On SL 7.1, 64 bit :
How often does/should BOINC 7.6.6 clean up the slot directories / remove empty slots ?
Empty slots should be reused somehow, shouldn't they ?

Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:57:05 CEST | SETI@home | [error] exceeded limit of 200 slot directories
Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:57:05 CEST | SETI@home | [error] Can't create task for 08jl11aa.22829.16120.438086664200.12.191_2
Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:57:05 CEST | SETI@home | [error] exceeded limit of 200 slot directories
Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:57:05 CEST | SETI@home | [error] Can't create task for 12ja11ac.20991.17002.438086664202.12.211_0
Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:57:05 CEST | SETI@home | [error] exceeded limit of 200 slot directories
Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:57:05 CEST | SETI@home | [error] Can't create task for 12ja11ac.20991.17002.438086664202.12.228_0
Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:57:05 CEST | SETI@home | [error] exceeded limit of 200 slot directories
Tue 13 Oct 2015 23:57:05 CEST | SETI@home | [error] Can't create task for 12ja11ac.20991.17002.438086664202.12.202_0

Situation :
0 - 3 are empty slot directories.
4 - 6 are used slot directories.
7 - 202 are empty slot directories.
After removing slots 7 - 202 , host has continued normally but did not reuse empty slot dirs 0 - 3, instead created new ones 7 - 10.

Is that how BOINCs slot usage strategy should work ?

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Urs

If possible update to a later BOINC version. 7.6.11 has a fix:

client: fix a bug introduced in commit [44c82be] which prevented the re-use of empty slots.
This bug affects only Mac / Linux / UNIX builds. It does not affect Windows.

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Thanks Jord.

Will rebuild my Linux client from newer source to get rid of that bug.

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Urs