Posts by DavidL

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Message: Not enough disk space when there is enough space (Message 55393) Posted 29 Aug 2008 by DavidL Post: Is there any way to get Rosetta to ask for less work? Yes, let it complete tasks. Sounds like your debt level to Rosetta is increasing faster then it is getting work. You might want to increase the Rosetta preference for WU runtime. But do so gradually. Maybe bumping it 2 notches each day. That way Rosetta will only need one task per CPU to keep it busy all day long (if you get to the highest runtime preference), so overall it should be less disk space used by the project. don't forget to check your preferences for how many extra days of work you want to download as well. reducing the number of days of extra work also reduces disk space. Thanks. It has gotten to the point where I can't download any new work at all, and am unable to do Rosetta tasks, even when I don't get any new work for the other projects I'm crunching for. So it's not a matter of letting Rosetta finish tasks. Unfortunately, it was already set for only having a 1/4 extra day of work. I doubt setting that to 0 will have much impact, but I'll try. I also did bump up the Rosetta preference to 120. I'll see if that helps.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Message: Not enough disk space when there is enough space (Message 55372) Posted 29 Aug 2008 by DavidL Post: As I already said: There is enough disk space but rosetta is still complaining. The last time I had this error I increased the disk usage by setting a higher limit in local preferences. This shouldn't be necessary because BOINC already can use 470MB at the moment. I could do that (and had done it in the past) but its just a workaround, no solution, there must be a problem in calculating the needed space on the server. I just want to check where it is. I've got a somewhat similar problem - I get messages that Rosetta needs more disk space, but every time it attempts to get work, it's asking for more work than it did the last time, thus needing more disk space, so that even if I've freed up enough to satisfy an earlier complaint, now it needs more. Is there any way to get Rosetta to ask for less work?