[System specs are in my sig]
The GTX 1070 is my primary GPU, and only folds when I'm not using the machine. Whenever I shut it down, either by pause or finish, the screen will be begin to flicker - almost like a pulse that jars the whole screen (actually both screens) - but not all the time and not with any noticeable pattern. Since it's my main GPU, I cannot reset it without a reboot.
Does anyone know of a workaround? The easiest way to fix everything is to reboot, which I'm trying to avoid, but is not that big of a deal. Everything else is working great.
Flickering after GPU is paused/completed run
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ajgringo619
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Re: Flickering after GPU is paused/completed run
This sounds like the GPU might be boosting too high when it is cooling down from high load and becoming unstable. Otherwise there might be issues with drivers, or perhaps something wrong with the card itself. Sometimes it might even be system RAM, motherboard or the PSU which is to blame, but let's take one step at a time.
The first thing I'd try is to remove any overclocking, including factory-applied overclocking. If it's not overclocked, try under-clocking it slightly or perhaps giving it a bit more voltage (within reason).
Can you show the output of
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The first thing I'd try is to remove any overclocking, including factory-applied overclocking. If it's not overclocked, try under-clocking it slightly or perhaps giving it a bit more voltage (within reason).
Can you show the output of
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nvidia-smi -qOnline: GTX 1660 Super + occasional CPU folding in the cold.
Offline: Radeon HD 7770, GTX 1050 Ti 4G OC, RX580
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ajgringo619
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Re: Flickering after GPU is paused/completed run
Requested info is below. The card has been set with factory defaults since I bought it (about 2 years ago). One thing that I'm trying now - and it seems to be helping - is to enable persistence.
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$ nvidia-smi -q
==============NVSMI LOG==============
Timestamp : Tue Jan 11 09:40:30 2022
Driver Version : 470.94
CUDA Version : 11.4
Attached GPUs : 2
GPU 00000000:08:00.0
Product Name : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Product Brand : GeForce
Display Mode : Enabled
Display Active : Enabled
Persistence Mode : Enabled
MIG Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
Accounting Mode : Disabled
Accounting Mode Buffer Size : 4000
Driver Model
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
Serial Number : 0324516017546
GPU UUID : GPU-1f3d5e07-70af-abf8-84d3-4a0b2c6cbe6f
Minor Number : 0
VBIOS Version : 86.04.26.00.01
MultiGPU Board : No
Board ID : 0x800
GPU Part Number : 900-1G411-0020-000
Module ID : 0
Inforom Version
Image Version : G001.0000.01.03
OEM Object : 1.1
ECC Object : N/A
Power Management Object : N/A
GPU Operation Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
GSP Firmware Version : N/A
GPU Virtualization Mode
Virtualization Mode : None
Host VGPU Mode : N/A
IBMNPU
Relaxed Ordering Mode : N/A
PCI
Bus : 0x08
Device : 0x00
Domain : 0x0000
Device Id : 0x1B8110DE
Bus Id : 00000000:08:00.0
Sub System Id : 0x119D10DE
GPU Link Info
PCIe Generation
Max : 3
Current : 3
Link Width
Max : 16x
Current : 8x
Bridge Chip
Type : N/A
Firmware : N/A
Replays Since Reset : 0
Replay Number Rollovers : 0
Tx Throughput : 0 KB/s
Rx Throughput : 15000 KB/s
Fan Speed : 70 %
Performance State : P2
Clocks Throttle Reasons
Idle : Active
Applications Clocks Setting : Not Active
SW Power Cap : Not Active
HW Slowdown : Not Active
HW Thermal Slowdown : Not Active
HW Power Brake Slowdown : Not Active
Sync Boost : Not Active
SW Thermal Slowdown : Not Active
Display Clock Setting : Not Active
FB Memory Usage
Total : 8111 MiB
Used : 584 MiB
Free : 7527 MiB
BAR1 Memory Usage
Total : 256 MiB
Used : 6 MiB
Free : 250 MiB
Compute Mode : Default
Utilization
Gpu : 0 %
Memory : 1 %
Encoder : 0 %
Decoder : 0 %
Encoder Stats
Active Sessions : 0
Average FPS : 0
Average Latency : 0
FBC Stats
Active Sessions : 0
Average FPS : 0
Average Latency : 0
Ecc Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
ECC Errors
Volatile
Single Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Texture Shared : N/A
CBU : N/A
Total : N/A
Double Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Texture Shared : N/A
CBU : N/A
Total : N/A
Aggregate
Single Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Texture Shared : N/A
CBU : N/A
Total : N/A
Double Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Texture Shared : N/A
CBU : N/A
Total : N/A
Retired Pages
Single Bit ECC : N/A
Double Bit ECC : N/A
Pending Page Blacklist : N/A
Remapped Rows : N/A
Temperature
GPU Current Temp : 61 C
GPU Shutdown Temp : 99 C
GPU Slowdown Temp : 96 C
GPU Max Operating Temp : N/A
GPU Target Temperature : 83 C
Memory Current Temp : N/A
Memory Max Operating Temp : N/A
Power Readings
Power Management : Supported
Power Draw : 30.24 W
Power Limit : 90.00 W
Default Power Limit : 151.00 W
Enforced Power Limit : 90.00 W
Min Power Limit : 75.00 W
Max Power Limit : 170.00 W
Clocks
Graphics : 911 MHz
SM : 911 MHz
Memory : 3802 MHz
Video : 810 MHz
Applications Clocks
Graphics : N/A
Memory : N/A
Default Applications Clocks
Graphics : N/A
Memory : N/A
Max Clocks
Graphics : 1911 MHz
SM : 1911 MHz
Memory : 4004 MHz
Video : 1708 MHz
Max Customer Boost Clocks
Graphics : N/A
Clock Policy
Auto Boost : N/A
Auto Boost Default : N/A
Voltage
Graphics : N/A
Processes
GPU instance ID : N/A
Compute instance ID : N/A
Process ID : 993
Type : G
Name : /usr/lib/Xorg
Used GPU Memory : 410 MiB
GPU instance ID : N/A
Compute instance ID : N/A
Process ID : 1752
Type : G
Name : cinnamon
Used GPU Memory : 60 MiB
GPU instance ID : N/A
Compute instance ID : N/A
Process ID : 30896
Type : G
Name : /usr/lib/brave-bin/brave --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=4668161321023072810,10587110712259720672,131072 --enable-crashpad --crashpad-handler-pid=30862 --enable-crash-reporter=da511919-86cd-4b74-b7d9-e87e613ccefd, --change-stack-guard-on-fork=enable --gpu-preferences=UAAAAAAAAAAgAAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAABgAAAAAAAAAGAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAA= --shared-files
Used GPU Memory : 101 MiB
GPU instance ID : N/A
Compute instance ID : N/A
Process ID : 139959
Type : G
Name : scrcpy
Used GPU Memory : 6 MiB
GPU 00000000:09:00.0
Product Name : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Product Brand : GeForce
Display Mode : Disabled
Display Active : Disabled
Persistence Mode : Enabled
MIG Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
Accounting Mode : Disabled
Accounting Mode Buffer Size : 4000
Driver Model
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
Serial Number : N/A
GPU UUID : GPU-6d0fe567-6144-eac8-50a3-d07e073ad901
Minor Number : 1
VBIOS Version : 86.07.39.00.52
MultiGPU Board : No
Board ID : 0x900
GPU Part Number : N/A
Module ID : 0
Inforom Version
Image Version : G001.0000.01.04
OEM Object : 1.1
ECC Object : N/A
Power Management Object : N/A
GPU Operation Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
GSP Firmware Version : N/A
GPU Virtualization Mode
Virtualization Mode : None
Host VGPU Mode : N/A
IBMNPU
Relaxed Ordering Mode : N/A
PCI
Bus : 0x09
Device : 0x00
Domain : 0x0000
Device Id : 0x1C8210DE
Bus Id : 00000000:09:00.0
Sub System Id : 0x62553842
GPU Link Info
PCIe Generation
Max : 3
Current : 3
Link Width
Max : 16x
Current : 8x
Bridge Chip
Type : N/A
Firmware : N/A
Replays Since Reset : 0
Replay Number Rollovers : 0
Tx Throughput : 345000 KB/s
Rx Throughput : 3226000 KB/s
Fan Speed : 75 %
Performance State : P0
Clocks Throttle Reasons
Idle : Not Active
Applications Clocks Setting : Not Active
SW Power Cap : Active
HW Slowdown : Not Active
HW Thermal Slowdown : Not Active
HW Power Brake Slowdown : Not Active
Sync Boost : Not Active
SW Thermal Slowdown : Not Active
Display Clock Setting : Not Active
FB Memory Usage
Total : 4040 MiB
Used : 349 MiB
Free : 3691 MiB
BAR1 Memory Usage
Total : 256 MiB
Used : 4 MiB
Free : 252 MiB
Compute Mode : Default
Utilization
Gpu : 100 %
Memory : 78 %
Encoder : 0 %
Decoder : 0 %
Encoder Stats
Active Sessions : 0
Average FPS : 0
Average Latency : 0
FBC Stats
Active Sessions : 0
Average FPS : 0
Average Latency : 0
Ecc Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
ECC Errors
Volatile
Single Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Texture Shared : N/A
CBU : N/A
Total : N/A
Double Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Texture Shared : N/A
CBU : N/A
Total : N/A
Aggregate
Single Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Texture Shared : N/A
CBU : N/A
Total : N/A
Double Bit
Device Memory : N/A
Register File : N/A
L1 Cache : N/A
L2 Cache : N/A
Texture Memory : N/A
Texture Shared : N/A
CBU : N/A
Total : N/A
Retired Pages
Single Bit ECC : N/A
Double Bit ECC : N/A
Pending Page Blacklist : N/A
Remapped Rows : N/A
Temperature
GPU Current Temp : 73 C
GPU Shutdown Temp : 102 C
GPU Slowdown Temp : 99 C
GPU Max Operating Temp : N/A
GPU Target Temperature : 83 C
Memory Current Temp : N/A
Memory Max Operating Temp : N/A
Power Readings
Power Management : Supported
Power Draw : N/A
Power Limit : 75.00 W
Default Power Limit : 75.00 W
Enforced Power Limit : 75.00 W
Min Power Limit : 52.50 W
Max Power Limit : 75.00 W
Clocks
Graphics : 1695 MHz
SM : 1695 MHz
Memory : 3504 MHz
Video : 1518 MHz
Applications Clocks
Graphics : N/A
Memory : N/A
Default Applications Clocks
Graphics : N/A
Memory : N/A
Max Clocks
Graphics : 1987 MHz
SM : 1987 MHz
Memory : 3504 MHz
Video : 1708 MHz
Max Customer Boost Clocks
Graphics : N/A
Clock Policy
Auto Boost : N/A
Auto Boost Default : N/A
Voltage
Graphics : N/A
Processes
GPU instance ID : N/A
Compute instance ID : N/A
Process ID : 993
Type : G
Name : /usr/lib/Xorg
Used GPU Memory : 4 MiB
GPU instance ID : N/A
Compute instance ID : N/A
Process ID : 116233
Type : C
Name : /var/lib/private/fah/cores/cores.foldingathome.org/lin/64bit/22-0.0.18/Core_22.fah/FahCore_22
Used GPU Memory : 341 MiB-
ajgringo619
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Re: Flickering after GPU is paused/completed run
For now, this issue seems to be fixed, with the following settings:
1) Enable the nvidia-persistenced.service
2) Reset the power defaults (151W)
3) When possible, let a WU finish instead of pausing it mid-stream (this one seems to be the most important)
1) Enable the nvidia-persistenced.service
2) Reset the power defaults (151W)
3) When possible, let a WU finish instead of pausing it mid-stream (this one seems to be the most important)