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cineon_lut
06-04-14, 06:14 PM
I've been running the Enigma challenge on the same machine as my 7970/Collatz work. Saved 1 thread for the GPU (1 out of 24 including HT) I have a slightly OC'd 7970 that can get through a Large collatz in about 5.2 hours. Last 2 days, they've been hanging on me at 60-ish percent. See pic. I suspended Enigma and started a new task. All the while, my GPU meter reads like it has activity.

I'll be really sad if something is wrong :(

http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u365/jthet/STEREO2_zps16dd50c4.jpg (http://s1064.photobucket.com/user/jthet/media/STEREO2_zps16dd50c4.jpg.html)

FourOh
06-05-14, 11:41 AM
I get these from time to time on my 7750, 7790 and 7950 running Collatz and especially Bitcoin Utopia. The best solution I have come across (credit: Zombie67) is to use Boinc Tasks to suspend any work unit that runs past a certain amount of time... say 5 1/2 hours. Sometimes these units will complete when you suspend, let another WU run, then resume. Sometimes not, but it's usually worth a try.

cineon_lut
06-05-14, 02:04 PM
I get these from time to time on my 7750, 7790 and 7950 running Collatz and especially Bitcoin Utopia. The best solution I have come across (credit: Zombie67) is to use Boinc Tasks to suspend any work unit that runs past a certain amount of time... say 5 1/2 hours. Sometimes these units will complete when you suspend, let another WU run, then resume. Sometimes not, but it's usually worth a try.

It got better when I suspended Enigma. Now I took my percentage of cpus down to 85% to hopefully free up a physical core in addition to a HT core. See if this makes it run any better. I like the Boinctasks idea, gotta learn that. I'm running ghetto now with VNC into each machine.

Bitcoin Utopia is a real pain, it crashes with a windows popup that "sgminger" failing blah blah and goes stupid. Very unreliable for me but wow it pays nice when it works.

Mumps
06-05-14, 06:14 PM
You can disable that Windows Crash pop-up so the WU simply fails, but moves on without user intervention. That's part of Windows Error Reporting.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alejacma/archive/2011/02/18/how-to-disable-the-pop-up-that-windows-shows-when-an-app-crashes.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/8e7a7f48-a65e-4cd5-a55a-a62e4f7604cc/disabling-crash-dialogs?forum=winservergen

cineon_lut
06-05-14, 07:32 PM
You can disable that Windows Crash pop-up so the WU simply fails, but moves on without user intervention. That's part of Windows Error Reporting.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alejacma/archive/2011/02/18/how-to-disable-the-pop-up-that-windows-shows-when-an-app-crashes.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/8e7a7f48-a65e-4cd5-a55a-a62e4f7604cc/disabling-crash-dialogs?forum=winservergen

Thanks!