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Buster Gunn · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: Are w/u's taking longer?

Seems my machines have slowed down. Has anyone else slowed down? I haven't changed anything by my RAC is going down.
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Ben · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

Maybe the new application has slowed some WU's down? Or maybe it needs a damn good kick Laughing

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steve · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject:

Same here I noticed a drop checking machines found some of them had dropped from 650mhz to 450mhz the factory default is 650mhz and 700mhz ...... It must be the new app will keep checking to find the problem running boic 6.3.10 and win xp64 all my cards are 8800gt's and from various manufactures. Would advise everyone check the clock speed and ram speed

Buster Gunn · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:13 am Post subject:

Nightlord · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:49 am Post subject:

I haven't noticed anything on my systems, in fact my rac continues t slowly climb as a result of the improvements on the GTX series with the Linux app.....but I'll check them later.

I did notice a few weeks ago something strange where my CPU efficiency as recorded by the project was down at 50%. Of course GPUgrid doesn't use much CPU, but the scheduler still gets confused. If it is anything less that high 90's then Boinc thinks the system is in use for something else, even if it isn't - and that maybe due to the new scheduler stuff.

In Boinc 6.3.14 there were some changes to the scheduler I think. Do you have the ncpus+1 work around to use all you CPU cores plus the GPU? If so, it might be something to do with that interacting with the new scheduler.
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Ben · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

Hmm interesting. I didn't think PS3 Grid would have the ability to under clock a GPU? Shocked

Unless it is just not pressuring it as much, although i find that hard to believe. I will keep an eye out to see if my clock speed has dropped when i do another WU. Confused

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Maybe it would be a good idea to reboot the machines every so often? Give the GPU's a few minutes to come off of 100% load. I think steve mentioned something before about using the scheduler to automatically re-boot every X hours? However you would need to setup the pc's so that they would auto login (unless you run BOINC as a service).
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steve · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:07 am Post subject:

it would seem that they released a new app 6.48 on the 16th oct this may be the problem???

Buster Gunn · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:19 am Post subject:

Ben · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:05 am Post subject:

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Buster Gunn · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject:

Ben · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:17 pm Post subject:

No problem. The link in case you do not know it:

x86 bit client (recommended if your not sure what version you have) - http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.3.14_windows_intelx86.exe

x64 bit client - http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.3.14_windows_x86_64.exe
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Megacruncher · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject:

As far as I'm concerned 6.3.10 works fine so I'll not be upgrading unless someone finds some totally new features. If you do let us know!
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Buster Gunn · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:07 am Post subject:

I installed 6.3.14. An hour later the machine was frozen solid.
6.3.10 was reloaded. I'll also wait for a better review on a new client.
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Ben · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

It has been running fine for me Question

No crashs / lockups and seemed better then 6.3.10. Sorry to hear that, i was only going on what i have experienced on this machine. Where you using 2 cards or more in the same machine to run PS3 Grid?
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Buster Gunn · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: