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

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jun 19 2017 - 14:30:53 EST


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