SGMiner using to much CPU cores

Rux

Rux

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Hi guys, i realized that when i run two 280x my CPU cores are in LOAD, process sgminer.exe using 50% of my entire CPU!
i dont mine with CPU only GPU...
for instance, i have 4core 8treads CPU, in bios i disable 3 and still it uses 99% of CPU on two cores...
Using phm-sgminer-4-1-0-windows
EDIT: now i tried set affinity to two last cores... MINING STOP!! ... i clicked ALL Cores again and mining continued....
 
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I use one 280X. While I was tweaking my SPH-Sgminer settings I noticed that my CPU usage also went up. This is what I am using now:
-I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 8191 - which gives me around 2225 Kh/s.
I am still able to run my CPU miner(for an additional 600Kh/s) and my system is not jumpy.
 
when i use only one GPU, it loads 25% of cpu, after loading second card it goes to 50% again....its like using CPU core to mine or its a Hybrid CPU/GPU algorithm
dont get me wrong, but is there any way that guy who compiled miner did put cpu miner to mine for him, with our resources?
 
i remember others having same issue but can't find too much in sgminer announce thread.
i have to older cards on my system. the cpu usage is around 1%
 
We need to find solution for this... true DRK is 30% decrese in power, but this way with CPU consumption its like im mining scrypt
 
Rux said:
We need to find solution for this... true DRK is 30% decrese in power, but this way with CPU consumption its like im mining scrypt
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I don't have the problem. I checked my 2nd setup and it is using about 1% also.

What drivers are you using?
Where did you get your binaries?
What flavor of windows?
Do you have another hard drive? Run a clean install to test.
Disable each card, does it still occur?

Rux said:
...., but is there any way that guy who compiled miner did put cpu miner to mine for him, with our resources?
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possible but not probable
 
What drivers are you using?
13.2

Where did you get your binaries?
phm-sgminer-4-1-0-windows

What flavor of windows?
win7 ultimate x64 with 16gb of ram

Do you have another hard drive? Run a clean install to test.
SSD with system on it and HD 1TB for storage

Disable each card, does it still occur?
if i disable only one card its not using 50% but 25% of entire CPU
 
hmm my CPU is sandybrige i7 3770k
i use two 280x on my daily PC, but i activated IGP and using via HDMI.
i only have one DVI dummy on 280x, maybe that's a reason??
this way i can watch video and even play some games with intel VGA, i shared 1024MB of memory
maybe sgminer is using that igp or something like that so i tried to only --device 0-1-2 but nothing
 
Rux said:
Where did you get your binaries?
phm-sgminer-4-1-0-windows
....
Do you have another hard drive? Run a clean install to test.
SSD with system on it and HD 1TB for storage
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Where did you download from? There are many versions of sgminer around.

Do you have a hard drive not being used? Can you install a clean windows on it and test there?

Rux said:
hmm my CPU is sandybrige i7 3770k
i use two 280x on my daily PC, but i activated IGP and using via HDMI.
i only have one DVI dummy on 280x, maybe that's a reason??
this way i can watch video and even play some games with intel VGA, i shared 1024MB of memory
maybe sgminer is using that igp or something like that so i tried to only --device 0-1-2 but nothing
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You should not need dummies on newer drivers.

run "sgminer -n" to see what GPU is detected. It shouldn't see Intel VGA at all.

If this is your main computer and you have all your apps installed on it, any one of those could be conflicting.
Enabled IGP - maybe problem, maybe not.
Enabled Intel card - maybe problem, maybe not.
 
IGP is INTEL graphic card that every sandybridge CPU has on him....and its beauty to watch full hd video while mining, but this CPU bug is cutting me for 120kh/s :p
 
can you check your processes(ctl+alt+del)? is sgminer the thing that is actually using your CPU cycles or is it something else?

any chance sgminer is trying to use your intel hd graphics to mine? or does it only show the two 280xs?
 
Yes ofc i checked process that is wasting my cpu time... and its SGMINER.exe :(
by the speed of hashing 2 x 2280kh/s per 280x, and while they mine i watch full hd video on my Intel gpu with no problems....

after that i turn off everything except Miners, and 50% cpu is using... this is not good!

can anyone upload their miner and send me so that i can try? :) sorry for the mess

Also what version of catylst are you using????
 
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I noticed this too, and I discovered a really weird fix. To begin with, I'm mining on a computer with an AMD GPU and build-in Intel graphics. The Radeon driver was HP specific, and I had to download a third-party driver in order to overclock the gpu. Last but not least, I connect the computer to a big monitor using an HP USB dock, which comes with it's own driver. So long story short, my computer is a tangled mess of drivers.

Anyway, I discovered that when I log into the computer directly and start sgminer, it uses about 30% of the CPU. But, when I remotely log into the computer from another comp (which I do a lot) and start SGminer from there it doesn't use any CPU. I also don't have full API access, but that's no big deal once everything got set up the way I wanted it.

If possible, you should try closing sgminer, logging off, then remotely logging in from another computer and starting sgminer from there. I'd be really interested to see if you get the same result. If so, it might go down as one of the ugliest fixes in history.
 
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