This is a quick heads up to tell you all that I'll be taking a brief break from development and support for cgminer due to a family tragedy. I will not be receiving notifications from the forum nor checking on messages for a little while, so please use the resources of the many other helpful people on these forums. Thanks.
I'm really sorry to hear about this as well. Take care of your family business. Take Care, Sam |
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New version: 2.7.5, 31st August 2012
- Revert "Pick worksize 256 with Cypress if none is specified."
Thanks for removing that, I thought it was just me.  However, on Cypress and SDK 2.7 I'm getting better throughput using: "vectors" : "4",
"kernel" : "phatk", instead of the suggested default values of cgminer for that card type, i.e. "vectors" : "2",
"kernel" : "diablo", Can anybody else confirm that? I'm using SDK 2.5 with my Cypress and my command line is -k phatk -v 2 -w 256 That gets me slightly better performance than what I had with CGMiner 2.4.0. When I tried -v 4 performance was significantly worse for me. Sam |
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Got it, will round up my current BTC amount on Eligius and maybe give Oz another chance for a longer period of time. I had tried them in the past prior to DGM when Eligius was having some issues but hadn't been back until this week and gave it basically a 24 hour run.
@os2sam, off topic but you will get a kick out of this. I have a customer running their voicemail system on an old XT system running OS2! I just replaced the power supply about two months ago. Told them then though that when it crashes the motherboard they will likley be out of luck, probably need to see if I can dig out a an old 600MB HD and try to image the system onto another drive, original HD still running.
And I just gave my last IBM PC XT's, AT's and PS/2's to Goodwill too. Maybe they could have used them? You still find OS/2 running the strangest places  . I think that phone system applications is by Serenity Systems International and they are still around and may be a supported app. I used to run Dos, Windoze and OS/2 off a 40MB hard drive. Those were the days Thanks, Sam |
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Indeed. Its almost as if Gyrsur only wants to know what IP to DDoS?
Or, it's almost as if he is accusing Tycho of mining blocks with our hash power for his own profit. But maybe I'm misreading what he is saying. Sam |
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Tried Ozcoin and I have not done the math but in just looking at the numbers over the past 24 hours it doesn't look like I am earning near as much as on say eligius. Sure pool vs. pool things are going to be different but my quick BTC balance divided by 24 hours seems to show almost 1/3 less mining potential on Ozcoin as Eligius.
Am I in the ballpark, math is off or just nuts?
As the others have said you need to give DGM some time. It pays less up front and more in the middle and keeps paying for a bit after you quit. That's how it attempts to ameliorate variance caused by what the BTC community has termed "luck". Besides that there have been a few VERY long rounds in this 24 hour period on Ozco so that will hurt quite a bit too. So try and take that into account. There have been periods that Ozco has been paying better than Proportional or PPS pools. But still it tends to even out in the end. The only way I can think of to get a really accurate comparison between pools is to mine two different pools for an entire difficulty period with two separate rigs configured the same on the same internet connection. But even that is not completely accurate since two different GPU's of the same model and manufacturing run will still have different performance characteristics. It's really hard to compare apples to apples in Bitcoin mining. Which is what brings it value. Sam |
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PS: Did anyone else asking for help on this thread get a PM from lukeJR?
As a religious zealot, it is in his nature to try to convert people. Come to the dark side ... we have cookies We are all on the dark side ... cookies optional. |
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Some questions about Dynamic Intensity.
1. Did Dynamic always disable a thread?
2. Why does it disable a thread?
3. Why does setting GPU 1 to Dynamic disable a thread on GPU 0?
Thanks,
Sam
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what would Cgminer would do, if there are two kernel.cl files in the CGminer directory, and there are no .bin?
excample: phatk120823.cl and phatk120724.cl. wich would be used zu make the *.bin ?
You can delete all .bin they will be recreated on start. This is "just" complied .cl Yes, you can delete them and they will/should be recreated on next start. That said I usually create a new directory for each version of CGMiner, just in case I want to roll back to an older version. If you don't want to do that I would rename the old ones just so that you have a fallback in case CGMiner can't create a new set for some reason. Sam |
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yeah, it is definitely not 1.5 to 1.7ghash.
I think he meant the 3 5830's plus the one 7970. Sam |
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I shut my 5830's down a few weeks ago. Too much heat and power cost for the current price/difficulty.
Want to sell one? |
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added a link to this thread on site homepage
I Don't see it. I made it bold Ah found it. I had anticipated it being by the other forum link. Thanks Sam |
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added a link to this thread on site homepage
I Don't see it. |
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If you want a pool you can rely on, miners need to accept that everyone needs to contribute, not just the forward thinking donators. Otherwise, you could mine solo I guess.
You need mining software too ......................................... Yes, I'd hope you and Con and all the team at cgminer receive coins for all your hard work too. If miners using cgminer want continued quick updates and response to changing mining conditions and protocols, they should consider an ongoing donation for the cgminer devs. However, coders can work sporadically at coding - in their spare time (what spare time?) if they have to. Graet needs to be on call (or have someone on call) 24/7, which makes a fee unavoidable. There used to be a --donation option that would submit like 0.5% or 1% of your shares to the dev's pool, but no one ever used it, so it got taken out. However, anyone who uses any software for a significant amount of time should consider donation. I used it. |
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Graet,
How about putting a forum link on the web page? That way we don't need to search through the pools forum at all.
Just a thought,
Sam
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whats better PPS or Proportional ?
my rig is 1.4Gh Actually there is not so much difference, and it doesn't depends on your speed. If you are going to mine for weeks or months, then you'll get more with Proportional because of lower fee. If you are planning short-term then PPS may be better. Thanx  It depends on luck. Luck has been pretty good lately. But when it's bad PPS is better for the short term. Sam |
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Is the US server working ok? I just had to switch to the EU server.
Sam
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My rig run's between 480MHs to 514Mhs. I have found two blocks on Ozco and one on BTC Guild. Also have a low end GPU that gets around 34 Mhs that mines whenever this computer is on and it mines solely on BTC Guild so it may have been the machine that found the BTC Guild block. I have no idea how many share's I had submitted when these were found as I wasn't paying attention at the time.
Sam
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I would like to see a forum thread with ONLY pools in it. These extraneous topic's are very distracting and should be separate from pools since the pool forums are mainly for pool information and support. Then being stickied wouldn't be necessary.
Sam
You'd prefer one board for pools and one board for pool related subjects? Yep, or a Pool only board with a child board for general pool discussion/subjects. Sam |
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I would like to see a forum thread with ONLY pools in it. These extraneous topic's are very distracting and should be separate from pools since the pool forums are mainly for pool information and support. Then being stickied wouldn't be necessary.
Sam
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times of 5 hours to solve a block are gone.
Gone, yes. But only until they come back. And 5 hour blocks will come back from time to time, they always do. What pool is it different on? |
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