Using pocblm to mine causes 10-100% CPU usage

[dishwara]

There is a long thread going on with no one can able to answer "why my CPU usage is 10-100% when i mine with GPU?"

I got a hunch that it may be CPU make.
So created this poll.
So far i rarely saw my 10-100% usage of pocblm in my pc.


Please vote which make, Intel or AMD CPU you use in your mining pc/laptop/...
Also, you can post about your complete CPU details with OS details.


EDIT

I forgot to mention one thing, i too once got 15% cpu usage after reinstall. i also installed a software the day i started mining, i think
Granola i already even made a post about it.
Its free. Please try & see if, at least granola reduces cpu usage.

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4531.msg66422#msg66422

https://grano.la/software/index.php

May be it making 0 usage of my cpu.

[nodemaster]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ running on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. I'm running the CPU miner only on one core, because I end up with 100% CPU usage on the other core if I run pocblm 

[OVerLoRDI]

I get 100% core usage per instance of poclbm on Windows 7 64bit, My XP boxes don't have this problem.

I haven't checked my ubuntu box, I just got it up and running last night.

[nodemaster]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ running on Ubuntu 10.04 amd64. I'm running the CPU miner only on one core, because I end up with 100% CPU usage on the other core if I run pocblm 

Out of curiosity I just booted Windows Vista Home 64 on the same maschine and installed pocblm. The CPU usage is between 0 and 3% Furthermore Windows outperforms Linux by the factor 10  (3.5 vs. 33 Mhash/s)

I don't like that 

[error]

I am seeing 100% CPU usage ever since I updated to the NVIDIA 270.26 beta drivers. Before, on 260.19, the miner only used about 3 or 4% CPU.

[FoS]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ running on W7 Ultimate 32bit, I get ~60% runing poclbm gui pre in 2 graphic cards(5770 & 5850). I had 100% but after set afinity only in one core, CPU usage low to ~60%

[Transisto]

I tried all iteration of intel, amd, ati, win7 32/64.

For those who don't have this problem, what it your openCL / driver installation procedure ?

[dishwara]

catalyst 11.4 & app 2.4 both preview of 7 march.
Win7 32, quad core intel, HD 6870

[allinvain]

Is it true that catalyst 11.4p fixes this issue?

[Beremat]

Is it true that catalyst 11.4p fixes this issue?

It doesn't.

[allinvain]

Is it true that catalyst 11.4p fixes this issue?

It doesn't.

Dang! So is there ANY fix for this? This extra CPU load is just wasted electricity.

[dishwara]

Is it true that catalyst 11.4p fixes this issue?

It doesn't.

Dang! So is there ANY fix for this? This extra CPU load is just wasted electricity.

I used granola & after that i see 0 CPU usage.
But that too didn't help ~anyone

[allinvain]

Is it true that catalyst 11.4p fixes this issue?

It doesn't.

Dang! So is there ANY fix for this? This extra CPU load is just wasted electricity.

I used granola & after that i see 0 CPU usage.
But that too didn't help ~anyone

How does this "granola" program fix this problem? How does that have any relation to this high cpu usage while mining problem? I do not want to undervolt (already did that) my cpu, nor underclock it, nor disable any of the cores. I just want the damn miners to stop chewing constantly 13% of each core for a total max cores of 2. So that's 100% cpu usage for one core relative to 8 hyper-threaded cores (i7 920).

[geebus]

Is it true that catalyst 11.4p fixes this issue?

It doesn't.

Dang! So is there ANY fix for this? This extra CPU load is just wasted electricity.

I used granola & after that i see 0 CPU usage.
But that too didn't help ~anyone

I've explained this a few times now, in various threads... The reason poclbm takes high CPU is because there is no wait delay in between thread executions. It can be fixed with 2 new lines of code, and changing 1 line of code.

I'll be happy to explain. If you're interested, PM me.

[proudhon]

Why not just explain it out in the open?

[error]

Or link to one of the various posts in one of the various threads, so you don't have to explain it again?

[proudhon]

The only thing that's made any different is setting CPU affinity for the poclbm processes to a single core.  That cuts CPU usage in half and decreases Mhahs/s by like 2-3.

[allinvain]

Is it true that catalyst 11.4p fixes this issue?

It doesn't.

Dang! So is there ANY fix for this? This extra CPU load is just wasted electricity.

I used granola & after that i see 0 CPU usage.
But that too didn't help ~anyone

I've explained this a few times now, in various threads... The reason poclbm takes high CPU is because there is no wait delay in between thread executions. It can be fixed with 2 new lines of code, and changing 1 line of code.

I'll be happy to explain. If you're interested, PM me.

You're quite sure this is JUST a poclbm problem? I recently switched to a new miner and it does the same thing.


Also guys let me be clear. I do not get 100% cpu usage across all cores. I get a constant 13% cpu usage PER miner process (regardless if its poclbm.exe or something else)

One of the developers of the new miner I'm using said that this is caused by ATI's OpenCL implementation.

[disq]

experiencing a similar problem (100% cpu usage in one core) with 3 different gpu miners (poclbm/phoenix/diablo) on wife's nvidia 8600gt, windows7-32bit. since only some of us have this problem (and with different architectures and different windows versions) could it be the drivers, and/or some version of win7?

[Beremat]

You're quite sure this is JUST a poclbm problem? I recently switched to a new miner and it does the same thing.


Also guys let me be clear. I do not get 100% cpu usage across all cores. I get a constant 13% cpu usage PER miner process (regardless if its poclbm.exe or something else)

One of the developers of the new miner I'm using said that this is caused by ATI's OpenCL implementation.

You get 13% usage because you have eight cores, and poclbm is only written to utilize one core. So, one core out of eight = around 13%. If you had a dual core CPU, for example, you'd get 50% usage per miner process.