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Memory problems
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Send message Joined: 5 Nov 21 Posts: 5 Credit: 161,300 RAC: 42 |
Running eight instances on a hyper threading enabled quad core results in a 'corrupted size vs. prev_size in fastbins' error. This message comes from libc's malloc, realloc, or free, and appears to indicate either a bug in libc or memory corruption, according to here. The machine in question has 32 GB of RAM (4GB per thread) and uses libc 2.31 |
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Send message Joined: 29 Oct 21 Posts: 60 Credit: 10,300 RAC: 0 |
The problem with memory allocation is known to us and we are working on a solution to this problem. |
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Send message Joined: 30 Nov 21 Posts: 6 Credit: 5,146,600 RAC: 0 |
I am running an AMD Ryzen threadripper x3980 64 Cote 128thread machine with 64 Mb RAM. Is it normal that I can only run 54 threads and the rest waiting for memory? |
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Send message Joined: 2 Nov 21 Posts: 10 Credit: 5,836,690 RAC: 192 |
You have ~500mb per thread while each takes 307mb for me in Linux. Minus OS, GPU, other stuff and BOINC setting to not use all 100%, then yeah. Normal. |
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Send message Joined: 30 Nov 21 Posts: 6 Credit: 5,146,600 RAC: 0 |
You have ~500mb per thread while each takes 307mb for me in Linux. Minus OS, GPU, other stuff and BOINC setting to not use all 100%, then yeah. Normal. So, the answer seems to be to run only about a third of your available cores or just one or two project thread using app_config.xml. The trouble is that I bet most users have no idea how to set up an app_config. What a waste of resources... |
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Send message Joined: 2 Nov 21 Posts: 10 Credit: 5,836,690 RAC: 192 |
Or more memory. I try to have 1-2GB per thread for BOINC because many apps do require even more memory than 307mb. |
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Send message Joined: 30 Nov 21 Posts: 6 Credit: 5,146,600 RAC: 0 |
My current configuration: 128 thread machine with 64Gb of RAM. I am only able to run 39 iThena threads, the rest are waiting for memory, and that is the only project that I am running. How do I tell iThena to run only 39 threads, so that I can use the other 89 threads for other projects. ? |
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Send message Joined: 7 Nov 21 Posts: 17 Credit: 80,200 RAC: 139 |
<app_config>
<app>
<name>ithena_graph</name>
<max_concurrent>39</max_concurrent>
</app>
</app_config> |

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