further improved phatk_dia kernel for Phoenix + SDK 2.6 - 2012-01-13

[ezdvd]

gave me 25 more mhash on my 5870!!!

[saykor]

strange with card 5870:
with vectors - 454mhash
with vectors2 - drop with 50mhash
with vectors4 - drop with 200mhash

[Diapolo]

strange with card 5870:
with vectors - 454mhash
with vectors2 - drop with 50mhash
with vectors4 - drop with 200mhash

What kernel version, what driver version, which SDK, please post command line for Phoenix ... seems very strange to me.

Dia

[saykor]

strange with card 5870:
with vectors - 454mhash
with vectors2 - drop with 50mhash
with vectors4 - drop with 200mhash

What kernel version, what driver version, which SDK, please post command line for Phoenix ... seems very strange to me.

Dia

i just install the new drivers:
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.5-Windows-64
11-7_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl
2011-08-04 kernel (pre-release)

[Diapolo]

To all happy new kernel users, there is one thing you should know ... there have been NO donations since 2011-07-31, which makes me a bit sad.

It's my free time that I put in here (it were many hours till now) and the motivation is not only to get a "Thank you!". Remember, you guys generate more BTC with the kernel mods. It doesn't matter if it's my mod, Phateus mod or any others mod ... just be a little thankful and you keep a free and fast kernel + a motivated kernel mixer Diapolo .

No offense to all the great people who already donated a few bitcents or even more, who helped me testing this, who helped me fix bugs or who added great ideas into this work!

Regards,
Diapolo

[Diapolo]

strange with card 5870:
with vectors - 454mhash
with vectors2 - drop with 50mhash
with vectors4 - drop with 200mhash

What kernel version, what driver version, which SDK, please post command line for Phoenix ... seems very strange to me.

Dia

i just install the new drivers:
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.5-Windows-64
11-7_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl
2011-08-04 kernel (pre-release)

How do you start Phoenix? What are your clock speeds?

Dia

[saykor]

How do you start Phoenix? What are your clock speeds?

Dia

phoenix -u http://xxx:xxx@api.bitcoin.cz:8332 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=12 WORKSIZE=256

clock 982
memory 352
voltage - default

thanks
saykor

[Diapolo]

How do you start Phoenix? What are your clock speeds?

Dia

phoenix -u http://xxx:xxx@api.bitcoin.cz:8332 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=12 WORKSIZE=256

clock 982
memory 352
voltage - default

thanks
saykor

If you use VECTORS you won't use Vectors at all with the current pre-release version (the switch VECTORS is ignored). You HAVE to use the switch VECTORS2, take a lookt at the first posting.

Edit: Did you replace the Phoenix init file, too?

Dia

[saykor]

How do you start Phoenix? What are your clock speeds?

Dia

phoenix -u http://xxx:xxx@api.bitcoin.cz:8332 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=12 WORKSIZE=256

clock 982
memory 352
voltage - default

thanks
saykor

If you use VECTORS you won't use Vectors at all with the current pre-release version (the switch VECTORS is ignored). You HAVE to use the switch VECTORS2, take a lookt at the first posting.

Dia

when I use VECTORS2 mhash drop with 50, from 454 to 404

yes I replace all files in the package

[cubemonkey]

My miners went from 355 to 362 on 6950 based systems running ubuntu natty 64 bit.  I tried various flags, and this is what worked best for me:

-k phatk AGGRESSION=12 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false VECTORS VECTORS2 WORKSIZE=128

WORKSIZE=256 was slightly slower. I tried VECTORS4 just for fun, and it dropped down to 300 or so.

My 6950s are running at 880Mhz w/ 800 mhz memory clock.  (no shader unlock)




Thank you for all of your hard work.  Donation sent.

[M4rk5M4n]

thx dude^^ gave me alot of extrapower on my 5850's (995/1250) (under 370 before -> 410 with phateus/405 with yours)
[setup = 11.8, 2.5 SDK, 2 5850 @ 995/1250 (watercooled), phoenix 1.50 (-v -q 2 -a 50 -u http://y:x@mining.eligius.st:8337/ -k phatk VECTORS4 BFI_INT WORKSIZE=128 AGGRESSION=13 DEVICE=0/1)]

some things that got to my mind:

i compared your 8-4 to phateus 2.1 today, let the whole setup run with the same settings for a few hours. Though the phoenix-instance with you kernel showed less MH/s, i got more accepted shares (~10%) and less stales (less than halve) on the same pool in the same time running.

since 7-11 i get 2-3 rejects EVERYTIME longpoll pushes new work, doesnt matter which pool, which clocks or which settings (yours produces fewer than phat's kernel, though).

heres a screenshot of my test (phateus is left, dia is right -> had alil under 1700 shares and alil over 20 rejects) . Watch the left one at 15.05.42 or 15.05.28 or the right one at 15.05.41 or 15.06.02 to see what i mean with the rejects that are caused by longpoll (that was mining at eligius, but its the same with every pool).

the sreen:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8787/miningscreen.png

[jh1523]

Can't get the new kernel to work at all in Linux (using BAMT) with the phoenix miner. The miner simply refuses to start with the new kernel, even with changed parameters (VECTORS2 instead of VECTORS). I thought at first it's a problem with line endings (DOS vs Unix-style) since the files from mediafire are in DOS format; but even after converting with dos2unix it still won't work. The mioner works perfectly well with the previous version of the kernel.

[Diapolo]

Can't get the new kernel to work at all in Linux (using BAMT) with the phoenix miner. The miner simply refuses to start with the new kernel, even with changed parameters (VECTORS2 instead of VECTORS). I thought at first it's a problem with line endings (DOS vs Unix-style) since the files from mediafire are in DOS format; but even after converting with dos2unix it still won't work. The mioner works perfectly well with the previous version of the kernel.

Did you start Phoenix via sudo the first time because of the OpenCL kernel compilation?

Dia

[jh1523]

Can't get the new kernel to work at all in Linux (using BAMT) with the phoenix miner. The miner simply refuses to start with the new kernel, even with changed parameters (VECTORS2 instead of VECTORS). I thought at first it's a problem with line endings (DOS vs Unix-style) since the files from mediafire are in DOS format; but even after converting with dos2unix it still won't work. The mioner works perfectly well with the previous version of the kernel.

Did you start Phoenix via sudo the first time because of the OpenCL kernel compilation?

Dia

Yep, started as root.

[Diapolo]

Can't get the new kernel to work at all in Linux (using BAMT) with the phoenix miner. The miner simply refuses to start with the new kernel, even with changed parameters (VECTORS2 instead of VECTORS). I thought at first it's a problem with line endings (DOS vs Unix-style) since the files from mediafire are in DOS format; but even after converting with dos2unix it still won't work. The mioner works perfectly well with the previous version of the kernel.

Did you start Phoenix via sudo the first time because of the OpenCL kernel compilation?

Dia

Yep, started as root.

Did Phoenix create a new .elf file (if that's the case in Linux)? Any output any error message?

Dia

[jh1523]

No, no new .elf file. Last .elf is from 7/28 (the last time I messed with the kernel). Haven't seen any error messages either.

[Diapolo]

No, no new .elf file. Last .elf is from 7/28 (the last time I messed with the kernel). Haven't seen any error messages either.

Well it should have created a new .elf for the new kernel ... there seems to be something wrong.

Dia

[codyrbrown]

Thanks, this topic helped me in the past as well.  Keep up the good work.

[jh1523]

No, no new .elf file. Last .elf is from 7/28 (the last time I messed with the kernel). Haven't seen any error messages either.

Well it should have created a new .elf for the new kernel ... there seems to be something wrong.

Dia

When I try again after re-downloading the files and converting them to Unix format:

Code:

  python phoenix.py -u user:pass@pool:8332 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS2 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=12 WORKSIZE=128

I get the following message:

Code:

Unknown protocol:

FWIW the pool is deepbit. Still no new .elf is created.
 

[Diapolo]

No, no new .elf file. Last .elf is from 7/28 (the last time I messed with the kernel). Haven't seen any error messages either.

Well it should have created a new .elf for the new kernel ... there seems to be something wrong.

Dia

When I try again after re-downloading the files and converting them to Unix format:

Code:

  python phoenix.py -u user:pass@pool:8332 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS2 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=12 WORKSIZE=128

I get the following message:

Code:

Unknown protocol:

FWIW the pool is deepbit. Still no new .elf is created.
 

You could try to add http:// in front of user / pass:

Code:

python phoenix.py -u http://user:pass@pool:8332 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS2 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=12 WORKSIZE=128

Dia