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RawLu
Cruncher Joined: Oct 19, 2006 Post Count: 17 Status: Offline |
Hello,I just updated my BOINC client to version 6.10.17 & run an ATI 4600 series video card,also updated to latest drivers. vista32 all up to date etc etc. also updated to latest version of tthrottle.
After uninstalling & installing the newer version of BOINC, BTW-I'm only running two projects ATM,AQUA & HelpConquerCancer, I've noticed that AQUA seems to run as normal at 100% CPU load BUT HCC has started running at a much lower CPU load of only like 25%? & seem to be taking much longer & only receiving one WU at a time,matter a fact B4 6.10.17 I normally had an extra AQUA in waiting & as many as four HCC WU's in waiting/running. at first I thought this was because of the new ATI GPU support & it sharing the load,CPU & GPU running HCC together?. but everywhere I've looked on the forums the only thing I've managed to find say that NO WCG PROJECTS ARE USING THE GPU?,is this correct?. Any insight would be great. Thanks. |
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Ingleside
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Hello,I just updated my BOINC client to version 6.10.17 & run an ATI 4600 series video card,also updated to latest drivers. vista32 all up to date etc etc. also updated to latest version of tthrottle. After uninstalling & installing the newer version of BOINC, BTW-I'm only running two projects ATM,AQUA & HelpConquerCancer, I've noticed that AQUA seems to run as normal at 100% CPU load BUT HCC has started running at a much lower CPU load of only like 25%? & seem to be taking much longer & only receiving one WU at a time,matter a fact B4 6.10.17 I normally had an extra AQUA in waiting & as many as four HCC WU's in waiting/running. at first I thought this was because of the new ATI GPU support & it sharing the load,CPU & GPU running HCC together?. but everywhere I've looked on the forums the only thing I've managed to find say that NO WCG PROJECTS ARE USING THE GPU?,is this correct?. Any insight would be great. Thanks. You're correct about WCG not using the GPU. As for your problem, the less-than-optimally scheduling of SMP-wu's is a known bug in v6.10.17, and will be solved in a later release. Until a new release is ready, it's recommended for Aqua-users to not run v6.10.17, but earlier builds. If not mistaken, v6.10.13 should work correctly with Aqua also, so either downgrade to v6.10.13 or v6.6.xx while waiting for next build. Or, suspend Aqua for the time being. V6.10.17 not working correctly with Aqua is unfortunate, but with Aqua having less than 1% of the active BOINC-users, it was decided the small problem with SMP-scheduling wasn't so large a problem that it should hold-up the initial v6.10.xx-release.  "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might." [Edit 1 times, last edit by Ingleside at Nov 6, 2009 5:55:04 AM] |
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RawLu
Cruncher Joined: Oct 19, 2006 Post Count: 17 Status: Offline |
Well I'm glad I checked & thanks for your reply.
I've reverted back to version 6.6.38 & seems to run fine as far as I know. will keep eyes peeled for future release that mentions that AQUA fix. Thanks. |
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