Posts by Mike Davis

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Project does not download new units, saying there is not enough disk space (Message 94700) Posted 17 Apr 2020 by Mike Davis Post: Yeah, Same over here, Rosetta asks for 1 gigabyte more disk space in BOINC. So I allowed that, Then, about one hour later, it asks again for more disk space, 500 MB this time. And, guess what; a couple of hours later Rosetta asks again for more disk space. I upgraded the disk space from 1 to 3 GB now and Rosette is still asking for more! 50 MB today what will it asks tomorrow? Of the 3 GB reserved for BOINC only 440 MB is used for other projects at the moment and over 2,5 GB(!) for the still asking more-space-Rosetta. So I'm getting sick and tired of this 'Very Hungry Caterpillar' begging every time for more and then begging for more again! Please ask once for what you need and I will give you space if I can afford it. Now I am in big doubt to remove this not-working-but-space-and-asking-and-asking-and-asking-project from my BOINC-list. Oh! Did I mention asking for space over and over again here? Cheers! CHD Okay, I can understand your drive might be nearly full or something, but the work units it downloads are actually quite small, they do however require quite a lot of space once they are downloaded & being computed. If you just set the amount that can be used high enough, you will not get it nagging at you to increase the amount allocated that BOINC can use. For example, mine is currently running 5 Rosetta 4.15 tasks & 3 Rosetta Mini 3.78 tasks and is using 7.17GB while they are processing at the minute. Once they are finished, uploaded & reported the amount of space taken reduces down towards 1GB or so for Rosetta on my system. If you just set it to be allowed to use 10GB or something, you are probably super unlikely to be asked to use any more.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Limited thread usage under Linux? (Message 93753) Posted 7 Apr 2020 by Mike Davis Post: Do you have only have your BOINC computing preferences (in BOINC manager) set to only use 50% of the CPUs on those systems, but 100% on the Xeon quad core? I assume it's the same deal under Linux, anyway.