Fellow BOINCers,

Is there a manner by which one configure Boinc Manager to say "Do not accept tasks from project xyz where the disk space required for that particular task exceeds X GB or MB)"?

Stuart

It's all or nothing with BOINC.
No current way to limit by project and probably would make the scheduling code more complicated than what is now.

Fellow BOINCers,

Is there a manner by which one configure Boinc Manager to say "Do not accept tasks from project xyz where the disk space required for that particular task exceeds X GB or MB)"?

Stuart

1) The simplest method is to go into advanced settings and adjust the buffers down. Something like 0 additional days and 0.2 - 0.5 days buffered.

2) You can run your BOINC within a virtual machine with a limited hard drive size.

3) You can run a separate BOINC installation on different partitions and assign different control ports per client.

4) You can micro manage projects by going to the server preferences and unchecking the work units that send down the largest project files. Only choose the smaller work units (and usually lower paying, but not always).

On 2) and 3), when a partition gets full the project will complain about lack of space and another project with smaller requirements will bring down work.