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AStrong9 Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 8,700,365 RAC: 0 |
I have two computers, both have NVIDIA CUDA cards and AMD quad processors. One computer continues to receive a generous amount of CUDA and non-CUDA work. The other has mysteriously stopped receiving non-CUDA work units while the GPU gets heavily overloaded with CUDA work units. The AMD quad CPU sits idling with no work units to crunch. Anybody got any suggestions as to what gives? |
bill Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 861 Credit: 29,352,955 RAC: 0 |
Have you tried changing the settings on your account web page to cpu only? |
AStrong9 Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 8,700,365 RAC: 0 |
I just did. It suspends GPU work, but no CPU work units are downloaded. |
AStrong9 Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 4 Credit: 8,700,365 RAC: 0 |
When I do network communications, the project only attempts to get GPU tasks: 3/2/2012 12:18:13 AM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 3/2/2012 12:18:13 AM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU 3/2/2012 12:18:15 AM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 3/2/2012 12:18:15 AM SETI@home Message from server: No tasks sent 3/2/2012 12:18:15 AM SETI@home Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress 3/2/2012 12:23:23 AM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 3/2/2012 12:23:23 AM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU 3/2/2012 12:23:25 AM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks 3/2/2012 12:23:25 AM SETI@home Message from server: No tasks sent 3/2/2012 12:23:25 AM SETI@home Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I have two computers, both have NVIDIA CUDA cards and AMD quad processors. One computer continues to receive a generous amount of CUDA and non-CUDA work. The other has mysteriously stopped receiving non-CUDA work units while the GPU gets heavily overloaded with CUDA work units. The AMD quad CPU sits idling with no work units to crunch. Anybody got any suggestions as to what gives? I have had that happen before. When work is scarce, the scheduler apparently tries to always feed the fastest resource first. Usually the GPU. If the GPU does not get up to quota, the CPU gets nothing. And runs out of work. Work is flowing pretty good right now, I would be surprised if your GPU cache does not hit the limits and then some CPU work starts coming. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Kevin Olley Send message Joined: 3 Aug 99 Posts: 906 Credit: 261,085,289 RAC: 572 |
Check your preferences, have you got anything in your "connect about every" if so reduce it to 0 days. Kevin |
bill Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 861 Credit: 29,352,955 RAC: 0 |
I just did. It suspends GPU work, but no CPU work units are downloaded. Now go into your Boinc Manager , Activity tab and check Use GPU never. Wait 5 minutes then request work and see what happens. |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
I just did. It suspends GPU work, but no CPU work units are downloaded. You did the wrong thing. ;-) Setting your SETI@home preferences to "Use NVIDIA GPU no" would never suspend GPU work already downloaded. It'll only prevent new CUDA tasks to be assigned to your machine(s). Gruß, Gundolf |
bill Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 861 Credit: 29,352,955 RAC: 0 |
I just did. It suspends GPU work, but no CPU work units are downloaded. Not the wrong thing if your trying to force cpu work. First you tell the system that you only want cpu work, then you set your computer to only work on cpu work units. The message he's getting that says "3/2/2012 12:18:15 AM SETI@home Message from server: This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress" tells the tale. |
bill Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 861 Credit: 29,352,955 RAC: 0 |
It would help if you unhid your computers. |
LadyL Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 0 |
I have two computers, both have NVIDIA CUDA cards and AMD quad processors. One computer continues to receive a generous amount of CUDA and non-CUDA work. The other has mysteriously stopped receiving non-CUDA work units while the GPU gets heavily overloaded with CUDA work units. The AMD quad CPU sits idling with no work units to crunch. Anybody got any suggestions as to what gives? it helps to track problems if you unhide your computers. When you're not getting work, the first question is 'is it not asking or is it not receiving?' - check your massages tab/event log and post. It can have all sorts of reasons, but as Matk stated with the current server status you should be getting work now, so if you don't, I suspect you somehow disabled CPU work. |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
check your massages tab/event log and post. We have a massages tab now do we? ;-) Claggy |
LadyL Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 0 |
Sorry I was answering the wrong copy of you post, didn't see you'd opened a fresh thread. From your log you can see it's not requesting. In the preferences page Gundolf quoted, check that you have CPU work enabled. If you run other projects on that host, it may be a resource thing, but then the CPU should be doing other projects not sitting idle. We may have to delve into workfetch debug logs... |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
check your massages tab/event log and post. That's another reason for asking him to unhide his computers. As things stand, we don't know whether he's using BOINC v6.10, v6.12 - or anything else. It's hard to tailor specific advice for a new visitor to these boards without that information. |
LadyL Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 0 |
check your massages tab/event log and post. I don't know about you, but I could do with one, I've got a stiff neck. |
ivan Send message Joined: 5 Mar 01 Posts: 783 Credit: 348,560,338 RAC: 223 |
check your massages tab/event log and post. Me too, but mine's from a rather spectacular bike-racing incident (not the one that led to the tyre rubber on my number plate in my avatar photo, that one didn't even bring me down...). |
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