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Message 79724 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 20:01:24 UTC
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I have this happen frequently. It happened when I ran Linux as well, but I just chalked that up to Linux. Now that I'm a reborn Windows user (XP SP2 was the last Windows OS I used regularly), it's quite annoying! When I play games on my PC I will snooze the GPU. It doesn't happen every time, but frequently enough that I'm making a post about it. It's quite annoying when frames drop to 30-40.

My Linux box was a Xeon X5675, 8GB of ram. Linux Mint using kernel 4.9.0 and Boinc 7.6.33. It was only a 460 GTX so I had to snooze the GPU when I was using the computer. In the middle of a movie and it resumes crunching GPU WU's... ugh.

Current box is running Windows 10 Pro with Boinc 7.6.33, Ryzen 1700X, 16BG RAM, 1070 GTX.
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Message 79725 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 20:32:12 UTC - in response to Message 79724.  

Did you use the snooze option in the notification area icon? If you used then that is what it's supposed to do, pause CPU/GPU computing for 30 minutes or 1 hour, I can't remember how long the pause is.

If you need computing to pause until you say otherwise you need open the Manager and suspend computing from Activity menu.
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Message 79726 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 20:52:54 UTC - in response to Message 79725.  
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If you need computing to pause until you say otherwise you need open the Manager and suspend computing from Activity menu.
Or use the exclusive applications options from the menu (BOINC Manager->(View->Advanced view)->Options->Exclusive applications), where you can set programs that suspend BOINC when these programs are detected in memory. You can set separately for CPU (suspends all of BOINC) and GPU (suspends only GPU calculations, while CPU calculations continue). This does require that Activity for CPU and GPU is set 'run based on preferences'.


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Message 79728 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 21:26:07 UTC - in response to Message 79725.  

Did you use the snooze option in the notification area icon? If you used then that is what it's supposed to do, pause CPU/GPU computing for 30 minutes or 1 hour, I can't remember how long the pause is.
One hour.
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Message 79730 - Posted: 22 Jul 2017, 23:46:56 UTC - in response to Message 79725.  

Did you use the snooze option in the notification area icon? If you used then that is what it's supposed to do, pause CPU/GPU computing for 30 minutes or 1 hour, I can't remember how long the pause is.

If you need computing to pause until you say otherwise you need open the Manager and suspend computing from Activity menu.


That's what it is! Thank you very much for that.
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