My 980 rig have now been running perfectly for 24 hours after i added 4GB more ram and increased the virtual memory to 16GB.
Glad to see you're running stable.
I'd like to understand more about the pagefile size issue, particularly the notion that's it's needed but not
realy used. Clearly it is being used even if only momentarilly. Does anyone know if this issue exists on Linux?
From my understanding the memory/pagefile requirements increase with the number of GPUs. This suggests that
all GPU threads initialize in parallel, allocate the memory at the same time, use it briefly, then free it. If the threads initialized
serially only one would require large amounts of memory and would free it before the next thread initializes. The dynamic
memory requirements would be reduced and larger rigs could run with less memory and smaller swap space.
Make sense?
It's definitely parallel initialization but every software I used to monitor pagefile use, they never showed anything just a few MB tops. But if you run multiple instances of ccminer on the same device, then it will - depending on the algo - use a huge amount of memory and of course pagefile if needed. It's almost like it needs memory/pagefile
the GPU rans out of it.