Well now I'm afraid of any updates!
Two attempts at reinstalling have failed and its not because of the 396.54 driver install.
I fear something new has been introduced to the Linus Dist I have that screws up the success I was able to achieve prior to the new whatever came out.

Not going to allow Linux to update until I get a working install with the 396 driver on one GPU.

Well something new and odd this morning trying to reinstall this.
I was in the process of adding the other 9 GPU's to the mobo one at a time and it will only let me hook up 8 of them.
Going to install the 396 driver and see if that stock NVIDIA driver is the limiting factor.

I guess the trick is NOT to do the updates...

Yea, I'm gonna defend against this with a cloned HD that I can swap out fast.
This sucks.

Man am I royally pissed off this morning!

I went to turn the miner on and BOINC wont start. The icon flashes.
Then I get this notice from Linux that there are updates and I need to install them. Okay, what do I know...

Install updates...

Now I'm stuck in a log on loop again!

I cant reinstall the video driver through the console because I cant get to the desktop to load the NVIDIA driver that kills that other thing.

UGH!!! Reinstall??

Got to...

I'm not liking this Linux thing so much anymore...

Thanks Tom!

So one of you tell me how to make a new file in the seti folder under Boinc in Linux.
I want to make one of those settings .xml files in there and see if assigning larger CPU assignments makes a better cruncher.

If you are in a gui, there might be a text/programming file editor called "leafpad" in the accessories entry.

If you are on the command line I have had good luck with an editor called "nano" cd into the folder you are trying to create the file in.

HTH,
Tom

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So one of you tell me how to make a new file in the seti folder under Boinc in Linux.
I want to make one of those settings .xml files in there and see if assigning larger CPU assignments makes a better cruncher.

RATS!

All I want is a ride in a spaceship anyhow! Poop on another toaster!

Another toaster? Don't tell me, you have been fishing on the "dark side" ! You got a toaster from Seti Beta!!!





ROFLing.....

Tom

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RATS!

All I want is a ride in a spaceship anyhow! Poop on another toaster!

A rumour that is very far from the truth.

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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

YAHOO! I made on the leader board at #72 page 4!

And there is an unproven RUMOR that the first time you get to the first page on the LeaderBoard you get an "authentic" SETI toaster :)

Tom

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YAHOO! I made on the leader board at #72 page 4!

So Murphy was at my house again. I got that RAM for the miner but it didn't post or boot so its going back.

geez. As TBar warned, I had to take the miner down to 10 GPU's. Prob due to low mem. The 16GB should be here today, then I'm gonna see if I can get all 19 GPU's firing.
I see the #1 on the board has over 100 PC's working the problem! One has to assume he has access to a fleet in a business... Wish I did. 400K AVG? Never catch that guy.

I got Desktop12A & B into a xeon 12 core each now so that's good. I have one more on the way.

The ASRock Rack mobo in SUPER32 will only allow three GPU's! :-(

It beeps and wont post with all four. Couldn't get the CUDA90 Linux driver to load at all.

Might try a diff version this weekend, maybe try two AMD & two NVID'S?

Its all fun.

3Perl(sp) is a director of IT and apparently has permission to run Seti on all his workstations.

WildCard is the individual top performer with a straight load out of Gtx 1080Ti's. You should be able to at least make the first page of the LeaderBoard with your current Miner rig with a bit more ram. After all, I am hanging out on the 2nd page with only two Gtx 1060's (and 40 cpu threads but that doesn't count, or does it :)

Might see if your SUPER32 has a bios update. I am pretty sure I found one for my MB.

Tom

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geez. As TBar warned, I had to take the miner down to 10 GPU's. Prob due to low mem. The 16GB should be here today, then I'm gonna see if I can get all 19 GPU's firing.
I see the #1 on the board has over 100 PC's working the problem! One has to assume he has access to a fleet in a business... Wish I did. 400K AVG? Never catch that guy.

I got Desktop12A & B into a xeon 12 core each now so that's good. I have one more on the way.

The ASRock Rack mobo in SUPER32 will only allow three GPU's! :-(

It beeps and wont post with all four. Couldn't get the CUDA90 Linux driver to load at all.

Might try a diff version this weekend, maybe try two AMD & two NVID'S?

Its all fun.

Here is a question...
If my recent average credit is > 67K why am I not listed on that page of the leaderboard in that range of average credits?

Because the RAC I am seeing is more like 28K, not 67K. You can get "spot" RAC's for a day from other websites but the Seti website uses a moving average based on a number of days.

I installed a gtx 750Ti in place of two Gtx 1060 3GB's that I am moving to another box. And the RAC in Seti for that machine is still way up there. I am pretty sure the 750 supports in the 15,000 RAC range. But because of the "weight" of the previous results, it is taking its own sweet time to go down.

The same problem applies to the RAC going up. It can take "several" weeks to get your RAC up there. I have been told it often takes 6+ weeks. Except for former Bitcoin miners :)

Tom

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Here is a question...
If my recent average credit is > 67K why am I not listed on that page of the leaderboard in that range of average credits?

I have tried several times to install this on the SUPER32 system with no success.
Same problem several tries. Log on loop. I was sure my execution of your instructions was flawless last two attempts.
Must be a driver system comparability issue? Dunno.
Cant hurt to try the 390 driver. ?? This is an old dual Xeon server board from ASRock.
If 390 fails the same way, I'll try the app anyhow.
If it runs without errors, I'll let it run for a bit to see if Linux crunches SOG units faster than windows.
I'm wasting 32 threads by not running this.

That is rather strange, I don't ever remember hearing those particular results before. Usually they eventually get it to work. There are a number of different things you could try, one would be the nVidia 390 driver. First a word on drivers. The Repository drivers are different than the drivers downloaded from nVidia and it is possible to mistakenly install both at the same time for the same device. Having both installed will trash your system, you must completely remove one before installing the other. However, it is possible to just install another driver from the same source, as the installed driver will be replaced by the new one. So, you can just run the 390 driver installer from nVidia without removing the 396 driver from nVidia. In that case the installer will remove the installed driver automatically before installing the new one. With the Repository driver you can install it from the console even if you can't get to the desktop. So, if you are in the driver loop, and in the console, you would remove the nVidia driver by either running nvidia-uninstall or ./drivername --uninstall. Then install the Repository driver while still in the console. Since we know your system has the 384 repository driver, after removing the nVidia driver run, sudo apt-get install nvidia-384. That will install the repository driver and solve the driver loop after rebooting.

Some choices;
1) Try the 390 driver
2) Try Nvidia Driver PPA to install 390 or above
3) Run the older App zi3v CUDA90 with driver 384
4) Install Ubuntu 18.04 which has driver 390 in the Repository
There are variations on the above, and even the Old zi3v CUDA 90 App is Twice as fast as the OpenCL SoG App.

I have tried several times to install this on the SUPER32 system with no success.
Same problem several tries. Log on loop. I was sure my execution of your instructions was flawless last two attempts.
Must be a driver system comparability issue? Dunno.
Cant hurt to try the 390 driver. ?? This is an old dual Xeon server board from ASRock.
If 390 fails the same way, I'll try the app anyhow.
If it runs without errors, I'll let it run for a bit to see if Linux crunches SOG units faster than windows.
I'm wasting 32 threads by not running this.

In another thread, someone said something about the Linux SOG task being around the same speed as the Windows SOG task. So, apparently, the times should run in the 7-8 minute range for the gpu(s). Since you would also be running CPU tasks that are "baseline" I am uncertain but I am guessing that it should be in the ballpark of 1.5 - 2 hours on each CPU core.

Tom

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