Bin and I are on it. Its exactly the scenario that Charles described below. We'll figure out a solution!

Here is what I think is happening. It contacts the server asking for a new WU. The server starts going through a list of available WUs. If my machine does not meet the memory requirements, it gets sent one of these error messages. This continues until either the list is exhausted, in which case it causes a 24 hour backoff, or it happens to hit a WU in the list that has small memory requirement. In this latter case the WU is sent as usual.

Charlie

I have a number of computers with less than 512Megs of ram, and since the upgrade I have been getting a number of error messages on those computers like this:

6/10/2006 5:30:21 PM|rosetta@home|Message from server: Your computer has only 266780672 bytes of memory; workunit requires 233219328 more bytes

The work units download and complete without any problems, but the computers then stop communicating with the server. So the results are never sent in for credit and the computers stop requesting work.

I realize that the minimum requirement is 512megs, but these computers have been crunching without any problems for 6 months. Are you now forcing computers to have 512megs before allowing them to take part in the project?

Just 'Merged' our machines.....no problems apparent.....thanks for the upgrade (fix).....Cheers, Rog.

I just tried merging a couple of mine, but after I clicked on the link to merge them, the list of computers ("check which computer is the same as [NAME]" or something like that) showed no computers.

I'm here because of the CNN article. You'll have 5 new CPUs (one dual core) up and running soon to help out. I think Rosetta is something way more important to look for than something like Seti, so, all my processing power to ya! :D

Montana