Bogus error: Not enough Disk space?

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RE: I solved the problem

Message 20149 in response to message 20148

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I solved the problem :)
You won't believe it: http://einsteinathome.org/goto/comment/20156

Uli,

Glad to hear it!! But, it makes me wonder if the fix will last. That is, as you know doubt read, several people reported "fixing" similar problems by just "reloading" their existing preferences. This had us speculating the cause could be either a "bug" in the BOINC client or (as Gary Roberts thinks) just random interactions between BOINC checkpointing and other (non-BOINC) computer disk operations (probably involving large temp files). We also believe, that if Gary is correct, the problem is likely to surface again for those who just "reloaded existing prefs". Since you didn't change your prefs by a significant amount, you may also be vulnerable.

As it stands now, I subscribe to Gary's theory (I didn't initially) - but we still don't have enough good evidence to prove it. I think you may be the first to report the problem while running an older BOINC version (not BOINC 5.2.X). That tends to discount the new BOINC "bug" theory. So you may have helped out!

Again, I apologize for my earlier antagonistic post. I hope we can put this episode behind us and work amicably together in the future.

Thank you and good luck on your "fix"!

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RE: What ist this? I'm

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What ist this? I'm running BOINC (SETI, LHC and Einstein) on a 160 MByte ramdisk since more than a year. Suddenly it complains about not enough disk space? What have you changed on your end, cause i didn't do anything?

Ulrich, you have myself (and Walt Gribben) to blame for your problems! A few days ago Walt pointed out a bug in the scheduler code that checks disk allocations, and suggested a fix. i applied his fix to Einstein@Home right away, but with the following comment boinc checkin_notes.

This is completely consistent with what you observed. Set 'leave X free' to 0 and you get minimum 100 free. Set it to 0.001 and you get something smaller.

Sigh.

Bruce

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RE: RE: What ist this?

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What ist this? I'm running BOINC (SETI, LHC and Einstein) on a 160 MByte ramdisk since more than a year. Suddenly it complains about not enough disk space? What have you changed on your end, cause i didn't do anything?

Ulrich, you have myself (and Walt Gribben) to blame for your problems! A few days ago Walt pointed out a bug in the scheduler code that checks disk allocations, and suggested a fix. i applied his fix to Einstein@Home right away, but with the following comment boinc checkin_notes.

This is completely consistent with what you observed. Set 'leave X free' to 0 and you get minimum 100 free. Set it to 0.001 and you get something smaller.

Sigh.

Bruce

Its my fault more than yours, Bruce, you questioned that line but I didn't get back with a reply until just recently.

Very sorry Ulrich, I try to not make destrutive changes but that one slipped by.

Walt

Ulrich Metzner
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Thank you sirs, no damage

Thank you sirs, no damage taken :)

Aloha, Uli

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RE: As it stands now, I

Message 20153 in response to message 20149

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As it stands now, I subscribe to Gary's theory (I didn't initially) - but we still don't have enough good evidence to prove it. I think you may be the first to report the problem while running an older BOINC version (not BOINC 5.2.X). That tends to discount the new BOINC "bug" theory. So you may have helped out!

On the other hand, the "bug" theory still looks pretty good. ;-)

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