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Former Member
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BOINC will simply pause one or more tasks if it does not find enough memory in either run state to the point where it pauses completely with 'waiting for memory'.
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Wolf Fivousix
Cruncher Joined: Mar 22, 2013 Post Count: 10 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello everyone, I have good and bad news:
Good news is that fiddling with the RAM did not made any difference, like SekeRob said, once the application doesn't have enough memory it just waits for it, but even this "waiting and resuming" did not reproduced the error, so I don't thing the RAM has anything to do with it. Bad news is that I got a BluRay and while running 4 tasks (which by itself couldn't crash the system) and watching it the system crashed twice. I thought it could be the driver so I copied the contents to the HD and played from there, still crashed. Disabling BOINC allowed me to watch the BluRay with no problems. Even tough I do not run any tasks in my GPU, could it be related somehow? |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7844 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I think you have it. Even though the BLU-Ray probably operates a lot off of your GPU, it still will use some of the CPU for processing. You should probably cut down the number of cores being used when you are viewing video, even off the HD. Or, simply suspend BOINC while watching video. There is a limit to how much your system can do at one time and it seems you have reached it. Good luck.
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MrKermit
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It still should not crash, even if it's busy the Video should just get choppy, and the other apps run poorly. I'd have to test the GPU, do you have an alternate or can you pull the Add-in and use an onboard to test using a process of elimination.
----------------------------------------It's possible they both use OpenGL or something that the card isn't handling the way the OS expects?  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
There's still the <exclusive_app> option that can be added to the BOINC config to stop crunching long as the video app is loaded. Programs like Process Lasso can be used to set priorities, affinities and lots more if dead-set on BOINC computing while gaming / heavy user app running.
And for BOINC to automatically reduce cores, differentiate between cores used when idle versus used... "talk to the hand", at Berkeley [requested countless times] ;>) |
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Wolf Fivousix
Cruncher Joined: Mar 22, 2013 Post Count: 10 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MrKermit, unfortunately I do not have another Graphic Card and neither my motherboard (Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0) have an onboard GC. Do you think that if I ask for some GPU tasks it would be a good test of my GC state?
Once again, thank you everyone for all the help. |
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