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Message 16519 - Posted: 10 Oct 2005, 9:21:21 UTC

Well, I\'ve got 2 problems.
1- what are \"Max fps\" and \"Max gfx cpu fraction\" in the CPDN account preference. They are new, and I didn\'t finf it in FAQ
2- I can\'t upload a new CPDN WU on my laptop.
10/10/2005 11:21:25|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
10/10/2005 11:21:25|climateprediction.net|Reason: Requested by user
10/10/2005 11:21:25|climateprediction.net|Requesting 172800 seconds of work, returning 0 results
10/10/2005 11:21:26|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
10/10/2005 11:21:26|climateprediction.net|Message from server: No work sent
10/10/2005 11:21:26|climateprediction.net|Message from server: (there was work but you don\'t have enough disk space allocated)
10/10/2005 11:21:26|climateprediction.net|Message from server: Not enough disk space (only 334.7 MB free for BOINC). Review preferences for minimum disk free space allowed.
Looking with Boincview, it\'s roughly the free disk space reported. Could be normal, but in fact I\'ve got 4.42Gb free on my Boinc Disc, which is the smallest free space on all my discs ... and it\'s new for me, It has been working fine before. After a reboot nothing has changed ...

Hadsm 4.13, Boinc 4.72, Boincview 1.2.2beta3

Has anybody an idea ?

Thanks
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Message 16520 - Posted: 10 Oct 2005, 9:57:06 UTC

The new options are to get ready for BOINC 5.n
Carl and Tolu have been making changes everywhere, but most are invisible.
Don\'t worry about them yet.

You have to tell the server that you have 4.42Gb free. (In general preferences.)
Then do an Update.
And it\'s Download, not Upload. (Just so you don\'t confuse others.)

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Message 16522 - Posted: 10 Oct 2005, 11:46:17 UTC
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Thanks Les. I apologize for the mistake. Well, I\'ve alrady told it in CPDN ...

Use no more than 4 GB disk space
Leave at least 0.5 GB disk space free
Use no more than 90% of total disk space
Write to disk at most every 300 seconds
Use no more than 90% of total virtual memory

and update it on my computer. The problem seems to be in the fact hat the free disk space is not detected. For any reason, in BoincView, the occupied space reported is around 9GB, which is not true (the partition size is 10 GiB, and only 5.5 GiB are occupied). May be it has been true in the past (I\'ve got a new disk for 3 days, which has helped doing some clean up)

So what else could I do ?
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Message 16524 - Posted: 10 Oct 2005, 13:16:40 UTC - in response to Message 16522.  

So what else could I do ?

If you have previous results that crashed before completing, you could delete the leftover files/directories. If you\'ve completed models, you could back them up to CD/DVD, or alternately, delete them as well. Or is this a new PC on the project?
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Message 16525 - Posted: 10 Oct 2005, 13:56:37 UTC

No it\'s not a new PC. He has been working already on CPDN, and is working without problem on S@H and LHC.

I had a crash yesterday, but I\'ve cleaned up alrady the directory, and BOINC is officialy aware of that. My problem is that BOINC, for any reason, is believing that they are more space used on the particition than there is. And I can\'t understand why, except if this value keeps in memory the max ever reached.

If it\'s the case, I would like to know where I can correct the thing
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Message 16529 - Posted: 10 Oct 2005, 16:01:52 UTC - in response to Message 16525.  
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No it\'s not a new PC. He has been working already on CPDN, and is working without problem on S@H and LHC.

I had a crash yesterday, but I\'ve cleaned up alrady the directory, and BOINC is officialy aware of that. My problem is that BOINC, for any reason, is believing that they are more space used on the particition than there is. And I can\'t understand why, except if this value keeps in memory the max ever reached.

If it\'s the case, I would like to know where I can correct the thing

BOINC should keep track of the disk space reliably, but the function that does the calculation is only called when the program starts up. This should be fixed in BOINC development release 5.1.7 (and the pending public release 5.2.0).

Restarting BOINC should hopefully fix your problem.
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Message 16530 - Posted: 10 Oct 2005, 16:51:55 UTC

I\'ve reinstalled Boinc, cleaned the disk, verified it defragged it, ant it\'s still the same. Someone knows where Boinc keeps a trace of this value ?
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Message 16533 - Posted: 10 Oct 2005, 17:43:45 UTC - in response to Message 16530.  
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I\'ve reinstalled Boinc, cleaned the disk, verified it defragged it, ant it\'s still the same. Someone knows where Boinc keeps a trace of this value ?

It\'s in the file client_state.xml in your BOINC directory. At the bottom of the <host_info> section you\'ll find <d_total> and <d_free> settings (in bytes).
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Message 16535 - Posted: 10 Oct 2005, 18:26:18 UTC

OK, I\'m on the road again. Thanks everybody
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