Just noticed in the event log that the GPU is being used by SETI. Why is this when I have the three GPU settings in SETI@home preferences deselected?

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Just noticed in the event log that the GPU is being used by SETI. Why is this when I have the three GPU settings in SETI@home preferences deselected?

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Your account shows 4 systems, only one of which has a GPU suitable for processing work.
The event log will show you have a GPU suitable for processing work; however all of the work done, and all of the work to be done on that system is CPU only. No GPU work is shown.

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Grant
Darwin NT

I suspect that you were processing tasks that had been delivered before you de-selected using your GPU.

Basically the web option turns off/on the delivery of tasks to your computer, but doesn't stop any that are on your computer from running to completion.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I suspect that you were processing tasks that had been delivered before you de-selected using your GPU.

Basically the web option turns off/on the delivery of tasks to your computer, but doesn't stop any that are on your computer from running to completion.

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Cheers.

I suspect that you were processing tasks that had been delivered before you de-selected using your GPU.

Basically the web option turns off/on the delivery of tasks to your computer, but doesn't stop any that are on your computer from running to completion.

GPU settings have always been de-selected, since those settings first became available. I did turn them on earlier today and then back off again to see if that would stop it.

It doesn't appear to have worked though as when I came back on to the PC the event logs shows it suspending GPU computation.

Edit:
Just found "Suspend GPU" on the "Activity" menu in BOINC Manager. So it is now suspended.

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It doesn't appear to have worked though as when I came back on to the PC the event logs shows it suspending GPU computation.

Edit:
Just found "Suspend GPU" on the "Activity" menu in BOINC Manager. So it is now suspended.

What system are you talking about? Is it under a different account? Because, of the systems listed under the name you are using to post these messages, only one of them is capable of GPU processing, and it doesn't have a single WU allocated to the GPU, nor are there any WUs that have been processed by the GPU in it's current task list.

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Grant
Darwin NT

...when I came back on to the PC the event logs shows it suspending GPU computation.

It's an informational message because you have set Suspend GPU computing when computer is in use in your preferences.

I have no work via my PC (you won't even see my PC listed in my computers list), but just set Suspend GPU computing when computer is in use and 'In use' means mouse/keyboard input in last N minutes to 1 minute, Then waited. After a minute I moved my mouse and up pops:
05/06/2019 08:55:42 | | Suspending GPU computation - computer is in use

It doesn't mean the GPU is being used by Seti. It just says that it's now suspended in BOINC because I am using the computer.
Remember that BOINC isn't just Seti, there are several tens of other projects you can run under BOINC and several of them use the GPU(s). You could be running one of those on your GPU.

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What system are you talking about? Is it under a different account?

Same system I am using to post.

It's just that I have only noticed that particular message in the event log recently.

In the event log at start-up, it used to say there wasn't a capable GPU, but presumably the following two lines now imply otherwise;

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05/06/2019 14:46:50 | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6350/6450/7450/7470/R5 230 series (Caicos) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 1024MB, 991MB available, 400 GFLOPS peak)
05/06/2019 14:46:50 | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6350/6450/7450/7470/R5 230 series (Caicos) (driver version 1268.1 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1268.1), 1024MB, 991MB available, 400 GFLOPS peak)
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What system are you talking about? Is it under a different account?

Same system I am using to post.

It's just that I have only noticed that particular message in the event log recently.

In the event log at start-up, it used to say there wasn't a capable GPU, but presumably the following two lines now imply otherwise;

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05/06/2019 14:46:50 | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6350/6450/7450/7470/R5 230 series (Caicos) (CAL version 1.4.1848, 1024MB, 991MB available, 400 GFLOPS peak)
05/06/2019 14:46:50 | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6350/6450/7450/7470/R5 230 series (Caicos) (driver version 1268.1 (VM), device version OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1268.1), 1024MB, 991MB available, 400 GFLOPS peak)
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And as I have posted several times previously, and I will post yet again- that system has no GPU work on it at present, it had no sign of ever having GPU work on it when I first looked at it's task list, and there is still no sign of any GPU work having been on it.

As Ageless posted, it is just an informational message- you have your system to suspend the GPU while the system is in use, and that is what it is doing. It doesn't have any work to do, but the GPU is still being suspended, as per your settings.

If it had any GPU work on it to be processed, it would show up in the BOINC Manager's Advanced view in the Tasks tab, Status column, something along the lines of
Reay to start (0.04 CPU + 1 Ati GPU)

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Grant
Darwin NT