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And then it just sits there. Forever.

You need to attach to the project.

Could you please look into the quick install guide in /opt/boinc/doc/install, there is a alternative attach procedure by adding your account key in the file account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml described. - If you do a boinc_client -attach project, the boinc client deletes contents in the projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu directory. So this the only alternative to attach to the project.
The fix for this problem will included in the next stable release.

Normaly, you could made a link from the libssl and libcrypto which the boinc client requireds to the libs you have installed. Should also work.
Btw. do you have linked the libs, or downloaded the openssl for openbsd 3.6 ?

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I've done all of this. If you look in my previous message, there is a line that says "[SETI@home]". That can't happen if I'm not attached. The librairies are now OK or the program wouldn't start, like it did before.

I found the problem, it was just related with me being stupid. I now fixed it.
....but now I get this:

2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: Your computer has only 66625536 bytes of memory; workunit requires 483328 more bytes
2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: Your computer has only 66625536 bytes of memory; workunit requires 483328 more bytes
2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work sent
2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work sent
2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: (there was work but your computer doesn't have enough memory)
2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: (there was work but your computer doesn't have enough memory)

that's silly....only 472k..how can I get it to work anyway?

I've done all of this. If you look in my previous message, there is a line that says "[SETI@home]". That can't happen if I'm not attached. The librairies are now OK or the program wouldn't start, like it did before.

I found the problem, it was just related with me being stupid. I now fixed it.
....but now I get this:

2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: Your computer has only 66625536 bytes of memory; workunit requires 483328 more bytes
2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: Your computer has only 66625536 bytes of memory; workunit requires 483328 more bytes
2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work sent
2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work sent
2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: (there was work but your computer doesn't have enough memory)
2006-03-17 18:39:20 [SETI@home] Message from server: (there was work but your computer doesn't have enough memory)

that's silly....only 472k..how can I get it to work anyway?

Man you're having all kinds of bad luck aren't you? You might could unload some stuff out of memory. I'm assuming you only have 64 meg right? You really need 96 to 128 to run comfortably. It might barely run if you remove any programs from your startup that you don't absolutely need, but I doubt if you would be able to remove enough to get it to work. This computer is on the borderline of being unuseable and would probably not be very effective at all once we get the enhanced app into the mainstream. I run a PIII 500mhz with 324megs memory and it still takes me around 65+ hours and that's with an optimized app! You could certainly add more memory and run it on the seti app we're using now then when the enhanced app hits mainstream you might could find another project with short wu's such as einstein that would run decently. (There are probably a lot more but I'm only familiar with seti, einstein and climate prediction, and you sure woudn't want to run one of their's!)

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Jim

Some people plan their life out and look back at the wealth they've had.
Others live life day by day and look back at the wealth of experiences and enjoyment they've had.

ok, I need to add some RAM.
I still find it dumb cause I ONLY lack 472k, and there is no reason why the program wouldn't work if it didn't checked the total memory size. On my windows box, the seti client uses 25MB ram, 25MB swap. And, according to top on openbsd my usage is currently this:
Memory: Real: 14M/33M act/tot Free: 23M Swap: 7632K/128M used/tot
with 128MB of swap, it would run.
Of course, with the primary use of this computer not being seti (it's a server for some non-demanding stuff), maybe I should just dump everything....damn I miss the classic's days.

ok, I need to add some RAM.
I still find it dumb cause I ONLY lack 472k, and there is no reason why the program wouldn't work if it didn't checked the total memory size. On my windows box, the seti client uses 25MB ram, 25MB swap. And, according to top on openbsd my usage is currently this:
Memory: Real: 14M/33M act/tot Free: 23M Swap: 7632K/128M used/tot
with 128MB of swap, it would run.
Of course, with the primary use of this computer not being seti (it's a server for some non-demanding stuff), maybe I should just dump everything....damn I miss the classic's days.

Ok, I'm just going to take a guess here, but I imagine the reason it demands a certain amount of memory when your windows machines show it not taking that much is for a "worst case" situation. Work units vary in the amount of processing that they require due to several factors, the main being the angle range of the work unit. In mainstream seti you don't notice the difference very much but the enhanced application can vary in processing time by many hours. When I was running the standard enhanced application I could crunch an "average" wu in about 95 hours. A high angle range wu took around 65 hours. That's a big difference, at least on this computer. And there are some wu's that take even longer. So I imagine it's because of the differences in the wu that they want to make sure the application doesn't crash on a low angle range unit.
If you want to add some memory I'm sure it will crunch, but it will be slow, especially when the new enhanced app gets here.

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Jim

Some people plan their life out and look back at the wealth they've had.
Others live life day by day and look back at the wealth of experiences and enjoyment they've had.

Normaly, you could made a link from the libssl and libcrypto which the boinc client requireds to the libs you have installed. Should also work.
Btw. do you have linked the libs, or downloaded the openssl for openbsd 3.6 ?

Cummingspatricl, do you have installed the openssl package from openbsd 3.6, or linked your libs (libcrypto.12.0 to libcrypro.11.0 and libssl.10.0 to libssl.9.0), to get it to work ?

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