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My client has stopped getting cpu assignments and failed to upload the last a7 unit it was working on.

The GPU slot is running fine and had no problems when the stoppage began and is still chugging through WUs.

my machine: 2 Xeon E5-2670 on an ASRock ep2C602 with an ASUS Strix R9-390 (any help turning off the throbbing light is appreciated)

04:24:12: CPU ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 45 Stepping 7
04:24:12: CPUs: 32
04:24:12: Memory: 31.97GiB
04:24:12: Free Memory: 28.60GiB
04:24:12: Threads: WINDOWS_THREADS
04:24:12: OS Version: 6.2
04:24:12: UTC Offset: -4
04:24:12: OS: Windows 10 Pro
04:24:12: OS Arch: AMD64
04:24:12: GPUs: 1
04:24:12: GPU 0: ATI:5 Hawaii [Radeon R9 200 Series]

My logs for the last little while are https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ZPL ... XZWTFpFVXc
and https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ZPL ... mJybnlTWGc
which are windows zip files on Google drive

I wiped the installation and restarted then installed fresh. The same behavior began immediately.

-thanks!

Very few WUs can use 31 CPUs. (one is used by the GPU)

Try making a slot with 16 CPUs and a slot with 12 CPUs. If you want you can make a third slot with 3 CPUs but it won't make much PPD. (lately the client hates multiples of 5, 7, 11, or 13 CPUs, so I did not choose any of those)

ok! 2 sets of twelve worked! thanks...

I have two e5's with racing fins and they need something to do at night

-bye for now.

With 2 sets of twelve, you may be able to add a slot of 6 CPUs as well

JimboPalmer wrote:With 2 sets of twelve, you may be able to add a slot of 6 CPUs as well

Then 24+6 should get a bit more throughput

Okay I head a similar problem today. Ive just got 8 cores and it couldnt get assignments for days. So I changed the slots. Now I have three slots with 2 cpus each and one slot with one cpu. I left one cpu over since its used up very much when the graphics card is being used.

I think the software should figure that out itself since most users wont understand anything of that stuff I guess.

Welcome to the folding support forum.

If you have a GPU slot, then it would be better to just set up one slot to use 6 cores instead of several slots. I am assuming an i7 quad-core with HT, the contribution of a virtual HT core is not as significant and leaving one HT core free will not actually reduce your contribution to folding. The recommendation in this thread for multiple CPU slots is only intended for large server type systems with more than 24 cores.

As for automatically figuring this out, the next version of the client software currently in Public Beta has code to do that in conjunction with updated code on the Assignment and Work Servers. A CPU:7 setting was able to get work assigned in the past, but recent projects have not worked well with that setting or multiples of 7.