Hi all!

The executable file did not work, so I compiled the boinc client myself. However, it does not work:

proellt@peeper:~/boinc-4.11/client> ./boinc_4.11_i686-pc-linux-gnu
2005-01-17 12:43:00 [---] Starting BOINC client version 4.11 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
Enter the URL of the project: http://climateprediction.net
You should have already registered with the project
and received an account key by email.
Paste the account key here: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [http://climateprediction.net/] Project prefs: no separate
prefs for home; using your defaults
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [http://climateprediction.net/] Host ID not assigned yet
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [---] No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [---] Insufficient work; requesting more
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [http://climateprediction.net/] Requesting 17268 seconds of
work
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [http://climateprediction.net/] Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [http://climateprediction.net/] Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [climateprediction.net] Message from server: No work available (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [climateprediction.net] Message from server: No work available (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds
2005-01-17 12:43:10 [climateprediction.net] Deferring communication with project for 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds

Seems I don't have enough space. Let's see:
proellt@peeper:~> df
Dateisystem 1k-Blöcke Benutzt Verfügbar Ben% montiert auf
/dev/hda9 8907732 5360856 3546876 61% /
/dev/hda5 15493 6453 8240 44% /boot
/dev/hda8 57679580 18915380 38764200 33% /home
/dev/hda7 10490084 1421336 9068748 14% /usr
proellt@peeper:~> quota
Disk quotas for user proellt (uid 666): none

38 Gig free and still not enough?


proellt

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Hi proellt and welcome aboard.

How many Gigs you have on HDs is not the most important for BOINC.
You need to setup BOINC in "Your preferences" page.
http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/prefs.php?subset=global

Hope it helps...

I have it like:
Limits on disk space and memory used by BOINC:
Use no more than 100 GB
Leave at least 1 GB
Use no more than 90% of total space
Use no more than 75% of total virtual memory

> I have it like:
> Limits on disk space and memory used by BOINC:
> Use no more than 100 GB
> Leave at least 1 GB
> Use no more than 90% of total space
> Use no more than 75% of total virtual memory

You mean that even if you don't have 100GB you tell it to use that's the max?

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> > I have it like:
> > Limits on disk space and memory used by BOINC:
> > Use no more than 100 GB
> > Leave at least 1 GB
> > Use no more than 90% of total space
> > Use no more than 75% of total virtual memory
>
> You mean that even if you don't have 100GB you tell it to use that's the max?

It's all explained in the FAQ <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/quick_faq.php#f">here</a>. BOINC applications could only use 100GB on a 200GB disk, 90GB on a 100GB disk or 4GB on a 5GB disk with Honza's settings.

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"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I had the same problem some days ago, while over a GB was free. I was running version 4.09.
Upgrading to 4.13 solved the issue.

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I used a symbolic link to get around space limit on /

There is only 337M in / so I made a dir called boinc on mounted drive /mnt/hdd8 which has 27G free and copied the binary there
eg mkdir /mnt/hdd8/boinc
then made a symbolic link from home directory to /mnt/hdd8/boinc
eg ln -s /mnt/hdd8/boinc .boinc
then cd to .boinc
then ran binary and its up and running!

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