Hi Guys,

I've started BOINC on another system I've managed to rebuild, and Boinc ran one GPU and one CPU task for a bit. The GPU one seemed to complete OK, and the CPU one got to a bit over 20%, and now I get the following in the messages file:

192.168.1.98

1 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Starting BOINC client version 7.4.42 for windows_x86_64
2 18/05/2015 21:45:07 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Libraries: libcurl/7.39.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1j zlib/1.2.8
4 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Data directory: C:\BOINC\BOINC_Data
5 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Running under account Graham
6 18/05/2015 21:45:07 CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 580 (driver version 352.86, CUDA version 7.5, compute capability 2.0, 1536MB, 1270MB available, 1581 GFLOPS peak)
7 18/05/2015 21:45:07 CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 352.86, CUDA version 7.5, compute capability 2.0, 1280MB, 1184MB available, 1530 GFLOPS peak)
8 18/05/2015 21:45:07 OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 580 (driver version 352.86, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1536MB, 1270MB available, 1581 GFLOPS peak)
9 18/05/2015 21:45:07 OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GTX 570 (driver version 352.86, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1280MB, 1184MB available, 1530 GFLOPS peak)
10 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
11 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Host name: GWM-WIN7-PC2
12 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3350 @ 2.66GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 7]
13 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 syscall nx lm vmx smx tm2 pbe
14 18/05/2015 21:45:07 OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
15 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Memory: 8.00 GB physical, 16.00 GB virtual
16 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Disk: 74.53 GB total, 37.26 GB free
17 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Local time is UTC +1 hours
18 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Config: GUI RPC allowed from any host
19 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Config: GUI RPCs allowed from:
20 18/05/2015 21:45:07 192.168.1.93
21 18/05/2015 21:45:07 gwm-win7-pc1
22 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:45:07 URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 7578105; resource share 100
23 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:45:07 General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 30-Sep-2014 13:05:44)
24 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Computer location: home
25 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:45:07 General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults
26 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Reading preferences override file
27 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Preferences:
28 18/05/2015 21:45:07 max memory usage when active: 2047.78MB
29 18/05/2015 21:45:07 max memory usage when idle: 4095.56MB
30 18/05/2015 21:45:07 max disk usage: 0.00GB
31 18/05/2015 21:45:07 max CPUs used: 2
32 18/05/2015 21:45:07 suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 95%
33 18/05/2015 21:45:07 max download rate: 2000005 bytes/sec
34 18/05/2015 21:45:07 max upload rate: 499999 bytes/sec
35 18/05/2015 21:45:07 (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)
36 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Not using a proxy
37 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:45:42 task postponed 600.000000 sec: Waiting to acquire lock
38 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:47:42 Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
39 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:47:42 Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU
40 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:47:43 Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
41 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:47:43 No tasks sent
42 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:47:43 No tasks are available for SETI@home Enhanced
43 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:47:43 No tasks are available for AstroPulse v6
44 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:47:43 No tasks are available for AstroPulse v7
45 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:47:43 Message from server: SETI@home v7 needs 32.00MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 32.00 MB.
46 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:55:49 Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
47 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:55:49 Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
48 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:55:51 Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
49 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:55:51 No tasks sent
50 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:55:51 No tasks are available for SETI@home Enhanced
51 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:55:51 No tasks are available for AstroPulse v6
52 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:55:51 No tasks are available for AstroPulse v7
53 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:55:51 Message from server: SETI@home v7 needs 32.00MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 32.00 MB.
54 SETI@home 18/05/2015 21:56:24 task postponed 600.000000 sec: Waiting to acquire lock


The disk that has BOINC installed on it has over 38 Gb free, & I don't understand.

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Any help or hints gratefully received.

Thanks

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Happy Crunching,

Graham

26 18/05/2015 21:45:07 Reading preferences override file
30 18/05/2015 21:45:07 max disk usage: 0.00GB

You've set something locally (probably via BOINC Manager) which is seriously restricting the amount of disk space BOINC is allowed to use.

Hiya, Thanks

It took a bit of spotting, I had set max disk usage to 10Gb, leave at least 10% free, and leave at least 100GB free in the BOINC website defaults. This is fine on my old system as BOINC is installed on a 1Tb disk.

The system I've just resurrcted has a 80Gb SSD C drive with everything on it (it'll only run BOINC/ S@H). The leave 100Gb free was the killer :-).

D'OH.

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Happy Crunching,

Graham

Hiya, Thanks

It took a bit of spotting, I had set max disk usage to 10Gb, leave at least 10% free, and leave at least 100GB free in the BOINC website defaults. This is fine on my old system as BOINC is installed on a 1Tb disk.

The system I've just resurrcted has a 80Gb SSD C drive with everything on it (it'll only run BOINC/ S@H). The leave 100Gb free was the killer :-).

D'OH.

Heh that will do it. While there are some projects that can use huge amounts of disk space. I don't happen to run any of them so I set my disk settings for BOINC a bit more... freely.

Disk
Use no more than	5000 GB
Leave at least		0.001 GB free
Use no more than	100% of total

With the current SETI@home cache limits. Only running AP tasks would give a max disk usage of ~800MB for each device used, or ~2.4GB for a dual GPU system also running CPU.

I don't happen to run BOINC on any drives with 5TB or more of storage. My 24 core system only uses a 2GB RAM drive in fact. I figured this way I wouldn't have to ever worry about any space requirements while running projects. I imagine if I ever run into a situation where I'm out of disk space from BOINC using it all I probably need to upgrade my storage anyway.

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and leave at least 100GB free in the BOINC website defaults.

The default value for 'leave at least free' is 0.1GB in both the online and the local preferences. Anything higher/different is set by the user.

Also, the local preferences override all of the same web preferences.
And, with the new set up of the web preferences, you can choose to set "Use no more than N GB", "Leave at least N GB free" and "Use no more than N GB of total", they aren't all three needed anymore. With the upcoming 7.6.0 these will be choices in the local preferences as well.

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I had the same error and despite adjusting any number of different variables nothing seemed to work. What did work was realizing that my 1TB hard drive was partitioned, among other things, into a program volume and a data volume; my program volume was getting filled up and I wasn't paying enough attention to the fact that everything was being stored there and no data was being stored into the data volume.

Once I enlarged the program volume (as a stopgap measure while I figure out how to make the volumes talk to each other - sounds clueless, I know, but there you are) I stopped getting that notice. So if none of the other good advice you're getting works for you, you could try that.

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... while I figure out how to make the volumes talk to each other ...

Volumes/partitions don't "talk to each other"
The "data volume" (made by you? maybe visible as D:) it there for you to manually make directories and copy/save files on it.

There are ways to tweak some Windows Settings to automate this but I don't know how easy or safe this is:
https://www.google.com/#q=windows+8.1+move+user+folder

Redirect a folder to a new location:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/redirect-folder-new-location

Relocation of the Users directory and the ProgramData directory to a drive other than the drive that contains the Windows directory:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/949977

! if there are large number/GB of files in current Users directory the above probably will take very long time - all the files will be copied from C: to D: (and then deleted on C: - which is the way 'move' works between different drives/partitions)

"Don't move your Windows user profiles folder to another drive":
http://www.zdnet.com/article/dont-move-your-windows-user-profiles-folder-to-another-drive/


If you already "enlarged the program volume" (so you know how to do that without losing data) maybe it's best to do that again if needed instead of Windows "Redirect a folder"
 

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