AstroPulse v6 6.0.4 (opencl_nvidia_100) does not pause
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Questions and Answers : Windows : AstroPulse v6 6.0.4 (opencl_nvidia_100) does not pause
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So I pulled down one of these tasks in the last 24 hours, and it doesn't pause. I've got preferences set to pause tasks on user activity. It tells me the processing is suspended - computer in use, but it is still occupying at least a core of my dualcore and it /feels/ like my gpu as well. (Graphics transitions in w7, which are gpu rendered, lag like hell). | |
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Yeah, boinctray runs. I know the setting works normally because I've also got a climateprediction task and it successfully stops instantly on user activity (which is awesome because they take >100 hours to finish). | |
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>>4) If NVIDIA OpenCL AstroPulse tasks cause errors/lag for you why do you not try to run NVIDIA CUDA SETI@home Enhanced tasks instead? Edit your project preferences (available from your account), at "Run only the selected applications" check only SETI@home Enhanced and SETI@home v7, and uncheck "If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications?". Then click the Update Preferences button at the bottom of the page and you're done. Open BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Projects tab, select Seti, click Update. This will put those preferences in the client. Any Astropulse work still on the computer will have to be run or aborted, but new Astropulse work won't be downloaded. Apropos, as for AP not pausing when you want it to, make sure that it hasn't become a rogue process. Some applications defy the boinc_exit() command and go rogue. However, they no longer run under the BOINC client either. Can be tested by exiting BOINC completely, then checking in Windows Task Manager, Processes, what's running. ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception. | |
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Alright, thanks! I had the box unchecked for giving me work from other stuff, but had all 4 of the application options selected. | |
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I did not exit boinc at the time, however. You can exit BOINC whenever you like and it will NOT "break the work" done so far (BOINC tells to the app nicely "Please, exit" :) ). After you start BOINC the tasks will restart at around the Progress % it was before. (at least for SETI and most other projects, SETI apps checkpoint usually every minute. Only some 'rare' projects do not checkpoint) But "killing the processes" WILL error the task. Do not use this 'technique', there are many others (e.g. exit BOINC, Snooze from the tray icon, Activity menu, Suspend the project) ____________   - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) | |
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But "killing the processes" WILL error the task. I hate to say it, but when a task has gone rogue --where the user has already exited BOINC, but the application is still running as shown in Windows Task Manager-- there is little to do than to kill the process. That will probably err the task, but as there's no way to re-associate a rogue process with BOINC anyway, it's a moot point. ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception. | |
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Okay so another of those astropulse batches got pulled down (not sure why, changed prefs and hit update in client) and went nuts again. Exiting boinc was successful. So, process is problematic but not rogue. | |
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I waited 5 or 10 seconds after "Snooze GPU". If it takes any longer than that, it's defective for desktop use. And thank you for noticing I `hid` my computer. I wasn't previously aware that anyone on the internet could see that information, so I changed the setting. I don't much mind if logged in users only can see it, but I do not wish for Google's crawlers to see it. I changed the settings for seti so it would only give me non-astropulse batches, since those are a problem. ____________ | |
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Logged in users can only see certain info, mainly the CPU, GPU, OS, BOINC version, etc. They cannot see the name of the computer or the IP address. Only you can see those. ____________  | |
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And thank you for noticing I `hid` my computer. I wasn't previously aware that anyone on the internet could see that information, so I changed the setting. Can you see a way to identify me (as a human, not as some ID) from the info visible to you from my computer?: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=4832843 I changed the settings for SETI so it would only give me non-astropulse batches, since those are a problem. Don't forget: If no work for selected applications is available, accept work from other applications? no ***** But CUDA also make errors because of low VRAM (256MB): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=2611439209 Cuda error 'cudaMalloc((void**) &dev_GaussFitResults' in file 'c:/sw/gpgpu/seti/seti_boinc/client/cuda/cudaAcceleration.cu' in line 314 : out of memory. setiathome_CUDA: CUDA runtime ERROR in device memory allocation (Step 1 of 3). Falling back to HOST CPU processing... The only Valid 'SETI@home Enhanced v6.09 (cuda23)' task was actually made on the CPU: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/result.php?resultid=2611439207 setiathome_CUDA: CUDA runtime ERROR in device memory allocation (Step 1 of 3). Falling back to HOST CPU processing... You can try to disable Aero (the glass effect) but you may not like the ugly look of Windows (I don't know if they supply some XP theme with Windows 7 Ultimate, there is no such theme with Vista) ____________ - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) | |
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Nope. But my nickname is my real name. And that page gives full hardware information, OS version, and graphics card driver version. Very useful to an attacker. I just try to minimize the information disclosure, when I can. And I can here. So I will. You can try to disable Aero (the glass effect) but you may not like the ugly look of Windows Why? I'm also unsure of what the point is of repeatedly telling me that the batches are failing due to my graphics card's vram. If there were suggestions to run something like memtest86 (but for graphics cards) it might make sense, but I've not yet seen that. Perhaps it's some sort of social pressure to get a new one? ____________ | |
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The information is only useful if an attacker has your IP address. Taking away that information from us makes it nearly impossible to help users when they have a problem. If you wish to hide it, that's fine, but know that in the future if you have a problem, we may need you to unhide the information so we can take a closer look at the problem. You can try to disable Aero (the glass effect) but you may not like the ugly look of Windows The suggestion to turn off Aero is not due to a failing of your graphic's cards RAM (by the way, VRAM was a specific video RAM technology in use around the early 90's), but the suggestion is an educated guess based upon the fact that you may not have enough video RAM (256MB) available to run the GPU-based tasks, and Aero is known to consume a fair amount of graphics RAM. Telling you to run the graphics card equivalent of MemTest86 would be a bad suggestion if we don't think it is a RAM failure, hence why we haven't made the suggestion. I'm not exactly certain why you're jumping conclusions at the end there, though. A lack of trust in the people trying to help you closes the communication lines and makes it that much more difficult to assist you. I don't think any of us really care if you buy a new graphics card or not - I know I certainly don't. But the GPU-based tasks require up to 255MB of video RAM to run, and if you have Aero enabled, that typically consumes about ~8MB alone (dependent on many factors including what resolution you run at), meaning you don't have enough video RAM free to run the tasks. | |
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The information is only useful if an attacker has your IP address. Or you're using Internet Explorer... I found last week that my computer had been hijacked for ransomware, the perps trying to get me to pay 100 euros to get my computer back. I'd only used IE 9 for half an hour and was already infected with something that had burrowed itself into my computer through a Javascript routine. And that despite the hardware firewall, software firewall, active scanning Avira AV, some McAffee Internet solution and Superantispyware always on the lookout for baddies. The crap was actively blocking some of them and making it impossible for others to (continue to) run. Only cost me a reboot to Safe Mode and running an up-dated Anti-Malwarebytes to get rid of the infestation. Malware has difficulty blocking this programs as it runs with a randomly generated executable name, like fgdhjksl.exe Try blocking all those combinations. ;) Afterwards I was running just about all the other scanners as well, they found some lingering parts of this critter. All gone now. The only safe way to be doing things on the internet is to not be on the internet. Just unplug the cable, disable the Wifi. N00b. ;-) ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception. | |
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The information is only useful if an attacker has your IP address. Which means the real problem lied within Java, not necessarily IE. Since I have to support all three major browsers where I work, I know that Firefox and Chrome are also susceptible to the same flaw. We generally hate Java where I work due to all the virus infections we have had to take care of, but as long as Java is used on the web, we have to have it. What makes matters worse is that some of the internal software we've developed won't work on newer versions of Java, so we're stuck using older, flawed versions that remain un-patched. Only cost me a reboot to Safe Mode and running an up-dated Anti-Malwarebytes to get rid of the infestation. Oh and running just about all the other scanners afterwards as well, they found some lingering parts of this critter. All gone now. There was a far easier way to get rid of the ransom-ware. The malware typically inserts itself in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run or HKLU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run so that it loads at startup - so remove the entry there but make note of the filename used and the location it is launching from. Then go to that location and permanently delete that file. If you can't launch RegEdit to get to those registry entries, copy %windir%\Taskmgr.exe to a temporary location such as C:\TEMP and rename it IEXPLORE.EXE - the ransom-ware won't block Internet Explorer because there would be no way the user would be able to pay the ransom, so it won't typically block the process name IEXPLORE.EXE. Then launch the new IEXPLORE.EXE and kill the virus' process. N00b. ;-) LOL The only safe way to be doing things on the internet is to not be on the internet. Just unplug the cable, disable the Wifi. N00b. ;-) Fully agree. | |
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There was a far easier way to get rid of the ransom-ware. The malware typically inserts itself in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run or HKLU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run so that it loads at startup - so remove the entry there but make note of the filename used and the location it is launching from. Then go to that location and permanently delete that file. N00b. ;-) LOL Nope, was the first places I looked. I also thought it was easy, get rid of it by going into the registry and removing whatever it was using as Shell. So I looked for any entry using e.g. new_explorer.exe as the shell. No entries in my registry about those on either HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run or HKLU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run, HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run or HKLU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run-, HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run or HKLU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Runonce, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run-, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon And after it started blocking the other accounts that I used to check on it (it blocked the password of those accounts), I just threw Anti-malwarebytes at it. Far simpler than me going through all possible nooks and crannies of the registry. Finito. :-) ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception. | |
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There was a far easier way to get rid of the ransom-ware. The malware typically inserts itself in the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run or HKLU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run so that it loads at startup - so remove the entry there but make note of the filename used and the location it is launching from. Then go to that location and permanently delete that file. N00b. ;-) LOL Ah, sounds like one of the more sophisticated rootkit ransom-wares. Since we are not allowed to use Malwarebytes because we don't have a corporate license for it (and we used to use it all the time until we received a Cease-and-desist notice), we typically re-image the machine as it is far quicker to do that than to manually try to remove it. And we certainly can't expect our corporate copy of McAfee to remove it! | |
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The information is only useful if an attacker has your IP address. But this has nothing to do with hide/unhide your computer info on this site (on any project site) (To make it clear: no one attacked you based on computer info visible here, you just visited some 'bad' or hacked site) ____________ - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) | |
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I'm also unsure of what the point is of repeatedly telling me that the batches are failing due to my graphics card's vram. No one said exactly that - you omitted the most important word: LOW - "failing due to my graphics card's LOW (free) vram." (the Video RAM is working OK, it is just small amount (on the edge) to run GPU tasks) I many times bolded the important: 256MB, low VRAM (by VRAM I just mean the installed on the card RAM chips, not specific technology), cudaMalloc (Malloc = Memory allocation, function used by program to ask for XX MB) out of memory (? What can by more clear than that? - no free Video RAM for the app. Many programs exist that can show the amount of used/free Video RAM) ERROR in device memory allocation (I never said 'Video RAM is failing', I said "task error because of low VRAM", "... or by low free VRAM", "CUDA also make errors because of low VRAM (256MB)") ____________ - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) | |
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Questions and Answers : Windows : AstroPulse v6 6.0.4 (opencl_nvidia_100) does not pause
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