hsgamma_FGRP5_1.08_windows_intelx86__FGRPSSE.exe sometimes runs about 13 processes using a total of about 230 MB RAM. My RAM-starved PC (8 GB with 700 MB used by Chrome alone) isn’t happy. Can I free up the RAM FGRP5 uses when I am active on the PC?
Just now it dropped to the same 13 processes using a total of about 38 MB RAM. I can live with that. Maybe it took a while to switch from full speed to throttled while my PC is in use? If so, why did it take so long (~15 minutes)
This thread started 9/5/23 with “The FGRP1BG (G for GPU) search will wind down (for now, see below) and will run out of new work in approximately 2 to 3 weeks from now.” So why is it running on my PC a year later?
Can I tell Einstein@Home to use the 128 GB memory card in a slot on my laptop instead of the 8 GB internal RAM?
If you need the specs on my PC or some logs, let me know what would help.
I’m a long time Seti@home user but pretty new to Einstein@Home.
You are confused. Yes, the FGRPB1G GPU tasks DID run out over a year ago.
You are running the FGRP5 CPU tasks currently. Not the same thing. Plenty of them to be found with the available data from the researchers still feeding the pipeline.
Please understand that the "Tech News" forum is where the Staff post important information about any problems with or changes to the project that all users need to be aware of. For that reason, it shouldn't be used for basic user help. You should use a more appropriate forum such as "Getting Started" or "Problems and Bug Reports".
Since you mention 'laptop' and '13 processes', please understand that your real problem is more likely to be one of overloading/overheating your CPU due to too many concurrent compute intensive jobs. You may be seeing high temperatures leading to throttling. To avoid this, you can change the % of processors BOINC is allowed to use, either on the website or locally in BOINC Manager. Depending on how well your laptop cooling works, you may need to heavily restrict the number of concurrent threads. Changing the pref setting locally makes it easier to test performance on that machine without needing to force a project update after each change. Run a single task to establish best performance and see how that degrades as you increase the number of cores being used.
For further discussion, please start a new thread in a more appropriate forum.
Thanks for all of the
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Thanks for all of the updates. Merry Christmas everyone! Sorry to message you by mistake,
Bernd.
Cheers!
probably better to put this
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probably better to put this here, but BRP7 seems to have run out of work now. did we crunch them all, or some problem with the WU generator?
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Just a lull in the work
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Just a lull in the work generator I suppose. 53K available now.
Oh my, where to
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Oh my, where to start?
hsgamma_FGRP5_1.08_windows_intelx86__FGRPSSE.exe sometimes runs about 13 processes using a total of about 230 MB RAM. My RAM-starved PC (8 GB with 700 MB used by Chrome alone) isn’t happy. Can I free up the RAM FGRP5 uses when I am active on the PC?
Just now it dropped to the same 13 processes using a total of about 38 MB RAM. I can live with that. Maybe it took a while to switch from full speed to throttled while my PC is in use? If so, why did it take so long (~15 minutes)
This thread started 9/5/23 with “The FGRP1BG (G for GPU) search will wind down (for now, see below) and will run out of new work in approximately 2 to 3 weeks from now.” So why is it running on my PC a year later?
Can I tell Einstein@Home to use the 128 GB memory card in a slot on my laptop instead of the 8 GB internal RAM?
If you need the specs on my PC or some logs, let me know what would help.
I’m a long time Seti@home user but pretty new to Einstein@Home.
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You are confused. Yes, the
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You are confused. Yes, the FGRPB1G GPU tasks DID run out over a year ago.
You are running the FGRP5 CPU tasks currently. Not the same thing. Plenty of them to be found with the available data from the researchers still feeding the pipeline.
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Hi David,
Thank you for supporting the E@H project.
Please understand that the "Tech News" forum is where the Staff post important information about any problems with or changes to the project that all users need to be aware of. For that reason, it shouldn't be used for basic user help. You should use a more appropriate forum such as "Getting Started" or "Problems and Bug Reports".
Since you mention 'laptop' and '13 processes', please understand that your real problem is more likely to be one of overloading/overheating your CPU due to too many concurrent compute intensive jobs. You may be seeing high temperatures leading to throttling. To avoid this, you can change the % of processors BOINC is allowed to use, either on the website or locally in BOINC Manager. Depending on how well your laptop cooling works, you may need to heavily restrict the number of concurrent threads. Changing the pref setting locally makes it easier to test performance on that machine without needing to force a project update after each change. Run a single task to establish best performance and see how that degrades as you increase the number of cores being used.
For further discussion, please start a new thread in a more appropriate forum.
Cheers,
Gary.