Why making one CUDA task waiting if other are CPU's ones?

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Merciadri Luca Send message Joined: 1 Aug 09 Posts: 33	Message 26441 - Posted: 2 Aug 2009, 19:37:03 UTC Hello, I have noticed that my brand-new BOINC client makes very often my only CUDA task (in fact for SETI@home) waiting, to let other tasks run. Anyway, the SETI@home's CUDA task is the only CUDA task running on my computer. As CUDA tasks are more GPU-resources-costly, why would it stop CUDA to give more CPU cycles to other (CPU) tasks? Thanks. See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ for more pieces of info. ID: 26441 ·
Merciadri Luca Send message Joined: 1 Aug 09 Posts: 33	Message 26454 - Posted: 3 Aug 2009, 7:31:28 UTC Thanks for your answer. Where can I modify these settings? I know for the consequences. Thanks. ID: 26454 ·
Gundolf Jahn Send message Joined: 20 Dec 07 Posts: 1069	Message 26455 - Posted: 3 Aug 2009, 9:09:29 UTC - in response to Message 26454.   It's in the Computing preferences (I took SETI as example, the "6.7+" is meant as "6.6+"): Suspend GPU work while computer is in use? yes Enforced by version 6.7+ Gruß, Gundolf Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz) ID: 26455 ·
Merciadri Luca Send message Joined: 1 Aug 09 Posts: 33	Message 26456 - Posted: 3 Aug 2009, 9:29:34 UTC - in response to Message 26455.   Last modified: 3 Aug 2009, 9:29:52 UTC It's in the Computing preferences (I took SETI as example, the "6.7+" is meant as "6.6+"): Suspend GPU work while computer is in use? yes Enforced by version 6.7+ Thanks, I did not know that ``while computer is in use'' was also related to the BOINC's computer's use. ID: 26456 ·

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