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Stick Send message Joined: 26 Feb 00 Posts: 100 Credit: 5,283,449 RAC: 5 |
I recently upgraded from Catalyst 13.1 to 13.4 on my laptop in an attempt to fix a crashing problem with a new app at Collatz. (It worked.) After the upgrade, I started getting SETI@home v7 v7.03 (opencl_ati_cat132) tasks here. Most of the time, these tasks have finished up OK and, as their wingman results come in, they validate. But I've had two results that did not. One crashed at around the 90% complete mark and the other finished up OK but was invalid. My laptop is pretty reliable and is not prone to problems like this. Therefore, I suspect a glitch in software. Any thoughts? |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
Do you monitor temperatures of CPU and GPU? (the 'One' that crashed may be caused by high temperature) The 'marked as invalid' may be server glitch as the other task of the WU is still 'validation inconclusive': http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1302356833 Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
Stick Send message Joined: 26 Feb 00 Posts: 100 Credit: 5,283,449 RAC: 5 |
Do you monitor temperatures of CPU and GPU? No, I don't monitor temps. But I don't overclock either. And, while it's certainly possible that this one was caused by a hardware hiccup, I'm just not seeing any other indications that point to hardware.. The 'marked as invalid' may be server glitch as the other task of the WU is still 'validation inconclusive': Hmm! I saw that too, but didn't consider the server glitch possibility. Is that an issue here? If so, I've missed it. |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
And now it has validated - 2 NVidia GPUs (1 cuda50, 1 Anonymous Platform) got -9 overflow (28,0,0,0,2). Yours must have been different, but the Task Details doesn't give the signal count for yours. Didn't look to see if the others were consistently throwing -9s. Might also be the result file got damaged in transit, that can cause an automatic invalid... May be just "one of those things". Worry if it happens on a regular basis. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Please delete all files ending with .bin .bin_V7 and .wisdom from your project folder. The binaries should be created by the new drivers. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
Monitor temperatures: SIV - System Information Viewer (you need only siv.zip - no install, just unpack and run SIV32X.exe or SIV64X.exe , should work also on your Pentium computers - reads also motherboard sensors, not only CPU internal sensors) http://rh-software.com/ Control temperatures: TThrottle (set max temperature for CPU and GPU, BOINC processes will be Throttled if it is reached) http://efmer.eu/boinc/ Â - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :) Â |
cov_route Send message Joined: 13 Sep 12 Posts: 342 Credit: 10,270,618 RAC: 0 |
Please delete all files ending with .bin .bin_V7 and .wisdom from your project folder. +1. Very important and not documented AFAIK except in the forums. |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
Please delete all files ending with .bin .bin_V7 and .wisdom from your project folder. In the ReadMe_MultiBeam_OpenCL_ATI.txt Readme: Known issues: Claggy |
cov_route Send message Joined: 13 Sep 12 Posts: 342 Credit: 10,270,618 RAC: 0 |
I'm supposed to read the readme files? Why hasn't anyone explained this to me before!!! |
Stick Send message Joined: 26 Feb 00 Posts: 100 Credit: 5,283,449 RAC: 5 |
Please delete all files ending with .bin .bin_V7 and .wisdom from your project folder. Mike, Claggy and cov_route, Thank you for this suggestion! I deleted 47 such files (with varying dates of creation) from my project folder and 20+ have now been recreated. My gut feeling was that the issues I reported had something to do with upgrading Catalyst and at least this suggestion deals with that possibility. Hopefully, the problems will go away and we'll be able to say it worked - but, unfortunately, it's one of those things we won't be able to prove. Stick |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
I'm supposed to read the readme files? Why hasn't anyone explained this to me before!!! LoL, RTFM ;D SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
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