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Message 1871577 - Posted: 7 Jun 2017, 14:38:45 UTC

While I have my settings at about 450 GB total for BONIC...I notice BONIC is using only 9.30 MB...
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Message 1871603 - Posted: 7 Jun 2017, 19:59:34 UTC - in response to Message 1871577.  

That is all it needs.

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Message 1871606 - Posted: 7 Jun 2017, 20:13:52 UTC - in response to Message 1871603.  

That is all it needs.

So should I lower those totals down on my computers? As in considerably....?
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Message 1871612 - Posted: 7 Jun 2017, 20:46:25 UTC

Drop down to 1Gb and you will have plenty, or maybe 2Gb if you want to be really safe!
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Message 1871699 - Posted: 8 Jun 2017, 4:28:03 UTC - in response to Message 1871606.  

That is all it needs.

So should I lower those totals down on my computers? As in considerably....?
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It is the limit that BOINC will use for any and all projects you run.
For most of my systems I have no limit set "Use no more than --- GB "
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Message 1871723 - Posted: 8 Jun 2017, 9:39:34 UTC - in response to Message 1871699.  

That setting is mostly for folks with small disks. Using an old 40 gb disk in a dedicated machine for example. You might want to limit the total amount that BOINC uses for all it's projects, so some project doesn't suddenly download a couple of GB and crash your system.

If you run multiple projects it's possible to get up over a GB or 2 used as some other projects have larger data files to store.

In your situation, you can just leave it alone. If you are only using ~10mb, then the high limit has no effect at all.
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Message 1871788 - Posted: 8 Jun 2017, 19:55:17 UTC - in response to Message 1871723.  

Thank you all for your inputs....
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