Issue Resolved.
It appears that there is some incompatibility with driver ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64 and AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64. I downgraded my drivers to ati-driver-installer-11-6-x86.x86_64.run and its running smoothly , no more high cpu utilization.
So the golden rule, stick with driver 11.6 and AMP APP 2.4
Thanks for the suggestion guys
Topic: Phoenix/ATI High CPU Utilization (Read 1876 times)
Yup,
I am sure I have AMD APP SDK 2.4 only. Was about to upgrade to 2.6 to see if that fixed the problem. Will let you know the outcome.
I am sure I have AMD APP SDK 2.4 only. Was about to upgrade to 2.6 to see if that fixed the problem. Will let you know the outcome.
I had great performance on my 58xx and 5970 cards with 10.10 and 2.1. Now using cgminer which needs 2.4 with 11.6 and lost 4-8 Mh/s (2-3%).
2.1 is the best to use, purely from a bitcoin mining perspective. The CPU bug is also fixed in 2.6
Why 2.1? phatk and phatk2 are optimized for 2.4 and I'm getting best performance with them. Haven't tried 2.1 tho. 
2.1 is the best to use, purely from a bitcoin mining perspective. The CPU bug is also fixed in 2.6
Are you sure that you have AMD APP SDK v2.4 installed? You need to remove APP SDK dlls, if you've installed v2.5 before, because they still in os, crappy uninstaller doesn't work correctly. And if you installing 2.4 later, 2.5 dlls are not replaced, so you still have 2.5 after. This explains your cpu bug.
I am interested in hearing more about uninstalling DLLs from Linux...
Are you sure that you have AMD APP SDK v2.4 installed? You need to remove APP SDK dlls, if you've installed v2.5 before, because they still in os, crappy uninstaller doesn't work correctly. And if you installing 2.4 later, 2.5 dlls are not replaced, so you still have 2.5 after. This explains your cpu bug.
I am interested in hearing more about uninstalling DLLs from Linux...11.6/2.4 is the safest bet for beating the CPU bug.
Are you sure that you have AMD APP SDK v2.4 installed? You need to remove APP SDK dlls, if you've installed v2.5 before, because they still in os, crappy uninstaller doesn't work correctly. And if you installing 2.4 later, 2.5 dlls are not replaced, so you still have 2.5 after. This explains your cpu bug.
I recently did a fresh install. However I noticed that my CPU goes up to 100 % when i start one instance of phoenix( 1 GPU).
--Ubuntu/Natty
--8GB(had some ram laying around)
-- AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor
--AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64
--ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64
--Phoenix 1.7.4
--Parameters used with phoenix -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=14 WORKSIZE=256
--4 * 5870
Has any one else had/ seen this issue before. I thought the high cpu utilization was for windows only and it had been resolved ?
Please make any suggestions. Right now the CPU is a bottleneck and is limiting the hashrate of the cards , since its practically pegged when 1 instance of phoenix is started.
--Ubuntu/Natty
--8GB(had some ram laying around)
-- AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor
--AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64
--ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64
--Phoenix 1.7.4
--Parameters used with phoenix -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=14 WORKSIZE=256
--4 * 5870
Has any one else had/ seen this issue before. I thought the high cpu utilization was for windows only and it had been resolved ?
Please make any suggestions. Right now the CPU is a bottleneck and is limiting the hashrate of the cards , since its practically pegged when 1 instance of phoenix is started.
[Edit: just tried upping my aggression to 14, no difference]
Also make sure you check the PLATFORM=0 or PLATFORM=1 to make sure proper SDK is being used.
use the latest graphics card drivers with 2.1 sdk. works fine for me
I recently did a fresh install. However I noticed that my CPU goes up to 100 % when i start one instance of phoenix( 1 GPU).
--Ubuntu/Natty
--8GB(had some ram laying around)
-- AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor
--AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64
--ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64
--Phoenix 1.7.4
--Parameters used with phoenix -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=14 WORKSIZE=256
--4 * 5870
Has any one else had/ seen this issue before. I thought the high cpu utilization was for windows only and it had been resolved ?
Please make any suggestions. Right now the CPU is a bottleneck and is limiting the hashrate of the cards , since its practically pegged when 1 instance of phoenix is started.
--Ubuntu/Natty
--8GB(had some ram laying around)
-- AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor
--AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64
--ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64
--Phoenix 1.7.4
--Parameters used with phoenix -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=14 WORKSIZE=256
--4 * 5870
Has any one else had/ seen this issue before. I thought the high cpu utilization was for windows only and it had been resolved ?
Please make any suggestions. Right now the CPU is a bottleneck and is limiting the hashrate of the cards , since its practically pegged when 1 instance of phoenix is started.
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