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Message 4706 - Posted: 22 Nov 2015, 18:52:38 UTC

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I have 26 projects running and nearly half use the GPU. And I found only 1 right now that lags my mouse to no end to sometimes the point where I can't move the mouse.

Yes I have it to run always because the other GPU projects never made my mouse so unresponsive. Just trying to snooze it is hard enough (way to much lag).

I know why not just tell it to suspend when computer is in use. But that's not the point. The point is if the other GPU projects can run to or nearly 100% of my GPU with out effecting my mouse so badly that A@H could check into why it lags a computer to no end.

Note: I see it's running CUDA v5.5 and the others are running older versions. If it is CUDA v5.5 or your project running off of it that may need to be checked on. I don't think it should lag so bad where my mouse does not want to respond for sometime close to a min and barley moving it to long dissents trying just to snooze it is painfully hard. I want it to always run because I use my computer a lot and the GPU projects will never get done and found out that A@H seems to be the only one that lags so bad.

Running Windows 8.1 64, NVIDIA 359.00, CUDA 7.5, BOINC 7.6.9 - H/W GTX 980.
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Message 4707 - Posted: 22 Nov 2015, 22:21:16 UTC
Have you tried connecting your mouse into another ports?

Have you tried any earlier version of the Nvidia display driver?

Could you tell also the model of morherboard, CPU and PSU, please?

Have you installed the latest BIOS and chipset drivers?
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Message 4708 - Posted: 23 Nov 2015, 10:00:40 UTC - in response to Message 4706.  

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I know why not just tell it to suspend when computer is in use. But that's not the point. The point is if the other GPU projects can run to or nearly 100% of my GPU with out effecting my mouse so badly that A@H could check into why it lags a computer to no end.

How are you measuring GPU usage? The only projects I've seen that affect GUI responsiveness are those that utilize over 95% of the GPU, and very few projects make that high usage without dedicating a CPU core. BOINC is not a reliable measure of GPU utilization. Most GPU projects have such high I/O needs that they can't sustain a high level of GPU utilization while making full use of the CPU at the same time.

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Message 4709 - Posted: 23 Nov 2015, 12:17:26 UTC - in response to Message 4706.  

Yes I have it to run always because the other GPU projects never made my mouse so unresponsive. Just trying to snooze it is hard enough (way to much lag).


One more thing to ask you...are you leaving a cpu core free just to feed the gpu? If not try that and it should not only speed up your crunching times on the gpu, but also make your pc more responsive as well.
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Message 4711 - Posted: 25 Nov 2015, 3:30:41 UTC - in response to Message 4706.  
An "easy fix" for you will be to suspend this project while you work and resume it while you leave the computer.

Some automation can be done by Boinccmd
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Boinccmd_tool

boinccmd --project http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/ suspend
boinccmd --project http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/ resume

To Snooze GPU for 100 minutes:
boinccmd --set_gpu_mode never 6000

To Un-Snooze GPU:
boinccmd --set_gpu_mode never 1

Put those lines in .bat files (you need the full path to boinccmd.exe)
Make shortcuts to .bat files and assign them hot-keys (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+U to sUspend)
You may also put those lines (commands) directly in the shortcuts

Put the "resume" line in the Windows "Scheduled Tasks" to have the project resume (run again) after a period of idle time (e.g. 30 minutes after last touch to keyboard or mouse).

Examples:
H:\BOINC\boinccmd.exe --set_gpu_mode never 9999
"D:\Program Files\BOINC\boinccmd.exe" --set_gpu_mode never 9999



- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
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