me run miniz in linux ubuntu in mode - one miner - one videocard
count of run copy > 10
why in first gpu me see 10working copy miniZ and one copy in other card
nvidia-smi:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 0 8437 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 67MiB |
| 0 8443 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 67MiB |
| 0 8445 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 67MiB |
| 0 8446 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 67MiB |
| 0 8447 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 67MiB |
| 0 8448 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 67MiB |
| 0 8451 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 67MiB |
| 0 8454 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 67MiB |
| 0 8456 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 67MiB |
| 1 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 2 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 3 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 4 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 4 8445 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 2785MiB |
| 5 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 6 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 6 8446 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 2785MiB |
| 7 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 7 8448 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 2785MiB |
| 8 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 8 8456 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 2785MiB |
| 9 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 9 8454 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 2785MiB |
| 10 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 11 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 12 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 12 8447 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 2785MiB |
| 13 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 13 8443 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 2785MiB |
| 14 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 14 16945 C ...ing/calcprofit/miners/t-rex/0.9.2/t-rex 119MiB |
| 15 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 15 8437 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 2785MiB |
| 16 948 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
| 16 8451 C ...ning/calcprofit/miners/miniz/1.2m/miniZ 2785MiB |
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Hi artful,
thank you for your question.
Each miner instance is creating a memory context on GPU0. This memory context does not increase GPU computing usage, but it does affect its memory usage.
Because there is no need for this, we will fix this in the next version.
If you want to resolve this, for now you can choose the GPUs with CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES.
For example, if you want to run a miniz instance on GPU 2 You run:
CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER=PCI_BUS_ID CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=2 ./miniZ --url YourWallet.Worker@PoolServer:PortNumber
Do not write
-cd 2 in the command line.
Cheers