After running Seti for couple of weeks i decided to try Lunatics Win32 Lunatics' Unified Installer v0.2 optimized application. Now cuda work units after 10 or so seconds go down with "out of memory" errors. What have I done do screw things up like that? Here is what I get when starting Boinc

"11/17/2009 4:46:05 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.17 for windows_intelx86
11/17/2009 4:46:05 PM Config: use at most 2 CPUs
11/17/2009 4:46:05 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
11/17/2009 4:46:05 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3
11/17/2009 4:46:07 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
11/17/2009 4:46:07 PM Running under account Joe
11/17/2009 4:46:08 PM Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 6 Stepping 5]
11/17/2009 4:46:09 PM Processor: 2.00 MB cache
11/17/2009 4:46:09 PM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
11/17/2009 4:46:09 PM OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Premium x86 Edition, Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00)
11/17/2009 4:46:09 PM Memory: 3.25 GB physical, 6.68 GB virtual
11/17/2009 4:46:09 PM Disk: 223.34 GB total, 158.32 GB free
11/17/2009 4:46:09 PM Local time is UTC -6 hours
11/17/2009 4:46:09 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8600 GT (driver version 19107, CUDA version 2030, compute capability 1.1, 256MB, 76 GFLOPS peak)
11/17/2009 4:46:09 PM SETI@home Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
11/17/2009 4:46:10 PM Not using a proxy
11/17/2009 4:46:13 PM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 4256116; resource share 100
11/17/2009 4:46:13 PM SETI@home General prefs: from SETI@home (last modified 01-Nov-2009 10:13:42)
11/17/2009 4:46:13 PM SETI@home Computer location: home
11/17/2009 4:46:13 PM General prefs: using separate prefs for home
11/17/2009 4:46:13 PM Reading preferences override file
11/17/2009 4:46:13 PM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1662.69MB
11/17/2009 4:46:13 PM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3325.39MB
11/17/2009 4:46:13 PM Preferences limit disk usage to 50.00GB"

And here is one (Task 1423359860) of 10 or so work units with error:

"Work Unit Info:
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WU true angle range is : 0.387244
After app init: total GPU memory 268435456 free GPU memory 127004672
Cuda error 'cudaMalloc((void**) &dev_t_funct_cache' in file 'd:/BoincSeti_Prog/sinbad_repositories/LunaticsUnited/SETI_CUDA_MB_exp/client/cuda/cudaAcc_pulsefind.cu' in line 1047 : out of memory.
setiathome_CUDA: CUDA runtime ERROR in device memory allocation (Step 3 of 3). Falling back to HOST CPU processing...


Unhandled Exception Detected...

- Unhandled Exception Record -
Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x6572705F read attempt to address 0x6572705F"

Any help is appreciated , thank you

MR Jeep

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After app init: total GPU memory 268435456 free GPU memory 127004672
Cuda error 'cudaMalloc((void**) &dev_t_funct_cache' in file 'd:/BoincSeti_Prog/sinbad_repositories/LunaticsUnited/SETI_CUDA_MB_exp/client/cuda/cudaAcc_pulsefind.cu' in line 1047 : out of memory.
setiathome_CUDA: CUDA runtime ERROR in device memory allocation (Step 3 of 3).

Not enough GPU memory is available. Turn off all the fancy video stuff in Vista and you should have enough.

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Hi MrJeep,
I had the exact same problem as you about 2 weeks ago, except I am using the mobile 8600M GT (also has the exact same memory), on my laptop.
No matter what I disabled I couldn't get it to run without an 'out of memory' error. So I would suggest upgrading your current graphics card if possible to something a bit more sufficient.

- Luke.

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- Luke.

Gentleman GOT IT GOING.
After fiddling around a bit I lowered resolution down to 1280X768 and restarted computer. That must have done it as I am processing 1 x 6.08 cuda and 2 x 6.03 work units at this time and no errors yet. Thanks Labbie for your suggestion. Thank you Luke as well. Needless to say this message board rocks !!!!
By the way I am back in the game. Called it quits in June after 10 years but I AM BACK. MR Jeep.

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Gentleman GOT IT GOING.
After fiddling around a bit I lowered resolution down to 1280X768 and restarted computer. That must have done it as I am processing 1 x 6.08 cuda and 2 x 6.03 work units at this time and no errors yet. Thanks Labbie for your suggestion. Thank you Luke as well. Needless to say this message board rocks !!!!
By the way I am back in the game. Called it quits in June after 10 years but I AM BACK. MR Jeep.

Glad to see you got it running, I need my current resolution on my laptop so lowering it wasn't an option for me.
And by the way, you never really can quit SETI@home. ;).

- Luke.

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- Luke.

And by the way, you never really can quit SETI@home. ;)

No kidding! I've tried to quit. Many times.

This place is worse than crack. :p

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

And by the way, you never really can quit SETI@home. ;)

No kidding! I've tried to quit. Many times.

This place is worse than crack. :p

Tell me about it !!! I have been at it for 10 years now and back again. Moved 3 times, had 2 kids, got divorced, married ,moved to Texas.

My shrink thinks I'm crazy.

Mr Jeep

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My shrink thinks I'm crazy.

He just tells ya that cuz he wants ya to keep coming back :p

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=D

have not thought to stop yet

welcome back MrJeep =)

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welcome to Texas

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

My shrink thinks I'm crazy.

He just tells ya that cuz he wants ya to keep coming back :p

Sounds like good marketing to me.

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welcome to Texas

Thanks . Yes it's true everything here is big!!!!! You should see my neighbors wife. Just kidding....now.

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I had the same problem with an 8600GT card, changed my color depth to 16 and res to 1024X768 and
now it looks like I am not getting the memory errors on CUDA work units.

An example bad work unit

Sorry for all those errors. (time for a new graphics card I guess)

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Hi, I also just updated to the Lunatics Unified Installer v0.2, and immediately thereafter BOINC stopped getting new WU's. It says project has no jobs available.

Is there any place I can check so the WU's can resume?


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12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.10.18 for windows_intelx86
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Running under account ghar
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Processor: 4.00 MB cache
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Premium x86 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.00.6001.00)
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 4.24 GB virtual
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Disk: 280.17 GB total, 207.54 GB free
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Local time is UTC +8 hours
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8800 GT (driver version 19562, CUDA version 3000, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, 339 GFLOPS peak)
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM SETI@home Found app_info.xml; using anonymous platform
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Not using a proxy
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM SETI@home URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 5211044; resource share 100
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1023.19MB
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1841.74MB
12/8/2009 9:30:03 PM Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB
12/8/2009 9:32:57 PM No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
12/8/2009 9:32:57 PM Reading preferences override file
12/8/2009 9:32:57 PM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1023.19MB
12/8/2009 9:32:57 PM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1841.74MB
12/8/2009 9:32:57 PM Preferences limit disk usage to 10.00GB
12/8/2009 9:36:03 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/8/2009 9:36:03 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
12/8/2009 9:36:09 PM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/8/2009 9:36:09 PM SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)
12/8/2009 9:45:59 PM SETI@home work fetch suspended by user
12/8/2009 9:46:02 PM SETI@home work fetch resumed by user
12/8/2009 9:46:12 PM SETI@home Resetting project
12/8/2009 9:46:12 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/8/2009 9:46:12 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for GPU
12/8/2009 9:46:23 PM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/8/2009 9:46:23 PM SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)
12/8/2009 9:46:25 PM SETI@home Started download of arecibo_181.png
12/8/2009 9:46:25 PM SETI@home Started download of sah_40.png
12/8/2009 9:46:26 PM SETI@home Finished download of sah_40.png
12/8/2009 9:46:26 PM SETI@home Started download of sah_banner_290.png
12/8/2009 9:46:27 PM SETI@home Finished download of arecibo_181.png
12/8/2009 9:46:27 PM SETI@home Finished download of sah_banner_290.png
12/8/2009 9:46:27 PM SETI@home Started download of sah_ss_290.png
12/8/2009 9:46:28 PM SETI@home Finished download of sah_ss_290.png
12/8/2009 9:46:38 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
12/8/2009 9:46:38 PM SETI@home Requesting new tasks for CPU
12/8/2009 9:46:43 PM SETI@home Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
12/8/2009 9:46:43 PM SETI@home Message from server: (Project has no jobs available)

Is there any place I can check so the WU's can resume?

Thats because the splitters have stopped producing WU's. You'll get some when they're up again - hopefully soon...

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Is there any place I can check so the WU's can resume?

The place to look is the Server Status page.

I very much doubt there will be any new work until at least 22:00 UTC today, because they do scheduled maintenance on Tuesdays.