Started to mine Ether. What does the terminal outputs mean?

[PrimusInterPares]

I have recently started to mine Ethereum. I downloaded the blockchain and now I have got some questions about the console outputs.

- First, what does the DAG creation mean? Does DAG stands for direct acyclic graph in this context? Why are there created several DAGs?

- Second, what does the following output stands for?
commit new work on block 104101 with 146 txs & 0 uncles. Took 7.19580245s
What are uncles and why is something commit to the blockchain (my CPU is not mining yet, is it)?

[PrimusInterPares]

Could no one explain the meaning of the console outputs to me?

[bathrobehero]

Commiting means you're submitting work or in other words actually mining but block 104101 implies you're not synced or on a fork or something. I don't know but what I do know is that we're almost at block 1 million.

But if you're CPU mining it doesn't matter because it's going to take you ~137 days to solomine one block (with 1 Mh/s = i7 5820K) with the current difficulty.

[PrimusInterPares]

That's true. To this time the blockchain was not fully downloaded. I am around block 850k so it needs around 150k more to be fully sync'ed. I was just wondering what all those terminal output mean. Ive got some experience in other altcoin mining and those terms like 'uncles' was not there before

Commiting means you're submitting work or in other words actually mining but block 104101 implies you're not synced or on a fork or something. I don't know but what I do know is that we're almost at block 1 million.

But if you're CPU mining it doesn't matter because it's going to take you ~137 days to solomine one block (with 1 Mh/s = i7 5820K) with the current difficulty.

[notbatman]

oh it's sync issue, hah I thought I was going nuts. I was trying to figure out how I was mining with the miner offline LOL.



EDIT:

OK, no I just checked the block number on etherscan and I'm up-to-date WTF is going on? My miner has been offline for like 12 hours.

Code:

I0528 07:59:03.992663 miner/worker.go:555] commit new work on block 1600708 with 3 txs & 0 uncles. Took 64.0032ms

EDIT2:

geth says my hashrate is 0 H/s.



EDIT3:

On my miner why are the commands to set the fan speed and fan monitor returning an error? I pressed the up arrow and re-executed the last command line?

Why did ethminer just terminate with no error and return to the command line? Why can't it connect to geth anymore?






I'm sure I'll work it out but this is all very confusing ATM???


[Final Edit] EDIT4:

1. The ghost miner was eliminated by upgrading to the latest version of geth.

2. The miner terminated (I'm assuming here) due the ghost miner hijacking (MitMA) the connection. This ghost miner however isn't well versed in the finer points of MICROSOFT and doesn't understand "feature vs. bug". I'm will to bet the ghost miner's Engrish also suffers from this same flaw.

3. The issues with the aticonfig commands to set the fan and monitor the temp. stemmed from a miraculous change in font type and a resulting change in quotation and dash character codes resulting in aticonfig asking me what the fuck I was talking about.