LHC@home

Hi, this is my first 1,000,000 turn LHC@home work unit. After running for 10+ hours and 70+% complete, I got the following messages. Is it just me, or is anyone else having this problem?

LHC@home - 2004-10-02 00:00:09 - Aborting result v64tunescan142s6_8615_1_sixvf_1646_2: exceeded disk limit: 855682296.000000 > 30000000.000000
LHC@home - 2004-10-02 00:00:09 - Unrecoverable error for result v64tunescan142s6_8615_1_sixvf_1646_2 (Maximum disk usage exceeded)
LHC@home - 2004-10-02 00:00:09 - Deferring communication with project for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
LHC@home - 2004-10-02 00:00:10 - Computation for result v64tunescan142s6_8615_1_sixvf_1646 finished
SETI@home - 2004-10-02 00:00:11 - Restarting result 01mr04ab.2990.2224.797144.23_0 using setiathome version 4.03
LHC@home - 2004-10-02 00:00:14 - Started upload of v64tunescan142s6_8615_1_sixvf_1646_2_0
LHC@home - 2004-10-02 00:00:17 - Finished upload of v64tunescan142s6_8615_1_sixvf_1646_2_0
LHC@home - 2004-10-02 00:00:17 - No data transferred

My computer is a Pentium III 800 MHz running Windows XP SP2 with BOINC 4.09. The BOINC client reported over 900 MB for "BOINC free space".

This is one of boincs safety features. We have said that the workunit needs about 30 MB but it has used much more, so boinc kills it. This makes sure that we do not take up to much work space or allow runaway disk usage.

It seems very wrong that it should take up so much disk space. I will try to figure out if it is a problem with the WU.


Christian Søttrup
LHC@home Developer

Thanks for the prompt reply. =)