I have started getting messages like this:

20-Jul-05 20:03:51|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
20-Jul-05 20:03:51|climateprediction.net|Requesting 8640 seconds of work, returning 0 results
20-Jul-05 20:03:52|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
20-Jul-05 20:03:52|climateprediction.net|General preferences have been updated
20-Jul-05 20:03:52|climateprediction.net|Message from server: No work sent
20-Jul-05 20:03:52|climateprediction.net|Message from server: (there was work but you don\'t have enough disk space allocated)
20-Jul-05 20:03:52|climateprediction.net|Message from server: No disk space (you must free 27.0 MB before BOINC gets space). Review preferences for minimum disk free space allowed.
20-Jul-05 20:03:52||General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 2005-07-20 20:14:46)
20-Jul-05 20:03:52||General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
20-Jul-05 20:03:52|climateprediction.net|No work from project
20-Jul-05 20:03:53|climateprediction.net|Deferring communication with project for 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 58 seconds

So I took the advice and canged the preferences from \"Leave at least\" from 0.2Gb to 0.1Gb. Updated the project in Boinc, and it came back with a message saying that it needed an additional 73Mb of disk space.

That\'s right: I told it to leave LESS space, but it asked for MORE!
Leave 0.2Gb wanted 27MB
Leave 0.1Gb wanted 73Mb.

Tried a few more options but cannot get it restarted.
Leave 0.01 wanted 163Mb
Leave 1Gb, wanted 827Mb

Boinc is using 496Mb and there is 1.5Gb available.

Help!

How about
Use no more than 30 GB
Leave at least .1 GB
Use no more than 99% of total space
or something like that?
All three may affect whether it thinks you have enough space.

> How about
> Use no more than 30 GB
> Leave at least .1 GB
> Use no more than 99% of total space
> or something like that?
> All three may affect whether it thinks you have enough space.
>
>
That is very close to what I ended up with, but I changed it to your suggestion anyway.

It still wants 73Mb. I have 1.1 Gb free now that I have turned off hibernation.

What bugs me is how when the Leave at laest figure goes down, the amount needed can go either up or down. Wierd!

Have you tried exiting BOINC and restarting it?

Also with 496MB in BOINC, are there any short runs that can be deleted or full runs than can be written to CD and deleted?

(BTW the maths looks a lot more sensible if you put a negative in front of the 73 and 163, so maybe exit & restarting BOINC with one of those setting.)
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&gt; Have you tried exiting BOINC and restarting it?
&gt;
&gt; Also with 496MB in BOINC, are there any short runs that can be deleted or full
&gt; runs than can be written to CD and deleted?
&gt;
&gt; (BTW the maths looks a lot more sensible if you put a negative in front of the
&gt; 73 and 163, so maybe exit &amp; restarting BOINC with one of those setting.)
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Yes, that got it going again. Thanks.

One more question, "short runs or full runs" Where can I see that?

<a href="http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?title=Saving_Or_Deleting_CPDN_Result_Data_Files">Saving_Or_Deleting_CPDN_Result_Data_Files</a>

Is step 2b clear enough about what is a model in progress, what is a finished full run and what is a finished short run?

If not, please do ask before doing anything.

Alternatively you can look at your account, find the result and look for whether the phase 3 timestep 259248 trickle is present.
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&gt; <a> href="http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?title=Saving_Or_Deleting_CPDN_Result_Data_Files"&gt;Saving_Or_Deleting_CPDN_Result_Data_Files</a>
&gt;
&gt; Is step 2b clear enough about what is a model in progress, what is a finished
&gt; full run and what is a finished short run?
&gt;
&gt; If not, please do ask before doing anything.
&gt;
&gt; Alternatively you can look at your account, find the result and look for
&gt; whether the phase 3 timestep 259248 trickle is present.
&gt; _______________________________
&gt; Visit <a> href="http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page"&gt;BOINC
&gt; WIKI</a> for help
&gt;
&gt; And join <a href="http://www.boincsynergy.com/">BOINC Synergy</a> for all the
&gt; news in one place.
&gt;

Absolutely spot on. Many thanks.