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Lazydude Send message Joined: 17 Jan 01 Posts: 45 Credit: 96,158,001 RAC: 136 ![]() ![]() |
Hi! I have only one GPU 12/07/19 12:01:56 | SETI@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. 12/07/19 12:01:56 | SETI@home | Reporting 3 completed tasks 12/07/19 12:01:56 | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU 12/07/19 12:02:00 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 148 new tasks looks like the limit of 100 wus per device is lifted or something else have happend at the moment i have 117 wu for CPU and 230 wu for GPU |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
Are you saying that the powers-that-be undid the 100 max WUs?I'm not - I keep my cache sizes low anyway, so it barely affects me. But that's what everyone else seems to be saying. Even if true, we don't yet know whether the change was deliberate/permanent, or a mistake/temporary. Time will tell. |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 27 May 99 Posts: 5517 Credit: 528,817,460 RAC: 242 ![]() ![]() |
Are you saying that the powers-that-be undid the 100 max WUs?I'm not - I keep my cache sizes low anyway, so it barely affects me. But that's what everyone else seems to be saying. I seem to be at a bottleneck for uploads and downloads at my site. Slowly still getting more downloaded than going back so the caches are building. Won't know yet for a few hours but I'm thinking they raised the limit to 400 work units per GPU? Anyone else seeing that? ![]() ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
I'm thinking they raised the limit to 400 work units per GPU? Anyone else seeing that?I'm not seeing that, but then I wouldn't even begin to look until the system has recovered somewhat. The only way to know is to wait until you see a line about 'reached a limit on tasks in progress' in the Event Log, and then go back and count then. I might try that come about Monday, if things have settled down, but not now. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13882 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
Won't know yet for a few hours but I'm thinking they raised the limit to 400 work units per GPU? Anyone else seeing that?No way of telling at this stage for me. Had to reduce my cache settings to stop my Linux system from running out of CPU work as it's till struggling to get anything. Grant Darwin NT |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
OK, can't resist. I have one machine running the dynamic spoofed client. It has two GPUs, and (currently) 948 tasks - so it should be just above the 'Zalster limit'. I've set it back to spoof 2 GPUs, and we'll see what happens. So far - "no tasks available", no reason given. Or perhaps - bingo. 07/12/2019 12:17:47 | SETI@home | This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress |
![]() Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 ![]() |
In another thread. It was reported that the "limits would be increased slowly" so that high CPU count systems (like a 128 thread Threadripper or an Eypc of similar size) would get enough work. It wasn't clear from my reading that this would also change the gpu limits. However, they did say "slowly" and apparently it is not so slowly. Plus we have the inconsistent access issue that everyone with multiple machines is reporting. Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
juan BFP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 9786 Credit: 572,710,851 RAC: 3,799 ![]() ![]() |
OK, can't resist. I have one machine running the dynamic spoofed client. It has two GPUs, and (currently) 948 tasks - so it should be just above the 'Zalster limit'. I've set it back to spoof 2 GPUs, and we'll see what happens. So far - "no tasks available", no reason given. I running the unlimited spoofed client as you all know. The only problem is to get any new work the rest is working as usual. Just get 108 new task from a request. Sat 07 Dec 2019 07:47:14 AM EST | SETI@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU Sat 07 Dec 2019 07:47:18 AM EST | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 108 new tasks What i believe is happening is: the limit was changed/brooked and something is not working fine, or simply as we could expect the servers are having a hard time to adapt to this new limits. The time will tell. ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
In another thread. It was reported that the "limits would be increased slowly" ...A full forum search doesn't turn up that phrase, at least in the last 6 months. Who reported, when and where? Was it a project admin, or just wishful thinking by a volunteer? |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 ![]() ![]() |
In another thread. It was reported that the "limits would be increased slowly" ...A full forum search doesn't turn up that phrase, at least in the last 6 months. Who reported, when and where? Was it a project admin, or just wishful thinking by a volunteer? This is the post in question https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83824&postid=2022034 |
![]() Send message Joined: 28 Nov 02 Posts: 5126 Credit: 276,046,078 RAC: 462 ![]() |
In another thread. It was reported that the "limits would be increased slowly" ...A full forum search doesn't turn up that phrase, at least in the last 6 months. Who reported, when and where? Was it a project admin, or just wishful thinking by a volunteer? Take a look at https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=83824&postid=2022042#2022042 Tom A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association). |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3824 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 ![]() ![]() |
I wrote to Dr. Korpela (also re: the AMD RX 5700 issue) but of course it's five in the morning on a Saturday in Cali so I hope his rest is undisturbed for a few hours. :^) Just before this started I noticed there was a very brief site outage with a malformed maintenance notification in error code, so it would appear that changes were made. Hopeful there will be confirmation. ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
This is the post in questionThanks. And Github seems to confirm that captainiom (with whom I'd already corresponded) is the same person as JSM. We're beginning to get an idea of the picture. |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14686 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
Well, I'm down below 800 tasks on my 2 x GPU machine, and I'm back to 'no work available', with no mention of a limit. Looks like "Zalster's Theorem" is right, but I won't know for certain until I get back from lunch. |
Stephen "Heretic" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628 ![]() ![]() |
Are you saying that the powers-that-be undid the 100 max WUs?I'm not - I keep my cache sizes low anyway, so it barely affects me. But that's what everyone else seems to be saying. . . I suspect it is only temporary, but in the meantime setting work fetch to a moderate value seems the wise thing to me ... Stephen :) |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 18 Aug 99 Posts: 1432 Credit: 110,967,840 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
I thought I was seeing things this morning, but it seems a lot of people are seeing the same thing. I did a quick calculation and it seems that the excess tasks are based on the number of working threads instead of the number of devices. My normal queue is 100/ CPU & 200/ GPU (1 CPU & 2 GPUs). I now have 198 CPU & 793 GPU tasks. That works out to approx. 2 x the number of working threads. Equals out to 4d of CPU & 6d of GPU work. Glad to have it & keep it coming.. ![]() ![]() I don't buy computers, I build them!! |
Ian&Steve C. ![]() Send message Joined: 28 Sep 99 Posts: 4267 Credit: 1,282,604,591 RAC: 6,640 ![]() ![]() |
Well, I'm down below 800 tasks on my 2 x GPU machine, and I'm back to 'no work available', with no mention of a limit. Looks like "Zalster's Theorem" is right, but I won't know for certain until I get back from lunch. I think I concur with the 4x GPU limit now. my "slow" system with [64] spoofed GPUs started going over the 6400 task limit. So I changed the system to [16] spoofed GPUs and now it's reporting that it has reached the limit for tasks in progress. Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours ![]() ![]() |
Stephen "Heretic" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 20 Sep 12 Posts: 5557 Credit: 192,787,363 RAC: 628 ![]() ![]() |
I think I concur with the 4x GPU limit now. . . But it is also raised for CPUs so someone else may be right that high thread CPUs can get more work too. Stephen . . |
Speedy ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Jun 04 Posts: 1643 Credit: 12,921,799 RAC: 89 ![]() ![]() |
My machine (Windows) managed to successfully get 79% more than normal cache size, normally 100 . I will return the _2 results 1st to help shrink the database ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 37301 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 ![]() ![]() |
With these new limits and my 3day+0.1 limit my 3570K rig gets a full cache of 1000 tasks while my 2500K rig (using -nobs while doing 1 less CPU task) sits at somewhere between 960-970 tasks. Cheers. |
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