Posts by BobmALCS

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Scheduling 2 GPUs (Message 87574) Posted 10 Aug 2018 by BobmALCS Post: Thanks for the reply. I've now got a reasonable idea how to do what I want. When (if ?) I get it programmed and running I'll report back here on the slight chance that others might be interested. Many thanks.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Scheduling 2 GPUs (Message 87568) Posted 10 Aug 2018 by BobmALCS Post: I have 2 identical GPUs on my PC. GPU0 supports my screen and GPU1 runs BOINC project tasks. At the monment I use the statement "<ignore_nvidia_dev>0</ignore_nvidia_dev>" in cc_config.xml to only allow GPU1 to run BOINC tasks. However I would like to utilise GPU0 to run BOINC tasks during those hours when I'm unlikely to be using the PC (typically overnight). One way I can see to do this is to write a procedure (Windows 10) to add/delete the cc_config statement and issue the "boinccmd" command to reread the config file according to a schedule. This raises a few questions though. What happens to a task running on GPU0 when the config file is changed to disallow GPU0 being scheduled to run a task. 1) Is the task just terminated. 2) Does the task then lie dormant until scheduling on GPU0 is enabled again. 3) Is the task put back in the queue and eventually rescheduled on GPU1 when possible.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc client wastes resources (Message 71429) Posted 10 Aug 2016 by BobmALCS Post: Whilst looking at the above scheduler problem I noticed another peculiarity. Collatz tasks have a stated CPU requirement of >0.5 of a CPU. If I run 2 Collatz (GPU only) tasks then the PrimeGrid (CPU only) task is stopped. So I forced the Collatz task to require 0.1 of a CPU using app_config and <cpu_usage>0.1</cpu_usage>. Now when 2 Collatz tasks run PrimeGrid continues quite happily. I had always understood, possibly wrongly, that you had to leave 'spare' CPU cores for the GPU task to utilise. In my case there are 3 spare CPUs. So, what does the scheduler do about CPU requirements for CPU time for GPUs. This raised another, minor, problem. In app_config for Collatz I had <gpu_versions> <gpu_usage>1.0</gpu_usage> <cpu_usage>0.1</cpu_usage> </gpu_versions> If the <gpu_usage> tag is omitted then the <cpu_usage> tag is silently ignored. No error message is issued. The syntax shows that both tags are required so an error message should be issued. Or perhaps allow each tag to default to a value of 1. BobM
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc client wastes resources (Message 71318) Posted 8 Aug 2016 by BobmALCS Post: Collatz - Share 10. GPU only. Only one task allowed at a time. Set by <max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent> Einstein@Home - Share 50. GPU only. No restrictions. PrimeGrid - Share 400. CPU only. No restrictions. Seti@home - Share 0. GPU only. No restrictions. Milkyway@home - Share 5. CPU and/or GPU. Set to not get new tasks. GPUGRID - Share 0. GPU only. Set to not get new tasks. CPU - Intel Core i5 Quad 2500K (Sandy Bridge) 3.30GHz [D2]. Overclocked to 4.3GHz. Only 1 cpu out 4 available to BOINC. GPUs - GTX760 and GT640 BobM
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc client wastes resources (Message 71230) Posted 5 Aug 2016 by BobmALCS Post: Did the same thing when only 1 GPU was being used. 06/08/2016 00:20:11 \| \| Re-reading cc_config.xml 06/08/2016 00:20:11 \| \| Config: event log limit 20000 lines 06/08/2016 00:20:11 \| \| Config: use all coprocessors 06/08/2016 00:20:11 \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, work_fetch_debug 06/08/2016 00:20:11 \| Collatz Conjecture \| Found app_config.xml 06/08/2016 00:20:11 \| Einstein@Home \| Found app_config.xml 06/08/2016 00:20:11 \| Milkyway@Home \| Found app_config.xml 06/08/2016 00:20:11 \| SETI@home \| Found app_config.xml 06/08/2016 00:20:11 \| \| [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Core client configuration 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| \| [work_fetch] ------- start work fetch state ------- 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| \| [work_fetch] target work buffer: 180.00 + 43200.00 sec 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| \| [work_fetch] --- project states --- 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| Collatz Conjecture \| [work_fetch] REC 14821.802 prio -304.127 can request work 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| Einstein@Home \| [work_fetch] REC 63776.540 prio -0.250 can't request work: scheduler RPC backoff (7250.03 sec) 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| GPUGRID \| [work_fetch] REC 0.000 prio -1000.000 can't request work: "no new tasks" requested via Manager 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| Milkyway@Home \| [work_fetch] REC 0.000 prio -0.000 can't request work: "no new tasks" requested via Manager 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| PrimeGrid \| [work_fetch] REC 768.647 prio -0.057 can request work 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| SETI@home \| [work_fetch] REC 2.636 prio -1000.000 can request work 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| \| [work_fetch] --- state for CPU --- 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| \| [work_fetch] shortfall 1579.10 nidle 0.00 saturated 41800.90 busy 0.00 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| Collatz Conjecture \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 blocked by project preferences 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| Einstein@Home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 blocked by project preferences 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| GPUGRID \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 blocked by project preferences 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| Milkyway@Home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| PrimeGrid \| [work_fetch] share 1.000 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| SETI@home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 blocked by project preferences 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| \| [work_fetch] --- state for NVIDIA GPU --- 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| \| [work_fetch] shortfall 4904.56 nidle 0.00 saturated 40679.32 busy 0.00 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| Collatz Conjecture \| [work_fetch] share 1.000 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| Einstein@Home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| GPUGRID \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 zero resource share 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| Milkyway@Home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| PrimeGrid \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 project is backed off (resource backoff: 48238.04, inc 86400.00) 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| SETI@home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 zero resource share 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| \| [work_fetch] ------- end work fetch state ------- 06/08/2016 00:20:13 \| \| [work_fetch] No project chosen for work fetch 06/08/2016 00:20:25 \| \| Re-reading cc_config.xml It is not fetching work from Einstein@Home even though there is a 'spare' GPU it could run on. BobM
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc client wastes resources (Message 71168) Posted 3 Aug 2016 by BobmALCS Post: As requested. Let me know if you need more. 03/08/2016 17:29:22 \| \| Re-reading cc_config.xml 03/08/2016 17:29:22 \| \| Config: event log limit 20000 lines 03/08/2016 17:29:22 \| \| Config: use all coprocessors 03/08/2016 17:29:22 \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task, work_fetch_debug 03/08/2016 17:29:22 \| Collatz Conjecture \| Found app_config.xml 03/08/2016 17:29:22 \| Einstein@Home \| Found app_config.xml 03/08/2016 17:29:22 \| Milkyway@Home \| Found app_config.xml 03/08/2016 17:29:22 \| SETI@home \| Found app_config.xml 03/08/2016 17:29:22 \| \| [work_fetch] Request work fetch: Core client configuration 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| \| [work_fetch] ------- start work fetch state ------- 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| \| [work_fetch] target work buffer: 180.00 + 43200.00 sec 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| \| [work_fetch] --- project states --- 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| Collatz Conjecture \| [work_fetch] REC 15071.357 prio -9.171 can request work 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| Einstein@Home \| [work_fetch] REC 59773.957 prio -7.419 can request work 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| GPUGRID \| [work_fetch] REC 0.000 prio -1000.000 can't request work: "no new tasks" requested via Manager 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| Milkyway@Home \| [work_fetch] REC 0.000 prio -0.000 can't request work: "no new tasks" requested via Manager 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| PrimeGrid \| [work_fetch] REC 746.517 prio -0.016 can request work 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| SETI@home \| [work_fetch] REC 3.917 prio -1000.000 can request work 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| \| [work_fetch] --- state for CPU --- 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| \| [work_fetch] shortfall 13752.53 nidle 0.00 saturated 29627.47 busy 0.00 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| Collatz Conjecture \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 blocked by project preferences 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| Einstein@Home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 blocked by project preferences 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| GPUGRID \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 blocked by project preferences 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| Milkyway@Home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| PrimeGrid \| [work_fetch] share 1.000 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| SETI@home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 blocked by project preferences 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| \| [work_fetch] --- state for NVIDIA GPU --- 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| \| [work_fetch] shortfall 0.00 nidle 0.00 saturated 45161.49 busy 0.00 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| Collatz Conjecture \| [work_fetch] share 0.167 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| Einstein@Home \| [work_fetch] share 0.833 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| GPUGRID \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 zero resource share 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| Milkyway@Home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| PrimeGrid \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 project is backed off (resource backoff: 79001.55, inc 86400.00) 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| SETI@home \| [work_fetch] share 0.000 zero resource share 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| \| [work_fetch] ------- end work fetch state ------- 03/08/2016 17:29:24 \| \| [work_fetch] No project chosen for work fetch 03/08/2016 17:29:46 \| \| Re-reading cc_config.xml BobM
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc client wastes resources (Message 71152) Posted 2 Aug 2016 by BobmALCS Post: BOINC Client 7.6.22 on Windows 7 frequently does not utilise all available resources for many hours at a time. 4 core CPU with 1 allocated to Boinc. 2 GPUs. GpuA is about 4 to 5 times 'faster' than GpuB ProjectA - CPU only. Resource share 400. ProjectB - GPU only. Resource share 50. Can run on either or both GPUs. No restrictions. Tasks take about 2 hours or 12 hours. ProjectC - GPU only. Resource share 10. Can run on either GPU. Restricted to one task at a time. Each task takes about 10 minutes on GpuA. PrjA runs without a problem all the time. Often (I don't keep a close watch) I see that only PrjC is running on one of the GPUs, usually GpuA. The other GPU is not utilised at all. The last time I checked it was this situation for at least 4 hours. At the beginning of this I get the message "Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: job cache full; NVIDIA GPU: not highest priority project)" for PrjB. All the projects constantly have work available for them. Why does Boinc waste resources like this and can it be avoided. BobM
8) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC 7.6.6 and Elapsed Time (Message 63952) Posted 30 Aug 2015 by BobmALCS Post: Thanks for he info.
9) Message boards : BOINC Manager : BOINC 7.6.6 and Elapsed Time (Message 63950) Posted 30 Aug 2015 by BobmALCS Post: I have CPU tasks and GPU tasks running. When a running CPU task is stopped because either I've moved the mouse or the end of the scheduled time for running occurs, the task is actually stopped (no cpu usage) but the Elapsed Time continues to count up. If the task is Waiting to Run then the Elapsed Time doesn't count up. This happens with any project that has CPU tasks. The GPU tasks are unaffected even if the same project is running CPU and GPU tasks. Is this a known problem and does it have a solution.
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC Manager times wrong (Message 49968) Posted 23 Jul 2013 by BobmALCS Post: Although I do not expect times reported by the BOINC Manager to be completely accurate I do not expect them to be inaccurate and inconsistent. In particular for Einstein@Home the BOINC manager displays the following figures. Progress: 18.181% Elapsed: 2:35:37 Remaining: 22:43:47 These cannot all be correct. Taking Progress and Elapsed gives a Total time of about 14 hours. Taking Elapsed plus Remaining gives about 25 hours. So, which, if any, of these figures is (nearly) correct. Begining of Event Log: ---------------------- 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.0.64 for windows_x86_64 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Data directory: L:\BOINC\Data 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Running under account xxxxxx 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7] Note: Overclocked to 4.3GHz. Has run stable for over 1 year. 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes syscall nx lm vmx tm2 pbe 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00) 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Memory: 15.98 GB physical, 31.96 GB virtual 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Disk: 167.68 GB total, 108.61 GB free 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Local time is UTC +1 hours 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 640 (driver version 320.49, CUDA version 5.50, compute capability 3.0, 2048MB, 1902MB available, 692 GFLOPS peak) 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GT 430 (driver version 320.49, CUDA version 5.50, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 968MB available, 269 GFLOPS peak) 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 640 (driver version 320.49, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 2048MB, 1902MB available, 692 GFLOPS peak) 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 1: GeForce GT 430 (driver version 320.49, device version OpenCL 1.1 CUDA, 1024MB, 968MB available, 269 GFLOPS peak) 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Config: use all coprocessors 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| Einstein@Home \| Config: excluded GPU. Type: all. App: all. Device: 1 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| SETI@home \| Config: excluded GPU. Type: all. App: all. Device: 1 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| Einstein@Home \| URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 6630273; resource share 90 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| Milkyway@Home \| URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 348737; resource share 5 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| SETI@home \| URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6379632; resource share 5 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| Einstein@Home \| General prefs: from Einstein@Home (last modified 12-Jul-2013 08:30:15) 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| Einstein@Home \| Computer location: home 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| Einstein@Home \| General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Preferences: 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| max memory usage when active: 8183.14MB 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| max memory usage when idle: 14729.66MB 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| max disk usage: 10.00GB 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| max CPUs used: 3 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| don't use GPU while active 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager) 22/07/2013 00:25:16 \| \| Not using a proxy Regards, BobM
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC 7.0.28 Client Scheduler (Message 45756) Posted 24 Sep 2012 by BobmALCS Post: I have 3 projects running - Einstein, Mikyway, and Seti with resource shares set at 105/5/5. I have about 70 hours of cpu time available each day and Milkyway only runs GPU jobs. From that I assume that Seti should get on average about 3 hours or so cpu time each day over a few days. Its been running for months now so everything should have settled down. So why does Seti get NO cpu time for the 3 weeks its been waiting, then runs 1 job only. There are another 29 (each 2.25 hours) jobs waiting to run and they also have been waiting for 3 weeks. What's going on !!! BobM
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : task management is useless (Message 42718) Posted 24 Feb 2012 by BobmALCS Post: A large number of tasks is now arriving. Thanks for your help in finding my problem.
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : task management is useless (Message 42717) Posted 23 Feb 2012 by BobmALCS Post: I'll try that. Thanks for the help.
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : task management is useless (Message 42714) Posted 23 Feb 2012 by BobmALCS Post: Looking at your tasks at Milkyway and Einstein shows only enough tasks for less than 4 hours, the amount of tasks you have for Seti is unknown with their task list disabled, Where did you set your 1 + 2 days cache settings? was it at one of the Projects? or in Boinc Manager?, Note that the Boinc Manager local preferences over-ride the Web Preferences, and you could only be running a couple of hours cache, Post your Boinc startup messages from the Event Log, then try clearing your local preferences, and see if Boinc 6.12.34 asks for more work. --------------------- SETI often doesn't have any work available. Today SETI has provided just enough work to last until network access is enabled. No Einstein and very few Milkway tasks. Local (for this computer) settings are: Connect about every 0 days - Additional work buffer 2 days. The web settings are: Connect about every 1 days - Additional work buffer 2 days. Hmmm. Is that the problem ? The beginning of the event log: 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Starting BOINC client version 6.12.34 for windows_x86_64 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Libraries: libcurl/7.21.6 OpenSSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Data directory: ***** 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Running under account ******* 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7] 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Processor: 256.00 KB cache 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 syscall nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt aes pbe 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00) 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Memory: 15.98 GB physical, 31.96 GB virtual 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Disk: 480.40 GB total, 365.98 GB free 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Local time is UTC +0 hours 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| VirtualBox version: 4.1.8 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GT 430 (driver version 29573, CUDA version 4020, compute capability 2.1, 1024MB, 179 GFLOPS peak) 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| Einstein@Home \| URL http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID 4280432; resource share 100 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| Milkyway@Home \| URL http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/; Computer ID 348737; resource share 100 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| SETI@home \| URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/; Computer ID 6379632; resource share 100 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| Milkyway@Home \| General prefs: from Milkyway@Home (last modified 10-Jan-2012 23:14:06) 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| Milkyway@Home \| Computer location: home 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| Milkyway@Home \| General prefs: no separate prefs for home; using your defaults 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Reading preferences override file 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Preferences: 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| max memory usage when active: 8183.14MB 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| max memory usage when idle: 14729.66MB 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| max disk usage: 10.00GB 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| max CPUs used: 3 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 15 % 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager) 23/02/2012 09:16:27 \| \| Not using a proxy 23/02/2012 09:16:28 \| \| Suspending network activity - time of day
15) Message boards : Questions and problems : task management is useless (Message 42695) Posted 23 Feb 2012 by BobmALCS Post: BOINC 6.12.34 Can we have links to the host at Einstein, Milkyway, and SETI please, What are your cache settings?, it it CPU tasks that your out of?, or Nvidia GPU tasks? or ATI GPU tasks?, any special project preferences set at any of those projects? Claggy Sorry to be thick but I don't understand what you mean by 'links to the host'. I only run CPU tasks. Any settings I have set are just the ones available on the standard web pages. I haven't touched any xml files. I only allow access to the internet from 00:00 to 08:00 as I don't get charged during those hours. The PC is up and running 24 hours. I do have a lowly GTS430 but all the GPU tasks provoke a W7 bugcheck every few days because of W7's TDR checks so I don't run GPU tasks. Just FYI the GPU doesn't overheat, it isn't overclocked and it survives various stress tests quite happily. For Example this is my main host at Seti and Einstein (I'm not attached to Milkyway): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5427475 http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2542754 at Einstein i can see what work you were last asking for, here i was only asking for CPU work (I've got Nvidia GPU work fetch disabled in my project preferences there): http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/host_sched_logs/2542/2542754 Because you're only allowing downloads for 8 hours a day, you should have a cache setting of at least 1 day, 2 days would be better, any less than 0.66 cache will mean you'll run out of work before you're next allowing downloads, Claggy Cache request settings - these have been set for many weeks. Maintain enough tasks to keep busy for (max 10 days). 1 days Maintain additional tasks to keep busy for up to 2 days Links are: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=513150 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/show_user.php?userid=188728 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=9631630 The processor is an Intel Core i5 Quad 2500K overclocked to 4.3GHz. 4 Cores but BOINC usage set at 75% (so 3 cores used). Its late now (23:25) so I'll see any reply tomorrow. Thanks for your interest and help. Your computers are hidden at each project, i can't see what tasks you have on each host at each project. Claggy Ooops. Fixed now. Also each project has a resource share of 100.
16) Message boards : Questions and problems : task management is useless (Message 42691) Posted 22 Feb 2012 by BobmALCS Post: BOINC 6.12.34 Can we have links to the host at Einstein, Milkyway, and SETI please, What are your cache settings?, it it CPU tasks that your out of?, or Nvidia GPU tasks? or ATI GPU tasks?, any special project preferences set at any of those projects? Claggy Sorry to be thick but I don't understand what you mean by 'links to the host'. I only run CPU tasks. Any settings I have set are just the ones available on the standard web pages. I haven't touched any xml files. I only allow access to the internet from 00:00 to 08:00 as I don't get charged during those hours. The PC is up and running 24 hours. I do have a lowly GTS430 but all the GPU tasks provoke a W7 bugcheck every few days because of W7's TDR checks so I don't run GPU tasks. Just FYI the GPU doesn't overheat, it isn't overclocked and it survives various stress tests quite happily. For Example this is my main host at Seti and Einstein (I'm not attached to Milkyway): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=5427475 http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2542754 at Einstein i can see what work you were last asking for, here i was only asking for CPU work (I've got Nvidia GPU work fetch disabled in my project preferences there): http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/host_sched_logs/2542/2542754 Because you're only allowing downloads for 8 hours a day, you should have a cache setting of at least 1 day, 2 days would be better, any less than 0.66 cache will mean you'll run out of work before you're next allowing downloads, Claggy Cache request settings - these have been set for many weeks. Maintain enough tasks to keep busy for (max 10 days). 1 days Maintain additional tasks to keep busy for up to 2 days Links are: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=513150 http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/show_user.php?userid=188728 http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=9631630 The processor is an Intel Core i5 Quad 2500K overclocked to 4.3GHz. 4 Cores but BOINC usage set at 75% (so 3 cores used). Its late now (23:25) so I'll see any reply tomorrow. Thanks for your interest and help.
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : task management is useless (Message 42688) Posted 22 Feb 2012 by BobmALCS Post: BOINC 6.12.34 Can we have links to the host at Einstein, Milkyway, and SETI please, What are your cache settings?, it it CPU tasks that your out of?, or Nvidia GPU tasks? or ATI GPU tasks?, any special project preferences set at any of those projects? Claggy Sorry to be thick but I don't understand what you mean by 'links to the host'. I only run CPU tasks. Any settings I have set are just the ones available on the standard web pages. I haven't touched any xml files. I only allow access to the internet from 00:00 to 08:00 as I don't get charged during those hours. The PC is up and running 24 hours. I do have a lowly GTS430 but all the GPU tasks provoke a W7 bugcheck every few days because of W7's TDR checks so I don't run GPU tasks. Just FYI the GPU doesn't overheat, it isn't overclocked and it survives various stress tests quite happily.
18) Message boards : Questions and problems : task management is useless (Message 42686) Posted 22 Feb 2012 by BobmALCS Post: BOINC 6.12.34
19) Message boards : Questions and problems : task management is useless (Message 42684) Posted 22 Feb 2012 by BobmALCS Post: I run 3 projects on BOINC - Einstein, Milkyway, and SETI. Yet my PC will be sitting here for over 9 hours with no WU to process. Looking at the Event Log a request to Einstein says I don't want any more tasks despite the fact I didn't have any, Milkyway said my PC was full up with tasks, and SETI doesn't have enough tasks to send anyway. There is something wrong with the scheduling process. I just find it mildly frustrating to be in a position to volunteer time and money yet have it apparently spurned as this sort of problem occurs not infrequently. There must be a lot of wasted power out there because of this type of problem. Hopefully it may sometime perhaps be fixed in the near future.

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