yrral
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April 01, 2011, 12:23:29 AM |
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Are you guys all using -f 1 or some absurdly low -f?
Set -f to something higher and your cpu util will go down (though hashrate will as well)
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rezin777
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April 01, 2011, 01:25:58 AM |
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Are you guys all using -f 1 or some absurdly low -f?
Set -f to something higher and your cpu util will go down (though hashrate will as well)
This isn't the issue. Using -f1 with a single card will require very little cpu usage, 0-3%. Adding the second card, regardless of what you put after -f, will result in much, much more cpu usage for each gpu mining. I get 25% per gpu on a quad. |
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zoro
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April 01, 2011, 06:22:00 PM |
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i was testing the RPC miner and i see the same behavior. I wonder if the drivers + windows have an issue rather than the software!
anyone else trying other miners?
i was said that in linux the cpu goes down to 20-30%
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goatpig
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April 01, 2011, 08:20:45 PM |
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This is most likely a driver side issue. From what I gather, bridging the cards into crossfire (or having a dual gpu card) will prevent cpu load, even though you are running several instances of your miner.
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qed
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April 02, 2011, 02:32:48 PM |
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This is most likely a driver side issue. From what I gather, bridging the cards into crossfire (or having a dual gpu card) will prevent cpu load, even though you are running several instances of your miner.
It's working exactly the other way. |
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rezin777
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April 02, 2011, 08:55:04 PM |
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This is most likely a driver side issue. From what I gather, bridging the cards into crossfire (or having a dual gpu card) will prevent cpu load, even though you are running several instances of your miner.
It's working exactly the other way. I'm a bit confused. In which situation does the extra cpu load occur? a. Two single gpu cards - crossfire enabled (causes too much hashrate fluctuation to be worthwhile) b. Two single gpu cards - crossfire disabled c. One dual gpu card - crossfire enabled (can you even run a dual gpu card without crossfire?) Or does it occur in all of these? I haven't seen anyone complain about high cpu usage with a single, dual gpu card, but I could have missed it. If it doesn't, why? I've experienced b. and I could test a. but that would require shutting down my miner and I'm reluctant to do that!  |
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qed
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April 03, 2011, 06:29:01 PM |
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It depends on the model. Any combination of HD 6900 will cause the 100% cpu usage, no matter about crossfire or not.
The only woraround is to disable crossfire and have only 1 card plugged to a monitor, start a miner, plug that monitor to the other card, start the miner and so on. Yep, it sucks big time.
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rezin777
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April 03, 2011, 07:17:12 PM |
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It depends on the model. Any combination of HD 6900 will cause the 100% cpu usage, no matter about crossfire or not.
The only woraround is to disable crossfire and have only 1 card plugged to a monitor, start a miner, plug that monitor to the other card, start the miner and so on. Yep, it sucks big time.
Indeed, that is the work around for making the card active in windows. Although, I'm not sure what it has to do with the extra cpu load. Or are you suggesting that this will get rid of the extra load?  I don't mind taking extra steps for windows to make a card active. I do mind the extra cpu load. Also, does a 6990 cause the extra cpu load? |
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EPiSKiNG
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April 04, 2011, 01:01:15 AM |
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I'm using a 5970 in two systems, an AMD Phenom II X2 555 and an Intel i7 920. Both running Stream SDK 2.2 and the intel avgs about 30% CPU load, the AMD is 100%. This hasn't been solved yet? Weird.
-EP
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Garrett Burgwardt
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April 04, 2011, 01:31:11 AM |
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I'm using a 5970 in two systems, an AMD Phenom II X2 555 and an Intel i7 920. Both running Stream SDK 2.2 and the intel avgs about 30% CPU load, the AMD is 100%. This hasn't been solved yet? Weird.
-EP
Dual core vs quad core with hyperthreading, each instance of poclbm should peg an entire core, so that sounds about right. |
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April 06, 2011, 10:18:56 PM |
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I've got the same problem AMD + one 5850 consume 100% of CPU Windows XP  |
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nster
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April 07, 2011, 03:36:10 AM |
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with my i7 920, I get 38% load, went into task manager and there was an svchost that was taking 13% that I close, and I put affinity to CPU0 to both my miners and they share the 12/13% 6/6 or 7/5 or 7/6
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Transisto
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April 24, 2011, 01:07:25 AM |
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So this hasn't been resolved in the slightest ?
All my PC do that.
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rezin777
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April 24, 2011, 03:42:54 AM |
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April 24, 2011, 03:58:24 AM |
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April 24, 2011, 05:21:11 AM |
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April 25, 2011, 04:57:11 PM |
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I just want to chime in to report that I'm also getting 100% CPU usage with poclbm-gui with my 6990. I'm using Catalyst 11.3 with SDK 2.4, and my CPU is an Athlon 64x2 4200+. This is a pretty big problem, since 100% CPU is essentially just an additional cost to mining.
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m0mchil
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April 26, 2011, 08:04:02 PM |
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At least on linux you can try to export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1 environment variable.
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