Waiting for GPU Memory

Lee Thompson WA8QFE

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22 Jul 2012 19:45:20 UTC

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I,m running 3 HP DL360 servers souly for Boinc apps.
OS is Fedora 16 and each machine has dual Xeon 3.2G processors and each has 4G of Ram. I have a problem with Einstein stopping and saying "Waiting for GPU memory". I have no GPU, Any ideas ?.
The only fix so far is a reboot. This is lossing a lot of WU time for me.
Thanks,
Lee Thompson

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Waiting for GPU Memory

22 Jul 2012 20:22:17 UTC

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Your only fix is to use BOINC 6.12.43 (if that's available to you), or else upgrade to BOINC 7.0, as those have the Waiting for GPU memory bug fixed. It's a scheduler bug, it has nothing to do with the GPU.

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Charlie Fenton's post here

22 Jul 2012 20:27:49 UTC

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Charlie Fenton's post here refers to this problem, and David's fix:

(Waiting on GPU) Returns!...Repeatable on demand!

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David 12 Sept 2011
in GUI RPC, change RESULT.gpu_mem_wait to scheduler_wait.
It means that the app did a boinc_temporary_exit(),
and is waiting to be rescheduled.
GPU mem wait is one source of this, not the only one

Claggy

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Thanks to all for the info

23 Jul 2012 16:35:44 UTC

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Thanks to all for the info !
Lee