slick613

Excellent info here. Thanks! Folding is very different than mining. I guess there's a lot of work for the CPU to move data in and out of the GPU. Seems to be surviving 3 GPUs without maxing out ram, but the CPU is pinned. Going to bring it down to 2 and put the rest back to their mining work. Too bad. I was hoping to point all 7 at this but a CPU upgrade isn't in the cards. Thanks for all the help. I learned a bunch.

TIL htop. Definitely don't have that kind of ram laying around. Think CPU would still be too big of a bottleneck anyways? How many GPUs do you think that's enough ram for. I should at least cut it down to that. Problem is I don't know how to gauge if folding is working alright. Is there a metric for folding performance or utility I should be looking at?

With such low CPU specs, would it be better to cut down how many GPUs I use? I think I only got a few hundred thousand points yesterday from 5 WU. FAHControl estimates 2m per day.

4G of ram. Some celeron processor. Six PCIe risers except 1 M.2 riser. Six 1070s, 1 1070ti. Mining takes next to no cpu/ram. That's why it's those specs are minimal. I guess folding is much heavier on the CPU/RAM. The machine gets owned but if I leave it it, it comes out of it. I guess worst case, I just let it be. Here's the top output when it's "ok". No work for the 7th GPU here. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4188 fahclie+ 39 19 33.290g 432212 110384 R 33.7 11.0 25:27.12 FahCore_22 3622 fahclie+ 39 19 33.291g 363784 105752 R 33.3 9.3 29:51.17 FahCore_22 3629 fahclie+ 39 19 33.290g 361252 106436 R 33.3 9.2 29:34.52 FahCore_22 4609 fahclie+ 39 19 33.620g 661472 118964 R 33.3 16.8 19:33.65 FahCore_22 3636 fahclie+ 39 19 33.290g 360892 105028 R 33.0 9.2 30:17.78 FahCore_22 3649 fahclie+ 39 19 33.305g 293240 105080 R 33.0 7.5 29:46.66 FahCore_22 1538 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:27.85 nv_queue 1574 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:15.98 irq/130-nvidia 3601 fahclie+ 20 0 58.166g 434956 2324 S 0.3 11.1 0:40.10 FAHClient 1 root 20 0 119660 3404 2212 S 0.0 0.1 0:04.74 systemd That's 6 GPUs eating 33% CPU each. hahah. I'm brand new to folding. How do I find out PPD perf?

I've got a headless ubuntu server with 7 nvidia gpus. It's normally for mining but I switched it over to folding last week. Twice now it's got to a point where I can't ssh in. One time I managed to get in to find load average of 24+ and got to a point where any command executed resulted in an unable to allocate memory error. Any idea what could be causing this or how to diagnose? It's a very reliable rig. Been running for years mining without a hiccup. Just keeps tripping on folding for some reason.