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Number crunching :
(2) 5870's
(Message 1763)
Posted 16 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: Going to clear out my Moo's cashe and move on, sucks, I was expecting about 700k a day :( That's how mine started, crunching 2 wu's, it wasn't until I changed from no new tasks to allow it to download again, that it went from crunching 2 wu's to 1 wu. If you look at the top of this thread you'll see a picture of the two wu's crunching. Strange for sure. |
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Number crunching :
(2) 5870's
(Message 1707)
Posted 14 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: PS - Know how you can tell I'm an old fart? I still call them directories instead of folders :) It's my thread so I guess I can get off topic for just a tiny bit, plus I'm an 'old fart'. What was the o/s before dos, and nooooooooo looking on the internet. I'm talking about pc's, not fortran or cobol, etc. One will earn an 'old fart badge' for that one, or, if you're a youngster you're well informed. |
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Faulty WUs
(Message 1697)
Posted 13 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: Yikes, those are huge numbers compared to my bad ones. I would have thought someone from the project would have shared what the issue is and when to expect a fix; or at least an acknowledgement of an issue and 'we're working on it'. |
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Faulty WUs
(Message 1688)
Posted 12 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: I was experiencing a couple of computation errors on my rig during the last two days. As all of my wingmen are getting the same error, there seems to be something wrong with the corresponding WUs. Here's some examples: Interesting you should mention, I am as well, I assumed it was just me. http://moowrap.net/workunit.php?wuid=4382112 http://moowrap.net/workunit.php?wuid=4414515 http://moowrap.net/workunit.php?wuid=4400706 http://moowrap.net/workunit.php?wuid=4400704 http://moowrap.net/workunit.php?wuid=4400701 http://moowrap.net/workunit.php?wuid=4400680 I believe I had others, they may have been cleared out by Moo. My a few my wingmen also had errors. |
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(2) 5870's
(Message 1687)
Posted 12 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: Thanks Crunch3r. Thanks Conan for the information, it did as you said :) As an aside, it goes in the program data/boinc directory. Tried the Program Files/Boinc path and it didn't work. Thanks Conan and everyone else for suggestion & thoughts, great bunch of folks. Dan/Philly PS - Know how you can tell I'm an old fart? I still call them directories instead of folders :) |
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(2) 5870's
(Message 1683)
Posted 11 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: Thanks Crunch3r. Any 'chance' it could be boinc, I'm running 6.10.60 and when I went backwards to install it from whatever the boinc current version is I had to install it a second time so it could fix itself, or something like that. I also can't get boinc to report tasks, I have to do them manually. |
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Number crunching :
(2) 5870's
(Message 1681)
Posted 11 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: I'm going to throw another twist into this twisted situation. I have been watching boinc and it hit me that boinc was finishing a wu in ~15 minutes but not being reported that way at Moo, sooooo, I sat at the computer for a couple of hours and read the newspaper and watched the wu's crunching, I also looked at a wall clock to verify what boinc was showing, rounding to minutes. The wall clock confirmed what boinc was reporting. I dropped off the seconds on the UTC to figure the minutes run. (edit, that brings up another issue, boinc wont upload the wu's after they run, I have to do it manually) Having nothing to do this morning , right, I copied about 10 wu's reported by Moo, and low and behold 'something stinks in Denmark' (sorry to anyone in Denmark, just a saying ) Look at the difference between WU's, between the actual UTC times, they agree with the times boinc was showing when I watched them crunching and the wall clock, but the run/cpu times don't. Could it be a Moo problem? Can I detach from the project and download the Moo program again without screwing things up, or is it even necessary? |
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Number crunching :
(2) 5870's
(Message 1680)
Posted 11 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: I see that your computer has 2 GB of main memory. Thanks Mike, I'll check the seating of the sticks. If you look at my last thread, at the bottom, is a Vista pic where Vista see's the 4gb. Curious, why would Vista see it but not BOINC. Dan/Philly |
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Number crunching :
(2) 5870's
(Message 1676)
Posted 11 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: G'Day Philadelphia, Actually I have 2 5870's, one with 1gb of memory and the other with 2 gb.
I agree that the cpu time on mine nearly equal the run time. I was told when a second card is added it requires more cpu time, I have no idea, clearly that's not the case with yours. I believe it was mentioned earlier in this thread, I'm just going by what was mentioned.
Actually I have 4 1gb sticks installed.
How do I dedicate 1 core to the GPU? Currently I'm not crunching and cpu projects, only GPU.
Your information is very much appreciated. If I can make this run faster, I'm all for it. I did look at your WU's and I agree, you're processing must faster with less cpu usage, maybe because the cards aren't matched? One is 1gb and the other 2gb? BOINC Start Up Information [edit] [edit/edit] Moo on startup |
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(Message 1671)
Posted 10 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: I 'think' I figured out what the problem with Moo was/is. Kidding on the 'I', even a blind squirrel can find an acorn. I had booted/rebooted/booted/rebooted started boinc/stopped boinc/restarted/stopped it, etc, changed as many settings as carter has pills. I had about 3 days worth of WU's to crunch and set the project to no new downloads. I'm sure you could tell from some of my posts I was frustrated as hell. In spite of my better judgement, I decided to 'allow new tasks', received 1 download, suddenly, instead of running two tasks it was running one task (running 0.05 cpu's + 2.00 ATI GPU's (device 0)) Before it was running 2 tasks with +1.00 gpu (device 0) and another (device 1) It's still crunching the cpu but the run time is way down, I 'think', to something reasonable. If I can get more WU's I'll get a better idea. My question (not to anyone in particular) is why did 'allowing new tasks' suddenly tell the computer to run one work unit instead of two and use both gpu's to do it, when stopping/starting BOINC didn't, even when it involved setting changes???? [edit] I ran about 20 WU's since and everything is fine, what a strange situation. Maybe the project guru has input? |
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Number crunching :
(2) 5870's
(Message 1661)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: Going to clear out my Moo's cashe and move on, sucks, I was expecting about 700k a day :( That is true, they are not identical I was not aware that Woo used both cards to crunch 1 WU since two of them are running at the same time, or at least in BOINC they show two running at the same time. |
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Number crunching :
(2) 5870's
(Message 1657)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: Going to clear out my Moo's cashe and move on, sucks, I was expecting about 700k a day :( |
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(2) 5870's
(Message 1656)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: Having a great conversation with myself here, lol, kidding. :) Just put the other one back in and woooolaaaaa $^#&# dnetc files going crazy again. Guess I'll just keep one out until it can be figured out :( wasted 300K a day :( |
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(Message 1655)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: I just pulled the second 5870 and the result is back to what it was before, I'm pulling my hair out :( |
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(2) 5870's
(Message 1654)
Posted 9 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: I just pulled the second 5870 and that dnetc518 file is back to 0 cpu. Thoughts? |
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(2) 5870's
(Message 1652)
Posted 8 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: I was running one 5870 with WU's in the 1,700 run time and 14 in cpu time. Now I installed another one and the WU's are 2000 to 3000 run time and just short of that for cpu time too. I also noticed that two dnetc518 are running about 50% cpu usage, I don't remember the dnetc518 file running that high before although I can't swear to it. I may just pull one 5870 out and see what happens. Here are several screen captures, sorry for the size but I wanted to share the information, it may be helpful. BOINC SETTINGS MOO SETTINGS BOINC ON STARTUP SHOWING BOTH GPU'S WU'S RUNNING SHOWING BOTH GPU'S DNETC518 FILE IN TASK MGR BEFORE AND AFTER ADDING THE SECOND GPU, SMALL NUMBER ARE WITH 1, LARGE WITH BOTH Thoughts/suggestions? Dan/Philly |
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dnetc518-win32-x86-stream.exe
(Message 1611)
Posted 3 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post:
Gotcha. The second 5870 is out at the moment to make a dummy plug. I drove right by a Radio Shack and forgot to stop. :( Thanks for everyone's help! Dan/Philly |
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Cafe :
Last person to post win #2
(Message 1600)
Posted 3 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: That just gave me a headache :) |
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dnetc518-win32-x86-stream.exe
(Message 1596)
Posted 2 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post:
I changed the settings to these settings. Ok, or modify? Thanks. |
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dnetc518-win32-x86-stream.exe
(Message 1591)
Posted 2 Dec 2011 by Philadelphia Post: There is a long standing bug in OpenCL applications that affects dual GPUs (either on one card or two single GPU cards). The bug grabs a complete CPU Core for each GPU running. There is nothing the Project can do about it - has to be fixed at the OpenCL/AMD/NVidia side of life. Thanks for sharing the information, I'd really not like to have my 4 year old processor crunching 100%, it already has 1 1/2 years of 100% crunching when I first got it. I guess I'm just going to run one of them for Moo than, and one for another project, unless it's an issue regardless if the cards are split between projects. |