Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#54342 new update
atlas @3.10.2_2: update to 3.10.3
| Reported by: | l2dy (Zero King) | Owned by: | Veence (Vincent) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | Schamschula (Marius Schamschula), MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez) | |
| Port: | atlas |
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Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by Veence (Vincent)
comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)
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comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by Veence (Vincent)
Sorry, got somehow a but stuck-up.
I am facing a dilemma here. Trying to explain:
Atlas works like this: it has a certain number of "kernels", that is C or ASM versions of a given BLAS function. It runs all of them, measures execution times, then picks the most efficient. So atlas is highly focussed on optimisation. That leads to a very high CPU usage.
However, since MacOS 10.11 I think, Apple has added a functionality within the kernel, whereby when CPU usage is too high for a given period of time, the task responsible for the “overload” gets docked and put on the back burner. Which, in other words, means that the task stalls for extended periods of time, and thus its execution time becomes irrelevant, which totally defeats Atlas's purpose.
I had begun to search for a way to bypass this policy, got a lead but then was "taken away by life" and forgot about it. I'm going to pick up the slack and see what I can find. As far as I remember, it involved some sort of delicate operation only a kernel extension could do, i.e. setting a special flag of a CPU register.
As long as that hasn't been fixed, I wouldn't recommend using Atlas. Rather turn to Apple's libraries in the Accelerate framework. As far as I can tell, the API should be 100% compatible.
Sorry again for being so long to answer and coming back with such a wishy-washy excuse.
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)
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comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Vincent, it looks like atlas still needs to be updated to 3.10.3, as reported in this ticket 3 years ago. Your comments above about new restrictions Apple has put into place regarding processes that exhibit high CPU usage doesn't really prevent you from updating the port, does it?
You should also fix the livecheck:
$ port livecheck atlas Error: cannot check if atlas was updated (regex didn't match)
comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by Veence (Vincent)
Ok, I’ll do that. But everyone should seriously drop atlas, especially since support for new Apple hardware is likely never to be added
Yup, will do that tomorrow. Thanks for the heads-up!