Posts by Khali
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Number crunching :
The dreaded "not requesting new work, don't need message"
(Message 1548742)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by  Khali
Post: Ah, but in my case I run the same application on my CPU and each GPU. I don't mix and match several different CPU projects at the same time. Yes he did and I missed his post when I scrolled down and just saw the post after that one. My mistake. I did indeed run the Lunatic installer and did not make the connection that it might be why I'm having problems/issues since I have had similar issues on other Boinc projects where I had not installed any new software at all. I'm sorry if I am coming across argumentative or rude. That is not my intention at all. Lets just say I am dealing with a lot of stress due to my Father, who has Alzheimer's, being in the hospital after a bad fall late last night. Thank you every one for trying to help out. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
The dreaded "not requesting new work, don't need message"
(Message 1548712)
Posted 28 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: Ah, but in my case I run the same application on my CPU and each GPU. I don't mix and match several different CPU projects at the same time. For example, I am running AP on my 780 Ti, the only exception is when the odd Poem GPU task pops up and those are rare lately. Nothing but GPU Grid long runs on my 680, and my CPU is running only Poem tasks, aside from what CPU resources my GPU's need. Yes there is some variation in the estimated run times but not enough to mater when my task buffer is set to a minimum of 0.1 and with a max additional of 0.2. |
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Number crunching :
The dreaded "not requesting new work, don't need message"
(Message 1548685)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: Not quite sure what it means by anonymous platform but I will keep chugging along and hope it gets sorted out. My apologies if I sound like I went off on a rant about Boinc. All I can say is some of the things the client does just do not make sense to me. Instead of following the logical path of doing things it seems to go off on a tangent and do the oddest things that make no sense to me. Bit of a pet peeve of mine. For example, it likes to jump all over the place in my task buffer and not run the tasks in a logical way by running the ones with the shortest deadlines first. Thus we end up with it going into panic mode or just not getting tasks done and having to abort them. I don't like taking tasks then not getting them run because of what the Devs call Boinc's "learning mode" when you complain about it over on the Boinc forums. A few of them get rather condescending over it as well. |
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Number crunching :
The dreaded "not requesting new work, don't need message"
(Message 1548355)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: Try updating to Boinc 7.2.42, those were the sort of issues reported and fixed when 7.0.64 was first released, rather than being backported into the 7.0.x line, those fixes eventually arrived in a new version. I am already running 7.42.2 so that isn't going to help my problem. Speaking of which I found why my client isn't asking for more work. It thinks it takes my GTX 780 Ti 11:57:25 to run one task when in reality it averages out to some where around 30 minutes. So it thinks I already have enough work for my minimum work/maximum additional work settings. Looks like I am going to have to play around with my Seti settings to get around the Boinc clients major run time estimation flaw. |
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Number crunching :
The dreaded "not requesting new work, don't need message"
(Message 1548346)
Posted 27 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: I'm having the same problem with my GPU. I am down to one task and its not even trying to get any more. The Boinc Dev Team is too much in love with what they call the "learning" aspect of the Boinc client, and what I call unneeded fuzzy logic that serves no useful purpose to us the users. |
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Number crunching :
SETI@Home Wow!-Event 2014
(Message 1548067)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: Crunching@EVGA will be there! |
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Team Recruitment Center :
Crunching@EVGA Project of the Month
(Message 1548063)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: I am proud to announce that SETI has been chosen by our Cruncher of the Month, bcavnaugh, as the project of the month for August. Crunching@EVGA members will be making SETI our main focus for the month of August. With the emphasis being on the period between August 15th through to the 28th for the SETI.Germany's Wow event/contest. 
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Number crunching :
Server flooding me with tasks
(Message 1547744)
Posted 26 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: When I woke up today the first thing I did was to shut my system down and do a reboot. That seemed to fix what ever the issue was. Apparently it was on my side after all. I am still not sure why it did what it did. As far as I can see the date and time is correct on my system. But no, I did not really look at it when I did the reboot. I suspect this is going to be one of those glitches that I will never have a clear answer to why it happened. Unless it happens again and I did further into it. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Server flooding me with tasks
(Message 1547658)
Posted 25 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: When I woke up today the first thing I did was to shut my system down and do a reboot. That seemed to fix what ever the issue was. Apparently it was on my side after all. I am still not sure why it did what it did. Since this had never happened before I jumped to the conclusion that there was something wrong on the server end. Well we all know what assumptions get you. To clear one thing up. I am only running Seti AP tasks on one GTX 780 Ti. My other GPU, GTX 680, is running GPU Grid and that's all it runs. Every other project has been excluded from the GTX 680. I originally had Seti set as a filler project when there were no Poem GPU tasks to run on the 780 Ti. But when I saw there were some AP tasks I put Poem on stand by and went full tilt into the AP work. Thanks for the suggestions and trying to help me out with this issue! |
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Number crunching :
Server flooding me with tasks
(Message 1547303)
Posted 25 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: If ATM Khali is doing just AP task each on his two GTX 780 Ti's then he'll need to reserve a CPU core for each GPU task as I think that Khali is doing other projects on his CPU cores. ;-) I don't understand how this is going to stop the server from sending me more tasks. I tried suspending Poem thus freeing up all of my CPU cores and it made no difference. The problem is either with my client, keeps asking for more work even though I have plenty, or the server is stuck and just keeps sending more tasks my way for whatever reason. Which I still don't understand since I have not changed any settings before this all started. Seti has always ran fine before this. Its almost 5AM here so I am just going to leave it set to not get any more work and let it crunch away at the huge pile of AP tasks I have on hand and head to bed. I will look at this more when I wake up. |
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Number crunching :
Server flooding me with tasks
(Message 1547230)
Posted 25 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: Are you reserving a CPU core for every AP task that is run on your video card (1 core for 1 GPU AP task, 2 cores for 2 AP tasks)? I have not reserved any CPU cores. Right now my Boinc client is running AP tasks with 0.561 of a CPU core. I also have a GPU Grid Long Run task running and it is using 0.852 of a CPU core. I also have Poem@Home running on what CPU cores I have left in my i5-3570k, which is taking up 3 CPU cores. My system, i5-3570k, 32GB ram, GTX 680(running GPU Grid), GTX 780 Ti(running Seti AP tasks). Both my GPU's are only running one task at a time. The only odd thing I have noticed is the AP tasks are jumping between using 65% and 85% of the 780 Ti. The only things running on my system are Boinc, Firefox, and StarCraft 1. I got nostalgic the other day and installed StarCraft again. I discovered I can run it and not have to throttle down Boinc at all. |
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Number crunching :
Server flooding me with tasks
(Message 1547212)
Posted 25 Jul 2014 by Khali
Post: I seen there was a new batch of AstroPulse tasks put up on the server so jumped in and allowed new tasks from Seti. I need them to get my 100 hours completed for a WUProp@Home badge. I had tabbed out of the Boinc Client and was browsing the web when I noticed Firefox lagging pretty badly and it kept lagging for about 20 minutes. I went to take a look to see if I could find the problem. What I found was my Boinc client was constantly downloading AstroPulse tasks. I hit the No New Work button and went to check my settings. Both my Boinc Client and my account settings on the Seti web page are set to Minimum Work Buffer 0.1 Max Additional Work Buffer 0.2. I have been using this setting for months and never had any problem. To make sure it wasn't a single time glitch I hit the Allow New Tasks button and I instantly got two more tasks downloading. I now have 85+ AstroPulse tasks waiting to be run on my GTX 780 Ti. No, I'm not complaining. These tasks are semi rare and I am happy to run them. But, you might want to check and see if the server has an issue. I don't want to hog all the tasks and not leave any for any one else. |
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