Posts by craig.dudley.99@gmail.com

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC issue with MacPro Late 2013 GPU AMD FirePro D700 (2) (Message 101497)
Posted 4 Nov 2020 by craig.dudley.99@gmail.com
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Assumed Preferences had only GPU setting available. I then looked around further. Found Suspend GPU usage via Activity menu item.
After I suspended GPU usage, I started BOINC again and have not had a kernel panic since (24+ hours and counting).

So it looks like a problem with BOINC usage of 2nd GPU on Late 2013 MacPro running 10.15.7.


Would be nice to get this fixed.
Thanks
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Craig
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC issue with MacPro Late 2013 GPU AMD FirePro D700 (2) (Message 101470)
Posted 3 Nov 2020 by craig.dudley.99@gmail.com
Post:
Hi,
My version of BOINC is. 7.6.11 on macOS 10.15.7 (aka Catalina). Running on a MacPro Late 2013 (64 GB) with 2 x AMD FirePro D700 (VRAM 6 GB) GPUs.
Project involved is Milkyway@home.
When I run BOINC with milkyway@home as project, I get a kernel panic indicating:

panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f8da80ad5): userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.WindowServer in 120 seconds
service: com.apple.logd, total successful checkins since load (25470 seconds ago): 2548, last successful checkin: 0 seconds ago
service: com.apple.WindowServer, total successful checkins since load (25440 seconds ago): 2532, last successful checkin: 120 seconds ago

This problem also happened on 10.15.5 and 10.15.6.

This kernel panic doesn't happen when BOINC is NOT running.

I tried a clean install of Catalina and problem still happens.
Apple has told me I should go to the author of the software so here I am reporting the problem.
I understand (I may be wrong on this) the 2nd D700 is used as a GPU doing Metal calls. Both my displays show up in System Report as being handled by the 1st D700.

I would like to run BOINC with Milkyway@home project but I can't have my system freezing frequently and randomly.

Any ideas?
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Craig Dudley



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