SETI@home problem

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dick holman
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SETI@home problem

Post by dick holman »

I have a problem.
I have set my Prefs. to:
Use 10Gb of disc, Leave at least 200Gb free, Use 50% of disc at most, RAM/Swap to defaults.
However, SETI@home says it has no space:
Thu 18 Aug 2011
Preferences limit memory usage when active to 974.53MB
Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1754.15MB
Preferences limit disk usage to 0.00GB
Message from server: SETI@home Enhanced needs 32.00MB more disk space.  You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 32.00 MB.
The other tasks all run fine :?

Help??
UBT - Mikee
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Post by UBT - Mikee »

Depends which preferances you've set. Looks like you've set the BOINC manager OK but maybe the SETI@Home prefernces are wrong. Go to S@H > your account >computing preferances. I've set 'computing prefeences' as below...
Disk: use at most 100 GB
Disk: leave free at leastd 0.001 GB
Disk: use at most 50% of total
Tasks checkpoint to disk at most every 60 seconds
Swap space: use at most 75% of total
Memory: when computer is in use, use at most 80% of total
Memory: when computer is not in use, use at most 90% of total
Next time BOINC Manager goes to S@H it should update it's preferences though you select 'S@H' in the manager and press 'update'.

Go to the 'event log' to see if the changes have happened and hopefully you should be running again.

HTH - Mike
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UBT - mickyb69
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Post by UBT - mickyb69 »

Use 10Gb of disc, Leave at least 200Gb free, Use 50% of disc at most, RAM/Swap to defaults.

How big is your hard drive ? Is there 200Gb free ?
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