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goben_2003
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Ok, that is the same OS I am running. I have shutdown and restarted several times since I set it up.
----------------------------------------No, that part does not matter. It just creates an empty folder called temp inside the mount. Do you recall whether you had Allocate Memory Dynamically checked? I am guessing that the File System set to NTFS since you said the rest was default. Is that correct?  |
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Andyman
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Ok, that is the same OS I am running. I have shutdown and restarted several times since I set it up. No, that part does not matter. It just creates an empty folder called temp inside the mount. Do you recall whether you had Allocate Memory Dynamically checked? I am guessing that the File System set to NTFS since you said the rest was default. Is that correct? I had it on dynamic 4GB and NTFS. I might try and install it again tomorrow, mayby somwthing went wrong the first time. |
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goben_2003
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Ok, that is the same OS I am running. I have shutdown and restarted several times since I set it up. No, that part does not matter. It just creates an empty folder called temp inside the mount. Do you recall whether you had Allocate Memory Dynamically checked? I am guessing that the File System set to NTFS since you said the rest was default. Is that correct? I had it on dynamic 4GB and NTFS. I might try and install it again tomorrow, mayby somwthing went wrong the first time. Hmm, I wonder if it does not actually work properly with Allocate Memory Dynamically. I do not have that set for my BOINC ramdisk, only one that gets used like a temporary filesystem for something else. I will have to try setting one up the same as my BOINC ramdisk except with Allocate Memory Dynamically. |
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flynryan
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 235 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have been following this phenomenon. A couple days ago smart details indicated 189 TB written. Today its up to 203! Intel SSD toolbox still reports around 85% drive life left and its already about 10 years old, so not too worried just yet. Will be tracking it closely. Drive is an Intel 320 series 300 GB. Computer is doing around 1,500 work units per day.
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JohnDK
Advanced Cruncher Denmark Joined: Feb 17, 2010 Post Count: 77 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'm trying out a Ramdisk in Linux because my HD LED was lit solid for something like 75% of the time and was thinking is wasn't good. I'm running 9 GPU WUs on 3 cards.
----------------------------------------It seems the runtimes have gone down, so could the HD/SSD by a bottleneck I wonder?
Intel i7-6850K / 16GB / RTX 3090 / 2x RTX 3080 Ti / RTX 3070 Ti
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X / 32GB / RTX 2080 Ti |
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TripleTrouble
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Did not work for me, as the Bonic client would not honor that junction point.
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goben_2003
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I'm trying out a Ramdisk in Linux because my HD LED was lit solid for something like 75% of the time and was thinking is wasn't good. I'm running 9 GPU WUs on 3 cards. It seems the runtimes have gone down, so could the HD/SSD by a bottleneck I wonder? I had not paid attention to that with BOINC. I can tell you that checkpoints went faster with folding@home running on the ram disk, thus slightly decreasing total runtime. These opng units seem to write both more data and more often. So it would not surprise me if it did reduce the runtime a bit. |
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goben_2003
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Did not work for me, as the Bonic client would not honor that junction point. It is hard to say without seeing anything or having any info why that happened. Could you post screenshots of each page of the settings for it in the RamDisk Configuration on an image hosting site and put the links here please? Something like imgbb or similar. If you have the windows "Snipping Tool", select Mode->Window Snip to just grab the window with the configuration. What version of Windows are you running? Do you recall whether you had Allocate Memory Dynamically checked? What was File System set to? Edit: added 2 questions [Edit 1 times, last edit by goben_2003 at Apr 30, 2021 7:22:30 PM] |
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JohnDK
Advanced Cruncher Denmark Joined: Feb 17, 2010 Post Count: 77 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I have a problem after using Ramdisk, I'm only getting 1 or 2 WUs with each work request, I'm slowly finishing more than I'm getting back, even though I only have 20 WUs in cache, I should have up to 150 in cache.
----------------------------------------My Ramdisk is 4GB and there's more than 1GB free and my settings allow to use it all. This is from the work_fetch_debug: Fri 30 Apr 2021 21:20:23 CEST | World Community Grid | checking NVIDIA GPU Fri 30 Apr 2021 21:20:23 CEST | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] set_request() for NVIDIA GPU: ninst 3 nused_total 9.00 nidle_now 0.00 fetch share 1.00 req_inst 0.00 req_secs 55729.12 Fri 30 Apr 2021 21:20:23 CEST | World Community Grid | NVIDIA GPU set_request: 55729.123704 Fri 30 Apr 2021 21:20:23 CEST | World Community Grid | [work_fetch] request: CPU (0.00 sec, 0.00 inst) NVIDIA GPU (55729.12 sec, 0.00 inst) Fri 30 Apr 2021 21:20:23 CEST | World Community Grid | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Fri 30 Apr 2021 21:20:23 CEST | World Community Grid | Reporting 4 completed tasks Fri 30 Apr 2021 21:20:23 CEST | World Community Grid | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA GPU Fri 30 Apr 2021 21:20:25 CEST | World Community Grid | Scheduler request completed: got 2 new tasks Fri 30 Apr 2021 21:20:25 CEST | | [work_fetch] Request work fetch: RPC complete Any idea what's wrong?
Intel i7-6850K / 16GB / RTX 3090 / 2x RTX 3080 Ti / RTX 3070 Ti
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Jason Jung
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Reguarding ImDisk:
"Dynamic ramdisks do not work properly when they are mounted on a folder instead of a drive letter, and if you don't use the TRIM commands (TRIM commands are used by default with NTFS on Windows 7 and later)." -- https://sourceforge.net/p/imdisk-toolkit/doc/Home/ |
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