Greetings,
GPU= Radeon 7970
Driver = 12.6 win7 64bit
BOINC version 6.10.58 optimized
GPU will not run more than a 20% load on a consistent basis (averaging 10% load). What am i missing to increase GPU performance.
Thanks

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check out this thread

You know you can edit the app_info to run 3 WU's at a time on your 7970. just change the <count> to 0.33 and number of iterations to 3

Just make sure you allow 2 CPU cores to run and load the apps. That is the simple solution

also upgrade BOINC to 7.0.28 BOINC 7.X.XX recognizes and IIRC supports open_cl your GPU natively

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Thanks Skildude
No, I was not aware of that. I will implement your suggestions.
Thanks again

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hi skildude
I set all <count> from 1 to .33 and iterations from 20 to 3 in app_info and changed # of processors from 4 to 2 in preferences. In BOINC Manager, Tasks tab shows 4 processes (cpu) running and 3 processes running with .05 cpu (gpu) Although 3 gpu tasks show running only one shows continued progress .. the other 2 show 0.00 percent progress and remain in that state .. which i expect those two tasks to time out and report an error. The current GPU driver i'm using is 12.6. Am I missing something here or just need to tweek on it until I get it right.
Thanks
Kevin

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sorry I misspoke its not the iterations

use these in your cmdline -period_iterations_num 20 -instances_per_device 3 -no_cpu_lock

that should get everything working correctly

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Awesome
Thanks skildude .. I appreciate your quick response

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... and changed # of processors from 4 to 2 in preferences.
In BOINC Manager, Tasks tab shows 4 processes (cpu) running

That's not the way to do it ("On multiprocessors, use at most XX processors" is used only by very old BOINC versions)

Use:
On multiprocessors, use at most ZZ% of the processors

You may first try to free 1 core to see is this enough:
On multiprocessors, use at most 99% of the processors

(99% will free 1 core on any CPU with up to 100 cores. On your CPU anything 75% ... 99% will free 1 core)

To free 2 cores (on AMD Phenom II X4)
On multiprocessors, use at most 50% of the processors

(On your CPU anything 50% ... 74% will free 2 cores)

P.S.
'cores' is not the exact term but it suits your case.
(More proper is # of Logical/Virtual CPUs as seen by OS/BOINC)

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That's not the way to do it ("On multiprocessors, use at most XX processors" is used only by very old BOINC versions)

No it isn't, it's still used by present day BOINC versions to set the minimum amount of processors that BOINC should use at any time.

E.g., you set this value to 2 on a 4 core CPU and then change "On multiprocessors, use at most ZZ% of the processors" to 0% (zero), it'll give you two processors to work with. Even with BOINC 6.12 and 7.0
09/08/2012 12:50:20 | | Number of usable CPUs has changed from 3 to 2.
09/08/2012 12:50:20 | | max CPUs used: 2

Set it to 1% (one), and the amount of CPUs available will change to 1.
09/08/2012 12:55:15 | | Number of usable CPUs has changed from 3 to 1.
09/08/2012 12:55:15 | | max CPUs used: 1

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ouch, 73 errors attributed to the gpu .. i apologize to all the"wing-persons" this effected.i do believe that i am stable again and would like to thank everyone that shared there knowledge, expertise and suggestions to my ongoing quest. i appreciate it.

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So if I understand your example correctly:
The # of CPUs is used only when the % value is set to 0%
In all other cases (1% ... 100%) the '% of the processors' value is used (ignoring the preference '# of CPUs')?

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