On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:18:33AM +0200, Oliver Bock wrote:
> But that's not all: have a look in client/app_control.cpp at
> ACTIVE_TASK_SET::exit_tasks() and ACTIVE_TASK::kill_task(). The app is killed
> five seconds after a normal shutdown was initiated. If the app fails to
> shutdown itself, the client then "kills" the app the hard way and the
> described problem might still occurr...
The real solution is to bug Nvidia to fix the CUDA framework so a
crashing/disappearing host application can't cause the GPU to crash/lock
up. In the mean time, write the controlling application carefully so it
can react to SIGTERM etc. in a timely manner.
Gabor
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