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Rarely getting any GPU work
(Message 72372)
Posted 31 Mar 2022 by Wade Tregaskis Post: MilkWay@home seems very unwilling to provide my computer with GPU work units (sometimes it won't provide CPU ones either). My GPUs sit idle most of the time - or, if I have Einstein enabled, it uses them instead. Einstein@home seems to have absolutely no problem giving me work. I've searched these forums and tried all the suggested workarounds, but none of them have any effect (or don't apply, e.g. custom Windows BOINC clients; I'm using a Mac). I do see the common problem that the client refuses to request GPU work units if it has any already, ("N seconds; 0.00 devices" in the logs). But even when it does request units, and has none locally nor any to submit, it still almost always gets none, e.g.:
If I leave it running for many days, I occasionally see it actually grab some work units - but usually just a dozen or two, which last all of about twenty minutes. Sometimes it refuses to get any tasks because it claims the "job cache [is] full", which is weird because often when that happens I have fewer CPU tasks downloaded than available cores - i.e. definitely more room; CPU going idle - and no GPU tasks. e.g.:
It's a shame because MilkyWay@home seems like an interesting project, and it seems to like my GPU (Vega64) a lot more than Einstein@home - about a hundred-fold difference in credit per GPU-second, with tasks taking a minute or so instead of several hours. |
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