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Aside the disk settings u need to review, the 43200 seconds is an indication that the scheduler is confused. One reason is it was trying to get work e.g. Help Defeat Cancer (HDC), which is in limited supply, kept on increasing the value and than finally when work came available, it was offered too much. Suggestion is to do a WCG Reset (under Projects Tab of BOINC)...it will normalize the value.

Suggest also to also tick the alternate work box in your "My profile" here https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/viewMyProjects.do as HDC is as eluded not always available. It's the last box:

Once done, go to Projects Tab, select WCG and hit update. It will fetch the changed preferences and obtain work if any does fit in your present queue schedule.

let us know if remaining stuck.

appreciate the default, but seen more than a few comments where work volume request in seconds does not correlate to the work received. Why is WCG BOINC server entertaining 17.5gb work...the maximum one can specify in the profile is 10gb and for all intends and purposes, no one would be able to process 17.5gb of work in either 0.5 or 0.1 days. Understood that WU's had some sort of a initial ttc embedded, but could be mistaken.

Glad to be here and thanks for all the replies. Here's some more info:

Venue is "home" (according to BAM!, and other projects follow these prefs) and global_prefs.xml file says:


My HD is 40 GB with 3 partitions

• 2.26/8.87 GB free (MacOS X startup disk with BOINC installed)
  
  • 3.5 MB for SETI
    
  • 25.1 MB for Einstein
    
  • 23.3 MB for Rosetta
    
  • 0 MB for WCG (no suprise there)
    
  • 57.4 MB Total BOINC folder
  
  
• 6.87/8.87 GB free
  
• 1.67/20.03 GB free

So, I know the prefs are set right because Rosetta requested 43200 seconds and now has a 12 hr WU in the queue among the other WUs of other projects. I have also been using BOINC on this computer for about a month now and just yesterday joined/attached to WCG. I tried resetting WCG but that didn't help. I tried getting work from all three projects (FightAIDS@Home, Help Defeat Cancer, Human Proteome Folding 2) available from WCG, both individually (one project at a time, without the alternate work box checked {or 'ticked' if you prefer :) }) and combined (let the system choose, all three with the alt. work box checked).

My guess is that the initial d/l for the WCG application is a bit greedy, so if I could install the app outside of BOINC and trick BOINC to think it installed the app, then BOINC might be content with just fetching WUs for me. Is that possible?

The history of my joining WCG: I clicked "Create account" in BOINCstats BAM! "Sign up for Projects" and got "no response from server" message. I then went WCG web site and created an account there. Back at BAM! I selected "Find account" on the "sign up for projects" and proceeded to attach my iMac to WCG through BAM!. Then my computer started talking to WCG servers and requested 0.5 days worth of work and they said nope, YOU need more disk space buck-o! Now I'm here. Thanks agian.

Please will you post the entire contents of sched_request_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml and sched_reply_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml ?

Thank you.