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TouchuvGrey:
I certainly did not do anything to deliberately throttle the CPU.
Any suggestions as to what it is, where i can find it, and how to
set it to full throttle ?
Mike
Josef W. Segur:
--- Quote from: TouchuvGrey on 25 Nov 2007, 02:21:42 pm ---I certainly did not do anything to deliberately throttle the CPU.
Any suggestions as to what it is, where i can find it, and how to
set it to full throttle ?
Mike
--- End quote ---
It's a power management function, and of course everyone assumes that the goal is minimal power usage to get ordinary tasks done. I think it will be using the AMD Athlon™ 64/FX Cpufreq Driver for Linux as described on this AMD page. According to that the driver is built into the kernel, though my understanding is that different distros may build their kernels differently.
A similar case to yours is discussed in this thread about Folding@home. Perhaps the final post will give you some hints on how to control.
Here's one more link which might be helpful, but note that it is about 2 years old.
I'm sorry I can't help more, we need a real Ubuntu guru.
Joe
Fivestar Crashtest:
Another thing I do when I install Ubuntu is remove Powernowd if I don't like the way it acts with BOINC. I like to put the CPU usage applet on the panel (with Gnome) and if it is showing 100% while BOINC is going, then I don't worry about it, but if it shows throttling, I take it out with Synaptic Package Manager. I don't worry about benchmarks between Linux or Windows, since benchmarks don't play a role in credit anymore at Seti.
Pam
TouchuvGrey:
OK, i found it, removed it with Synaptic Package Manager ( did not know
i had it, will investigate it carefully ) re booting now, running benchmarks
Bingo partly at least benchmarks are now
Operating System Linux
2.6.22-14-generic
Memory 1010.05 MB
Cache 1024 KB
Measured floating point speed 1407.8 million ops/sec
Measured integer speed 2686.86 million ops/sec
better than what they were, but still not what they used to be.
i'll take it for now, any progress is better than none.
Mike
autocrosser:
I'm using the 5.10.28 Ubuntu release downloaded & installed to my /home--I agree that I like seti run from /home. Running Beta testing 8.04 Hardy with no problems....Interesting--my app_info shows version_num 521--I'll try changing it to 528 & see what happens---
I just download & install the basic seti app to my /home & after I run a couple of units I stop it & sub the optimized one for it---
Grey---you can goto System>Preferences>Main Menu & create a start launcher for the manager--just mod the run_manager script you will find in your BOINC folder--E me at autocrosser1<at>gmail<dot>com & I'll shoot you some more info-----You can also mod the run_client script & set it to run as soon as you login--I'll cover that also---
By the way---I'm autocrosser at ubuntuforums.org----
<note> All it seemed to do is reload all my w/u--unsure if it changed anything else.
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