: You are right. Last hour, 18 concurrent tasks started, and everything was going well. My primary disk is enough. |
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