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Title: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: PhilAd on June 22, 2011, 09:26:07 PM Hi,
i got a problem. My CPU usage climbs up to 100% when i am starting Mining. That leads to a lower GPU Clock which leads to a lower Hash Rate. The Hashrate ist getting lower when i start the workers of all three ATI Cards. I have the same issue on linux and windows. Usually i have 330MH/s on every card ... now it is 600MH/s for three of them ... thats for too low. Config: 3x ATI Radeon 5850 AMD Sempron 140 @ AMD Athlon X2 4400e AMD Catalyst 11.6 AMD APP SDK 2.4 Tried on Windows 7 and Linux. Both times with phoenix 1.48 and i tried phatk and poclbm with usual settings. The CPU Rate should be at around 1% ... i also tried different affinitys ... all mining processes on CPU1 for example ... or CPU0 or on both and on different ... How can i fix that? I didn't have that problem when i tried it on my desktop ... very weird ... greets PhilAd Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: fascistmuffin on June 22, 2011, 09:58:02 PM I think one of your workers is configured wrong or a graphics card isn't registering with the system. Maybe one of your cards isn't being recognized by the program, so slot [2] is being replaced by the processor. Try using GUIminer to test it out, since it's nice interface with hardware-selection drop down list will show what hardware is being found.
Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: Wuked on June 22, 2011, 09:59:49 PM with 3 x 5850s i get pretty heavy usage on a quad core, about 50% for each core!
Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: PhilAd on June 22, 2011, 10:49:27 PM I think one of your workers is configured wrong or a graphics card isn't registering with the system. Maybe one of your cards isn't being recognized by the program, so slot [2] is being replaced by the processor. Try using GUIminer to test it out, since it's nice interface with hardware-selection drop down list will show what hardware is being found. i checked that ... i am using cypress 0-0 ; 0-1 ; 0-2 cpu is not in use it already has high cpu usage when i just use one gpu ... i dunno why ... when i tested mining on my usual computer with 2x 5850 i had around 1% cpu usage max. Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: compcentral on June 22, 2011, 11:55:42 PM You sure you're not doing CPU mining as well? If so, 100% CPU is normal with CPU mining.
Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: nofear1999 on June 23, 2011, 12:01:06 AM Make sure you don't have your devices configured wrong and also make sure you're using a GPU miner.
Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: PhilAd on June 23, 2011, 12:45:05 AM no ... i am not using my cpu for mining for sure ...
i tried ubuntu linux one more time ... this time i didnt use catalyst 11.6 ... now i used 11.5 ... cpu is now in idle ... but now i have the problem that my 5850's dont run at full speed ... they use a slower 3d mode with 550MHz instead of my set 875MHz ... aticonfig also show me that 875mhz is a valid peak clock. How can i force them to go at full speed? Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: nofear1999 on June 23, 2011, 06:41:32 PM Do you have flags set?
Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: zipxavier on June 23, 2011, 09:16:07 PM what are your settings for phoenix?
Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: adamwashere06 on June 23, 2011, 09:30:34 PM High CPU usage is unfortunately pretty common it seems. Running 2 cards it does about 50% usage on my i5 2500k. You can set flags to limit it (sorry I don't know the flags for it ) but you may not want to seeing as it can hamper your mining a bit. I don't know the specifics but I've seen talk of it.
Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: hmblm1245 on August 11, 2011, 03:58:27 AM Some have launched a new instance of the miner per gpu. Sounds silly but this is a common issue that 11.6 amd drivers and 11.7 have (lets hope they get it right with 11.8). So for example i launch guiminer for each miner/worker. if you have 3 5850s thats 3 guiminer.exe processes running with the infinity set to that first core. It has worked for some and myself for an older rig.
Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: PhilAd on August 16, 2011, 08:56:19 AM i used this tut a while ago:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9239.0 my cpu load wa around 1% ... now i did update the driver from 11.5 to 11.7 and the app sdk from 2.4 to 2.5 and my cpu load of 100% is back .. now my multi gpu system has problems to hold the 330MH/s on all cards because the cpu seems to be too weak ... a fallback didnt fix it ... running 11.5 and app sdk 2.4 again didnt fix the problem ... im guess i have to try if a complete reinstall would fix that problem again ... but it is surely a driver problem and removing 2 cards from the system is giving me a cpu usage of 1% on one card. maybe a multi gpu opencl bug in the amd/ati driver ... greets philad Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: PhilAd on August 16, 2011, 09:07:38 AM Sorry for double post ... i forgot to restart my mining rig after downgrading to cat 11.5 again ...
now the cpu load is back to 1% using 3 gpus .. but im still using app sdk 2.5 which brings no more performance ^^ so you can stick to 2.4 ... but 11.5 runs without problems ... 11.7 runs with 100% cpu usage ^^ hope that helps ... the tutorial posted one post before is really great ... Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: Roach III on August 16, 2011, 12:01:14 PM My CPU usage was about 50% on 11.5 drivers. After I upgraded to 11.7, it's now 100% on core 3. But it has not hampered my hash rate any.
Title: Re: While Mining CPU @ 100% Post by: Unclegogi on August 16, 2011, 02:06:38 PM It's a bug.
You can hit it with some combos of driver versions and graphic cards connected. Each mining process (f.e. phoenix.exe) loads 1 core. The best you can do - set all phoenix.exe processes to core #0 and you will get 50% CPU load, and you will not loose any performance in MHash/s this way. I have no 100% cpu usage on my mining PC with 4 cards with 11.7 beta driver. Also no 100% cpu usage on another mining PC with 3 cards with 11.6 or 11.7 beta driver, but i had 100% cpu usage on this PC with official 11.7 and beta 11.8 drivers. Also I have seen 100% CPU usage with 2 cards connected with any driver version. |