Posts by ChristianB

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Message: Not enough disk space when there is enough space (Message 55428)
Posted 31 Aug 2008 by ChristianB
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The BOINC client also attempts to allocate disk space to the various projects you attach to based on their resource shares, and the nature of whether their files would require download again if the client deleted them. You said you are running three projects. What are the resource shares between them?

That could be part of the problem. The resource share was:
- Orbit@home: 1000 (suspended)
- Rosetta@home: 100 (0 tasks)
- SETI@home: 1 (4 tasks)

After detaching from orbit@home rosetta now gets 99% of available space (according to the info you pointed me to) but the message still comes back from the server. There is 470MB available for BOINC and it uses 30MB thereof so it's enough free space for at least one rosetta task. (It's the host# 673574). The work cache is set to 1 day for this host.

I have a Vista Laptop also running rosetta with some different settings and the latest client (6.2.18). The preferences limit the disk usage to 930 MB and BOINC uses 350 thereof. 320MB for rosetta alone with ~70 tasks (host# 776261). This host is attached to two projects with the ressource shares:
- lhc@home: 1000 (suspended@90.91%)
- rosetta@home: 100 (~70 tasks@9.09%)

The work cache is set to 3 days + 3 days additional work.

The client application has been enhancing this balancing act between projects, and you are running a rather new client, but not the 6.2.18 nor the 5.10.45 that are currently recommended. Have you tried running one of the recommended versions?

6.2.15 is still recommended for Linux x86.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Message: Not enough disk space when there is enough space (Message 55417)
Posted 31 Aug 2008 by ChristianB
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Could we please come back to my problem with rosetta? Have you looked into the issue Mod.Sense?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Message: Not enough disk space when there is enough space (Message 55361)
Posted 28 Aug 2008 by ChristianB
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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.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Message: Not enough disk space when there is enough space (Message 55256)
Posted 24 Aug 2008 by ChristianB
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Hi,

I recently have a problem with rosetta which might be a bug at server side. I don't know how to debug this further so I want to ask if some project admin can give it a try. Here is what happens:

OS: Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Client: 6.2.15 (but was there before too)
Projects:
rosetta@home: no work
seti@home: 1 task
orbit@home: no work

Message at client startup: Preferences limit disk usage to 0.47GB (means 470 MB right?)
At this moment BOINC uses 47.00MB on disk (projects use 31.70MB therefrom) and the client shows in disk tab: used by BOINC: 44.52MB and used by projects: 33.2MB the differences are ok. The actual disk size: 14GB free, 49.2GB total, 72% used, 28% free, BOINC uses 0.32% of free space. But what happens now is somehow strange:

The system is low on work and requests work from rosetta@home (3789 seconds) but gets the reply: There was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated. An additional 47 MB is needed.

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 already enabled sched_op_debug but the only useful info that appeared was the rosetta server version (601).

Here are some lines from the scheduler request file:
<working_global_preferences>
 <global_preferences>
   <disk_max_used_gb>0.500000</disk_max_used_gb>
   <disk_max_used_pct>80.000000</disk_max_used_pct>
   <disk_min_free_gb>1.000000</disk_min_free_gb>
 </global_preferences>
</working_global_preferences>
<disk_usage>
   <d_boinc_used_total>49059954.000000</d_boinc_used_total>
   <d_boinc_used_project>18298242.000000</d_boinc_used_project>
</disk_usage>


and here is the reply:
<scheduler_version>601</scheduler_version>
<master_url>http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/</master_url>
<request_delay>242.400000</request_delay>
<message priority="high">No work sent</message>
<message priority="high">There was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated.</message>
<message priority="high">An additional 47 MB is needed.</message>


I think it must be a server issue but rosetta is the only project where I recognized this (maybe the server version is too old but there is no way to say what revision version 601 is).
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Join the BOINC WorldWide frappr-map! (Message 26454)
Posted 9 Sep 2006 by ChristianB
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Ever mentioned where those other BOINCers come from? Don't want to install Google Earth?

Then just have a look at the BoincWorldWide frappr-map!

Please sign on to this map and show others where you are crunching Workunits for Science.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Google Earth Placemarks for BOINC Projects (Message 10991)
Posted 20 Feb 2006 by ChristianB
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Hello Folks,

finaly i had some time to update BOINC Placemarks.

All Infos and Files can be found here: http://www.pcschmiede.de.tf/boinc/

P.S.: All german BOINCers should check the new BOINC-Podcast at http://boinccast.podhost.de
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Why requesting so little work? (Message 10531)
Posted 7 Feb 2006 by ChristianB
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Thank you for your Response. It gave me some good hints whats going on. In the meantime i had detached all other Projects except Rosetta at my Computer here cause this one has permanent Internetaccess (on workkdays). I hope it will collect enough work to get over the Weekend.
So far i got enough work for 5 Days (says BoincView) but the CC got into critical EDF mode and is not downloading work any more. Lets see whats going on in the next days.

Btw: The duration-correction-factor seems to get better now.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Why requesting so little work? (Message 10498)
Posted 6 Feb 2006 by ChristianB
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I have a somehow equal problem. I have 2 Clients that should crunch Rosetta mainly. I set Connection time to 5 days because i have dial-up. So the CC is requesting 117870 seconds (32h) of new work but only gets 2 WU (12h). After 10mins it request the same amount of new work but only gets 2 WU.

The second Problem is because my Client is faster than BOINC is expecting. I crunch one Rosetta-WU within 1.5h and not 6h so my 3days cache runs low within 12h. Until i can switch on Internet next time the Client has no work.

I tried to attach to another project to compensate the lack of work from rosetta but that had no effect because my long-term-debt for rosetta is very high and so the CC is not downloading any other work.

As a workaround i pause rosetta from time to time to let the other Project get work. But thats not what i want. I want to have work for 5 Days within 1 Request. The only project where this works great is Seti@home (ATM).

Some Infos at the end:
BOINC Client 5.2.15
Windows 2000 SP4
Running 24/7
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Google Earth Placemarks for BOINC Projects (Message 2009)
Posted 1 Nov 2005 by ChristianB
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I have updated the Placemarks und designed a tiny downloadpage. The Link is http://www.pcschmiede.de.tf/boinc/index.html Feel free to give me some locations to build in.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Google Earth Placemarks for BOINC Projects (Message 1866)
Posted 28 Oct 2005 by ChristianB
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Here is a Collection of Placemarks that show the location of some Projects.

Google Earth Software is free and can be found here: http://earth.google.com/ (You need an Internet Connection while using it, Broadband is recommended!)

Placemark collection can be found here: http://www.pcschmiede.de.tf/boinc/

Feel free to share the URL because i will update it with new Data as soon as available.

Further Updates:
- build a Layer that fits to Arecibo Observatory
- find out where the Cell Computing Project is located






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