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Paedur Send message Joined: 3 Jul 07 Posts: 4 Credit: 3,419,396 RAC: 2 |
I've been waiting for my system to download new work for 4 days now and been getting the same message: SETI@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 950400 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks SETI@home|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks SETI@home|Message from server: No work sent When it checks the preferences file I get this message: Reading preferences override file Preferences limit memory usage when active to 127.77MB Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 255.54MB Preferences limit disk usage to 0.00GB The disk limit usage I have set to a minimum of 5 GB. What do I do? |
web03 Send message Joined: 13 Feb 01 Posts: 355 Credit: 719,156 RAC: 0 |
are you using the web site preferences or local preferences? you need to allow more disk space. from my computing preferences.... Disk and memory usage Use at most 10 GB disk space Leave at least (Values smaller than 0.001 are ignored) 0.1 GB disk space free |
Leaps-from-Shadows Send message Joined: 11 Aug 08 Posts: 323 Credit: 259,220 RAC: 0 |
In the BOINC manager... In the Advanced menu, choose Preferences. Click Clear, then click Yes. Then go to the Projects tab and click Update. Now your system will use the online preferences instead of the override file. Cruiser Gateway GT5692 L-f-S Edition -Phenom X4 9650 CPU -4GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM -500GB SATA HD -Vista x64 SP1 -BOINC 6.2.19 32-bit client -SSE3 optimized 32-bit apps |
Paedur Send message Joined: 3 Jul 07 Posts: 4 Credit: 3,419,396 RAC: 2 |
I would try doing that except that the online preferences and the local preferences are set exactly the same. When this first started happening I went in and made sure that there was no difference. Any additional thoughts? |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
I would try doing that except that the online preferences and the local preferences are set exactly the same. When this first started happening I went in and made sure that there was no difference. Any additional thoughts? Could you post the Disk settings? The same settings from Global_prefs.xml and global_prefs_override.xml BOINC WIKI |
Leaps-from-Shadows Send message Joined: 11 Aug 08 Posts: 323 Credit: 259,220 RAC: 0 |
Any additional thoughts? Yeah ... change the settings. If you want to use the local settings, do this: In BOINC: Advanced menu, choose Preferences. Click on the disk and memory usage tab. Change these settings: Use at most 5.00 Gigabytes disk space Leave at least 1.00 Gigabytes disk space free Use at most 50% of total disk space Use at most 50% of page file (swap space) Then click OK and see what it says in the Messages tab. It should change the numbers you first posted, and should start downloading new work units. If not, click Update in the Projects tab. Cruiser Gateway GT5692 L-f-S Edition -Phenom X4 9650 CPU -4GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM -500GB SATA HD -Vista x64 SP1 -BOINC 6.2.19 32-bit client -SSE3 optimized 32-bit apps |
Paedur Send message Joined: 3 Jul 07 Posts: 4 Credit: 3,419,396 RAC: 2 |
Problem solved. By default Boinc selected the same drive that I have Win2K installed on, one of the smallest drives on my system. Thanks for your help. |
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