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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Mining (Altcoins) => Topic started by: rocketron on March 09, 2016, 05:28:12 PM



Title: ETHMiner help
Post by: rocketron on March 09, 2016, 05:28:12 PM
Hi everyone,

I am trying to get Ethminer to only use 3 of my gpus and leave 1 free for other tasks.

I tried --opencl-device 1 2 3 and --opencl-device 1,2,3 and it will only use 1 gpu.


is there a command i can use to display device id ?

I cant understand what is happening here lol others say to use the commands a above to set what cards to use and it works,

this is what I get if I just use the defaul -G command


Found suitable OpenCL device [Tahiti] with 3221225472 bytes of GPU memory
miner  17:27:25|main  Getting work package...
miner  17:27:25|main  Grabbing DAG for #eada6656ÔǪ
  i  17:27:26|<unknown>  Loading full DAG of seedhash: #5197b2a3ÔǪ
miner  17:27:26|main  Got work package:
miner  17:27:26|main    Header-hash: cc9ab3bb4c62e3c9b2b84ed4bdd58028617b9b9dc8bac54d17eb87b1910779c2
miner  17:27:26|main    Seedhash: eada66563356d409600b12a514e79a41ce5763fcf7928810226e3dce57fb9668
miner  17:27:26|main    Target: 0000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
  i  17:27:26|gpuminer0  workLoop 0 #00000000ÔǪ #eada6656ÔǪ
  i  17:27:26|gpuminer0  Initialising miner...
  i  17:27:26|gpuminer1  workLoop 0 #00000000ÔǪ #eada6656ÔǪ
  i  17:27:26|gpuminer1  Initialising miner...
  i  17:27:26|gpuminer2  workLoop 0 #00000000ÔǪ #eada6656ÔǪ
  i  17:27:26|gpuminer2  Initialising miner...
  i  17:27:26|gpuminer3  workLoop 0 #00000000ÔǪ #eada6656ÔǪ
  i  17:27:26|gpuminer3  Initialising miner...
miner  17:27:26|main  Mining on PoWhash #cc9ab3bbÔǪ : 0 H/s = 0 hashes / 0.208 s
miner  17:27:27|main  Got work package:
Using platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Using platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
  i  17:27:27|<unknown>  Full DAG loaded
miner  17:27:27|main    Header-hash: 116013c0b72530fca5e611e948ba41fd6c61db72537030bff386a3b154efa1df
Using platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
miner  17:27:27|main    Seedhash: eada66563356d409600b12a514e79a41ce5763fcf7928810226e3dce57fb9668
Using device: Hawaii(OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1912.5))
miner  17:27:27|main    Target: 0000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Using device: Hawaii(OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1912.5))
Using platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Using device: Tahiti(OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1912.5))
Using device: Hawaii(OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (1912.5))

thanks


Title: Re: ETHMiner help
Post by: witch on March 09, 2016, 08:30:31 PM
You need to use a hex editor, Copy ethminer.exe rename to ethminer2.exe (change it back after these steps) Edit with hex editor and search for "full-" and you will see something like "full-R%u-%016llx" then change "full-" to "ful2-" and save it.


Title: Re: ETHMiner help
Post by: rocketron on March 09, 2016, 09:48:44 PM

Thanks very much pal. I will try this later :D

You need to use a hex editor, Copy ethminer.exe rename to ethminer2.exe (change it back after these steps) Edit with hex editor and search for "full-" and you will see something like "full-R%u-%016llx" then change "full-" to "ful2-" and save it.


Title: Re: ETHMiner help
Post by: rocketron on March 11, 2016, 05:43:10 PM
hi m8,

I tried this and ethminer said it wasnt a valid application,

can you screen shot yours?

thanks




Thanks very much pal. I will try this later :D

You need to use a hex editor, Copy ethminer.exe rename to ethminer2.exe (change it back after these steps) Edit with hex editor and search for "full-" and you will see something like "full-R%u-%016llx" then change "full-" to "ful2-" and save it.


Title: Re: ETHMiner help
Post by: GenTarkin on March 12, 2016, 06:32:19 AM
Just dont use the opencl-device argument. If I leave this out of my command arguments, it just uses all gpu's it finds.


Title: Re: ETHMiner help
Post by: rocketron on March 12, 2016, 09:48:55 AM
Cheers for reply. I do this,  but i want to leave my 1st gpu free from mining and use the other 3 for mining.




Just dont use the opencl-device argument. If I leave this out of my command arguments, it just uses all gpu's it finds.