Posts by Switeck

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Moo! Wrapper freezes about 96-99% in (Message 5903)
Posted 15 Feb 2014 by Switeck
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The problem happens often enough that I've spotted it maybe 5 times.

I've seen the benchmarking tests before -- they seem to occur after rebooting and first starting up windows + BOINC. (I only typically reboot about once a week.)
The freezes I'm seeing are not that.

This tells me there's something more sinister happening:
"[Feb 12 17:12:31 UTC] Shutdown - packet limit exceeded."
"[Feb 12 17:12:31 UTC] *Break* Shutting down..."

...but likely only the programmers can make sense of that. :(

2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Moo! Wrapper freezes about 96-99% in (Message 5896)
Posted 12 Feb 2014 by Switeck
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Moo! Wrapper freezes about 96-99% in and CPU (and presumably GPU) usage drops to nil for it.

If I suspend and restart the stalled WU, it immediately completes like nothing bad happened.

This problem seems to happen with some but not all WUs -- I'm guessing they sometimes/somehow clear out on their own after some timeout period, but if I'm watching BOINC I often spot this. No doubt this is reducing my GPU's effectiveness as it's sitting idle more.

Contents of stderr.txt (which seems to contain sufficient identifying information):

09:46:47 (3724): wrapper: starting v1.3.9.7
09:46:47 (3724): device: 1 x GeForce GTS 250 (driver version 320.18, CUDA version 5.50, compute capability 1.1, 1024MB, 971MB available, 560 GFLOPS peak)
09:46:47 (3724): checkpoint interval: 15 min (task 336000 GFLOPS, 10 min)
09:46:47 (3724): wrapper: running dnetc518-win32-x86-cuda31.exe (-ini dnetc.ini -runoffline -multiok=1) - attempt 1/10

dnetc v2.9109-518-CTR-10092920 for CUDA 3.1 on Win32 (WindowsNT 5.1).
Using email address (distributed.net ID) 'switeck@hotmail.com'

[Feb 12 15:46:47 UTC] nvcuda.dll Version: 6.14.13.2018
[Feb 12 15:46:47 UTC] Automatic processor type detection found
                      a GeForce GTS 250 (128 SPs) processor.
[Feb 12 15:46:47 UTC] RC5-72: using core #0 (CUDA 1-pipe 64-thd).
[Feb 12 15:46:47 UTC] RC5-72: Loaded D2:4A9F6109:00000000:64*2^32
[Feb 12 15:46:47 UTC] RC5-72: 2 packets (128.00 stats units) remain in
                      in.r72
[Feb 12 15:46:47 UTC] RC5-72: 0 packets are in out.r72
[Feb 12 15:46:47 UTC] 1 cruncher has been started.
[Feb 12 16:15:19 UTC] RC5-72: Completed D2:4A9F6109:00000000 (64.00 stats units)
                      0.00:28:31.84 - [160,574,156 keys/s]
[Feb 12 16:15:19 UTC] RC5-72: Loaded D2:4A9F6149:00000000:64*2^32
[Feb 12 16:15:19 UTC] RC5-72: Summary: 1 packet (64.00 stats units)
                      0.00:28:31.84 - [160.57 Mkeys/s]
[Feb 12 16:15:19 UTC] RC5-72: 1 packet (64.00 stats units) remains in in.r72
                      Projected ideal time to completion: 0.00:27:44.00
[Feb 12 16:15:19 UTC] RC5-72: 1 packet (64.00 stats units) is in out.r72
[Feb 12 16:43:51 UTC] RC5-72: Completed D2:4A9F6149:00000000 (64.00 stats units)
                      0.00:28:31.68 - [160,588,885 keys/s]
[Feb 12 16:43:51 UTC] RC5-72: Loaded D2:4A9F6189:00000000:64*2^32
[Feb 12 16:43:51 UTC] RC5-72: Summary: 2 packets (128.00 stats units)
                      0.00:57:03.53 - [160.58 Mkeys/s]
[Feb 12 16:43:51 UTC] RC5-72: 0 packets remain in in.r72
[Feb 12 16:43:51 UTC] RC5-72: 2 packets (128.00 stats units) are in out.r72
[Feb 12 17:12:31 UTC] RC5-72: Completed D2:4A9F6189:00000000 (64.00 stats units)
                      0.00:28:38.85 - [159,918,822 keys/s]
[Feb 12 17:12:31 UTC] Shutdown - packet limit exceeded.
[Feb 12 17:12:31 UTC] RC5-72: Summary: 3 packets (192.00 stats units)
                      0.01:25:42.39 - [160.36 Mkeys/s]
[Feb 12 17:12:31 UTC] RC5-72: 0 packets remain in in.r72
[Feb 12 17:12:31 UTC] RC5-72: 3 packets (192.00 stats units) are in out.r72
[Feb 12 17:12:31 UTC] *Break* Shutting down...
[Feb 12 17:12:31 UTC] Shutdown complete.