Why do you wan't to use more as one instance ? - The boinc client starts a sepereate seti app for each CPU you have, and also caching WUs.

Why do you wan't to use more as one instance ? - The boinc client starts a sepereate seti app for each CPU you have, and also caching WUs.

Maybe some person do not have a flatrate and can stay online all day ;?
In my case one boinc client is ready after nearly 3 hours. Although I have edited my preferences, that it should download WUs for a day, it is ready in such a short time ... :( With the seti1-client I used 3 of them and one boinc-client, so they were ready after 24 hours ... ;) So it is not so expensive to run them ... But now I can only start two clients, every further client just finish immediately with an error message like
"GUI RPC bind failed: -1
gstate.init() failed: -180" ... :(

You can setup the WU cache on the website on the general preferences up to 10 days. So your client connects every 10 days to the boinc servers.

GUI RPC is very problematic with two boinc clients. With luck, the second boinc will connect to the alternate port. But if the bindings will be successfull, you can not manage the second via the gui, because the GUI connects only to the second if the primary not anwsering.

So I recommend you to set your work cache higher.

Why do you wan't to use more as one instance ? - The boinc client starts a sepereate seti app for each CPU you have, and also caching WUs.

Just for the record: I had to reset and to detach the project first to get it started ... :( At first, I got only something like "already attached to project ...", but after resetting, detaching and then reattaching the project, boinc started downloading an new WU. But now I get only "temporarily failed download of <client name>" respectively "temporarily failed download of <WU name>" ... :(
But a progress anyhow ... ;)

Good !
Berkeley has a problem in the moment, so no up- or downloads are posible :
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=23894

Strange, looks like you have lot your attachment to the project.
Can you please re attach this computer to the project.

Via commandline? Or from my "Your account" page?

Best via the command line (boinc_client -attach_project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu $PUT_IN_YOU_ACCOUNT_KEY) or within the boinc manager.

Strange, looks like you have lot your attachment to the project.
Can you please re attach this computer to the project.

To add: My boinc client is running on a partition with 2.3 Gigs of free space under Mandriva 2005. The whole partition is 6.4 Gigs of size. It is not a root- or a home partition, but a seperate one. I have removed nearly 500 MB of files there to get it run, but to no avail ... :(

Have you updated your client prefs, after the change of the values on the web site ?
Can you try to set "Use no more than XX% of total disk space" to a high value, for example 80 or 90 %.

Are your disk preferences OK ? - (Your account / View or edit general preferences / Disk and memory usage)

This are the defaults :

Use no more than 1 GB disk space
Leave at least 0.1 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 75% of total virtual memory

If you here have wrong settings, the boinc client won't donwload anything.