Message boards : Number crunching : Not getting work for my GPU anymore
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Starting last night my computer hasn't been assigned any tasks. | |
ID: 31720 | Rating: 0 | rate: / Reply Quote | |
You should not set the buffer so high (only 0,1 or less?), that costs you only points because you miss the 125% Bonus for sending the units back inner 2 Days. I see your only one from todays is validated. The ones before are mostly erroring, so i would say, the server did not send you more units on that days because you produced so much errors. The second thing i would try to stop cpu work for two days only to test if it reduce perhaps the errorrate or leave one cpu core free with no work. When i does not work, try to set 25mV more GPU Voltage and perhaps the GPU Clock 50-100Mhz lower when it doesnt help. The third thing because i see your computer is running Win7 is, do you run the units in one piece without reboot, logout or user switching? Because these three Events can crash the units too, in this case do do not need to change anything on your system, only let the units compute in one piece. | |
ID: 31721 | Rating: 0 | rate: / Reply Quote | |
Thanks for the quick advice, but there's a few things I really don't know how to implement. How do I leave one CPU free, and why would that help? Would telling GPU grid to use up to 100% of a CPU do the same effect? | |
ID: 31722 | Rating: 0 | rate: / Reply Quote | |
Thanks for the quick advice, but there's a few things I really don't know how to implement. How do I leave one CPU free, and why would that help? Would telling GPU grid to use up to 100% of a CPU do the same effect? The CPU feeds the GPU and is only little time active. With the new long runs CPU time is almost the same as GPU time, so the CPU is important. If all cores are crunching then the GPU load will drop dramatically. You can change CPU usage via the BOINC Manager, then to the tab "processor usage", and then at the bottom "On multiprocessor systems, use at most ... % of the processors". You can set that at 99% but I have bad experience with that setting. If you have 8 cores/threads, then every 12.5% is one core/thread. I have set it to 80%. Giving the graphics card more voltage or clock rate you can use utility software from the manufacturer of the card, or you can download MSI Afterburner, which is free and heavily used in this project by many crunchers. However as dskagcommunity already said, first try to run without any tasks on the CPU. Set new work to no and let them finish and then see how it goes. And work for 0.1 or 0.15 is enough. You can also try short runs only first. One tip: if you need to reboot your system you can first set the work to "suspend", via BOINC Manager and then reboot. Afterwards you can resume the task(s). In many cases this worked at my system. ____________ Greetings from TJ | |
ID: 31735 | Rating: 0 | rate: / Reply Quote | |
The first thing to check is whether BOINC requests GPU at all. To do this set BOINC manager to advanced mode, then choose extras -> messages. Initiate a manual project update for GPU-Grid and report the lines appearing in the log. | |
ID: 31759 | Rating: 0 | rate: / Reply Quote | |
No new tasks since my first post. | |
ID: 31848 | Rating: 0 | rate: / Reply Quote | |
Strange.. but I see you got one today. Let's how this works out! | |
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Message boards : Number crunching : Not getting work for my GPU anymore