Just started first Rig LTC,(changed) Help hash rate tweaking please SOLVED

[Protagonus]

Hi, sorry ahead of time for the dumb questions.  Here's where I am at.  

Rig built, signed up for Pool (coinotron) made worker.
CGeasy - to create config (no OC)
CGminer running-  (showing 470kh/s appx)

So, I show connected to coinotron and to my worker.  I show a hash rate and several "detected new blocks"
Also there is one "best share" where it shows in notes "accepted XXXXXXXX Diff XXX/XXX GPU 0

Next, I log into coinotron website to see what it's showing there for the worker.  Now is my question.  Coinotron shows my worker at 0kh/s and no mining ever done?  How can I be connected to coinotron and my worker and have a best share with 0kh/s on the website?

Am I in fact mining correctly or do I still need something else?  Any help would be great, as I'm sure I'll have more; but trying to get what I can.

Thanks, Prot

EDIT: the website now shows me at 14kh/s ?  This seems more of a mystery now lol.  I DO note my connection has shown "interrupted" a couple times.

[aqrulesms]

Hi, sorry ahead of time for the dumb questions.  Here's where I am at.  

Rig built, signed up for Pool (coinotron) made worker.
CGeasy - to create config (no OC)
CGminer running-  (showing 470kh/s appx)

So, I show connected to coinotron and to my worker.  I show a hash rate and several "detected new blocks"
Also there is one "best share" where it shows in notes "accepted XXXXXXXX Diff XXX/XXX GPU 0

Next, I log into coinotron website to see what it's showing there for the worker.  Now is my question.  Coinotron shows my worker at 0kh/s and no mining ever done?  How can I be connected to coinotron and my worker and have a best share with 0kh/s on the website?

Am I in fact mining correctly or do I still need something else?  Any help would be great, as I'm sure I'll have more; but trying to get what I can.

Thanks, Prot

EDIT: the website now shows me at 14kh/s ?  This seems more of a mystery now lol.  I DO note my connection has shown "interrupted" a couple times.

What coin are you mining? Seems REALLY low if it's bitcoin 

[Protagonus]

OMW sorry, LTC.   Also, if it helps I'm running no flags atm.  Just trying my first run to see how it goes.  (GPU 7950)  Only lowered Vcc a bit so far.

If there's other info I can / need to provide please let me know.

[Protagonus]

EDIT:  okay running it more I see a pattern some.

discovered new block
connection interrupted
reset connection
connection interrupted
reset connection
discovered new block
Etc.
sometimes I will get 3 blocks before a reset.


I notice also it says connected with Stratum at the top, not sure if that's the way I want to connect or not.  (EDIT NVM stratum I see coinotron is only stratum atm.)

Other items that may help
Windows 7 64bit
MSI 990FXA-GD80
Powercooler 7950

Other notes.  I see in afterburner that when it seems to be working I get spikes 60-100% activity on gpu.  When I see interrupt the activity goes to 0 for a second.  I notice also that the RAM usage on the card is 230mb?  Should the miner be using ram here, as I thought LTC used memory more.

If anyone has thoughts I'd appreciate it very much.  I want to get the "feel" and make sure it's working before I tweak for performance and such.

[Protagonus]

Ok think I've gotten a bit farther.  I would really love if someone could help, or point me to an area for help.  It would be the first time anyone has helped so far.

One error, I did NOT have SDK.  I read over the notes and FAQ for cgminer and the consolidated litecoin guide.  So I have 13.1 Driver and SDK 2.6
I also set the recommended thread concurrency from the consolidated guide @ 21712

Upon starting this time I note NOW I'm getting all accepted and no rejects!!! YAY. However I'm showing only 240Kh/s average now.  I will remove the thread concurrency flag to see if just the SDK dropped this.  I didn't expect it to be half the speed lol.

other CGminer notes that may help:
Output Line;  240Kh/5s and 240Kh/s right now A:25 R:1 HW:0 U:2.4
read something somewhere about UW: but forget (think supposed to be .9/Kh/s) but UW: 306/m


So now I appear to be mining correctly, but Speed is in the toilet 240Kh/s  (not checked the site's report of my speed yet)

NOTE:  I DO have RAM usage now as well.  I was NOT using GPU ram on first tests.  Now it shows 1394mb.  I have more ram on the card, how do I increase this?

Any tips or help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: removing the thread concurrency flag changed very little.  the U: down .6 and the UW: down 50  (so 1.9 and 250/m)  otherwise same kh/s.  So, SDK cut the kh/s in half

[Protagonus]

Further update I guess.  

I played around with clock settings and concurrency and seemed to only change the Kh/s 50 or so no matter what I did.  (so, 240-280 Kh/s)

I know this is about half what these cards are supposed to get. So not sure what I have wrong at this point.  Why do I only get 250kh/s on a 7950 card.

Also, I tried Reaper, as some suggested that was better.  However I cannot figure out how to get connected to coinotron; since their getway is closed.  
When I run reaper I get "error with server: stratum" .  I know CG miner automatically connected as stratum and on the old port 8322.

Any clues on how I can get reaper to connect then as well?

Someone?  Anyone? pleeeeaaasse?

EDIT: in trying to find out how I can get Reaper to use stratum I was lead to GUIminer scrypt alpha;  but alas, that's not available for download in this country.


Help is needed with 2 main things
1. How can I get reaper connected to stratum with coinotron (error with server: stratum)
2. IF CGminer is the only program I can use, as it seems; how can I improve hash rates over 250kh/s

[Benny1985]

I don't know if Reaper even supports Stratum.

[Protagonus]

Ye Benny1985; the only way I found was to use GUIMininer Scrypt Alpha (or well that was suggested on a thread I read) but I have not found a site with that available.  

Guess an update as well.  I stayed up very late, as I couldn't let myself sleep without figuring Something out.  Anyway;  I have added the 2nd of 3 GPU's that will be in this, when done.   So, I have 2x7950.  After a lot of work, reading, adjustment;  
-I've gotten up to 470 Kh per card, showing an average of 970 Kh/s for the pair.  
-Cards were OC'ed to 1085 Core and 1600 Mem; with Vcc 1.143.  
-Running for the time I slept as a burn in @ I:17;  I have a reject percentage of 4.2% (bout right from what I've read)
-Pool website is showing incoming accepted hash from me at 900kh/s, so close to what the terminal CG shows.

So, I guess I figured it out on my own here; wanted to update at least.

EDIT:  My final post on this as I'm pretty satisfied now.  I do not want to bump thread again, so I'll edit.

Final settings:
-505-510 Kh/s per card on CGminer showing average of 1.05 - 1.1 Mh/s
-Pool Website shows worker doing 1.118 Mh/s (so 559 Kh/s each)
-Card OC is:  1065 Mhz Core / 1250 Mem / 1.093v / 69C
-Intensity = 20 - 24hr stable Appx. 4% rejection

Can't expect anymore outta these!  I'm very happy