Boinc can't be bothered downloading AMD work
30 Apr 2022 5:27:31 UTC
Topic 227476
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What's this supposed to mean?
"Einstein@Home Not requesting tasks: don't need (CPU: not highest priority project; AMD/ATI GPU: )"
Specifically, no reason given for AMD, just can't be bothered. At that point I had 10 minutes of work left, running on 1 GPU. The other GPU was empty. My buffer was increased to 5 + 5 days. Only Einstein was enabled to get new work. Facepalm at Boinc programmers.
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.
Thanks to Mikey, I found the
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Thanks to Mikey, I found the source of the problem. I had Einstein set via cc_config.xml to not run gravity app on device 0, and not run gamma app on device 1. Apparently that confuses Boinc and it only gets 1 or 2 tasks downloaded into the queue. I removed one of those restrictions and it works ok. There's a bug in there somewhere, let's see if the "programmers" can sort it out.
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/4738
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Peter Hucker wrote: Thanks
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You are very welcome, I'm glad it's working now.
What alot of people do if they run 2 gpu's in the same machine and want to do different things with them is install a 2nd version of Boinc, in a different directory of course, and then use the 'exclude gpu?' line so each gpu runs in it's own copy of Boinc.
mikey wrote: Peter Hucker
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Too much hassle for me. If it gets that complicated I just run something else. I'm happy if every chip is flat out doing something.
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.