On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:04:51 GMT, f/fgeorge <ffgeorge@yourplace.com>
wrote:

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YEP that confirms it! You have "use no more than 1 gb disk space".
That may not be enough depending on your cache settings, try lowering
your "connect to network every" to .1 days and see if that fixes it.

Well, I upped the 'Use no more than' to 5Gb like yours, and, yes, it
brought in work units for both projects.  I just checked the
directories, and with a stalled unit left over from my old setup,
BOINC's folder still only reaches .98Gb.

I still say this is a problem with BOINC.  Who wants to have to
continually mess about with settings when a new version of BOINC comes
around.  Like I say, my system was running fine for 15 months until I
installed v5.2.6.  Why should I have thought that my settings were
wrong when they'd been working fine until then.  This sounds like a
chunk of bad code in BOINC, or it's miss-reading the HDD.

Well, I'm bloody minded enough to put up with this annoyance to stay
with it, but I'm betting BOINC will lose a lot of volunteers of every
project if they have to mess around with settings like this.  And how
many do they lose that don't have helpful people like you on a
newsgroup to help sort their problems.

Any way, thanks for giving me a pointer to what was wrong with mine.

Andy