linux-kernel - Re: sudden increase in load 4 -> 258 in few minutes with NVidia DNN training

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Date:   Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:30:44 +0100
From:   Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:     David van Leeuwen <david.vanleeuwen@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sudden increase in load 4 -> 258 in few minutes with NVidia DNN
 training

On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:11:34 +0200
David van Leeuwen <david.vanleeuwen@...il.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a system with two NVidia gtx 1080 graphics cards for deep
> neural net training.  Every once in a while (1x per hour--day) the
> load of the system goes up from 4 to 258 in a matter of minutes,
> without CPU utilization.  The systems becomes unusable, only hard
> reboots suffice.

Wrong list: Nvidia have our source code, we don't have theirs so only
they can help you.

Alan