Sgminer 5.1.1 Quark problems

[Cryptozillah]

My AMD rigs are behaving really random. They sometime stops a couple of times (waiting for work to be available from pools) per day and i have to restart sgminer manually. No reboot is needed to get full hashrate again.

Does anyone know how to write up a loop in the config ? To make sgminer restart every third hour or so.
This only happends when i am mining Quark, while mining ETH the same rig can go on forever without babysitting it. I guessing that it is sgminer messing up somehow.

[kahir]

but why would u mine quark with AMD rig ?

[Cryptozillah]

but why would u mine quark with AMD rig ?

Well, ETH is not that hot anymore.
Too many mining it and price is going down.

Right now i make more daily profit on quark with my AMD/Nvidia rigs combined.

When mining ETH i have around 170Mhs and it gives me around 10 ETH daily. Thats like 0.028BTC.
When mining Quark i have 134Mhs and it gives me around 0.045BTC daily mining at Nicehash.

Longterm ETH is probably the winner but right now i need some daily profits to keep my mining going.

[qaaq]

i had the same probem, i fixed it by writing this noob script:p

Code:

:loop

cd c:\miner
start powershell.exe c:\miner\start_sgminer.bat
TIMEOUT 3600
taskkill /im sgminer.exe /F >nul
taskkill /im powershell.exe /F >nul

goto loop

it restarts sgminer every 1h

[Cryptozillah]

i had the same probem, i fixed it by writing this noob script:p

Code:

:loop

cd c:\miner
start powershell.exe c:\miner\start_sgminer.bat
TIMEOUT 3600
taskkill /im sgminer.exe /F >nul
taskkill /im powershell.exe /F >nul

goto loop

it restarts sgminer every 1h

Thanks, i will try it out.

[Cryptozillah]

i had the same probem, i fixed it by writing this noob script:p

Code:

:loop

cd c:\miner
start powershell.exe c:\miner\start_sgminer.bat
TIMEOUT 3600
taskkill /im sgminer.exe /F >nul
taskkill /im powershell.exe /F >nul

goto loop

it restarts sgminer every 1h

I am trying this out now but i cant get it to work.
Not sure if i am doing it right though.

I placed a copy of my sgminer folder in c:\miner
Inside it i made a new batch file called loop with:

loop

cd c:\miner
start powershell.exe c:\miner\start_sgminer.bat
TIMEOUT 3600
taskkill /im sgminer.exe /F >nul
taskkill /im powershell.exe /F >nul

goto loop

When i fire loop batch file up it would launch sgminer right ? and restart it in 60 minutes.
But all that happends is that the countdown starts without sgminer launches.

If i start sgminer first and the loop up after it will kill sgminer when the countdown ends but not start it up again.

What am i doing wrong here ?

EDIT. I found another solution that is working here: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1796598&page=74
Post: 1466

[qaaq]

you can put this script whatever you want, but second script c:\miner\start_sgminer.bat is your sgminer script containing:

Code:

C:\miner\sgminer.exe --kernel quarkcoin -o stratum+tcp://quark.eu.nicehash.com:3345 -u xxx

Remember to delete sgminer.conf file, otherwise it won't run

[Cryptozillah]

you can put this script whatever you want, but second script c:\miner\start_sgminer.bat is your sgminer script containing:

Code:

C:\miner\sgminer.exe --kernel quarkcoin -o stratum+tcp://quark.eu.nicehash.com:3345 -u xxx

Remember to delete sgminer.conf file, otherwise it won't run

Ok, thanks.
It is running fine now.

[fury420]

I've always used CGwatcher for stuff like this, has adjustable monitoring & miner restart features.
Unfortunately no longer updated, but still works just fine.

[Eastwind]

but why would u mine quark with AMD rig ?

Well, ETH is not that hot anymore.
Too many mining it and price is going down.

Right now i make more daily profit on quark with my AMD/Nvidia rigs combined.

When mining ETH i have around 170Mhs and it gives me around 10 ETH daily. Thats like 0.028BTC.
When mining Quark i have 134Mhs and it gives me around 0.045BTC daily mining at Nicehash.

Longterm ETH is probably the winner but right now i need some daily profits to keep my mining going.

What is the combination of your cards?

I have 8 GPUs (underclocked 4X7990), doing 150Mh on ETH, and 80Mh on Quark.

[Cryptozillah]

I've always used CGwatcher for stuff like this, has adjustable monitoring & miner restart features.
Unfortunately no longer updated, but still works just fine.

I have thought of trying it a couple of times. I might take another look at it.

but why would u mine quark with AMD rig ?

Well, ETH is not that hot anymore.
Too many mining it and price is going down.

Right now i make more daily profit on quark with my AMD/Nvidia rigs combined.

When mining ETH i have around 170Mhs and it gives me around 10 ETH daily. Thats like 0.028BTC.
When mining Quark i have 134Mhs and it gives me around 0.045BTC daily mining at Nicehash.

Longterm ETH is probably the winner but right now i need some daily profits to keep my mining going.

What is the combination of your cards?

I have 8 GPUs (underclocked 4X7990), doing 150Mh on ETH, and 80Mh on Quark.

My total:
12x750Ti
4x280x

Around 170Mhs @ ETH and around 135Mhs @ Quark