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..anyone else getting a bunch of "running High Priority " for the last 2 days ?
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MusicGod Send message Joined: 7 Dec 02 Posts: 97 Credit: 24,782,870 RAC: 0 |
For the last two days my main computer has been sacked with Running High Priority WU`s....some running for 30 hours and more........then comes up error in computing...is there a way to expunge these vultures and parasites? |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
You have run into the CUDA sleep bug where when the monitor goes to sleep it also puts the GPU to sleep. Best bet is upgrade to the just released 301.42 http://www.geforce.com/drivers |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
"Running High Priority" have nothing to do with your computer's errors on CUDA tasks. ("Running High Priority" is Not the cause of the errors, it is consequence of the long running tasks. The cause for errors is the NVIDIA driver 296.10) You are victim of the "sleep bug" in the NVIDIA driver 296.10 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=6641502&offset=0&show_names=0&state=5&appid= http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=2429178527 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=67844&nowrap=true#1223973 Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
shizaru Send message Joined: 14 Jun 04 Posts: 1130 Credit: 1,967,904 RAC: 0 |
Most probably the 296.10 driver sleep bug... Either downgrade drivers to 280 series or Upgrade to 300 series or Set your monitor to never go to sleep & turn it off manually. (You could start with this one on, say, your 550ti to see if it helps... before you go changing your drivers) The "High Priority" is just a side-effect of the extra-long crunch times. Edit: As you can see from the replies, it's a common problem:) |
MusicGod Send message Joined: 7 Dec 02 Posts: 97 Credit: 24,782,870 RAC: 0 |
Thanks Alex,Arkayn and Bilbg I`ve upgraded my drivers to 301.42. I will see if that helps. I will be purchasing a 680 very shortly and replace my 55ti into another machine. Possibly remove my gts 250 or the 260 in the other machines. Thank you for your replies. EWC |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
For your hosts running Boinc 7.0.25, Be aware that Boinc 7.0.25 has a High Priority Bug, upgrade to Boinc 7.0.27 or 7.0.28 for the fix, Preliminary Change Log 7.0.26 --> 7.0.27: Download links are in the BOINC 7 Change Log and news thread on the Boinc Forum. Claggy |
LadyL Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 0 |
For your hosts running Boinc 7.0.25, Be aware that Boinc 7.0.25 has a High Priority Bug, upgrade to Boinc 7.0.27 or 7.0.28 for the fix, That applies only to seti beta and iirc one other unfortunate project. (Milkyway) Anyway 7.0.25 is full of bugs and upgrading to 7.0.28 is advisable in any case even if that's officially Alpha. IMO .25 shouldn't have gone to recommended. I'm not the Pope. I don't speak Ex Cathedra! |
andybutt Send message Joined: 18 Mar 03 Posts: 262 Credit: 164,205,187 RAC: 516 |
Completely agree. Caused me a lot of problems. Gone back to 6.10.58 |
MusicGod Send message Joined: 7 Dec 02 Posts: 97 Credit: 24,782,870 RAC: 0 |
Claggy, DO I need to incrementally upgrade? I`m running 6.10.58 on my Asus 64 the one I keep gettting High priority and lots of error messages........I went to the download link to download and when it went to install it told me that the .msi file is on another computer or network drive...so it aborted........can you advise? Thanks |
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 19 Sep 00 Posts: 3184 Credit: 446,358 RAC: 0 |
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MusicGod Send message Joined: 7 Dec 02 Posts: 97 Credit: 24,782,870 RAC: 0 |
Gundolf, Thank you very much for that link,.It was invaluable and helped me fix another computer that had a bad Boinc manager......thank YOU!!!! It`s too bad that link can`t be a permanant fixture to the Seti@Home main page..it would solve a lot of problems for a lot of people. |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
There does seem to be a wave of people lately, myself included that are getting high priority tasks... (Also see several users lately complaining about not being assigned CPU work for about a week (since the big outage it seems)) #resist |
Fred J. Verster Send message Joined: 21 Apr 04 Posts: 3252 Credit: 31,903,643 RAC: 0 |
There does seem to be a wave of people lately, myself included that are getting high priority tasks... A few weeks ago, I updated all 3 rigs and a LT to BOINC 7.0.25, but haven't seen much High Priority, only when I stopped BOINC, (too hot) and restarted them around 24:00 h (UTC+2). (Switched off 1 C2Q6600+GTS250 and 1 C2D+ ATI 5770, cause of the heat wave and moving into a much smaller appartment!) Also didn't have faulty results, just a little trouble gettin my I7-2600 +2x ATI 5870 cruncher to work with OpenCL. Works OK for now, unless problems reappear, I'll use 7.0.25. If 7.0.27 appears to be better, I'll UPdate. |
MusicGod Send message Joined: 7 Dec 02 Posts: 97 Credit: 24,782,870 RAC: 0 |
My `puter seems to have made it beyond the high priority wave that hit me and she is leveling out. I did get a few errors off of them but not nearly as much as before I upgraded the nvidia driver. MY RAC seems to be rising again that`s a good sign.........my imac has been chugging away with no problems....I`m keeping my fingers crosse dthat the tsunami of HP tasks are done with. |
-BeNt- Send message Joined: 17 Oct 99 Posts: 1234 Credit: 10,116,112 RAC: 0 |
Mine was doing that for a day or two after the power outage. It seems to have leveled out now. But now I'm not getting assigned any cpu task just gpu....been like this for days now. Traveling through space at ~67,000mph! |
shizaru Send message Joined: 14 Jun 04 Posts: 1130 Credit: 1,967,904 RAC: 0 |
Mine was doing that for a day or two after the power outage. It seems to have leveled out now. But now I'm not getting assigned any cpu task just gpu....been like this for days now. Not getting or not asking? If it's not asking go to Seti prefs and uncheck the "Use nVidia GPU" option. Update Seti in Boinc Manager and that should get you CPU work instantly. Don't forget to go back and re-check "Use GPU". Obviously this is just a workaround... |
-BeNt- Send message Joined: 17 Oct 99 Posts: 1234 Credit: 10,116,112 RAC: 0 |
It was asking just not getting any, it would consistently tell me the project had no work for them. I used Fred's rescheduler and moved some work to the cpu. Once those reported it filled up with 600+. No clue why it just stuck but it's going fine now. Thanks for the suggestion. Traveling through space at ~67,000mph! |
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