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1) Message boards : News : Reducing Workunits to Unreliable Hosts (Message 67311)
Posted 5 Apr 2018 by JH30895
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Put the pc that can do gpu's in a different venue work, school or home, instead of the default then. I do that all the time when I have different pc's doing cpu or gpu projects. I don't like doing both cpu and gpu workunits from the same project on the same pc, they workunits are different lengths and cause cache problems for me. So I put pc a in the default of no gpu units by yes to cpu workunits, and pc b in home and allow gpu units but no cpu workunits.


Excellent idea! I have adopted this workaround, and it seems to be the solution to my problem. Thanks.

I still believe that the project's failure to honor BAM's parameters (without warning) may be the root of the "unreliable host" problem. The only reason my failed WU count is in the hundreds, instead of thousands, is because I happened to look at the affected machines on the day of the change. Many machines run unattended and churn out errors unnoticed, until they are identified as unreliable and banned.
2) Message boards : News : Reducing Workunits to Unreliable Hosts (Message 67306)
Posted 4 Apr 2018 by JH30895
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I have done that. The problem there is that it is a global setting, so my client that CAN process GPU WUs is now cut off also. This needs to be fixed, not just for my benefit, but also because it is responsible for a large number of failed WUs and the "creation" of unreliable hosts. I have over 700 errors in just a few minutes from machines that were previously processing error free.
3) Message boards : News : Reducing Workunits to Unreliable Hosts (Message 67302)
Posted 4 Apr 2018 by JH30895
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Starting yesterday, the server is supplying my mac minis with GPU tasks that they cannot process, in spite of my BAM parameters specifying do-not-use-Nvidea-GPU. The only remedy so far is to suspend GPU in the BOINC client, but the server still feeds me a supply of GPU tasks that then just sit there. How can I get the server to honor BAM?




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