Only 7 of 8 cpus being used

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Message 1002536 - Posted: 10 Jun 2010, 14:49:41 UTC

Only 7 of my 8 cpus are being used altho many are "waiting". both of my gpus are used
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Message 1002543 - Posted: 10 Jun 2010, 15:03:21 UTC - in response to Message 1002536.  

both of my gpus are used

That's the "problem": they probably use more than 0.5 CPUs each, as shown in the Status column in the Tasks tab, which sums up to more than a whole CPU.

That's a new "feature" set by the project and is discussed in several threads on the Number crunching forum.

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Message 1002544 - Posted: 10 Jun 2010, 15:05:08 UTC

Thanks.... ** John **
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Message 1002623 - Posted: 10 Jun 2010, 18:32:04 UTC - in response to Message 1002536.  


Look my answer here:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=60277&nowrap=true#1002618


 


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