Estimated time remaining keeps going up
8 Mar 2023 10:36:53 UTC
Topic 229192
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As per the subject. I'm running Einstein@Home on my AMD 6900 XT GPU. I've noticed that the "Remaining (estimated)" time only keeps ticking up. Additionally, when I look at the GPU load in GPU-z, my GPU is near 0% and the fan is even off. I suspect this is caused by running other Boinc projects (I'm also running SiDock). But shouldn't there be parallelization going on?
Your task is stalled out.
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Your task is stalled out. Try suspending it in the Manager, wait 2 minutes and then resume the task and see if any progress is made. If not, abort the task.
MingoDynasty wrote:... I've
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Classic symptoms that the GPU has 'locked up'.
In BOINC Manager, 'suspend' that task. A replacement will start. In maybe 5% of cases, the replacement will make normal progress. Just 'resume' the suspended task and when the replacement finishes, the resumed task will launch again from a saved checkpoint and will finish normally.
In maybe 95% of cases, the replacement will also make no progress. The best solution to that is to stop BOINC and do a cold reboot which will completely re-initialise the GPU, allowing any partially completed tasks to restart from their checkpoints and finish normally. Over the years, I've seen lots of examples and I can't recall ever needing to abort any stalled task.
It's more likely a general overloading problem. How many different projects are you running? With the Einstein project, you have 5 different searches running and that wouldn't be helping. How many CPU threads do you allow BOINC to use? How many concurrent tasks do you run on the GPU? Your CPU has 24 threads. If you run anywhere near the full 24, your machine will probably be overloaded. Even though you have 32GB RAM, some CPU tasks need 2GB or more of RAM. If you take the time to experiment, you may find that running fewer threads may improve the overall output.
Cheers,
Gary.
FWIW, I'm currently only
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FWIW, I'm currently only running Einstein and SiDock projects. After the SiDock tasks finished (and I temporarily disabled new tasks for SiDock), the Einstein task is now correctly using 85-90% of my GPU. I guess I'll try some more testing (add SiDock tasks back and restart Boinc/restart PC).