GPU mining, but no GPU load shown

[fidlak]

After having struggled around getting GPU mining working, I am a bit confused by "aticonfig". I am using poclbm for mining and I am pretty sure it uses the GPU, since the CPU is only about 50% and I am mining at about 52 MH/s. The weird thing is:

$ aticonfig --odgc  (while mining)

Default Adapter - ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series                                                                                                                                                                                                 
                            Core (MHz)    Memory (MHz)                                                                                                                                                                                       
           Current Clocks :    575           900                                                                                                                                                                                             
             Current Peak :    575           900                                                                                                                                                                                             
  Configurable Peak Range : [500-700]     [750-1200]                                                                                                                                                                                         
                 GPU load :    0%

$ aticonfig --odgt

Default Adapter - ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series         
                  Sensor 0: Temperature - 82.50 C

OS: Linux
AMD SDK: 2.6
ATI driver: 12.3 (latest)
Card: ATI Radeon HD 4830

My question now is, why doesn't aticonfig show me any GPU load.

[Onichan]

I am not sure what you are using to mine, but I know if cgminer has connectivity issues it will stop using the gpu. I don't remember if it still shows its hash/sec though so not sure if that could be it.

[fidlak]

I am using poclbm (version: 20120205). The interesting part is, when I overclocked the GPU a bit with AMDOverdriveCtrl, the hash rate got up to about 60 MH/s. Besides that, the System monitor tells me, that poclbm only uses 1% of the CPU, 25 MB of RAM. It is definitely not using the CPU.

[P4man]

Measuring gpu load is not supported on 48xx cards I believe.

[fidlak]

When I started gpu mining a few months ago, it did show the GPU load.

[Nyaaan]

If this is so you can hope that your card is special and you can mine without causing any load, so you can play games while mining.

[fidlak]

Nope, unfortunately it isn't. After overclocking it again to 690/1030 it now shows me the GPU load, which is about 97%...