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Error 381 #234

Open Djago opened 5 years ago

Djago commented 5 years ago

Hi

I have a nVidia GTX550Ti. It was autodetected as: [ // gpu: GeForce GTX 550 Ti architecture: 21 // memory: 795/1024 MiB // smx: 4 { "index" : 0, "threads" : 40, "blocks" : 8, "bfactor" : 8, "bsleep" : 25, "affine_to_cpu" : true, "sync_mode" : 3, }, ],

I mined a complete day, and suddenly: [CUDA] Error gpu 0: <C:/xmr-stak/xmr-stak-2.4.5/xmrstak/backend/nvidia/nvcc_code/cuda_extra.cu>:381

If I change threads to, say, 32, I can continue mining. But why? Why it mined a day with 40 and suddenly I can't? What is the correct value?

doubleelforbes commented 5 years ago

Top of the head guess, is the card dying?

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Hi

I have a nVidia GTX550Ti. It was autodetected as: [ // gpu: GeForce GTX 550 Ti architecture: 21 // memory: 795/1024 MiB // smx: 4 { "index" : 0, "threads" : 40, "blocks" : 8, "bfactor" : 8, "bsleep" : 25, "affine_to_cpu" : true, "sync_mode" : 3, }, ],

I mined a complete day, and suddenly: [CUDA] Error gpu 0: <C:/xmr-stak/xmr-stak-2.4.5/xmrstak/backend/nvidia/nvcc_code/cuda_extra.cu

:381

If I change threads to, say, 32, I can continue mining. But why? Why it mined a day with 40 and suddenly I can't? What is the correct value?

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Djago commented 5 years ago

How can I tell? I'm using it right now and seems to be working fine for everything... except mining... Now I'm getting the same error on 32 threads... :P

doubleelforbes commented 5 years ago

It just feels like degradation like a downward slope.

If it were gaming you'd start to see artefacts and lines etc. But hashing is harder work than rendering so that may take time to show up if my hunch fits.

You could listen out for fan imbalance, squealing capacitors or check for excessive heat but unfortunately it may be beyond the senses.

You could try running a graphics benchmark tool and see if it crashes.

I assume you're up to date with drivers and done all the basic troubleshooting?

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How can I tell? I'm using it right now and seems to be working fine for everything... except mining... Now I'm getting the same error on 32 threads... :P

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psychocrypt commented 5 years ago

Reduce threads much more or increase bfactor

Djago commented 5 years ago

It started failing with less and less threads. I've tried with 28, 24, 20, 16 and now it's at 8 since yesterday and working fine. I'll continue like this to check if it's working ok now.

Djago commented 5 years ago

I'm running it with "threads" : 40, "blocks" : 8, "bfactor" : 8, "bsleep" : 25, "affine_to_cpu" : false, "sync_mode" : 3 and it's very stable like this. Coincidentally these are the same value that XMRIG autodetects!

But there are other problems (see [https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak/issues/1789]). So it doesn't seems to be a hardware problem but a CUDA and/or XMR-Stack problem.