No. I thought there is a little chaos to someone notice my problem (people first thoughts about that would be "probably keyboard, PC, drivers problem, no point to bother").
Tried with 2.1 and 3.1 cgminer.
CGMiner 2.1? or 2.10? 2.1 is really old and before any USB support at all. |
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Thanks Sam. I'll look into this. In this house, we have 10+ devices running thru this one router (SMCD3GNV). We do watch a lot of HD shows and one business PC that is constantly connected to a local hospital using VPN and downtime is something to avoid.
Ah, the VPN can/will consume and allot of bandwidth and packet's. Wireshark your WAN side connection and see what the VPN traffic looks like. It will probably show up as GRE packets. Sam |
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Did you post this in the CGMiner thread? This sounds like a possible bug so I would post it there for ckolivas and kano to chime in on.
What version of CGMiner are you using?
Sam
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I've tested this on 2 different keyboards. With others PCs they works fine.
If cgminer is not running I can work on my PC all day without problems. As soon as I start cgminer, after a while (depends on how many chars i pushed, its about ~100-500) it hangs.
Are you using USB with FPGA's or ASIC's? If your only GPU mining, I think, there is a command line option to disable USB scanning on CGMiner. Also when this problem happens does closing CGMiner clear it up? Sam |
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I don't know jack didly squat about alt coins.
But I use Comcast as well and I mine Bitcoins and have never had an issue. Bitcoin mining doesn't use very much bandwidth so it should never trigger a bandwidth limitation on a cable modem. My bitcoin-qt on the other hand can use allot of bandwidth consistently but still less than 2Mb.
I watch almost all of my TV through Hulu and Netflix on my Roku player and I have never been throttled. Now sometimes on Friday or Saturday nights my quality will go down but I'm sure that it is more of a case of a larger number of customers all using the bandwidth at the same time and Comcast can't keep up. Even this is pretty rare, but irritating when it happens. Who wants to watch a high def movie at sub TV resolutions?
Also I doubt that playing games online use that much bandwidth to where you would get throttled? You could be right and I could be wrong of course.
I would lean toward the more common problem with consumer routers which is buffer bloat. If your router buffer's too many packets in its large amount of RAM than it can take too long to service the buffer which can make it seem like your bandwidth is slowing when it really may not.
Most routers can be set to limit upload and download bandwidths so if you set these limits to just under your actual rate than it will need to buffer fewer packets.
Your problem could also be packet latency.
Just a couple thoughts,
Sam
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One question, if you launch your cgminer with "-s 5" what's meaning? I'm lokking in the readme file but i don't find nothing.
From the readme: (lol) --scan-time|-s <arg> Upper bound on time spent scanning current work, in seconds (default: 60) Dafuq... thx you very much. I was reading scrypt-readme T_T Reading the script-readme is great and I'm sure the author appreciates it. But the other readme's and the top post have allot of general info that applies to mining generically. So it's probably good to start with the generic and then move to the specific. It's allot to digest I know. I have gotten my share of RTFM suggestions too  Sam |
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Sounds like a stuck key to me. Have you tried cleaning your keyboard?
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You need to clarify what your asking.
Are you asking the longest time it's take a pool to find a block?
Are you asking the longest time for the network to find a block?
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Don't know what your problem might be. But I would use CGMiner in dynamic intensity mode so that you or your Grandmother can use the computer for other things while mining.
May want to check the firewall and router to make sure it's passing traffic on whatever port your pool is using.
Sam
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New question : CG miner reports that difficulty is set to 526k. This seems overmuch as the current difficulty of CHNcoin is 8. How do i change this ?
CGMiner reports what the network is saying. If it says 526k, then it's 526k. Are you sure you're on the right pool/network? M .. and in case he are mixing coin pools ... read the first 3 lines of the README It's funny you've quoted README's two times now without solving anything, kind of like you're telling me to RTFM while actually you don't really know what you're talking about. Here's the answer https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195259.msg2030732#msg2030732still puzzled by your avatar though I guess someone could make youtube video reading the FAQ and Readme's to you so you wouldn't have to actually RTFM for yourself. Reading The Fine (or other term) Manual may be more productive than telling one of the author's of the software "actually you don't really know what you're talking about. ". Just sayin, Sam |
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well, the intensity was set a -1 on the little machine that i am playing with. moving it to 5 raised the hash rate from 6Mhash to 10Mhash. moving it to 6 looked like it caused the rate to drop a little, so 5 it is.
10 Mhash/s? how do you get the Mhash ? ty Did i mislabel? isn't Mhs, Mega Hashes? I've only been into this for about 2 weeks so it would be easy for me to mispeak. No, just misunderstood me I think. I was intending to ask what your mining device was that was getting only 6 to 10Mhs/s. But you said you were getting a Radeon 6570 which can get you 68 to 100Mhs/s. Sam |
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A Ddos is not a solution, and i hate the ddos attacks, but a fee its too not a solution and the new fee its abusive.
The abuse is demanding pools offer a payout method that forces them to risk bankruptcy so that greedy miners can make a short term profit. PPS is no longer a viable payout method so I would suggest getting used to that idea. |
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Can someone explain what would happen if I am in the middle of mining a block and I restart my cgminer? Will I lose the block? or will it just pick up where I left off?
Thanks
With Bitcoin Solo mining the only share you send is a block solve if you find it. So if you restart your miner it will get a new batch of work for the current block and work on it. Nothing lost. Sam |
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>> What hardware are you using for mining?
I'm using an Asus C60M1-I AMD C-60/ AMD FCH A50M/ DDR3/ SATA3/ A&V&GbE/ Mini ITX Motherboard & CPU Combo
The goals for this little miner were low cost an low power. as it sits it cost $180 dollars and is using about 40 watts. i'm going to be adding a sapphire 6570 video card tomorrow. that will bring the cost up to about $240.
Are you CPU or GPU mining currently? Not that it matters at this point I guess. Since you'll be mining 80 to 100Mhs tomorrow. Sam |
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I've been running P2Pool for a month now when suddenly my getwork latency went up from 0.1 to 1 second over the past day. After restarting p2pool, the miner, and router didn't work, I restarted bitcoin-qt and it went back to normal.
My miners are connecting to bitcoin-qt which runs in server mode. Although I had forwarded a port for p2pool, I forwarded nothing for bitcoin-qt since forum threads left me confident that it's pointless. At the same time however, I failed to understand what exactly the port forwarding does. Does bitcoin-qt find 9 peers and stick to them? Does it try to switch to faster peers when their latency goes up? Would port forwarding help with latency? Since I plan to keep my computer running and mining unattended, it would help if I could avoid a repeat of this and QT's latency would stay where it should. What do I do?
You *have* to be port forwarding port 8333 to your computer that is housing your Bitcoin-QT if you have more than 8 connections. If you didn't set that up then you are allowing UPnP to forward your ports for you. Router and Firewall UPnP is and EXTREMELY bad idea as it is a HUGE security risk. Any UPnP aware program can open ANY port to the internet without your knowledge and never reports what port it is. So if malware got into your system it could easily render your firewall and router completely useless and open your computer to the internet. So I would disable UPnP on everything and port forward Port 8333 to your Bitcoin-QT machine which will then allow more than 8 connections to the Bitcoin network which should in turn decrease your latency. My Bitcoin-QT was over 60 connections. Sam Edit: Also there are some consumer routers that allow UPnP from the WAN (internet facing) port which can open your network to the internet. I would recommend testing your network/system for this vulnerability by use the Shields Up scanner at grc.com as there is a test specifically for "Universal Plug n'Play (UPnP) Internet Exposure Test" Here's a link for the Sheids UP test https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 |
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just what is "intensity"?
Did you see this? --intensity|-I <arg> Intensity of GPU scanning (d or -10 -> 10, default: d to maintain desktop interactivity) and what does that mean? how does it affect miner output? GPU-README (yeah another of the files people don't read)
INTENSITY INFORMATION:
Intensity correlates with the size of work being submitted at any one time to
a GPU. The higher the number the larger the size of work. Generally speaking
finding an optimal value rather than the highest value is the correct approach
as hash rate rises up to a point with higher intensities but above that, the
device may be very slow to return responses, or produce errors.
NOTE: Running BTC intensities above 9 with current hardware is likely to only
diminish return performance even if the hash rate might appear better. A good
starting baseline intensity to try on dedicated miners is 9. 11 is the upper
limit for intensity while BTC mining, if the GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS variable
is set (see FAQ). The upper limit for sha256 mining is 14 and 20 for scrypt.
well, the intensity was set a -1 on the little machine that i am playing with. moving it to 5 raised the hash rate from 6Mhash to 10Mhash. moving it to 6 looked like it caused the rate to drop a little, so 5 it is. What hardware are you using for mining? |
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Hello,
I want to mine with cgminer. It is possible? It is recommended this miner for this pool? If yes can you give me the commands for cgminer.... (url link, port etc)
cgminer -o http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 -u youremail@whatever.com -p yourpassword Thanks but I need to know if cgminer is recommended or not for this pool. I don't see this miner at the list of miners recommended for this pool. Is any reason for this? CGMiner is recommended for every pool. Make sure you have failover pools setup. |
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just what is "intensity"?
Did you see this? --intensity|-I <arg> Intensity of GPU scanning (d or -10 -> 10, default: d to maintain desktop interactivity) |
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And all other pools have comparable results when one for example would point 1TH to each of these pools for 3 days and compare the results by not taking into account know vars like mergedmining, transaction fees and so on? Would be good to hear if so.
3 days and 1 TH is not enough to get statistically relevant data I guess... your resul might still be influenced greatly by luck I would think it would take an entire difficulty period to get accurate results from that type of test and be objective. |
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That is actually a very nice feature with CGminer...I may have burned my card out had I not known. Anyway, so is it safe to run my fan non stop at 90% and is a steady 73celcius a good temp for card longevity?
I guess my next step is to get more fans for my case haha
I run with my case cover off and my GPU's rarely reach 80% on the fans with a target temp of 60 on one and the default 75c on the other. |
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