Windows SMP Beta goes Open

Darryn · 18 Mar 2007 at 00:49

Here it is guys...

All you multi core Windows users need this.

Darryn · 18 Mar 2007 at 01:06

I dont know if the Linux SMP client is any more or less efficient than the Windows SMP client.

From my experience the Linux OS itself is more efficient than Windows, so Id imagine the Linux client would get slightly more PPD due to less system tasks being active in the background.

Darryn · 18 Mar 2007 at 15:23

Have you tried rebooting after install .netv2... if you have could you post your latest fahlog entries so we can see exactly what is happening.

Darryn · 18 Mar 2007 at 18:11

Dual Xeon 5150 2.66ghz (4 cores total) 4gb FBDimm (4x1gb)

2651 = 10min 14sec
2652 = 8min 30sec

Darryn · 18 Mar 2007 at 20:41

Well for me if my maths are still working:

p2651 = 1760points @ 10m 14s/frame = 2476ppd
p2650 = 1148points @ 8m 30s/frame = 1944ppd

Darryn · 18 Mar 2007 at 21:16

Ok... in my opinion the following works...

Point for Wu = 1760
Time / frame = 614seconds

Sooo

614*100 = 61400second/WU = 1023minutes/WU = 17.05Hr/WU

1760/17.05 = 103.19 PPHour

103.19x24 = 2476 PPDay

Darryn · 25 Mar 2007 at 20:14

WoZZeR said:
I have managed to install the Windows SMP Client (Quick round of self congratulation )

However, it's only using 22 to 33 percent of my CPU? Can I force it to use more?

Will never fold the job in time at low CPU usage I think.

Cheers

Check to see if there are 4 processes running... each taking 22-23% therefore totalling 88-92% which is what it should be.

Darryn · 27 Mar 2007 at 23:37

joeyjojo said:
Stopped working earlier for some reason. Ran for 41 or so minutes then just hung. Usage dropped to zero and I had to close it with ctrl+c. Instability perhaps.

Ctrl+c is the way to close isn't it? It complains about improper shutdown though :S

Thats bizarre, I had the exact same happen tonight... on a 2651 work unit... never had it happen before. Ctrl-C was the only way out and upon restarting the program it restarted the WU... which was at 94% gutted.

Darryn · 30 Apr 2007 at 22:03

BillytheImpaler said:
2610 is by far the worst of the WinSMP WUs. It takes aaaaaaaaages to crunch on my machines.

No no no no... 2610 are my favourite of the WinSMP units... here are my average PPDs taken from FahMon benchmarks.

2604 = 2297.04 ppd
2605 = 2374.71 ppd
2610 = 2758.64 ppd
2651 = 2448.70 ppd
2652 = 1922.23 ppd

Darryn · 30 Apr 2007 at 22:36

Id recommend you run Memtest86 or similar...

I had problems with one of my old rigs running FaH and it would prime fine for hours and hours, gaming, encoding, everything worked great, but running FaH i would get EUEs all over the place, using Memtest86 i tracked it down to a failing 1gb Crucial Ballistix stick, got it RMAed and all was well again.