Dick Gevers <dvgevers.no@spam.xs4all.nl> wrote:

Just turned to BOINC. My (main) Linux box runs okay whithout problem. But
a secondary box that I rarely use which runs W2K with only 64 Mb of memory
won't run BOINC. It has run seti for several years, but now it refuses,
BOINC telling me it is just short a few bites of memory. Nonsense, seti
has always run on it, at about 1 wu per day.

How do I bypass this stupid error?

You don't, it's a parameter at the scheduler which requires your system
to report 67108864 bytes of memory or more before it will send you any
work.

The memory amount is read by BOINC each time it starts, so you can't
accomplish anything by exiting BOINC and modifying a file. Mac and Sun
systems report all installed memory. Windows reports installed memory
less any which has been taken by the BIOS to hold code from ROM. Linux
reports installed memory less what is needed by the OS.

It is possible that reconfiguring the BIOS to run itself and any video ROM
code from ROM rather than the faster RAM would make the difference.

The enhanced version of setiathome will probably come out of beta test
fairly soon, and I think the best chance of getting the memory limit
reduced will be at that time. I suggested something like 56 MB in one
of the beta test <URL: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ > forum
threads not too long ago. Eric Korpela is basically alone on SAH
development now, he's aware of the issue but it's unlikely to be a high
priority for him.

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                                                   Joe