occasionally i get this error on my sparc64/linux client:
Message from server: No disk space (you must free 55.9 MB before BOINC gets space). Review preferences for maximum disk space used.


but df -h says:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 3.8G 462M 3.2G 13% /
/dev/hda5 3.8G 739M 3.1G 19% /usr

the boincdir is /var/lib/boinc

my boinc settings are:
Disk and memory usage
Use no more than .2 GB disk space
Leave at least 0.1 GB disk space free
Use no more than 10% of total disk space
Write to disk at most every 60 seconds
Use no more than 75% of total virtual memory

deleting a few temp files usually averts the error message, but this workstation is useless if i cant put anything else on a drive with 87% unused space. is BOINC reporting the wrong disk properties, or do i have some setting screwed up?

i gave upon this client for a while but am trying to get it back up again. problem persists after new compiled binaries. what am i missing here? is there a permissions problem?



2005-04-24 17:49:37 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work sent
2005-04-24 17:49:37 [SETI@home] Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
2005-04-24 17:49:37 [SETI@home] Message from server: No disk space (you must free 62.7 MB before BOINC gets space). Review preferences for maximum disk space used.
2005-04-24 17:49:37 [SETI@home] Host location: school
2005-04-24 17:49:37 [SETI@home] Using your default project prefs
2005-04-24 17:49:37 [SETI@home] No work from project
2005-04-24 17:49:37 [SETI@home] Deferring communication with project for 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds

boinc # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 3.8G 679M 3.0G 19% /
/dev/hda5 3.8G 1.2G 2.7G 31% /usr
none 62M 0 62M 0% /dev/shm