1) Message boards : News : Old Noelia WUs (Message 31414)
Posted 3940 days ago by Kenneth Larsen
Just for your information, my graphics card is a GTX660 with 2GB of memory, and I'm still unable to these WUs well. Maybe it's different on Linux than on Windows?
2) Message boards : News : Old Noelia WUs (Message 31403)
Posted 3940 days ago by Kenneth Larsen
How long should I let them run, then? If they were using the GPU 100% I'd have let them run, but they don't. That's why I cancelled them, fearing they would take days to run or eventually error out.
Unfortunately the only way I can see how much they use the GPU is by watching the temperature; usually it stays around 60-62 degrees, with the new WUs it's around 50. Idle is 35-40. Oh, and ambient temperature is higher than normal the last few days (35-38 degrees), so that's not the issue.
I'm not going to downgrade the nvidia-drivers as I'm using the computers for many other things beside crunching, like games.

Anyway, I suppose I'll give it another go then and let it run to 100%, then report back here.
3) Message boards : News : Old Noelia WUs (Message 31398)
Posted 3940 days ago by Kenneth Larsen
I have been running GPUgrid for weeks without trouble, suddenly, a few days ago, all the work units I try to run don't utilize the GPU as before. Initially they are calculated to run for abou 13 hours, but after the 13 hours they have only reached about 15% and the time to completion starts rising. At this point I abort them, if not before, as they don't seem to utilize more than a small part of the GPU.
I'm running Boinc 7.0.65 on Linux, nvidia-drivers 319.23.
So far I've wasted about 2-3 days of electricity trying to crunch. Am I the only one experiencing this? Is it due to the new WUs mentioned?
4) Message boards : News : Badge system up and running! (Message 23097)
Posted 4475 days ago by Kenneth Larsen
That's great, I especially like the way you can see which publications you have contributed computer power to!
5) Message boards : Graphics cards (GPUs) : GPUGRID and app_info (Message 21631)
Posted 4675 days ago by Kenneth Larsen
But I cannot see any mentioning of SWAN_SYNC…


It only says so if you are running SWAN_SYNC, it doesn't mention anything if not (at least when looking at my results).

Be careful when putting SWAN_SYNC in .bashrc, it will only work if boinc is running as that user.
To set it system-wide, look in /etc/environment or /etc/env.d/
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Just a few Linux/GPU questions (Message 20962)
Posted 4759 days ago by Kenneth Larsen
As noted above, 'nvidia-smi -a' does indeed show the gpu and memory usage. It should be part of the nvidia-drivers package.
I'm currently trying to integrate it in the conky desklet to easily monitor it.

EDIT: Sorry for reviving such an old post, I hadn't seen the date...


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