Lower speeds after upgrading the cpu.

[fivemack]

Originally Posted by wagner85

Actually the old CPU 2620 is faster than the new one 2690.
I will run more tests tonight.

Did you (or prime.txt) do anything non-obvious with assignment of CPU cores to workers? If the old system was running one worker on 012345 and the other on 6789ab, and that's stayed the same for the new system, then worker2 will be using non-local memory and worker1 will be
having some of its memory bandwidth stolen by worker2.

This is consistent with your measurements of worker2 being much slower than worker1 and both workers being slower than before.

[wagner85]

I will once I get home.
I rebooted the PC this morning and noticed the time/interactions have changed.

Both workes went to 7, 8 ish and few mins later went to 12 again.
These two 2690 are liquid cooled. Temp does not go beyond 70C on each cpu.

[wagner85]

Originally Posted by fivemack

Did you (or prime.txt) do anything non-obvious with assignment of CPU cores to workers? If the old system was running one worker on 012345 and the other on 6789ab, and that's stayed the same for the new system, then worker2 will be using non-local memory and worker1 will be
having some of its memory bandwidth stolen by worker2.

This is consistent with your measurements of worker2 being much slower than worker1 and both workers being slower than before.

It may have happened.
I have just replaced the old cpus with the new ones.
How do I confirm that hypothesis ?
I will paste here the prime.txt for both servers once I get home.
Would I solve this by starting a new p95 folder and move the files related to my current work to new folder?

[Mark Rose]

Remove any Affinity= lines from local.txt while Prime95/mprime isn't running.

If that doesn't help, I'd verify that each memory channel is populated evenly. I don't know if you have 8 or 16 DIMM motherboards.

[wagner85]

This is the prime.txt for 2620s


V24OptionsConverted=1
V30OptionsConverted=1
WGUID_version=2
StressTester=0
UsePrimenet=1
DialUp=0
V5UserID=wagner85
PRPGerbiczCompareIntervalAdj=1
Priority=1
DaysOfWork=3
RunOnBattery=1
WorkPreference=151

[PrimeNet]
Debug=2
ProxyHost=
UploadRateLimit=10000
UploadStartTime=23
UploadEndTime=7:00
DownloadDailyLimit=10000

[Worker #1]

[Worker #2]

THIS IS THE LOCAL.TXT FOR 2620s
OldCpuSpeed=2000
NewCpuSpeedCount=0
NewCpuSpeed=0
RollingAverage=1054
RollingAverageIsFromV27=1
WorkerThreads=2
CoresPerTest=6
ComputerGUID=63e51cf8d701208e2becb8153e90a4ae
ComputerID=Mireia
WorkerDiskSpace=400

Memory=28672 during 7:30-23:30 else 28672
MaxEmergencyMemory=7987
CertDailyCPULimit=10
CertWork=1
Pid=3411
SrvrUID=384350646
SrvrComputerName=135955582
SrvrPO2=1
SrvrPO3=3
SrvrPO4=28672
SrvrPO5=28672
SrvrPO6=450
SrvrPO7=1410
SrvrPO8=1
SrvrPO9=2
SrvrP00=4
LastEndDatesSent=1605591311
CertDailyRemainingLastUpdate=1605615511
CertDailyMBRemaining=10000
CertDailyCPURemaining=10
RollingHash=2626590820
RollingStartTime=1605608306
RollingCompleteTime=2753156
SrvrPO1=151

[Worker #1]

[Worker #2]

[wagner85]

Originally Posted by axn

Can you post your prime.txt & local.txt from both machines? I'm just wondering if there are any wrong affinity settings.

If not, it could be thermal issues - especially since the 2690 is showing very diffferent iteration times on the two workers.

This is the prime.txt for 2690s

24OptionsConverted=1
V30OptionsConverted=1
WGUID_version=2
StressTester=0
UsePrimenet=1
DialUp=0
V5UserID=wagner85
PRPGerbiczCompareIntervalAdj=1
Priority=10
DaysOfWork=3
RunOnBattery=1
WorkPreference=153
MinBenchFFT=16000
MaxBenchFFT=16332
BenchErrorCheck=0
BenchAllComplex=0
OnlyBench5678=0
BenchCores=16
BenchHyperthreads=0
BenchWorkers=2,4,8,16
AllBench=0
BenchTime=5
OutputIterations=10000
ResultsFileIterations=99999
DiskWriteTime=30
NetworkRetryTime=2
NetworkRetryTime2=70
DaysBetweenCheckins=1
NumBackupFiles=3
SilentVictory=0
MinTortureFFT=22
MaxTortureFFT=106
TortureMem=0
TortureTime=6
TortureWeak=0

[PrimeNet]
Debug=2
ProxyHost=
UploadRateLimit=1000
UploadStartTime=22:00
UploadEndTime=7:00
DownloadDailyLimit=100000

[Worker #1]

[Worker #2]

[Worker #3]

[Worker #4]

[Worker #5]

[Worker #6]

[Worker #7]

[Worker #8]

[Worker #9]

[Worker #10]

[Worker #11]

[Worker #12]



This is the LOCAL.txt for 2690s.TXT


OldCpuSpeed=2900
NewCpuSpeedCount=0
NewCpuSpeed=0
RollingAverage=1057
RollingAverageIsFromV27=1
WorkerThreads=2
CoresPerTest=8
ComputerGUID=b77842ece9aca7608468641e1a60475a
ComputerID=Massaranduba
CertWork=1
Pid=3318
SrvrP00=4
LastEndDatesSent=1605664127
CertDailyRemainingLastUpdate=1605689449
CertDailyMBRemaining=100000
CertDailyCPURemaining=10
RollingHash=1424349509
RollingStartTime=1605682244
RollingCompleteTime=1402013
WorkerDiskSpace=400

Memory=28876 during 7:30-23:30 else 28876
MaxEmergencyMemory=7987
CertDailyCPULimit=10
SrvrUID=384350646
SrvrComputerName=1368227933
SrvrPO1=153
SrvrPO2=10
SrvrPO3=3
SrvrPO4=28876
SrvrPO5=28876
SrvrPO6=450
SrvrPO7=1410
SrvrPO8=1
SrvrPO9=2

[Worker #1]

[Worker #2]

[Worker #3]

[Worker #4]

[Worker #5]

[Worker #6]

[Worker #7]

[Worker #8]

[Worker #9]

[Worker #10]

[Worker #11]

[Worker #12]

[wagner85]

Hey guys thanks for helping me in the troubleshooting! I have been busy these days and couldn’t research my problem further.
So I suspect the issue is on the PSU or in the cpus.
So far mostly PSU.
The reason:
I measured my wattage consumption during prime usage. ( check the pdf for data).
When the PC is idddle is consumes 110 w.
After stating to crunch the numbers the power consumption goes to 530W. Right There is where I have the best performance around 7 ms/itr.
A minute later the power consumption goes down to around 500 and the ms/itr goes a little bit upper 7....
And that keeps going on until the consumption stabilizes in 370 W and me/itr close do 16....

I could correlate the wattage consumption to the performance. See data attached.

In order to verify if I was restrained by the PSU.
I ran a small test using just one CPU instead of both.
The results I got were 16 ms/itr. I did not check the power consumption.
So if I was being restrained by PSU using two CPUs, I thought I would not be so restrained using just one cpu. Therefore I was expecting to find lower ms/itr. That did not happen!!!

My power supply is rated for 500 W.
I have a Z9PR-D12 MB.
Before the cpu upgrades the consumption was around 330 W running p95. (2 x e5-2620_ 95W ea).
Since then I removed all the 6 1u fans and added two water cooling systems.

I tried to plug two 500W PSU. One supplying power to the MB and the other for both CPUs. Glad I did not burn my machine. Later I read how bad that can be.

I also ran tests on a new p95 copy and I got similar ms/itr... around 16. So that leads me to believe it is not a config issue.

Also changing the parameters in the BIOS had no shown no difference in ms/itr.
As of now my 2620 machine consumes less power and works faster than my 2690 machine.

Any thoughts?
Thanks again for your suggestions.

[VBCurtis]

If you're drawing 530W from a 500W power supply, your hardware will not last long. If you're somewhat lucky, the power supply will fail. If you're less lucky, it'll fail in a way that blows up the motherboard, or a CPU, or maybe a smoky mess when it goes...

Get a new power supply. One big enough to power your machine at less than 80% load- so, 700W minimum.

[wagner85]

Originally Posted by VBCurtis

If you're drawing 530W from a 500W power supply, your hardware will not last long. If you're somewhat lucky, the power supply will fail. If you're less lucky, it'll fail in a way that blows up the motherboard, or a CPU, or maybe a smoky mess when it goes...

Get a new power supply. One big enough to power your machine at less than 80% load- so, 700W minimum.

I agree!
But that is just in the peak!
The PC works around 370W. No more than that! And it has been running like that for 2 weeks now I believe.

[axn]

Originally Posted by wagner85

After stating to crunch the numbers the power consumption goes to 530W. Right There is where I have the best performance around 7 ms/itr.
A minute later the power consumption goes down to around 500 and the ms/itr goes a little bit upper 7....
And that keeps going on until the consumption stabilizes in 370 W and me/itr close do 16....

This is also consistent with cooling issue. If issue is with PSU, that would result in system instability / crashes. This looks more like CPU is throttling down due to heat.

watch "grep 'cpu MHz' /proc/cpuinfo" will show if CPU is throttling. But I have no solution if that is the case (apart from reinstalling / replacing cooler)

[axn]

Originally Posted by wagner85

I agree!
But that is just in the peak!
The PC works around 370W. No more than that! And it has been running like that for 2 weeks now I believe.

You must size your PSU to handle peak. Please upgrade to at least 700 W PSU.