On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:44:07 GMT, Cernnunos
<cernnunos2NO@SPAMMERSntlworld.com> wrote:

Well done with this answer, but it is totally wrong (though I don't
think the answer is down to you).  This is NOT a SETI problem, but a
problem with the new BOINC client (I'm running 5.2.6).  Up until
Monday of this week I was running Windows 2k on an Athlon 2400 system
with 512Mb memory and a 40Gb partition (which was never allowed to get
below 500Mb free), and SETI kept giving me that 64Mb error message
since I upgraded BOINC 5.2.6.

Now, for other reasons, I had to reformat my HDD and decided to use
Win XP Pro (as I'm a computer engineer going for MCSE qualification
soon and need to be up-to-date).  My HDD is now relatively virgin, has
28.5Gig free on the HDD, Task Manager is reporting 120Mb free memory
and I still get the following log when I start BOINC up:

<snip>

Both error messages the same, and I've not changed settings for BOINC
or the projects since I started running BOINC back in March/April, but
now I don't have sufficient resources available.

Actually checked my accounts and it seems I actually started on
Climate in August 2004.

I've always supported SETI@home since I joined in February 2000, and
was certainly not blinkered when it came to the new BOINC version to
the project, but I think Berkley have bitten off more than they can
chew with this project if two seperate projects are complaining that a
(relatively) new computer is not capable of running their work.  I
have better things to do with my time and resources than to mess
around with something I do as a volunteer.

Berkeley, get your act together before you loose suppoerters!

Andy

I have just checked both my accounts.  Climate Prediction has the
following settings:

Disk and memory usage	
Use no more than	1 GB disk space	
Leave at least	0.2 GB disk space free	
Use no more than	50% of total disk space	
Write to disk at most every	60 seconds	
Use no more than	75% of total virtual memory

SETI@home has the following settings:

Disk and memory usage	
Use no more than	1 GB disk space	
Leave at least	0.5 GB disk space free	
Use no more than	50% of total disk space	
Write to disk at most every	60 seconds	
Use no more than	75% of total virtual memory

Slight difference there in the 'Leave at Least' setting, but even so.

Andy