Hi!
I'm using the Collatz on a system with 3x RTX 2080 Ti GPUs, and a 6-core Intel Core i5 at 4Ghz.
Boinc tells me each instance of the Collatz uses 0.997 CPU, thus for the 3 GPUs, it utilizes 2 CPU cores.
However, both CPU cores are utilized at less than 20% (results from htop).

I want to force the Collatz to use the 3 GPUs with a setting of CPU = 0.3, so that 3 (possibly 4) GPUs would use up 1 CPU core instead of 2, freeing 1 more CPU core for other projects.

I'm running Linux, an Ubuntu variant.

I found the app_config.xml directory in /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/boinc.thesonntags.com_collatz/

What should I populate it with?
Like, what project name should I put, and what's the preferred format?

(or is there another way to do this?)

Thanks!

Yes, the app_config is the place to make the changes.
The name field contains the app name.Note that the app name doesn't include the platform or plan class. At present, collatz_sieve is the only app name. Just change the cpu_usage to o.30. If you have already optimized the application for you GPU to get it close to 100%, then set the gpu_usage to 1.0.

<app_config>
<app>
<name>collatz_sieve</name>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>1.0</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>0.3</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

Seems to work just fine for the Collatz!
I now can crunch 1 extra CPU thread!

Thanks!

Yes, I run the RTX 2080 Tis at 199-219W, because of efficiency and heat reasons (lower power draw, slightly lower boost clock, less heat).
At that setting GPU=1.0 is working fine.
Pretty sure if I'd release the power settings (300W), I could adjust the GPU value, but as is it runs best (about 5 minutes per WU, 5:30 min for a 2070 Super / 2080.

hi all, I made a vid on youtube benching wu's for RADEON VII Gigabyte // Collatz Conjecture 1_WUs BOINC link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNzuN4S80Ek

RADEON R9 290X GIGABYTE // Collatz Conjecture 1_WUs BOINC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q29ihVlw8t4

really impressed with this card

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Edit: Nevermind. Fixed! syntax error.

Hi!
I'm using the Collatz on a system with 3x RTX 2080 Ti GPUs, and a 6-core Intel Core i5 at 4Ghz.
Boinc tells me each instance of the Collatz uses 0.997 CPU, thus for the 3 GPUs, it utilizes 2 CPU cores.
However, both CPU cores are utilized at less than 20% (results from htop).

I want to force the Collatz to use the 3 GPUs with a setting of CPU = 0.3, so that 3 (possibly 4) GPUs would use up 1 CPU core instead of 2, freeing 1 more CPU core for other projects.

I'm running Linux, an Ubuntu variant.

I found the app_config.xml directory in /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/boinc.thesonntags.com_collatz/

What should I populate it with?
Like, what project name should I put, and what's the preferred format?

(or is there another way to do this?)

Thanks!

Did you also put in the Optimzed settings found in the number crunching/optimising the apps thread?