Description of problem: Startup script of boinc-client (/etc/rc.d/init.d/boinc-client) contains line daemon --check $BOINCEXE --user $BOINCUSER +19 "$BOINCEXE $BOINCOPTS --dir $BOINCDIR >>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRORLOG &" >& /dev/null which starts boinc-client with priority +19. This priority is OK for those BOINC projects which uses CPU only, however if the project use mostly GPU (like NVidia CUDA) it is in this case not running efficiently. For those projects slightly higher boinc-client daemon priority (like +10) is better. In this case for CPU only projects drops project executable priority to +19, so for those projects nothing changes. For GPU projects boinc-client does not drop priority. So it stays +10 and the project executable gets enough time to run efficiently How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install NVidia video card which supports CUDA and CUDA libraries (unfortunatelly not provided neither by Fedora nor RPMFusion) 2. Join some BOINC project which supports CUDA for Linux (Like GPUGrid) Actual results: The BOINC project executable is getting so little time (competing with other CPU only projects), that it is unable to provide enough work for GPU. Renicing boinc project process to +10 as root increases speed considerably. Expected results: Renicing should not be needed. Additional information: Process information when boinc-client daemon priority is +10 (no additional manual renicing): [root@ap ~]# top -b -U boinc -1 top - 18:19:17 up 30 min, 2 users, load average: 4.81, 5.04, 4.32 Tasks: 226 total, 7 running, 219 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 4.1%us, 1.1%sy, 83.5%ni, 10.0%id, 1.1%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 8194852k total, 2504780k used, 5690072k free, 51748k buffers Swap: 8385920k total, 0k used, 8385920k free, 1198912k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2444 boinc 39 19 86572 80m 1336 R 101.0 1.0 23:18.42 einstein_S5R6_1 2438 boinc 39 19 86572 80m 1336 R 97.1 1.0 23:25.37 einstein_S5R6_1 2478 boinc 39 19 214m 192m 5960 R 66.0 2.4 23:25.57 hadam3p_um_6.14 2392 boinc 39 19 60272 48m 5076 R 62.1 0.6 23:05.36 hadsm3mh_um_6.0 4142 boinc 30 10 127m 74m 22m R 50.5 0.9 7:58.30 acemd_6.70_x86_ 2252 boinc 30 10 102m 7492 3788 S 0.0 0.1 0:04.23 boinc_client 2385 boinc 39 19 2988 1632 1236 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.21 hadsm3mh_6.03_i 2386 boinc 39 19 7448 4068 3568 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.69 hadam3p_6.14_i6 2387 boinc 39 19 2988 1632 1236 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 hadsm3mh_6.03_i 2388 boinc 39 19 2988 1632 1236 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 hadsm3mh_6.03_i
Yes, you're completely right, I even recall a discussion about this with somebody else (Clive Messer), but then I forgot about:( I'll fix this soon.
boinc-client-6.10.33-1.r20470svn.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-6.10.33-1.r20470svn.fc11
boinc-client-6.10.33-1.r20470svn.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/boinc-client-6.10.33-1.r20470svn.fc12
(Also, I have an open review for CUDA in rpmfusion, hopefully that will finally finish in some finite time: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459, then it should be a bit easier to use boinc for GPU tasks on Fedora)
boinc-client-6.10.33-1.r20470svn.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update boinc-client'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1680
boinc-client-6.10.33-1.r20470svn.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update boinc-client'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-1691
Looks OK for me (Fedora 12 x86_64)
boinc-client-6.10.33-1.r20470svn.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
boinc-client-6.10.33-1.r20470svn.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.