SETI@Home & Projects News Vol. 187 21st October to 29th October 2012

I always use a process manager. Especially if you are running multiple cards AND cpu crunching as well.

Everyones mileage may vary but with weebeastie with 4 GTX470 GPU's crunching Seti and the CPU folding I use a process manager. Same with my home machine with the cpu folding and the 7970 doing Milkyway.
 
Biffa said:
DOH!

In that case I would check to see what the settings are on the Seti web site not on the client itself.

Its always best to leave the application client settings at default and manage your settings from the project site.
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Thanks, I think the problem I had was each task is single threaded and a problem with my internet connection meant it couldn't download enough tasks to fill all 8 threads. all my PCs are now running at 100%.
 
ToxicTBag said:
Hi JamesM:)

If your running NVidia gpu's and crunching seti you do not need any additional programs it seems as though it is only for amd cards
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I need to free up a core on my nvidia rigs to keep GPU usage at 99-100%. Otherwise it dips regularly and gives worse performance.
 
For me its down to what cards you have, for Milkyway AMD cards from the 5850/70, 6950/70 and 7950/70 range, and for Seti the Nvidia 4/5/6 series.
 
Biffa said:
I always use a process manager. Especially if you are running multiple cards AND cpu crunching as well.

Everyones mileage may vary but with weebeastie with 4 GTX470 GPU's crunching Seti and the CPU folding I use a process manager. Same with my home machine with the cpu folding and the 7970 doing Milkyway.
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How does this work exactly? Atm i leave one cpu core free per gpu for MW otherwise it slows it down too much. Would this allow me to crunch on the CPU without slowing down MW? I had a look at that bill2 thing but wasnt sure what to do with it and the website is all in french :o
 
This way you just need one core or hyperthread free for all the GPU crunching and all other cores are free for cpu crunching.

Its easy enough to use, you run it after you start your client, then choose the task (eg milkyway exe) thats running and create a rule, in that rule leave the priority alone, but assign the threads/cores you want to that task and untick all the other threads, make sure you do it for both foreground and background tabs for that task

Save it and it will then show that that app is just running on one core/thread. Then you can run Folding or whatever other CPU task and assign the other threads/cores to that in the same way.

There are other applications, but Bill2 is pretty straight forwards.
 
In other news, if you are having trouble uploading your results now that Seti is back up then you need to restrict your machine to report 25 or less results at a time using <max_tasks_reported>xx</max_tasks_reported> in your cc_config.xml

And setting No New Tasks on the project until you have finished uploading
 
Yes but the problem occurs when you experience an outage at b0rkely and build up a big backlog of results (e.g I had 250 waiting) which is easy to do if you have a lot of GPU's in one box, the client tries to report 250 results and the server says no. This is a way of pushing them through if that happens.
 
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