Einstein@home causes way too much sluggishness
8 Sep 2011 4:46:05 UTC
Topic 195950
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I first noticed this about two weeks ago and I have finally tracked down the problem to Einstein@home.
I am running seti@home and einstein@home. The code for einstein is obviously different or the settings are different than seti because Seti runs fine, and einstein slows everything down.
Whenever I am watching my fav Star Trek episode with media Player Classic after about 3-4 minutes the GPU and the CPUs go to about 80-90%. I finally opened task manager and saw Einstein trying to poke his head in while media player was playing. It seems like the program is trying to run even when media player is playing. Seti@home does not do this.
Do I have something set wrong or does Einstein@home just need some more work?
I currently have the following setup:
AMD X4 2.4 ghz
Geforce 450 w/ 1 GB of DDR Ram
4 GB of RAM
Windows 7
Einstein@home causes way too much sluggishness
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Don't run (CUDA) work on your GPU (videocard) when you're trying to watch something else. Either manually set BOINC to suspend, or have it do it automatically with the option in a cc_config.xml file. All information about that in my CUDA & CAL FAQ.
That Seti doesn't do this is because Seti CUDA tasks don't take as much video memory as the Einstein CUDA tasks do. That's got nothing to do with project mismanagement or failure to program right, but all with what they're trying to do at the different projects. You have an easy way around it, so use it.