Posts by bluestang

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Long running tasks (Message 1630) Posted 4 Nov 2022 by bluestang Post: I've had some rogue very long GPU tasks as well so it's just not CPU ony. And yeah...if it takes that much longer to tune then it should pay that much more as well!
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit payments (Message 1477) Posted 30 Nov 2020 by bluestang Post: Sometimes this only brings people for the credits and not for the science. What difference does it make? As long as the science is getting done. On the flip side is that people won't come for the science if the credits are too low based on amount of resources one has to use to get those credit. Also, science...really? This project is looking for numbers, not cures or drugs or trying to map out diseases/virus or anything like that...just numbers.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Pentathlon (Message 1415) Posted 16 May 2020 by bluestang Post: Why not just suspend new work and scheduler and let the validator run alone with no interference. Hell, I'd even suspend uploads too. No connections or nothing to bottleneck anything. Let them Pendings for everyone clear.
4) Message boards : News : The search up to 10^21 (Message 1282) Posted 30 Oct 2019 by bluestang Post: Ok, good to know. Also, thanks for the hard work and staying on top of things. Not many Project Admins respond as quick as you do. It's great to see!
5) Message boards : Bug tracker : Constant Computation errors (Message 1280) Posted 30 Oct 2019 by bluestang Post: Lag is because your system is constantly swapping in and out of virtual memory. I had that on my system with only 8GB RAM even when I increased virtual memory to 32GB on a SSD.
6) Message boards : News : The search up to 10^21 (Message 1279) Posted 30 Oct 2019 by bluestang Post: Anything us users need to do on our end? Abort tasks, application file, reset project?
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Only 1 GPU running on 10^21 (Message 1256) Posted 26 Oct 2019 by bluestang Post: Try increasing your virtual memory, that should solve it but you will have some system lag here and there from it. Start reading here for new 10^21 tasks: https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/forum_thread.php?id=77&postid=1204
8) Message boards : Bug tracker : Constant Computation errors (Message 1255) Posted 26 Oct 2019 by bluestang Post: RAM/Virtual memory issue, start reading here: https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/forum_thread.php?id=77&postid=1204
9) Message boards : News : The search up to 10^20 (Message 1254) Posted 26 Oct 2019 by bluestang Post: On one of my older machines that has an Intel i7-2600K@4.0GHz and 8GB RAM on W10 Pro it is running 2x 1660ti @ 1 task per GPU. I set my virtual memory on my SSD to 16GB min-24GB max so I don't get Computational Errors. System Manged virtual memory couldn't handle it properly on this machine. In BOINC 7.14.2 once it gets the first 1m the percentage starts counting, then after about 5 more seconds the percent resets back to 0 and continues as normal. I noticed extreme system lag when it get close to that first 1m mark and also at the end. No biggie except it my home PC, but if I or the wife needs to do something I will suspend BOINC for the duration.
10) Message boards : News : The search up to 10^20 (Message 1247) Posted 25 Oct 2019 by bluestang Post: Ok, thanks for that info. I'll give it a shot and see how it goes.
11) Message boards : News : The search up to 10^20 (Message 1244) Posted 25 Oct 2019 by bluestang Post: Would be really nice to be able to run a a multi-GPU system without a large amount of RAM. Trying to run 2x GPUs in a system with 8 or 16GB of RAM is practically impossible with these new 10^21 WUs taking about 8GB of RAM for a single WU.