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Message 51595 - Posted: 22 Feb 2025, 19:03:12 UTC

I've been away from BOINC for a while. Getting back into the swing of things I noted two things. First, LHC is taking up over 14 Gb of storage yet only putting out 0.09 average work with no recent work units completed/assigned. With multiple computers connected, mostly Apple and Linux, only one is showing as active or at least connected. However, no work units from it either.

With no clear understanding of what has changed since I last had a viable setup nor where to look, a pointer to helpful information would be great. Scanning the community forums is not helping, or at least I'm not finding information to resolve my questions.

I'm running Virtual Box 7.1.16. The Mac Mini is a 2014 version on Monterey 12.7.6. It's at life limit of Apple support. Everything is running/working fine re: hardware, OS, etc.

Thanks for any and all pointers and recommendations.
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Message 51647 - Posted: 6 Mar 2025, 16:33:49 UTC - in response to Message 51595.  

Your computers have only 8 GB RAM, hence can run SixTrack, may be Theory vbox, but ATLAS and CMS are not recommended since they require lots of RAM.

SixTrack didn't send any work for many months.

Theory for MacOS doesn't work atm due to a bug in vboxwrapper.
A solution is work in progress but there's no due date yet.
So, please check the announcements at the forum.
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