abandoned work units won't go away
13 Sep 2006 16:21:03 UTC
Topic 191822
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Well, that title probably misrepresents a little. They disappear from the Work screen, but not from the Data screen. The abandoned units are taking up more than 6mb of space, and I can't download more work units because of lack of space. I can't figure out how to delete the data from those abandoned units.
I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.7
Running Boinc Manager v.5.2.13
Thanks!
abandoned work units won't go away
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Do know, I lack knowledge of how to do things on a Mac, but I do know my way around BOINC.
You said you aborted results in your Work tab in Boinc Manager, yes?
To get rid of the results on the drive, you need to report those aborted results to the project. It will then download new work.
That's how it usually works, at least. So make doubly sure you don't have new work already in your list.
I've communicated with the
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I've communicated with the server several times since aborting the units, and all it does is try to get more units. Thanks for your response, and I'll look again to see whether there's *anything* I can find that'll force the reporting of the aborted results, but as of this moment those aborted results had completely disappeared from the work tab so I'm not sure how I'd do that...
Ok, if they are no longer in
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Ok, if they are no longer in the Work tab of your Boinc Manager, you can easily take it they are gone.
You can go into your \\BOINC\\projects\\einstein.phys.uwm.edu\\ folder and delete the results still waiting. I wouldn't. Why not? Because else you have to download it again.
Einstein downloads one big work unit to your hard drive. It slices off parts of it to crunch.
My question is, are you crunching other projects as well, if yes, which?
I have no other einstein
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I have no other einstein projects currently crunching. Currently, only SETI is crunching anything on this machine. I'll go see if I can figure out where Boinc is storing the data files...
By projects, I mean the
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By projects, I mean the projects by name. Einstein, Seti, primegrid, CPDN, Spinhenge, Pirates... they are all projects.
What you crunch for them are work units, or results.
So you have 1 Seti result currently crunching and you can't get work from Einstein? What exactly does it say in Boinc Manager, in the Messages tab when you press update on Einstein?
Anything alike (not requesting new work or reporting completed work) ??
Aborting a Task of
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Aborting a Task of Einstein@Home usually doesn't free much diskspace (if any at all). The largest datafile is downloaded with the first Task for this file and stays on the disk as long as you get work for it. The scheduler should take care of giving you Tasks for that file as long as there are some available to actually avoid downloading a new file with every new Task.
If the scheduler tells you that he's not sending work because of disk space issues, aborting tasks doesn't help. Either free more disk space or adjust the your disk space settings in the general preferences (see "Your Account" on the front page).
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Jorden, here's the error
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Jorden, here's the error message:
Wed Sep 13 13:02:51 2006|Einstein@Home|Message from server: No work sent
Wed Sep 13 13:02:51 2006|Einstein@Home|Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
Wed Sep 13 13:02:51 2006|Einstein@Home|Message from server: No disk space (YOU must free xx MB before BOINC gets space). Review preferences for minimum disk free space allowed.
Wed Sep 13 13:02:51 2006|Einstein@Home|No work from project
But it's been resolved. I cleared the requested disk space, deleted the aborted files (but kept the file that indicated it was albert whatever), and updated with the server, at which point it had me download an update to the albert thing and a bunch of new files, and *then* the amount of space indicated as used on the Data tab went down.
Thanks for your assistance!