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Lionel SARRES
Lionel SARRES
Joined: 18 Oct 09
Posts: 21
Credit: 62996506
RAC: 106863

Hello, Since dunx answered

Hello,

Since dunx answered me, I check the forum about the fix.
I didnt find all the answers yet but I made some changes.

First, I disabled the speedstep in the Bios. Nothing changes.

I checked about the nvidia driver. I changed parameters from quality to performances. Cuda WU didn't seem to be enhanced. A milkyway WU is still getting 12 minutes to complete.

I fix Boinc manager to be launched as administrator. Nothing change.

I tryed to change the priority to Real time. Windows said the access is not allowed. then I disabled Boinc Manager to be launch as administrator. Then I can change the priority to real time, but I didn't notice any change....

8-)

I guess something can be done, but it is not obvious...
Thanks for your help.

LSa.

dunx
dunx
Joined: 13 Aug 10
Posts: 119
Credit: 53470527
RAC: 0

RE: RE: I noticed that a

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I noticed that a new WU SGC1HF takes almost 13 hours to complete on my i7 860. The "old" Global co WU took 8 hours to complete.

As others have said, something is very broken. My i7-860 takes about 4.5 hrs to get through them (on Linux and only running 3 threads).

I hope you are able to find the problem, your system can do a lot better...

Mine are currently taking 5:45 ( i7-870 @ 4 GHz) due to "real-time" allocation to my GTX 460.

dunx

BilBg
BilBg
Joined: 27 May 07
Posts: 56
Credit: 23998
RAC: 0

RE: I tried to change the

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I tried to change the priority to Real time. Windows said the access is not allowed. then I disabled BOINC Manager to be launch as administrator. Then I can change the priority to real time, but I didn't notice any change....


You don't need to change the priority of BOINC Manager
- change the priority of the science app which is doing the real work.

For automatic change use Process Lasso:
http://www.bitsum.com/prolasso.php

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- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)

Lionel SARRES
Lionel SARRES
Joined: 18 Oct 09
Posts: 21
Credit: 62996506
RAC: 106863

Hello BilBg, Hello dunx,

Hello BilBg, Hello dunx, Hello Bikeman, Hello Gundolf,

I read also many of your posts ! After that, and after changing different settings, the only improvement I had (crunch time for BRP3 was divided by 10 !!!) wad to set "use at most n-1 CPU" in the Boinc Manager Preferences.
Oh boy, what a change...

I read many over solutions. I tried them but I didn't notice any (big) change. S5GC1HF still needs 11-13 hours to complete. As I said in an old post, I disabled speedstep in the Bios, I reinstall the nvidia driver as suggested by BilBd (custom install and priority to performances) - don't forget to suspend your Cuda WU or you will lose them -, I tried to change tasks process priority with Sysinternal Process Explorer and windows task manager -> I will try the process lasso, I created a cc_config file... It was quite a fun :-)

Setting a computer for bests performances is - very - interesting. It shows up that no matter how powerfull are the "new" computers, the waste of power is ignominious. Waste, waste, waste... I wonder if producing more and more power has sense. Anyway, I'll keep optimize my system. It reminds me when I optimized my C code to draw fractal curves with two CPU : 80286 and 80287...

Thanks a lot for your help. I wish you my bests wishes for the new year.

Bests regards.

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