I've tried searching the forums high and low for a solution to this problem, but I keep getting the same posts.
I'm getting the "Your computer has only 64000000 bytes of memory; workunit requires 3108864 more bytes" error message and it's preventing me from downloading any work.

I'd be fine with resigning myself to my fate if this computer didn't have 1Gb of RAM in it.
It's a brand new FreeBSD 6.0 installation on an Athlon XP 1800+ with 1Gb of RAM.

There are two reasons I figure this is happening.
1) I think BOINC is detecting my memory wrong:
"Memory: -4096 bytes physical, 0 bytes virtual"

or 2)Does freeBSD only allow 64Mb of memory per process? That seems awfully restrictive though.

Has anyone else had a problem with this?
Thanks.

Looks like a problem in the memory detection. Which version of the boinc client do you use ?

At the third party sites are a boinc client for freebsd listed :
http://www.lb.shuttle.de/apastron/boincDown.shtml#freebsd
I recommend you to test this boinc client.

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I'm using the latest version of the boinc client (5.2.13).

I'm not familiar with the beta clients vs. the regular clients. Is there any disadvantage to running them? Or is the link you provided just old since it says it's a v5 client, and I'm already running a v5 client?

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I'm using the latest version of the boinc client (5.2.13).

I'm not familiar with the beta clients vs. the regular clients. Is there any disadvantage to running them? Or is the link you provided just old since it says it's a v5 client, and I'm already running a v5 client?

This is a boinc client V.5 (5.2.14) bundled with the seti@home enhanced (=beta) app (version 5.05). Boinc version 5.2.x are stable, version 5.3.x are boinc dev releases. I not recommend you to use the 5.3.x releases.

You can dowload and unpack it, backup or old boinc client, and copy the boinc client from Stefan to your boinc directory, and start it.

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I'm using the latest version of the boinc client (5.2.13).

I'm not familiar with the beta clients vs. the regular clients. Is there any disadvantage to running them? Or is the link you provided just old since it says it's a v5 client, and I'm already running a v5 client?

This is a boinc client V.5 (5.2.14) bundled with the seti@home enhanced (=beta) app (version 5.05). Boinc version 5.2.x are stable, version 5.3.x are boinc dev releases. I not recommend you to use the 5.3.x releases.

You can dowload and unpack it, backup or old boinc client, and copy the boinc client from Stefan to your boinc directory, and start it.

I tried the new SETI client as you suggested, but there were some linking issues with the freeBSD compiled boinc client that I could not resolve.

As you can see here boinc is clearly not detecting my memory correctly. Is there some flag I can use such as

run_client --extended_memory_support

to correct this? Or am I out of luck and should just install a Linux distro?

I'd really like to help the SETI project with this server since it's so overpowered for a closet server, but has too little harddrive space for any kind of file server.

I tried the new SETI client as you suggested, but there were some linking issues with the freeBSD compiled boinc client that I could not resolve.

Which Problems do you have ? - Can you please post the output from "ldd ./boinc_client".

As you can see here boinc is clearly not detecting my memory correctly. Is there some flag I can use such as

run_client --extended_memory_support

to correct this? Or am I out of luck and should just install a Linux distro?

I'd really like to help the SETI project with this server since it's so overpowered for a closet server, but has too little harddrive space for any kind of file server.

Your system will be shown false as Linux...
Can you please remove the client_state.xml and start the boinc client again.

I think, it is the best way to look why the binary from Stefan will not work, and get this binary to work....

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