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[Norton]

My 1600X rig is currently set for SCC and MIP only and I've gotten 17k ppd for the last few days. Note that I have a mild overclock (3.8Ghz) and am running Ubuntu 17.04.

@infrared maybe your overclock is unstable or your Linux install needs an update?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

MIP's PPH of run time is the highest of all current projects.

 

[infrared]

That's interesting, I'll keep an eye on it and see how I get on.

My 1600X rig is currently set for SCC and MIP only and I've gotten 17k ppd for the last few days. Note that I have a mild overclock (3.8Ghz) and am running Ubuntu 17.04.

@infrared maybe your overclock is unstable or your Linux install needs an update?

Even the 1800x running stock nose dived on saturday, and the same sunday. The oc'd one was busy playing VR with mates on Saturday, but still didn't pick up after running uninterrupted on Sunday. I'll double check the stability but it's been consistent right up until I changed to MIP, and I'm not pushing the chip hard for WCG. I noticed later I was also getting tasks from Aids at home, ebola, cancer markers etc. after I changed to MIP so maybe that's why the ppd took a plunge

edit - I checked the wcg results page, there is 1 Invalid result listed for the oc'd 1800x so I'll up the voltage a notch, but it also has 675 Valid ones so I don't think this is why the points are down. Oh well, I'll keep an eye on it.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

I noticed later I was also getting tasks from Aids at home, ebola, cancer markers etc. after I changed to MIP

Do you use custom device profiles? I found that (having a little bit of a hard time remembering this) sometimes resetting either the default or a custom (again, the memory) could reset the other. I was hoping they had fixed that by now???

 

[infrared]

Cheers blue, I wasn't, but am now. The reason it was letting the other jobs though was MIP was the only one selected, but I also had the box ticked that says accept jobs from other projects if no work is available, so I guess there was limited work and it got a load of other stuff. *shrugs*. I've set up 1 custom profile to lock the stock 1800x to SCC, and I'm leaving the other now on MIP only, but I've got 3 days of mixed work to burn through before I'll see what's what.

 

[Norton]

I'll double check the stability but it's been consistent right up until I changed to MIP, and I'm not pushing the chip hard for WCG. I noticed later I was also getting tasks from Aids at home, ebola, cancer markers etc. after I changed to MIP so maybe that's why the ppd took a plunge

There might be a shortage of MIP work units (new project- badge hunters gobbling up all of the work ), which would affect your ppd. SCC and MIP seemed to be running the most consistent with my rig so I have both checked in hopes that it would be running just those.... seems to be working so far

Also, when I checked into Linux versions, it looked like kernel 4.10/4.11 were the best for Ryzen so I would recommend upgrading to Mint 18.2 or Ubuntu 17.04 to get the most out of the rigs

 

[infrared]

They're running 4.4.0-53-generic apparently ('uname -r' in the terminal), I did do an update on it recently so idk if it would have done the kernel as well?

BTW does lm-sensors work with ryzen on the newer releases?

 

[agent00skid]

There are currently no drivers on Linux that can poll Ryzen temperature or power sensors. The best you can do is try to poll the sensors on the SuperIO.

 

[peche]

i still dont know why i cannot pass 12K point barrier, 3 core i7's.... 1 core i5, crunching 24/7

Regards,

 

[thebluebumblebee]

i still dont know why i cannot pass 12K point barrier, 3 core i7's.... 1 core i5, crunching 24/7

Regards,

Dedicated? You should be pushing 20K, so something's wrong.

Edit: Please list CPU's.

 

[peche]

Edit: Please list CPU's.

2x intel i7 870
1x intel i 7 3770
1x intel 5 haswell (gotta check model)

Dedicated? You should be pushing 20K, so something's wrong.

i7 870 + i7 3770 + i5 4XXX are dedicated, those machines are running just WCG ... 1x intel i7 870 is my daire computer, so is not only crunching....

Regards,

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Those original i7-8xx's don't do all that well, IIRC. Maybe someone else can speak to that.

 

[stevorob]

I have a Xeon x3440 (which is almost an i7 860) overclocked to 3.2-3.4, don't remember which and it pulls in about 5-6k ppd running Ubuntu 17.04, right now running only SCC jobs.

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3876615



@peche are you running Linux on any of your dedicated boxes?

 

[peche]

Those original i7-8xx's don't do all that well, IIRC. Maybe someone else can speak to that.

older i7's arent that good?
i have been running al projects available, some people use to crunch some projects only , that migh be another fact3

I have a Xeon x3440 (which is almost an i7 860) overclocked to 3.2-3.4, don't remember which and it pulls in about 5-6k ppd running Ubuntu 17.04, right now running only SCC jobs.

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3876615



@peche are you running Linux on any of your dedicated boxes?

Windos on all of them,

 

[stevorob]

Windos on all of them,

There's a pretty big difference in PPD between linux and windows.

You could probably near double your output if you were to switch your dedicated boxes to a linux OS. Ubuntu seems to be the easiest to setup (at least for me, I'm a linux noob)

 

[thebluebumblebee]

it pulls in about 5-6k ppd running Ubuntu 17.04, right now running only SCC jobs.

That's running the 2nd highest PPH project and on Linux to boot. A stock clocked 2600K running all projects under windows will get that much.
@peche , how does the output of your 3770 compare to the 870's? (you don't have "Show Hosts" selected under "My Profile" at WCG so we can't see them at FDC)

 

[peche]

I have a Xeon x3440 (which is almost an i7 860) overclocked to 3.2-3.4, don't remember which and it pulls in about 5-6k ppd running Ubuntu 17.04, right now running only SCC jobs.

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=host&proj=bwcg&hostid=3876615



@peche are you running Linux on any of your dedicated boxes?

ou could probably near double your output if you were to switch your dedicated boxes to a linux OS. Ubuntu seems to be the easiest to setup (at least for me, I'm a linux noob)

that means this saturday ill be doing some tests! ubuntu FTW! hope team viewer works on them !

That's running the 2nd highest PPH project and on Linux to boot. A stock clocked 2600K running all projects under windows will get that much.
@peche , how does the output of your 3770 compare to the 870's? (you don't have "Show Hosts" selected under "My Profile" at WCG so we can't see them at FD

Regards,

 

[thebluebumblebee]

That only looks like you have 2 hosts reporting????
Taking this over to the WCG team thread....

 

[peche]

That only looks like you have 2 hosts reporting????

delete the other 2 cuz those are the i7 3770 & 870 ... the others are kinda new machines i have added, like the other i7 860....

 

[thebluebumblebee]

im a noob

If you want us to see your hosts, on the WCG web site, go to Settings and then My Profile. It's a check box towards the bottom of the page.
To check what individual hosts are doing, click on their names there under Device Statistics

that means this saturday ill be doing some tests! ubuntu FTW! hope team viewer works on them !

Install from a thumb drive, and team viewer works fine on Linux.

delete the other 2 cuz those are the i7 3770 & 870 ... the others are kinda new machines i have added, like the other i7 860....

How new?

 

[Norton]

@peche @thebluebumblebee @stevorob moved the posts from the Pie thread over here

There are currently no drivers on Linux that can poll Ryzen temperature or power sensors. The best you can do is try to poll the sensors on the SuperIO.

psensor does pick up some temp info in Ubuntu 17.04

 

[manofthem]

My i7s seem to do fairly poorly compared to most others, but I've accepted that some people just seem to get hugger ppd than others.

Install from a thumb drive, and team viewer works fine on Linux.

Good to know. I think the last time I used Linux I couldn't use TeamViewer (or more likely I didn't know how to get it installed and working...). That's a must for me as my 4790 has no monitor and I only check it through TeamViewer. One of these days, I'm going to make good on my promise to try it out again.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

but I've accepted that some people just seem to get hugger ppd than others.

Freudian slip or autocorrect FTW?

@manofthem , did you see:

 

[peche]

@peche @thebluebumblebee @stevorob moved the posts from the Pie thread over here

Gotta invest a little moar about linux! but thanks for help cap!

 

[Norton]

Gotta invest a little moar about linux! but thanks for help cap!

Ubuntu takes about 10-15 minutes to install from a flash drive.... including downloading and installing the BOINC Manager/getting it crunching