My investigations shows that problem may be in driver version.
When I was using Ubuntu 10.10 and NVidia 260.19.36, there are no problems - poclbm was using only 0-5 %
Today I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 and fresh NVidia driver 270.41.19, and now poclbm (and phoenix too) are using up to 100%
When I install old NVidia driver 260.19.36 on Ubuntu 11.04, poclbm is digging and "top" shows low cpu usage (0-5%), but unfortunately X server cannot starting complaining about "ABI version mismatch". Now I am on Ubuntu 11.04 with fresh driver, and also seeking for better solution... Maybe I'll have to go back to Ubuntu 10.10.
EDIT: videocard is - nVidia Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 240] (rev a2) ~20.000 khash/s
When I was using Ubuntu 10.10 and NVidia 260.19.36, there are no problems - poclbm was using only 0-5 %
Today I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 and fresh NVidia driver 270.41.19, and now poclbm (and phoenix too) are using up to 100%
When I install old NVidia driver 260.19.36 on Ubuntu 11.04, poclbm is digging and "top" shows low cpu usage (0-5%), but unfortunately X server cannot starting complaining about "ABI version mismatch". Now I am on Ubuntu 11.04 with fresh driver, and also seeking for better solution... Maybe I'll have to go back to Ubuntu 10.10.
EDIT: videocard is - nVidia Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 240] (rev a2) ~20.000 khash/s
This.
I recently moved to Fedora 15 and upgraded drivers for my 8500GT. poclbm was maxing at 100% CPU across two CPUs.
Threw the machine into run level 3, downloaded the nVidia driver mentioned by the user above (260.19.36), installed, reloaded the module - viola. poclbm is taking < 1% CPU.
Very, very, very easy to recreate. Use the versions mentioned above.