Is there any way I can tell boinc to only use 1 core of my GTX295?

My gtx295 runs under linux and since the recent compute capability upgrade device #1 fails every WU while device #0 works fine. I've tried all available drivers (185.18.14, 185.18.31 & 190.18) but they all fail on device #1

I've been babysitting it recently, suspending all but 1 WU and although that works fine but I'd prefer boinc to do it itself.

So, untill there's a driver that works for my setup, does anyone know if there's some method of telling boinc to only use cuda device #0 ?

No.. because that would lead to micro management *duck*

MrS

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Is there any way I can tell boinc to only use 1 core of my GTX295?

My gtx295 runs under linux and since the recent compute capability upgrade device #1 fails every WU while device #0 works fine. I've tried all available drivers (185.18.14, 185.18.31 & 190.18) but they all fail on device #1

I've been babysitting it recently, suspending all but 1 WU and although that works fine but I'd prefer boinc to do it itself.

So, untill there's a driver that works for my setup, does anyone know if there's some method of telling boinc to only use cuda device #0 ?

You can do this if you tell BOINC to use 50% of your processors. I do this with my i7 - at any time it uses four threads and one GPU.

Try it out...

R

So, untill there's a driver that works for my setup, does anyone know if there's some method of telling boinc to only use cuda device #0 ?

You can do this if you tell BOINC to use 50% of your processors. I do this with my i7 - at any time it uses four threads and one GPU.

thanks R

I gave this a quick try this morning, c2q and gtx295 and it cut the CPU down to 2 WUs but still allowed 2 GPU WUs (the 2nd of which promptly failed).

I'll have a play with different %'s tonight

I'll have a play with different %'s tonight

You must not use any value higher than 50%.

MrS

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I'll have a play with different %'s tonight

You must not use any value higher than 50%.
MrS

I had a play with this, with 49% 1 got 1 CPU WU but still 2 GPU WUs
24% didn't cause a benchmark and had no effect.

I've gone back to 75% and use a script at 4am to suspend the current WU and resume a fresh one

theirs no option in boinc yet as to limit or %'s of gpu. hopefully in 6.10 that will change.
or v7.

I'm not sure what I've done, I've tried no end of things but my GTX295 is now running successfully both on cores.

Some of the last things I tried were setting ownership on /dev/nvidia[01] to the same as boinc and upgrading the nvidia drivers to 190.32. If I were to hazzard a guess, I'd say it was changing ownership that did the trick.

Now I've just got to get gpu #1 to run all full speed. It's stuck at performance level 0 (300MHz GPU & 100MHz memory) whereas gpu #0 is at level 2 (576MHz & 999MHz).
nvidia-settings just flatly refuses to adjust it and nvclock complains Coolbits isn't set even though it is :?

At least I don't have to babysit it any more :)