GPU tasks continue to run while I'm using the PC
13 Oct 2015 20:32:45 UTC
Topic 198270
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I have set my preferences to allow use of the GPU while the PC is not "busy", but the Einstein tasks continue to run. This has affected my use of the PC so badly that I have been forced to prevent Einstein tasks that use the GPU.
GPU tasks continue to run while I'm using the PC
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Have you also set "Use GPU based on preferences" - not "Use GPU always"?
This problem went away for
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This problem went away for several months, but has recently resurfaced. I have once again suspended Einstein. With reference to settings, yes, I set "Use GPU based on preferences" but to no avail. The only thing that works is "Suspend".
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I have the same problem. I will try the solution.
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I think you have a different problem.
When I look at your AMD host's list of tasks, I see a number of indicators that your machine is unable to cope with the work mix. The CPU task crunch times are very long and there is a big difference between CPU time and elapsed time for those tasks. You also now have tasks that are failing. I believe that you may get much better results if you set your preferences to reduce the number of CPU tasks that run simultaneously.
Can you confirm that you are running 4 CPU tasks and 1 GPU task at the one time? If so you should use the appropriate menu option on BOINC Manager - Advanced view (just on that machine) to set a local preference that restricts BOINC to using 50% of the CPU cores. This would allow just two CPU tasks and the GPU task to run concurrently and should leave you with a much more responsive machine and significantly shorter running times, both on GPU and CPU tasks. You should try that and report back when you have some tasks started and completed after the setting change. Current 'in-progress' tasks should show a benefit but you wont see the full effect until tasks started afterwards are completed.
If this makes the expected improvement, there are further tweaks that may be useful but lets identify the basic problem first.
Cheers,
Gary.