Humor me...I talk to myself

[Vester]

Some things I understand, and others I have to accept. I am running Pop!_OS with Folding@home v7.6.21 installed. I had been running it satisfactorily since Monday evening. I decided to restart my computer to change the boot order in BIOS. After restarting, the two nivida slots were disabled because no cuda or opencl were found.

The Gigabyte Z590 Aorus AX Pro motherboard has onboard Intel HD 630 Graphics available in BIOS with three choices: Auto, Enabled, or Disabled. It was set it to Enabled prior to installing FAH in an attempt to let the Nvidia GPUs fold only. The installation was successful and FAH ran fine until I restarted the computer this morning.

To get it to fold on the Nvidia GPUs again, I set the onboard graphics to Disabled in BIOS. I'm glad to get it running again. Naturally, I had restarted just before I had to leave for a doctor's appointment. I left it crunching on CPU only while I had time to consider what I could do to fix the "problem" with Cuda missing.

 

[Nick Name]

My biggest complaint with Folding was it assumes you want your machine 100% dedicated to folding. It used every CPU thread and GPU available by default. Once you get things running the way you want, a reboot would wipe those settings and you have to start all over again. It sounds like they still haven't gotten that fixed.

 

[Vester]

You can choose the number of CPU threads in v8 beta. I do not consider v8 ready or full-featured.

In version 7, you click on Configure in Control, click on the Slots tab, click on cpu slot, click on Edit, and set the number of CPU threads to use. The default is -1. Click on OK on the Edit window and click on Save on the Configure window.

I am not sure if the settings are persistent. Let me try it.

Edit: I have a hyperthreaded 10 core CPU and two Nvidia GPUs. The default -1 CPU setting used 18 threads. I changed it to 17 knowing that I would not cause the task to be replaced. After a restart, the setting to use 17 threads persisted. I believe you will be happy with version 7.6.21 (Linux).

 

[Nick Name]

Thanks for testing!

 

[Vester]

My computer uses about 175 watts less power (735 vs 910) when running NumberFields instead of Folding@home.

 

[Vester]

Just when everything BOINC on Pop!_OS couldn't be better, BAM! BOINC Manager could not connect to local host although tasks were running. That gave me no control. I'm presently on Windows 11 and wondering why I want to repair Pop!_OS and reinstall a dodgy BOINC Manager. Oh, I remember, my data may still be there after the repair and I can continue tasks in progress. Catch you later!

Edit: In just 14 minutes, I refreshed the Pop!_OS installation, updated about 260 files/programs using the Pop!_Shop, and installed BOINC Manager. It is running properly again without a loss of data!

 

[Vester]

I am taking a break from crunching for a short while. I spent the last four hours trying hardware configurations on my Aorus Z590 Pro AX.

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