Posts by erich56

1) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : no CPU tasks available since a few days (Message 1506) Posted 18 Apr 2022 by erich56 Post: As of today, the 16th of April, I have been unable to get tasks. Server status shows that it is running. but all the time, "unsent tasks" are at 0. I will wait one more day, if then there comes no information from the project team, I will abort this project,
2) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : no CPU tasks available since a few days (Message 1498) Posted 13 Apr 2022 by erich56 Post: any idea how long it will still take until new tasks become available? 1-2 days? 1-2 weeks? Just a rough guess please :-)
3) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : no CPU tasks available since a few days (Message 1495) Posted 10 Apr 2022 by erich56 Post: since recently, my computer does not download new CPU tasks, and the server status page shows that there are none available. Any idea when new ones will follow?
4) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : No tasks sent (Message 1196) Posted 6 May 2021 by erich56 Post: deleted
5) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : Cannot download NVIDIA GPU tasks (Message 1174) Posted 25 Apr 2021 by erich56 Post: One side-thought: how much RAM is required for a MLC GPU task? I am crunching on a GTX 1650 Super under Win10. It is using 2148 MB of memory, according to BoincTasks. and this obviously is too much for a 4 GB system. Finally, the task which got downloaded and did not start right away, did start, but the system crashed after a few minutes. I rebooted and restartet the task, and again MemInfo showed an increasing need for RAM until the system crashed again. This is really too bad, so I cannot crunch these tasks on two of my PCs :-(
6) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : Cannot download NVIDIA GPU tasks (Message 1172) Posted 25 Apr 2021 by erich56 Post: <core_client_version>7.6.33</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <message> couldn't start app: Can't link app version file </message> ]]> the GPU inside is a GTX1650. The description of this PC can be seen here: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=11741 What does "couldn't start app: Can't link app version file" mean? I suspected that above notice may mean that the BOINC version 7.6.33 was too old, so I updated to the latest one - 7.16.11. Interestingly enough, a task got downloaded (as before), but it did not even start. So, the BOINC update brought no improvement. One side-thought: how much RAM is required for a MLC GPU task? From what I see on the one machine where crunching works: the tasks take between 1 and 2.5 G of memory. So could the reason why the task does not start be that there are only 4 GB RAM in the PC? Unfortunately, there is no way to inrease this. I also updated the BOINC version on the other PC which does not even download MLC GPU tasks - however, no change. Still no tasks are being downloaded :-( However, this machine also has only 4 GB RAM. So if the RAM requirement is higher, I would no longer have to worry about no tasks being downloaded.
7) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : Cannot download NVIDIA GPU tasks (Message 1171) Posted 25 Apr 2021 by erich56 Post: I now was curious and connected another PC to MLC, with exactly the same settings as for the machine I am referring here in this thread, i.e. download of GPU tasks not possible. And to my surprise, this other PC could download GPU tasks. So the problem of not downloading tasks must have to do with - I don't know what. In fact, the CUDA version of the two machines is the same: NVIDIACUDA 11.1.96 driver. So the CUDA version is obviously not the culprit. The PC which cannot download is described here: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=11702 However, the other PC which can download GPU tasks cannot run them :-( They error out a few seconds after they get started. Here you can see these erronous tasks: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/results.php?hostid=11741 The stderr says: <core_client_version>7.6.33</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <message> couldn't start app: Can't link app version file </message> ]]> the GPU inside is a GTX1650. The description of this PC can be seen here: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=11741 What does "couldn't start app: Can't link app version file" mean? All in all, out of 3 machines on which I intended to crunch MLC, only one succeeds :-( This is sad, of course. Can anyone give me valuable hints for solving the various problems?
8) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : Cannot download NVIDIA GPU tasks (Message 1170) Posted 25 Apr 2021 by erich56 Post: Hi Erich, What version of CUDA do you have installed on that system? We need CUDA 10.2 or higher installed. the NVIDIA Control Panel under Components says: NVCUDA64.dll version 27.21.14.5671 NVIDIACUDA 11.1.96 driver
9) Questions and Answers : Issue Discussion : Cannot download NVIDIA GPU tasks (Message 1167) Posted 24 Apr 2021 by erich56 Post: Recently, I joined MLC with one of my PCs and successfully downloaded CPU and GPU tasks. Today, I wanted to connect with another PC for crunching GPU tasks only (Geforce GTX970). I am sure that all the settings are correct, but whenever I want to fetch work (either automatically or manually via the Update button in the BOINC manager), the BOINC eventlog says: 24.04.2021 18:56:12 \| MLC@Home \| update requested by user 24.04.2021 18:56:12 \| MLC@Home \| Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. 24.04.2021 18:56:12 \| MLC@Home \| Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU 24.04.2021 18:56:14 \| MLC@Home \| Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks This excerpt has been made just now, however, I have been trying since a few hours. The Server Status Page shows about 11.000 unsent GPU tasks - so I don't understand why I don't receive any. What could be wrong? P.S.: No problem to download CPU tasks; but for this PC, I need GPU tasks only.
10) Questions and Answers : Windows : GPU running idle most of the time (Message 1165) Posted 22 Apr 2021 by erich56 Post: hello pianoman, many thanks for your thorough explanations. As it seems, the invalid task maybe was a one-timer, anyway. I havn't had any others so far :-) So let me just keep my fingers crossed! Best regards, Erich
11) Questions and Answers : Windows : GPU running idle most of the time (Message 1163) Posted 22 Apr 2021 by erich56 Post: so, the first GPU task got finished and ended up with a validation error: https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/result.php?resultid=5012881 can anyone tell me what's going wrong?
12) Questions and Answers : Windows : GPU running idle most of the time (Message 1162) Posted 22 Apr 2021 by erich56 Post: I just joined this project with a host that has 2 RTX3070. So besides several CPU tasks (on a 10-core / 20 threads CPU), 2 GPU tasks are running concurrently. However, when watching the crunching process in the MSI Afterburner, I notice that the GPUs work at full load only rarely, with long idle periods inbetween. Is this "normal" behavour of MLC GPU tasks, or is there something wrong?

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