Dual 5870's

[coronicus]

Had some of the same issue with running two 6950 I get full throttle only if i give it 2 physical cores and loose performance with one core and a hyperthread. If you want the card at full throttle give it 1 core per gpu if its a dual gpu you will need 2 cores for it, just my experience of it lately... still trying to figure out lasso and when i do ill post my findings... Oh also if you swaped cards around and installed new drivers i found that reseting the project helped out at times..

[Philadelphia]

OK, try changing the "suspend when non BOINC tasks active" from 75% - where it is now - to 0.
Then change the "on multi processor systems use __% of CPU" from -- where it is now - to 75%. On a quad core, that is like cutting 1 core from what BOINC will use for CPU projects. You can play with this number later to fine tune, but try this for now and see how your Moo! times change, ie they should drop like a rock again.

Thanks for the suggestion, I made the changes and I'll run a couple and see what happens.

Thanks again.

Dan/Philly

[Philadelphia]

Unless I'm missing something it seems awfully slow to me for a Dual 5870 setup, my 5970's running @ 825 & 850 Clock Cores run the Wu's under 900 Seconds, my single 5870 Box @ only 900 Core runs them in the 1600-1700 range. Are you sure your even using both GPU's to run the MOO Wu's ??? Should say using 2 GPU's in the BOINC Manager, I think you are cause I checked your Wu's out at the Project. If so then you have major problems else where running the Wu's that slow with 2 5870's, don't know where though ... To me it looks like only 1 of the GPU's is actually running the Wu's even though it may say 2 at the Project

Unbelievably slow, the small number you see in my results was when I was running just one gpu, now with two everything seems to have gone bonkers.

Those dnetc518 files in task mgr are crunch a lot of cpu, I don't remember that being the case with one gpu, although I guess it could have been.







Thanks for taking a look.

Dan/Philly

[Philadelphia]

I just pulled the second 5870 and the dnetc518 is running at 0 cpu, like I 'thought' it was running before.

Thoughts?

Dan/Philly

[Philadelphia]

I pulled the second 5870 and the WU is back to 'normal', so is the processor usage on the Dnetc518 usage, 0 cpu.

Must have all 'ya confused; I don't have a freaking clue

[Philadelphia]

Put the second one back in and .....&$^%

That dnetc518 file is going nuts again on the cpu



I'm $&^%* going to just run the one gpu until......?????

Dan/Philly

[Philadelphia]

Guess I'll quite doing Moo considering I 'could' have done abou 700,000 a day, sucks.

Started running Collatz to see if it was the gpu's or......, well, the WU's are running what they were for Collatz, so it seems the issue is Moo related. Obviously that's just my assumption.




Dan/Philly

[Philadelphia]

Guess I'll clear out my Moo backlog and move on to something else.

[spingadus]

You may have already tried this, but just to be thorough, have you:

1) Changed the moo! core from -1(auto default) to something else by running the benchmark? Wouldn't hurt to try.
2) Tried a different ATI driver.

...ignore if you already did these.

[Philadelphia]

You may have already tried this, but just to be thorough, have you:

1) Changed the moo! core from -1(auto default) to something else by running the benchmark? Wouldn't hurt to try.
2) Tried a different ATI driver.

...ignore if you already did these.

Thanks for the suggestion, I have a post over at Moo to see if anyone can figure it out.

I have the card back in again just to help clear out the backlog faster, just not much faster.