I awoke this morning to the message on my home network server that I have less than 200 MB of diskspace left. After investigating, I found that stderr.txt consumed approximately 100 GB of my harddrive. What should I do to resolve this problem?

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I awoke this morning to the message on my home network server that I have less than 200 MB of diskspace left. After investigating, I found that stderr.txt consumed approximately 100 GB of my harddrive. What should I do to resolve this problem?

I would stop the BOINC manager. Read the file and check for any repeating errors and anomalies. If you find any, report them on the board.

If it doesn't look bad, delete the file content and restart the BOINC manager.

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William,

I'm really sorry that this happened. We work hard to avoid this sort of problem but you've hit upon a bug of which we'd like to hear more. Would you help us out? 100 GB is a bit much to email but could you determine whether the standard error file is filled w/ only one job or many? Likely the file is largely just a few lines repeated (and repeating and repeating) and if we knew what that was it would help. Also can you determine which WU it was?

Thanks - and please except my apology for this.

-Keith

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