I reckon I've got to the bottom of it. My theory is that the RX580 doesn't like running (under Linux) in an x79 motherboard. It works fine in others.
I also note that the optimisation needs to go in 2 places to be effective on all Collatz WU
/var/lib/boinc-client/projects/boinc.thesonntags.com_collatz/collatz_sieve_1.40_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_ati.config
/var/lib/boinc-client/projects/boinc.thesonntags.com_collatz/collatz_sieve_1.40_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__opencl_ati_gpu.config
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I think this is fool-proof but could you just try it for me please? • There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don’t
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I'll need to check - they were cheap boards off of eBay so I am probably paying the real price now. Mind you - they work fine with nVidia
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#14 Re: WU stuck
A very common scenario, linux and nVidia seems pretty much fine, AMD not so much.
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