Boinc - Activities Suspended

[JarrodH]

Ok downloaded Boinc a couple of days ago and joined the SETI team again as well as Rosetta @ home. Couldnt get any work for Rosetta (said not enough space) so I changed my preferences on the Rosetta site to 1 gig of space for Rosetta. I loaded Boinc up today and now see the message "Activities Suspended" for both Seti and Rosetta work. Did I change something stupid and mess up Boinc?

Machine is as follows:

AMD Athlon 2500
512mb PC 3200 Ram
120 gb hard drive
Win2k and Boinc version 5.2.13

Any help would be great as I didnt see anything about "Activities Suspended" on their help site.

Edit: Ok click the run always and it started up again, but I would like it to run based on my preferences.

Thanks,

Jarrod

 

[Crazee]

It could have been running the benchmark. When it is running that the project activities will be suspended. If you look in the messages tab of BOINCmgr it should have a message giving you an idea of why they were suspended.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

If it started running when you clicked "run always", make sure that your computer and BOINC Rosetta / Seti use the same time zone.

 

[Rattledagger]

It's possible was suspended due to 5-day benchmark, or manually hit "Suspend", but more likely is due to your Global Preferences

Check the settings of these:
Do work while computer is in use? yes
Do work only between the hours of (no restriction)


Note, a computer connected to multiple projects will use the "Global preferences" from the project that last was edited, and these will be updated on all project-sites if uses same email-address on all projects.


As for disk-space, normally it's no reason to change any of the default values:
Use no more than 100 GB disk space
Leave at least 0.1 GB disk space free
Use no more than 50% of total disk space
Use no more than 75% of total virtual memory

Even the default is 100 GB, you'll in most projects only use upto 100 MB or something, except in CPDN.