Rosetta runs fine with no gpu grid. 100% cpu usage. As soon as the two nvidia cards kick in at .51% cpu usage each, my window task manager reports cpu usage at 75-80%. also rosetta only runs 3 tasks. Any ideas? I dont think I set swan sync on this computer as its xp 64 and i dont see it in variables. Would love to have a more stable cpu usage in windows task manager. thanks

I've just switched over to Rosetta and I've noticed that it is a very demanding project for my CPU. I usually run Bionic 24/7 on my personal computer, but Rosetta is the first project I've attached to that seems to eat up every spare Cpu cycle and cause stutter and system lag when the settings are left at 100%. it also uses substantially more ram and HDD space, but its a great program and I'm determined to contribute, even at my snail-slow pace of 700ppd.

my guess is that GPU grid is "reserving" some processor space because it needs a processor to feed the GPUs but it isn't crunching like Rosetta is. the processor is merely preparing instructions for the GPUs which goes in bursts, but because Gpu grid is allocating .5 Cpu cores per instance(1 total) you aren't seeing 1 whole core crunching.

but GPU grid is doing the same type of research at something like 100 times faster than a CPU could do the same thing. Gpus are just that much faster. I think its a fair trade off, honestly. I'm almost positive that windows 7 did something to address this because of the way my cpu is being utilized, but i doubt there is really a setting available that would address this particular issue. you can get a copy of win 7, or wait 2 years and get one of those new maxwell cards when they come out.

I suggest that you always keep in mind that you are a volunteer though and that volunteering 700ppd is more than 99% of people do. the 1% who build dedicated server farms and such are a great help, of course, but really gpu grid and the rest of the bionic platform relies on us doing what we can with our 'spare' cycles. so if your program is running at 75% that is really great. there is no reason to lament the loss of that other 25%(which as I explained is producing 10x the work), just contribute and think "100% is too much" ^_)^

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I can recommend Docking@home as a less resource hungry project compared to Rosetta. I run Docking and GPUGRID together on a 6 Core AMD Phenom II running 100% with a GTX460 using 0.39 CPU and they work together without slowing down normal performance on everyday tasks.

Docking work units have a much lower memory usage compared to Rosseta ones.

I found that if I ran Rosseta instead of Docking much the higher memory usage started slowing down my systems significantly, and CPU usage dropped significantly.

GPUGRID, Docking and Rosseta are all Biological based projects, so both Docking and Rosseta are complimentary to GPU Grid.

Running Docking my Hex-cores can easily average over 7.5K per day.

Rosetta runs fine with no gpu grid. 100% cpu usage. As soon as the two nvidia cards kick in at .51% cpu usage each, my window task manager reports cpu usage at 75-80%. also rosetta only runs 3 tasks. Any ideas? I dont think I set swan sync on this computer as its xp 64 and i dont see it in variables. Would love to have a more stable cpu usage in windows task manager. thanks