Hi,

Boinc does not download new work for me anymore.

3-2-2008 13:10:47||General prefs: from climateprediction.net (last modified 03-Feb-2008 12:54:49)
3-2-2008 13:10:47||Host location: none
3-2-2008 13:10:47||General prefs: using your defaults
3-2-2008 13:10:47||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1022.94MB
3-2-2008 13:10:47||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1841.29MB
3-2-2008 13:10:47||Preferences limit disk usage to 3.00GB
3-2-2008 13:11:05|climateprediction.net|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
3-2-2008 13:11:10|climateprediction.net|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks


I don\'t understand perhaps how to set the prefs in my account and locally.

When I use local prefs and click the Çlear\' button it resets to 3GB. However, online I have set it to use 7.1 at most, leaving at least 0,2GB, using at most 5% of disk space. I can\'t see what disk I designated but all of them have more space than 7.1 GB.

How do I set my prefs so boinc will download new work please?

There is an entry in the \'crashes and other problems\' readme discussing the disk usage settings, look for \'disk usage and maintenance\' link in the hardware section.

I suspect the problem may be the \'use at most 5% of disk space\'.

Note also that the disk usage figure is for ALL uses of disk space, not just Boinc itself. So if the operating system takes 5% of the disk space, it\'ll never try to download work.

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Addendum:

You have quite a lot of crashed models, and these will be taking up space. There is also instructions in that same disk usage post about how to clean up after them. Note that Vista tends to kill models when it shuts down, it may help to right-click and \'exit\' from Boinc just before shutting down. There is a VISTA section in the README.

I would also recommend running without the screensaver (given that there are a lot of 0x40010004 errors in your model list). Set the screensaver to \'blank\'.

Do you have any climate models suspended? If so, that will prevent any more from being downloaded.

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Addendum:

You have quite a lot of crashed models, and these will be taking up space. There is also instructions in that same disk usage post about how to clean up after them. Note that Vista tends to kill models when it shuts down, it may help to right-click and \'exit\' from Boinc just before shutting down. There is a VISTA section in the README.

I would also recommend running without the screensaver (given that there are a lot of 0x40010004 errors in your model list). Set the screensaver to \'blank\'.

Do you have any climate models suspended? If so, that will prevent any more from being downloaded.

Yes I cleaned everything out. I\'ll turn the screensaver off. I can run the seti one without problems I hope.

Thanks for the help, I\'ll see what happens in that other place. It is doing work now, so I must have done something right. After I cleane dout the dir it donwlaoded a new workload. And then it crashed again. So I deleted that too and it did another download.

I\'ll make sure to close boinc manually before shutting down Vista.

Btw, 5%...what is I don\'t use C:\\?