Litecoin cpuminer config setup?

[SleezyPet]

So I am extremely new to all of this. I have done some research into mining and currently have my gpu mining for bitcoins. The only probably is it is a 680 and well, we all know nvidia cards simply aren't worth it.

So I wanted to try messing around with litecoin mining on my 5ghz 3930k. There seems to be very little "newb" help for setting this up. I have the latest version of cpuminer (2.2.3 64-bit for windows). I know I need to create some kind of config file but honestly I have no idea where to start.

I found this on the site of the pool I want to join. So I created this with all my info and put it in the same folder as the cpuminer...

Create a cfg.json like so:

{
        "_comment1" : "Any long-format command line argument ",
        "_comment2" : "may be used in this JSON configuration file",

        "url" : "http://ltc.kattare.com:9332/",
        "user" : "YOUR_USERNAME.1",
        "pass" : "x",
        "quiet" : true
}

So I did this (with my username and pass of course), but I am still receiving a "HTTP request failed" and "json_rpc_call failed" when trying to run the program.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[420]

getting same thing with two known different working pools

scrypt gui miner works but it only allows up to 8 threads

this one opens and says 12 threads started then gives the error:

json_rpc_call failed

[pooler]

So I created this with all my info and put it in the same folder as the cpuminer...

Create a cfg.json like so:
[...]

Did you tell cpuminer to use your configuration file?

Code:

./minerd -c cfg.json

(This is described in the --help output, by the way.)
If you don't specify arguments, cpuminer will just use the default connection settings, and will try to connect to localhost:9332 without credentials.

If that is not the problem, please post the full output given by minerd.

[420]

So I created this with all my info and put it in the same folder as the cpuminer...

Create a cfg.json like so:
[...]

Did you tell cpuminer to use your configuration file?

Code:

./minerd -c cfg.json

(This is described in the --help output, by the way.)
If you don't specify arguments, cpuminer will just use the default connection settings, and will try to connect to localhost:9332 without credentials.

If that is not the problem, please post the full output given my minerd.

oh. thought the executable automatically loads it

i put a script with minerd -c cfg.json in the folder

now it crashes when i open it

EDIT: put the url and stuff in bat fine now its working but still around <70Khash/s

[c4n10]

Try the CPUMinerLTC easy launcher in my "BTC/LTC Newbie Tools for Windows" package: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113707.0

Instructions are in the included "README".

[420]

Try the CPUMinerLTC easy launcher in my "BTC/LTC Newbie Tools for Windows" package: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113707.0

Instructions are in the included "README".

still seems difficult. i got cpu mining. now i want my gpu mining

[c4n10]

Try the CPUMinerLTC easy launcher in my "BTC/LTC Newbie Tools for Windows" package: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113707.0

Instructions are in the included "README".

still seems difficult. i got cpu mining. now i want my gpu mining

Use the cgminerLTC.bat launcher in that same package. Instructions are in the "README" file.

[420]

Try the CPUMinerLTC easy launcher in my "BTC/LTC Newbie Tools for Windows" package: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113707.0

Instructions are in the included "README".

still seems difficult. i got cpu mining. now i want my gpu mining

Use the cgminerLTC.bat launcher in that same package. Instructions are in the "README" file.

my hashrate is very slow

[c4n10]

Try the CPUMinerLTC easy launcher in my "BTC/LTC Newbie Tools for Windows" package: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113707.0

Instructions are in the included "README".

still seems difficult. i got cpu mining. now i want my gpu mining

Use the cgminerLTC.bat launcher in that same package. Instructions are in the "README" file.

my hashrate is very slow

what is your card?

[420]

gtx 680

and of course it crashes when i close it

[c4n10]

gtx 680

Nvidia's aren't very good for mining. I don't know what a gtx 680 is supposed to get on litecoin but I wouldn't expect more than about 80 KH/s from it at peak performance.

You can adjust the intensity in the .bat file, simply edit it with notepad and change the intensity to a higher number up to 10.

Also change the gpu-threads value, try 1, 2 and 4 - see which works best.

[420]

gtx 680

Nvidia's aren't very good for mining. I don't know what a gtx 680 is supposed to get on litecoin but I wouldn't expect more than about 80 KH/s from it at peak performance.

You can adjust the intensity in the .bat file, simply edit it with notepad and change the intensity to a higher number up to 10.

Also change the gpu-threads value, try 1, 2 and 4 - see which works best.

4 threads dont help

[c4n10]

gtx 680

Nvidia's aren't very good for mining. I don't know what a gtx 680 is supposed to get on litecoin but I wouldn't expect more than about 80 KH/s from it at peak performance.

You can adjust the intensity in the .bat file, simply edit it with notepad and change the intensity to a higher number up to 10.

Also change the gpu-threads value, try 1, 2 and 4 - see which works best.

4 threads dont help

Then try 1 or 2 and use the one that works best.

[c4n10]

Also, try setting the thread-concurrency to 1536 and increase in multiples of 1536 (3072, 4608, etc...) until you find which value works best for you.

[420]

Also, try setting the thread-concurrency to 1536 and increase in multiples of 1536 (3072, 4608, etc...) until you find which value works best for you.

still about 10Khash

[c4n10]

Also, try setting the thread-concurrency to 1536 and increase in multiples of 1536 (3072, 4608, etc...) until you find which value works best for you.

still about 10Khash

I'm going to go out on a limb here and venture a guess that you are trolling me. Surely a Hero Member has been around long enough to know how to work cgminer and knows that the gtx 680 isn't going to be all that great for mining...

[420]

Also, try setting the thread-concurrency to 1536 and increase in multiples of 1536 (3072, 4608, etc...) until you find which value works best for you.

still about 10Khash

I'm going to go out on a limb here and venture a guess that you are trolling me. Surely a Hero Member has been around long enough to know how to work cgminer and knows that the gtx 680 isn't going to be all that great for mining...

680 92khash/s
https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Mining-hardware-comparison

[c4n10]

Also, try setting the thread-concurrency to 1536 and increase in multiples of 1536 (3072, 4608, etc...) until you find which value works best for you.

still about 10Khash

I'm going to go out on a limb here and venture a guess that you are trolling me. Surely a Hero Member has been around long enough to know how to work cgminer and knows that the gtx 680 isn't going to be all that great for mining...

680 92khash/s
https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Mining-hardware-comparison

Ok, try adding "-w 256" and change the thread-concurrency to 8192

[420]

hey i got it. getting 84khash which is same as my cpu was getting

[c4n10]

hey i got it. getting 84khash which is same as my cpu was getting

Was it the -w 256 and thread concurrency of 8192 that did it for you?