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Sir Papa Smurph Cries like a little girl
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4430 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: Dual Core at 50% |
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Ok, so here's the deal.
I am building a new computer and for some reason the cpu will only go to 50% on boinc. if one core is at 40% the other is at 60%. it is running like a teter-toter.
Yes I have checked the preferences in Boinc Manager they are at 2 cores ( actually I put them to 4 ) and it is at use 100% of cpu. ( I tried 200% but it would not take.)
I have also reinstalled Boinc.
The good news is that it is running about twice as fast for one unit, but it only runs one at a time. _________________ a.k.a. Licentious of Borg.........Resistance Really is Futile.......
and a Really Hoopy Frood who always knows where his Towel is...
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ohiomike Prince
Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Sometimes
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject: Re: Dual Core at 50% |
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Sir Papa Smurph wrote: | Ok, so here's the deal.
I am building a new computer and for some reason the cpu will only go to 50% on boinc. if one core is at 40% the other is at 60%. it is running like a teter-toter.
Yes I have checked the preferences in Boinc Manager they are at 2 cores ( actually I put them to 4 ) and it is at use 100% of cpu. ( I tried 200% but it would not take.)
I have also reinstalled Boinc.
The good news is that it is running about twice as fast for one unit, but it only runs one at a time. |
That is "normal" Windoze behavior, it only shows a total of 100% for ALL CPUs- my Quad shows 25% / Boinc task. If you open the Task Manager (right click down in the task bar) and then select Performance, You should see 2 CPU Usage History charts (if not, select "View", "CPU History", "One Graph Per CPU"). If you see 2 charts, you have 2 CPU's being used. If you don't see 2 CPUs there, then we have a problem...
PS- Sorry about the blank post at first- I did a "clickey-clickey". _________________
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Sir Papa Smurph Cries like a little girl
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4430 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Well. I have one unit running at 50 % and another 50% going to System Idle Process. I know that this is Wrong. I should be able to do 2 Wu's at a time, Right?
Perhaps I need to run 2 instances of Boinc and set the affinity on each to a different core.
Is this correct and if so, is it just a start menu thing or do I need to reinstall another copy of the manager? _________________ a.k.a. Licentious of Borg.........Resistance Really is Futile.......
and a Really Hoopy Frood who always knows where his Towel is...
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Sir Papa Smurph Cries like a little girl
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4430 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, I fixed it.
In Boinc manager I went to advanced, preferences and there I found a page I have never seen before that was set to only use 1 processor. I changed it to 2 and then "snoozed" the manager and restarted it. Bingo 100% on each core.
Ta-Da _________________ a.k.a. Licentious of Borg.........Resistance Really is Futile.......
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John Galt 007 Prince
Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 1206 Location: Wisconsin
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ohiomike Prince
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Sir Papa Smurph Cries like a little girl
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4430 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: Change your prefs in one of the projects |
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John Galt 007 wrote: | Instead of changin it in the BOINC manager, just go to one of your projects and change the prefs there. That way you can change the prefs (cache size, # of CPUs, etc.) for all of your projects. I set mine at 16 CPUs just in case I get a dual 8-core when they come out in about 5 years.... |
I tried that in Boincstats BAM. But for some reason it did not change it on any machines. As long as it works now, Fine
You should check to see if it took on your Boinc manager. Go to "Advanced / Preferences " and make sure it is at 16. _________________ a.k.a. Licentious of Borg.........Resistance Really is Futile.......
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John Galt 007 Prince
Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 1206 Location: Wisconsin
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Lloyd M. Prince
Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 521
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject: Re: Change your prefs in one of the projects |
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John Galt 007 wrote: | Instead of changin it in the BOINC manager, just go to one of your projects and change the prefs there. That way you can change the prefs (cache size, # of CPUs, etc.) for all of your projects. I set mine at 16 CPUs just in case I get a dual 8-core when they come out in about 5 years.... |
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Sir Furry Mark KWSN ArchBishop
Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 3261 Location: To the West of Iceni
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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: Change your prefs in one of the projects |
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John Galt 007 wrote: | Instead of changin it in the BOINC manager, just go to one of your projects and change the prefs there. That way you can change the prefs (cache size, # of CPUs, etc.) for all of your projects. I set mine at 16 CPUs just in case I get a dual 8-core when they come out in about 5 years.... | My last three new home systems have been dual-core, quad-core and dual quad-core respectively ... and that is just within one year. You can get Intel "Caneland" 4 socket motherboards that support the quad-core Xeons, so 16 core systems are already a reality - if a little pricey...
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JerWA Prince
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:52 am Post subject: |
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Both AMD and Intel have quad quad setups on server boards. In fact I wouldn't at all be surprised if Intel has >16 cores on a single motherboard right now working just fine. I'd say I know it for a fact, but then I'd be violating some sort of NDA and the goon squad would come do bad things to me. If you're curious, Google for Dunnington. _________________
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Lloyd M. Prince
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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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JerWA wrote: | Both AMD and Intel have quad quad setups on server boards. In fact I wouldn't at all be surprised if Intel has >16 cores on a single motherboard right now working just fine. I'd say I know it for a fact, but then I'd be violating some sort of NDA and the goon squad would come do bad things to me. If you're curious, Google for Dunnington. |
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Al Dente Prince
Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 3228 Location: Leodis, the jewel at the end of the yellow brick road (or M1)
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JerWA Prince
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:42 am Post subject: |
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Depends on what you want it for. Those procs are pretty specialized, and the thread count is the same as hyper threading, they're only beneficial if you're not at peak usage already. Having 256 threads sitting in a wait state is no more beneficial than having 32 sitting in a wait state. <shrug> That's why they excel at light load many operation stuff like transaction processing. Each thread is doing relatively little grunt work, there are just a bajillion little requests all the time, so lots of threads gets it done in a hurry because the over all demand for processing isn't that great in terms of brute power.
The UniSys stuff is in the same market, but on the heavy server side, and we've got several of those here but most are only between 32 and 64 cores. I hear one of them is going to be upgraded soon to 128 cores, should be interesting. Oh, and half a terrabyte of RAM of course. If only I could sneak a BOINC client onto one of those beasts.
The >16 core on a motherboard comment above was not meant for the big server market. It's not even a next-gen die. _________________
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Al Dente Prince
Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 3228 Location: Leodis, the jewel at the end of the yellow brick road (or M1)
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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:40 am Post subject: |
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Nice, informed reply.
Although I did rather have my tongue in my cheek when I posted it
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JerWA Prince
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:06 am Post subject: |
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As long as you keep your tongue out of the processor, everything should be OK.
As for me, I'm already sick of my current home computer as it's now the weakest one I interact with all day. <sigh> My plans for a December upgrade fell apart of course, and it's looking like I'm going to end up having to put it off almost until THIS December at the rate things are going. But, on the plus side, I'm driving a new car, my g/fs car took a serious step up, I'm actually paying all of my bills, one of which will be cleared in August and free up about $1,000 a month.
So... some time around August, I'll probably be finally upgrading this system to something quad core. Until then I'll just have to be content with the T7500 and Q6600 I borg'd at work.
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Sir Papa Smurph Cries like a little girl
Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4430 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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_________________ a.k.a. Licentious of Borg.........Resistance Really is Futile.......
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Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 11206 Location: NYC
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Don't bother, it's obsolete already. _________________ Fetch me the Holy Hand Grenade!
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