Hi,

with linux box running boinc/seti (4.27/4.02) I get many times "Message from server:(there was work but your computer doesn't have enough memory)

This hasn't happened with classical SETI or with windows boinc/seti client. Box in question has 512MB mem, but boinc sees it as -0 MB ...

Is it bug or something with my Linux ?
Any ideas ?

Thanks, Martin

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Hi.
I would check your preferences tbh. See how much disc space you are allowing. I cant be sure but I don't think this message refers to RAM. How many WUs have you crunched so far successfully....is this your first? Your computers are hidden so I cannot look to get any clues.

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> Hi.
> I would check your preferences tbh. See how much disc space you are allowing.
> I cant be sure but I don't think this message refers to RAM. How many WUs have
> you crunched so far successfully....is this your first? Your computers are
> hidden so I cannot look to get any clues.
>
>

Hi,

Just for sake of testing I allowed 5G of disc space and happened the same ...
I've crunched some WUs ... It's strange at first a was rejected 15 times with above then downloaded 8 WUs and now I'm being rejected again.


Martin
p.s. I've unhidden computers so take a look ...

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> > Hi.
> > I would check your preferences tbh. See how much disc space you are
> allowing.
> > I cant be sure but I don't think this message refers to RAM. How many WUs
> have
> > you crunched so far successfully....is this your first? Your computers
> are
> > hidden so I cannot look to get any clues.
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Just for sake of testing I allowed 5G of disc space and happened the same ...
> I've crunched some WUs ... It's strange at first a was rejected 15 times with
> above then downloaded 8 WUs and now I'm being rejected again.
>
>
> Martin
> p.s. I've unhidden computers so take a look ...


Still hidden? Can't see them...sorry
>

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> > > Hi.
> > > I would check your preferences tbh. See how much disc space you are
> > allowing.
> > > I cant be sure but I don't think this message refers to RAM. How
> many WUs
> > have
> > > you crunched so far successfully....is this your first? Your
> computers
> > are
> > > hidden so I cannot look to get any clues.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just for sake of testing I allowed 5G of disc space and happened the same
> ...
> > I've crunched some WUs ... It's strange at first a was rejected 15 times
> with
> > above then downloaded 8 WUs and now I'm being rejected again.
> >
> >
> > Martin
> > p.s. I've unhidden computers so take a look ...
>
>
> Still hidden? Can't see them...sorry
> >
>

That's weird, anyways here is what it says:

Computer summary

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Computer information
IP address Show IP address
Domain name dragon
Time zone UTC 0 hours
Name dragon
Created 6 Apr 2005 18:41:27 UTC
Total Credit 296.52
Recent average credit 30.65
CPU type AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Number of CPUs 1
Operating System Linux 2.6.11
Memory -0 MB
Cache 256 KB
Swap space 509.84 MB
Total disk space 12.74 GB
Free Disk Space 5.65 GB
Measured floating point speed 860.67 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 1470.05 million ops/sec
Average upload rate 24.13 KB/sec
Average download rate 3.9 KB/sec
Average turnaround time 2.75 days
Results 12
Number of times client has contacted server 53
Last time contacted server 13 Apr 2005 6:08:33 UTC
% of time client is on 85.0914 %
% of time host is connected -100 %
% of time user is active 92.6783 %
Location
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Copyright © 2005 University of California

And here are relevant preferences

Separate preferences for home
Processor usage
Do work while computer is running on batteries?
(matters only for portable computers) no
Do work while computer is in use? yes
Do work only between the hours of (no restriction)
Leave applications in memory while preempted?
(suspended applications will consume swap space if 'yes') no
Switch between applications every
(recommended: 60 minutes) 60 minutes
On multiprocessors, use at most 2 processors
Disk and memory usage
Use no more than 5 GB disk space
Leave at least 0.01 GB disk space free
Use no more than 50% of total disk space
Write to disk at most every 60 seconds
Use no more than 80% of total virtual memory
Network usage
Connect to network about every
(determines size of work cache; maximum 10 days) 5 days
Confirm before connecting to Internet?
(matters only if you use a modem) yes
Disconnect when done?
(matters only if you use a modem) no
Maximum download rate: no limit
Maximum upload rate: no limit
Skip image file verification?
Check this ONLY if your Internet provider modifies image files (UMTS does this, for example).
Skipping verification reduces the security of BOINC. yes

Martin

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Hi mrt,

A short while back, I had this problem too. I tracked it down to being an access permission problem (due to how my linux computer is set up for security and maybe yours is too). The boinc program needs privilages to 1) execute a certain system configuration function and 2) to read the /proc/meminfo file to figure out the ram and swap sizes. So, give the user (I assume non-root, since you didn't mention who) running boinc enough privilages for these two tasks.

Hope this helps.


chantheman

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> Hi mrt,
>
> A short while back, I had this problem too. I tracked it down to being an
> access permission problem (due to how my linux computer is set up for security
> and maybe yours is too). The boinc program needs privilages to 1) execute a
> certain system configuration function and 2) to read the /proc/meminfo file to
> figure out the ram and swap sizes. So, give the user (I assume non-root, since
> you didn't mention who) running boinc enough privilages for these two tasks.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> chantheman
>

Thank you for hint, it seems that inaccessible /proc/meminfo is the reason. That brings another question, how to run boinc in chrooted environment (my original setup for seti) ? Or how to manually supply total memory to boinc ?

Martin

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