Re: [gentoo-user] Before locking out myself...

[meino.cramer@gmx.de]

Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> [11-11-24 04:02]:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:21 AM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> [11-11-23 20:08]:
> >> meino.cramer@gmx.de asks:
> >>
> >> > Is it right, that is simple to pull out the old card and insert the
> >> > new one or do I badly forget anything ?
> >>
> >> Just be sure to shut the machine down before doing that. You might lock
> >> yourself out for quite a while if not.
> >>
> >>       Wonko
> >>
> >
> > Hi *
> >
> > This mail is written while looking at it via a display driven by a msi
> > 560 ti ! TADA! :)
> >
> > Thanks a lot to you all for the quick a helpful postings!
> >
> > Currently I am using  the 290.06 driver which works "fine enough" for
> > the first and I am curious what 290.2 will bring, when it appears
> > in the great world of gentoo :))
> >
> > On question remains:
> > When rendering via Blenders shiny new Cycles GPU renderer,
> > nvidia-settings shows a performance of 51% and nothing more.
> > I switche to "Maximum performance preffered" but this does
> > not really anything worth mentioning...
> >
> > Do I understand "51%" wrong here or...
> >
> > Best regards,
> > mcc
> >
> 
> Congrats on getting it running. Now let's hope for stability! ;-)
> 
> As for Blender I don't really know as I don't use it. However possibly
> nvidia-settings can give you a clue. My 465 has 2 GPUs. If you have 2
> GPUs but only one is being used then ... 51%, etc.
> 
> I can watch the GPU clock rates along with thermal stuff from the
> nvidia-settings gui. Maybe that will show you more about what Blender
> is doing. There is also nvidia-smi from the command line that gives
> info also.
> 
> HTH,
> Mark
> 

Hi Mark,

while rendering nvidia-smi is showing this:

Thu Nov 24 04:49:59 2011       
+------------------------------------------------------+                       
| NVIDIA-SMI 2.290.06   Driver Version: 290.06         |                       
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| Nb.  Name                     | Bus Id        Disp.  | Volatile ECC SB / DB |
| Fan   Temp   Power Usage /Cap | Memory Usage         | GPU Util. Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0.  GeForce GTX 560 Ti        | 0000:08:00.0  N/A    |       N/A        N/A |
|  51%   55 C  N/A   N/A /  N/A |  23%  465MB / 2047MB |  N/A      Default    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
| Compute processes:                                               GPU Memory |
|  GPU  PID     Process name                                       Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  0.           ERROR: Not Supported                                          |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

nvidia-settings is reporting one GPU....as far as I know, this card
has one GPU...
Or is "performance" for the NVidia-guys the same as "load" for the
Linux-community?

NVidia-settings show the highest possible values for clock speed, RAM
speed etc. though.

The performance percentage also does not depend on the complexity of
the scene I render...

It remains.....hrrrmmm....interesting ;)

Best regards
mcc