Ok my farm is mostly with XP32. I have to set SMP affinity to 2 cores so as to not rob my GPU's. Problem: After SMP completion it reverts back to all 4 cores? How do I get it to always run 2 cores? I lost alot of production cause of this, and others not knowing when to stop bringing me more Vodka. I need to learn how to say enuf (aside from simply passing out).
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that's because when it finishes the wu, it stops and restarts the core threads... and it goes back to default assignments.
you need a program that constantly sets affinity for fahcore_a1 everytime it restarts http://www.geocities.com/edgemeal_so...nity/index.htm
here's a post from July when I went thru this same dilemma.
the ss pics will explain it better than I can in this post http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...5&postcount=14
Last edited by MikeB12; 10-31-2008 at 08:20 AM.
Bless you Mike. I will try Set Affinity II
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I would dare say... try Affinity Changer, those guys are adding allot of fah specific features like support for gpu's and it's all hands off.
http://distributed.org.ua/forum/inde...showtopic=1149
Also it uses a dynamic distribution model which takes into account thread memory usage. I think AC is the better choiche atm but that's just my opinion and I don't even use it so take it with a grain of salt if you like
I tried AC with smp and gpu in xp when gpu came out this summer.. it still killed fahcore_11 in xp, wouldn't let it have a whole core. unless they've changed it the past couple months... and have inlcuded fahcore_11 in the model to feed it an entire core and pull it away from fahcore_a1.
when I tried to useAC while setting infinities for fahcore_a1 it wouldn't even work, because AC was looking to swap around all 4 cores, and only had access to 3. so it freaked out and got stuck on that last core that fahcore_11 was exclusively using. it put a big halt in the AC cycle and hung...
but I haven't messed with xp since then, all mine are vista now... so I can't really test it anymore..
AC works fine with Vista though. that's what I'm using on all my quads (dual smp and gpu)... but as soon as you try to lock a core away from it for fahcore_11, it flubs out... it needs access to all cores on fahcore_a1 to do it's magic... which isn't possible when you're dedicated one to fahcore_11.
Well AC is in a fourth major build now, meaning it has undergone atleast four major overhauls so they might have fixed some bugs here and there. I was thinking about adding an ac to my setup ( btw, I need people who run deino clients as service either xp or vista but preferably xp, if you do pm me please ) but I seen the change logs for AC and thought it would be to much work and easier to work with them ( which is why the program looks for ac when allowing you to select your clients, and it will assume two cores per smp client if the AC service is found and running ). They got good future plans, I think adding core logic would be very nice to but with the coming bloomfield cpu's that's no longer really needed ( for the current cpu's it might have been very beneficial to determine which 2 cores are on one die ).
yeah, that's worth a shot. I just checked my AC version and it's 1.0.4
1.0.5 is what's current.. but I'm still not convinced it has anything to do with affinty isolation for fahcore_a1 and fahcore_11...
How does it work? <- new info
After some time interval (10 mins) utility checks, if there are 4 processes of FahCore_a1 (one FAH SMP client). If so, and system has 2 CPUs or 2 cores, then utility assigns two processes for each core in some magic way: 1321.gif first core gets process with maximal memory usage, and process with minimal memory usage. Other two processes are assigned to second core.
For quad core processors, first SMP client is assigned to 1st and 3rd core, 2nd SMP client assigned to 2nd and 4th core. Assigning affinities on QUAD if you run one SMP client does not make sense.
Attention: Version 1.0.5 support 8-core computers (2 quad-core processors only).
Last edited by MikeB12; 10-26-2008 at 03:18 AM.
Anyone having similar probs, try PriFinitty v1.0.9
It is working great !!!
i7-860 Farm with nVidia GPU's
My quote messes things up, but the most import thing there is tying the most memory consuming thread with the least memory consuming thread, that will mean you gain some extra 100's ppd compared to an affinity changer which does not take into account the memory usage.Originally Posted by MikeB12
1.04 I thought already fixed a bug with gpu2 clients but not sure.
Screeny of PriFinitty...Easy setup & use.
i7-860 Farm with nVidia GPU's
Dak did you even read anything I said?
Yes Marvin, but I wish to keep things simple for everyone. This proggy is simple to use and works great.
i7-860 Farm with nVidia GPU's
Ok that's true but I'm pretty certain you will gain several 100's of ppd with a proper distribution of the cores like AC does, compared with any program which doesn't take the memory usage into account. Btw, I don't do dual smp's because I like to provide them (pg) with the quickest return times I can give them ( which kind of is the entire point.. they aren't considering adding a bonus in points in relation to the return time for nothing ) so I am taking info I gotten from people like you and just passing on what I noticed about it. Maybe the new cores are already better at sensing distribution and it will not be such an increase but it was in the past
Edit: not to mention AC is install and forget, how's that for simple
Last edited by Marvin_The_Martian; 10-26-2008 at 04:17 AM.
Dak, I'm not having issues but could you post a link to that proggie? Google can't seem to find it.Screeny of PriFinitty...Easy setup & use.
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http://www.geocities.com/edgemeal_so...nity/index.htmDak, I'm not having issues but could you post a link to that proggie? Google can't seem to find it.
http://www.hinn.cn/2008/10/prifinitty.html
Using AC on V64 here and that really is install and forget, but I'm also interested in PriFinitty, since it makes everything a bit more controllable it seems.
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Hey Dak you use Deino clients right? If you do take a look at the thread I posted and let me know if you're up to trying a few things out for me on one of your boxes
You're most welcome, even though I feel compelled to to excuse myself for speaking out of line, for I wasn't addressed to answer.
Wow.. did you forget to take your pills or is your mother watching over your shoulderYou're most welcome, even though I feel compelled to to excuse myself for speaking out of line, for I wasn't addressed to answer.
Maybe I am just antisocial
That looks like it's not ment for me, anything which uses dynamic character evolving and does not use names for them will most likely start confusing me on page 3
Though I do find the aspects of language very interesting, my memory problems have prevent me from actually having an evolved taste in literature
cant you just change the cpu usage value in the client.cfg file to 50 from 100
cause thats what i do when im playing a game or something
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First of all, don't manually play with that file, use a shortcut with -configonly that will work perfectly fine when the client is already running and you don't need to restart it for most options to kick in.
Secondly, what do you mean? Dak had issues with affinity, not with playing games.. I'm not sure if he even knows what a game would look like
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