BOINC suddenly has zero memory available

[JC]

Sorry, feeling a bit lazy and google-searching time-constrained, ALL my projects now report no memory available. I've changed no settings on any project. The little googling I did shows this issue at various times over the years, but I didn't find an easy answer. Thoughts? Again, sorry for my laziness, but I just don't have the downtime. I hate having my box doing nothing.

Thanks.
JC

 

[Skillz]

Can you post the exact message here? I don't know if BOINC is referring to RAM memory or storage.
What project(s) are you running?
What's your system specs? (CPU, RAM, HDD/SSD size)

 

[mmonnin03]

Weekly stats show LHC, E@H and Folding. But I see no LHC tasks which was my first guess as the memory hog.

Computer 10773508

 

[crashtech]

LHC is notoriously difficult to get to run in Windows except for Sixtrack tasks, which are rarely (if ever) available. The only reliable way I've been able to run LHC lately is to install CVMFS on a Linux host and run Atlas tasks natively (No VirtualBox).

VirtualBox might be great for someone who is experienced with it, but it's always been a giant PIA for me.

 

[mmonnin03]

To clarify, JC has no LCH tasks but had them up to the 7th. There's just a huge lack of info from JC to do anything but ask follow p questions.

 

[JC]

Sorry for the lack of info. All projects seem to report no memory available.

LHC@home: Notice from server CMS Simulation needs 7629.39MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 7629.39 MB. 6/10/2025 12:11:50 AM

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LHC@home: Notice from server Theory Simulation needs 7629.39MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 7629.39 MB

There are usually similar messages from Rosetta and WCG.

Crashtech: LHC was running fine (never saw a sixtrack WU), sometimes 4 or 8 CPUS no problem.

Skillz: i7-12700F, 32GB, 500GB NVMe, GTX 1050.

 

[crashtech]

Maybe you could post a screenshot of the "Disk" tab in Boinc Manager > Options > Computing Preferences.

 

[Skillz]

What crashtech said.

BOINC is probably set to use a low % of your available storage and thus BOINC doesn't think you have any space to download storage.

or your disk drive is actually full.

 

[JC]

Here ya go, but I haven't made any changes to this.....at least not that I'm aware of.



Drives don't appear to be full, either.

 

[JC]

Tried reinstalling, nada.

Changed disk usage "use no more than" from 10GB to 390GB, projects seem to be running again. I swear I didn't change that setting!

 

[Skillz]

You probably didn't change it. You just used up the 10GB you allocated to it.

 

[mmonnin03]

Yes, the Windows CMS .vdi file is 4GB alone.