Folding Forum

muziqaz wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 4:58 am What distro is this?
Kernel?
ROCm version (if used)
Thanks

Debian bookworm (kernel 6.1) with ROCm 6.4.0.

The problem is not a FAH problem but probably an amdgpu problem. The folding core is using as much memory as it needs. It is the DRM framebuffer subsystem that fails to allocate memory (despite GTT being available) and kills the graphics, logging an error that it failed to pin the framebuffer due to error -12 (which corresponds to ENOMEM i.e. insufficient memory for the allocation). The folding core keeps merrily chugging along the whole time while using its 504 MB VRAM. It's not even aware that anything happened.

I have since blacklisted 12922-12925 so it is no longer a problem for me.

Have you tried more recent kernel? I believe Debian supports much more recent kernels

I think Debian Trixie will have a newer kernel. I could use a newer kernel on Bookworm but it's the stable Debian so things are a bit old. I'll give it a try if I run into more projects that use too much VRAM.

It doesn't bother me too much because I can blacklist projects now, and because I'm comfortable with command line so I can work with the graphical desktop environment turned off. Tmux is as nice as any window manager.

I'm sure I have bookworm up to 6.5 or 6.8