Hello,
I have read the post here,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0 and many others. I have followed this guide here,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=18313.msg712967#msg712967 and have everything working fairly well. I am running p2pool, bitcoin and cgminer on a Windows 7 machine.
I cannot do this however,
WHILE RUNNING:
The following options are available while running with a single keypress:
[P]ool management [G]PU management [ S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
I press the keys, nothing happens. I make sure that I click on the cgminer.exe window to make it the active window, still nothing. How can I get these options?
My main concern is optimizing my GPU. Before, when I would run GUIMiner I would get 340MH/s out of my 5850. With cgminer, Im only getting 240MH/s. I see this part in the guide which I think is relevant to me,
Add overclocking settings, GPU and fan control for all cards:
cgminer -o
http://pool:port -u username -p password -I 9 --auto-fan --auto-gpu --gpu-engine 750-950 --gpu-memclock 300
But what does all that mean? Is there a key or guide to using these settings? Some like 'memclock' make sense, but others do not. Also, where do I enter this in? I pass it in via the shortcut I made right? And how do I stipulate which settings go to which card?
With GUIMiner I overclocked with afterburner and entered the flags into guiminer. Do I enter flags into cgminer?
Thanks for any thoughts or ideas!
You can use a .conf file called cgminer.conf that has your settings contained in it on windows not sure where you put it but would imagine it would be in the same directory as the program itself on linux it goes in the .cgminer directory an example below with two cards four pools enabled along with an edit of your original showing two cards enabled. The settings for multiple cards are taken in the order they appear on the command line/.conf file. First card in your example runs at 750-950 300 second at 700-925 400 intensity of 9 for both in my edit shown here.
Add overclocking settings, GPU and fan control for all cards:
cgminer -o
http://pool:port -u username -p password -I 9,9 --auto-fan --auto-gpu --gpu-engine 750-950,700-925 --gpu-memclock 300,400
cat ~/.cgminer/cgminer.conf
{
"pools" : [
{
"url" : "http://pool.org:8332",
"user" : "20",
"pass" : "worker"
},
{
"url" : "http://pool.co:8332/",
"user" : "20",
"pass" : "worker"
},
{
"url" : "http://pool.net:8332",
"user" : "20",
"pass" : "worker"
},
{
"url" : "http://pool.com:8332/",
"user" : "20",
"pass" : "worker"
}
],
"intensity" : "8,8",
"gpu-engine" : "0-925,0-925",
"gpu-memclock" : "1050,1200",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"retry-pause" : "5",
"scan-time" : "60",
"donation" : "0",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
You would want to add before the "kernel-path" line.
"auto-fan" : "1",
"auto-gpu" : "1",
To the .conf file to have them enabled when using it.
