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| 1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Waiting for Memory - but there is a much free and unrestrictive settings
Message 100433 Posted 24 Aug 2020 by far |
Thanks Jord, will do |
| 2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Waiting for Memory - but there is a much free and unrestrictive settings
Message 100430 Posted 24 Aug 2020 by far |
Hi, I have Win10 PC which has been running fine at 100% for more than a year, but has suddenly started halting tasks stating "waiting for memory". There is nothing else running on the PC, nothing changed, and the settings do not appear to be limiting. - Task manager shows it is using just 15GB of 32GB. - The PC is 32 thread, but currently only using ~32% CPU. - Computing preferences on this machine allow 95% of memory to be used when in use, and 98% when not in use. - Page file size usage is set at 85%. - Disk limitations are fine - there is lots of free space. - I fiddled with the page file size under Windows and set it manually as it's 5GB (system set) was mostly used, so set 5GB to minimum and 10GB to maximum - but did not help (also thought that was SDD based not RAM anyway). Tasks running are 10xLHC CMS simulation 50.00 under vbox + 1xRosetta + 2xPrimegrid on GPU's. Paused tasks waiting for memory are 15x mixed Rosetta/WorldCommunityGrid. What could be causing this inadequate usage of the provided resources? Thanks for any suggestions, Far |
| 3) Message boards : BOINC client : Upgrading Virtualbox ahead of what is packaged with Boinc?
Message 92073 Posted 8 Jul 2019 by far |
OK, will leave as is - thanks |
| 4) Message boards : BOINC client : Upgrading Virtualbox ahead of what is packaged with Boinc?
Message 92059 Posted 5 Jul 2019 by far |
Hi, I've got a pc using an AMD threadripper processor and I have a suspicion that the version of Virtualbox packaged with Boinc may not be optimal for it. There were updates in the v6.06 for AMD processors, which I hope (*don't know just hope) are around being more aware of which cpus are in grouped together in the different chiplets. Would it cause issues if I update the version of Virtualbox to the current one? Regards, Far |
| 5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Best remote access tool now logmein free is shutting?
Message 52104 Posted 23 Jan 2014 by far |
Thanks I've set it up, all good. |
| 6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Best remote access tool now logmein free is shutting?
Message 52081 Posted 22 Jan 2014 by far |
Hi I was wondering if anyone has suggestions about the best free tool to use to connect to Boinc machines remotely. I had tried the windows remote desktop a couple of years ago, but it crashed the GPU tasks. The logmein free process was great but it is now finishing up. The machines i have are XP, W7 and W8. Thanks for any advice, Far |
| 7) Message boards : GPUs : Scheduling GPU powerdown over certain time+day ranges - but not CPU?
Message 47053 Posted 5 Jan 2013 by far |
Thanks kdsjsdj Sorry I wasn't clear re GPUgrid - I was worried about forced termination of GPUtasks that can run for longer may cause the unit to be terminated without credit - but all's OK with the --set_gpu_mode. Unluckily I live in an urban flat and can't put up solar or wind (have tried). Part of the reason my electricity costs so much is it is purchased as green power (the electrons I get are probably from burning coal, but they buy wind generated ones from somewhere far off and add that into the grid). This adds ~25% onto the base cost. Of the total bill (based on comparision with non-boinc mates) probably 2k of the bill is normal usage, so the rest is this bunch of thinking heaters doing their maths. I would think the GPU's would probably account for about half this so 3k and CPU's 3k. At least I don't have a heating issues in winter :-) |
| 8) Message boards : GPUs : Scheduling GPU powerdown over certain time+day ranges - but not CPU?
Message 47050 Posted 5 Jan 2013 by far |
Thanks kdsjsdj, all windows here so no ps/grep/cron/kill. According to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool --set_gpu_mode put's the GPU tasks into a sleep state for however long you specify, then they go back to default state. I'm much happier with than using windows taskkill command in case it trashes the work to date on a unit (as GPUgrids' 8hr+ ones may break my payback calcs - see later) I just tested this for short time periods - it should work in a batch file also for 28800 seconds/6hours (altho the short time tests seem to sleep longer than the specified timeout? Maybe overhead on stop/start's?): "C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinccmd" --set_gpu_mode never 28800 I also tested short sleep on a machine with 2 GPU's and it worked on that (and the 4 GPU tasks from 2 projects that were swapping process time). So GPU sleeping during peak power cost period issue should resolve OK. On to why a feature request and payback calcs. My depressing power bill's about AUD8000 pa (USD $8400) thus why I'm pretty keen to try anything to fine tune this (6k of this would be boinc). By rough estimates I can buy approx 1.25 GPU's a year in power savings by powering down GPU's during peak 6hr period. I've got spare slots so after less than a year we've ahead and the power company can get stuffed. I doubt I'm alone in this situation, so is there somewhere I can officially request this as a feature in the future so it isn't necessary to schedule tasks? Thanks Far |
| 9) Message boards : GPUs : Scheduling GPU powerdown over certain time+day ranges - but not CPU?
Message 47042 Posted 4 Jan 2013 by far |
Hi My electricity costs are quite crazy and I'm trying to budget how to save funds. At peak times of the day between 2pm and 8pm, power costs 4 (four!!) times as much as non-peak. I don't see the point in turning off CPU processing during peak because the machines have to stay on anyway, so maybe they are already using half the power to tick over anyway. What I would like to do is power the GPU processing down over time ranges on some days, and leave the CPU stuff running. There looks to be this sort of control but it seems to only apply to both CPU&GPU inseparably. Is this the case? If so could it please be a feature request for the future? Thanks Far |
| 10) Message boards : GPUs : Does Boinc support HD 7970?
Message 42122 Posted 17 Jan 2012 by far |
Great - thanks for that. They are failing on validation at the project end, so I'll check with them. Far |
| 11) Message boards : GPUs : Does Boinc support HD 7970?
Message 42120 Posted 17 Jan 2012 by far |
Hi I'm getting erroring units from milkyway and collatz. Could this be related to boincs listing the 7970 card as: Coprocessors CAL ATI unknown (3072MB) driver: 1.4.1658 Win7 home x64 sp1 I'm using 6.12.34 - Would using the beta version have any difference? Thanks Far |
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