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ivan Send message Joined: 5 Mar 01 Posts: 783 Credit: 348,560,338 RAC: 223 |
Is there anything wrong with this picture? top - 21:32:22 up 2 days, 12:34, 1 user, load average: 5.50, 5.55, 5.55 Tasks: 140 total, 6 running, 134 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 7.0%us, 15.1%sy, 77.9%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2051072k total, 1759512k used, 291560k free, 493744k buffers Swap: 8008364k total, 0k used, 8008364k free, 705736k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7826 ivan 30 10 129m 42m 12m R 100 2.1 229:03.85 astropulse_6.07 7804 ivan 39 19 42432 39m 16 R 81 2.0 171:49.80 setiathome_7.01 7838 ivan 39 19 164m 96m 12 R 72 4.8 146:54.82 setiathome_7.01 7749 ivan 39 19 107m 39m 12 R 71 2.0 210:45.58 setiathome_7.01 7794 ivan 39 19 106m 38m 12 R 47 1.9 179:47.20 setiathome_7.01 2637 root 20 0 136m 38m 19m S 28 1.9 1079:42 Xorg It's this system, a Core2 Quad with an old 8500 GT video card that I never though fast enough to try running CUDA on. But, the new regime has decided it can run OpenCL and is sending it AP work to run alongside the CPUs. As you can see, it's reporting 100% CPU for the AP task as well as significant extra CPU for Xorg (the percentage can go up to 80%, sometimes down to 1 or 2). It's running Ubuntu 12.04. I guess the main thing is whether it is providing greater throughput in this situation than with CPU alone. I'm tempted to let it run for a while and see what its RAC does before banning it from GPU work -- I have an identical system (with a different Linux and video card) to compare with, and they've always been neck-and-neck heretofore. |
Raistmer Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 6325 Credit: 106,370,077 RAC: 121 |
I see high CPU usage on own Linux host too. On Windows there are old drivers that allow to avoid high CPU usage for OpenCL. maybe same applies to Linux too? SETI apps news We're not gonna fight them. We're gonna transcend them. |
TBar Send message Joined: 22 May 99 Posts: 5204 Credit: 840,779,836 RAC: 2,768 |
I'm running a 'new' ATI card on Linux and it's CPU usage is much higher than I would think it should be. I'm about to try and change an XP host to Linux, so, I'll see how the 6850 does in Linux. BTW, I found an App that shows GPU load in Linux. I know it says Windows, but, it runs in Ubuntu with the MonoDevelop package. It's the first one I've found; Open Hardware Monitor |
ivan Send message Joined: 5 Mar 01 Posts: 783 Credit: 348,560,338 RAC: 223 |
I'm running a 'new' ATI card on Linux and it's CPU usage is much higher than I would think it should be. I'm about to try and change an XP host to Linux, so, I'll see how the 6850 does in Linux. Hmm, I do have gkrellm on that system; I wonder if it can be persuaded to monitor the GPU. Just remembered that I do have CUDA 4.0 on the system, from when I was trying to get my digital hologram reconstruction software running: ivan@quad-server:~ $ nvidia-smi Fri Jun 28 22:57:32 2013 +------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 5.319.32 Driver Version: 319.32 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce 8500 GT Off | 0000:02:00.0 N/A | N/A | | 30% 85C N/A N/A / N/A | 71MB / 511MB | N/A Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Compute processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0 Not Supported | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
Urs Echternacht Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 692 Credit: 135,197,781 RAC: 211 |
I'm running a 'new' ATI card on Linux and it's CPU usage is much higher than I would think it should be. I'm about to try and change an XP host to Linux, so, I'll see how the 6850 does in Linux. Thanks for that hint. Do you know if it will also show GPU load for NV GPUs ? It is (maybe) the first one with a GUI for Linux. For ATI/AMD GPUs the GPU load can be displayed on the commandline using the driver configuration commandline tool aticonfig. The command > aticonfig --adapter=all --odgc --odgt will show actual frequencies, temperatures and GPU loads of all installed ATI/AMD GPUs working with that driver. _\|/_ U r s |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
I'm running a 'new' ATI card on Linux and it's CPU usage is much higher than I would think it should be. I'm about to try and change an XP host to Linux, so, I'll see how the 6850 does in Linux. I will try tomorrow after I get off work on my 650Ti. |
EdwardPF Send message Joined: 26 Jul 99 Posts: 389 Credit: 236,772,605 RAC: 374 |
I am using windows 7 and nvidia 560 ti and am new to AP. Since I started I am consuming 1 cpu per AP WU run. CPU time ~= wall time. 3054354982 1258059942 27 Jun 2013, 23:59:08 UTC 29 Jun 2013, 3:06:05 UTC Completed and validated 3,057.43 3,044.92 604.14 AstroPulse v6 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU) 3054250558 1269400209 27 Jun 2013, 22:31:06 UTC 29 Jun 2013, 1:20:19 UTC Completed and validated 3,082.32 3,073.61 671.94 AstroPulse v6 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU) 3053962976 1270717922 27 Jun 2013, 16:19:30 UTC 28 Jun 2013, 19:34:03 UTC Completed and validated 3,407.61 3,402.23 703.03 AstroPulse v6 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU) 3053960500 1257887012 27 Jun 2013, 16:03:10 UTC 28 Jun 2013, 18:37:27 UTC Completed and validated 4,098.92 4,093.75 718.38 AstroPulse v6 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU) I ASSUME this correct behavior. Ed F |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Yes, Eduuard it is for nvidia. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
petri33 Send message Joined: 6 Jun 02 Posts: 1668 Credit: 623,086,772 RAC: 156 |
For X11 load You could try disabling the "Sync to vblank" in NVIDIA X Server Settings (X Screen 0 - OpenGL settings). The AP in linux NVIDIA has a high CPU usage. I wonder if this would help: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=181328.0 I downloaded and compiled and put it in my boinc startup script like this: ... daemon --check $BOINCEXE --user $BOINCUSER +10 "LD_PRELOAD=~boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/libsleep.so $B\ OINCEXE $BOINCOPTS --dir $BOINCDIR >>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRORLOG &" >& /dev/null ... I have not had an opportunity to check wheter it helps since I have not had any AP tasks after the modification. To overcome Heisenbergs: "You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones |
Urs Echternacht Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 692 Credit: 135,197,781 RAC: 211 |
Is the -use_sleep commandline switch not working with AP on NV ? No effect at all ? _\|/_ U r s |
petri33 Send message Joined: 6 Jun 02 Posts: 1668 Credit: 623,086,772 RAC: 156 |
I'll have to check that out too when I get some AP tasks. I did not know that existed. To overcome Heisenbergs: "You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones |
Bernd Noessler Send message Joined: 15 Nov 09 Posts: 99 Credit: 52,635,434 RAC: 0 |
I have tried that some days ago. It will bring down your CPU load (in my case below 5%). But the GPU performance penalty is very high. |
petri33 Send message Joined: 6 Jun 02 Posts: 1668 Credit: 623,086,772 RAC: 156 |
(replied to my own message) http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=1275892000 I have not had time to investigate other effects, but the libsleep.so did reduce the cpu time. btw. The AP took 20 minutes to finish along with 2 MB on same GPU and 3 MB on an other and 5 (edit: thre may have been 6 since only 1 AP 0.5 CPU was running) MB on CPU (i7-3930K ht on use 50% of cpus BOINC). Only 6 cores were 100% active during the run according to SystemMonitor. To overcome Heisenbergs: "You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones |
robl Send message Joined: 8 Dec 12 Posts: 47 Credit: 2,587,572 RAC: 0 |
I'm running a 'new' ATI card on Linux and it's CPU usage is much higher than I would think it should be. I'm about to try and change an XP host to Linux, so, I'll see how the 6850 does in Linux. arkayn, did you ever get a chance to try the "open hardware monitor" on your 650Ti? |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
I'm running a 'new' ATI card on Linux and it's CPU usage is much higher than I would think it should be. I'm about to try and change an XP host to Linux, so, I'll see how the 6850 does in Linux. I could never get it too work. |
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