OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.1

[aigeezer]

And here's two more.

http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer-rs8.exe
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer-rs10.exe

Running rs8 now.

Edit: zombie about 15 minutes into the run. Trying rs10 shortly.

Edit: zombie from rs10 about 10 minutes into the run. I'll leave rs10 running.

Edit: it couldn't recover so I restarted and got 4 zombies within 6 minutes. "rs10" isn't my fave among the recent candidates.       

[-ck]

I *could* try some intermediate versions between 3.3.1 and 3.6.4 if thay are still available, and if it would help? 

If there's a specific version update that causes it, it narrows down the possible causes of post 3.3.1 breakage (though I've rewritten everything I could think of in the meantime so could have some other issue now).

[jmc1517]

I *could* try some intermediate versions between 3.3.1 and 3.6.4 if thay are still available, and if it would help?  

If there's a specific version update that causes it, it narrows down the possible causes of post 3.3.1 breakage (though I've rewritten everything I could think of in the meantime so could have some other issue now).

I'll try to find it.  Seems like as good a plan as any.  Starting with 3.3.4...  

[aigeezer]

I *could* try some intermediate versions between 3.3.1 and 3.6.4 if thay are still available, and if it would help?  

If there's a specific version update that causes it, it narrows down the possible causes of post 3.3.1 breakage (though I've rewritten everything I could think of in the meantime so could have some other issue now).

I'll try to find it.  Seems like as good a plan as any.  Starting with 3.3.4...  

I'm fairly sure the bug was present in 3.4.3, fwiw.

[jmc1517]

I *could* try some intermediate versions between 3.3.1 and 3.6.4 if thay are still available, and if it would help?  

If there's a specific version update that causes it, it narrows down the possible causes of post 3.3.1 breakage (though I've rewritten everything I could think of in the meantime so could have some other issue now).

I'll try to find it.  Seems like as good a plan as any.  Starting with 3.3.4...  

I'm fairly sure the bug was present in 3.4.3, fwiw.

Hmmm, interesting. I'm not seeing that.  It seems to have occurred much later for me.

I'm doing binary chop testing to localise the onset of the bug among the 11 releases between 3.3.1 and 3.6.4.  Initially just running a 2-hour (maximum) test on each version, but stopping immediately I get a zombie. I will go back and verify with a longer run as soon as I find the last "perfect" version!

Results so far:

3.3.1 - ok
3.3.4 - ok
3.4.0 -
3.4.1 -
3.4.2 -
3.4.3 - ok
3.5.0 -  
3.5.1 - ok
3.6.0 - does not run. All AMU LEDS full on. No AMUs detected?
3.6.1 - ZOMBIE
3.6.2 -
3.6.3 -
3.6.4 - ZOMBIE
3.6.6 - ZOMBIE

Edit: 3.5.1 ran for 2 hours, no problems.  3.6.0 will not start for me - it does not seem to "see" the AMUs at all.
       3.6.1 runs but gives zombies, so it looks as if the bug was introduced (probably) at the 3.6.x build.

I am currently running 3.5.1 as a long term test to ensure it is as stable as 3.3.1 is (for me).  2012-10-30 @ 19:20

[chadtn]

I'd like to think some other variable is at play here.  I've run every single version of cgminer from 3.3.1 to 3.5.1 and have never had a single problem.  I ran it on a Windows 7 machine 24/7 with two 7970 video cards and six block erupters.  The only down time I've had is from halting for software updates and the maybe an average of one restart a month for system updates.  After 3.5.1 I moved the block erupters to a raspberry pi and it has almost literally 100% up time.  The only times it has stopped mining are when I halted the process to start the latest version of cgminer.  It's run every version between 3.5.1 all the way up to 3.6.6 without issue.

There almost has to be some key variable...os, wiring, electrical, hardware defect, environment...

Chad

[paladin281978]

it is normal for 3.6.6-1?
in other versions there is no such
This is not a solo
3.6.4 works fine
 

[jesse11]

Next AMU windows test binary:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer-rs.exe

You still have: WTF RDLOCK ERROR ON LOCK! in the binary.

As I said, that was the AMU binary.

Here's one for you:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer-nogpu.exe

I'm Rocking now    Thanks ckolivas

[forzendiablo]

please help with conf.
on GUIminer i have this setup:


yet if i run cgminer with its not even close to be as stabiel + i have big heating problems. [of GPU mostly]
-I 16 -w 256 -v 1 --gpu-threads 1 --thread-concurrency 8000 --auto-fan


what am i missing between this two, is there some other setup i need?

i have AMD radeon HD 9670. windows7.

[techman05]

what did you do to get those fields to show up? Is that the uncompiled one?

[-Redacted-]

That's the scrypt version of guiminer

[jmc1517]

Looks like the "bug" - if we can call it that - started with the 3.6.x build:
    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg3443712#msg3443712

[aigeezer]

Looks like the "bug" - if we can call it that - started with the 3.6.x build:
    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg3443712#msg3443712

Yikes, you and I may have separate issues after all and/or there may be more than one issue to be found. The plot thickens. I sure hope my problem isn't right under my nose.

[aigeezer]

I'd like to think some other variable is at play here.  I've run every single version of cgminer from 3.3.1 to 3.5.1 and have never had a single problem.  I ran it on a Windows 7 machine 24/7 with two 7970 video cards and six block erupters.  The only down time I've had is from halting for software updates and the maybe an average of one restart a month for system updates.  After 3.5.1 I moved the block erupters to a raspberry pi and it has almost literally 100% up time.  The only times it has stopped mining are when I halted the process to start the latest version of cgminer.  It's run every version between 3.5.1 all the way up to 3.6.6 without issue.

There almost has to be some key variable...os, wiring, electrical, hardware defect, environment...

Chad

Were your 7970s hashing along with the erupters? I've got one 7970 on this machine, but haven't used it for hashing in quite a while - I've been running the nogpu version of cgminer through all this testing. One quirk of my testing was that whenever I ran with debug/logging on the errors didn't happen - no zombies, no failures, leading to the impression that it is some kind of timing/timeout issue.

[forzendiablo]

That's the scrypt version of guiminer

yes but im speaking of mining BTC here, just thats the setup that works. i dont knwo what flags to use to make it work. mayeb some fan flags?

please help guys i mclueless.

[chadtn]

I'd like to think some other variable is at play here.  I've run every single version of cgminer from 3.3.1 to 3.5.1 and have never had a single problem.  I ran it on a Windows 7 machine 24/7 with two 7970 video cards and six block erupters.  The only down time I've had is from halting for software updates and the maybe an average of one restart a month for system updates.  After 3.5.1 I moved the block erupters to a raspberry pi and it has almost literally 100% up time.  The only times it has stopped mining are when I halted the process to start the latest version of cgminer.  It's run every version between 3.5.1 all the way up to 3.6.6 without issue.

There almost has to be some key variable...os, wiring, electrical, hardware defect, environment...

Chad

Were your 7970s hashing along with the erupters? I've got one 7970 on this machine, but haven't used it for hashing in quite a while - I've been running the nogpu version of cgminer through all this testing. One quirk of my testing was that whenever I ran with debug/logging on the errors didn't happen - no zombies, no failures, leading to the impression that it is some kind of timing/timeout issue.

Yeah...the video cards were hashing with the erupters in the same cgminer instance before going to the raspberry pi.

Chad

[jmc1517]

Looks like the "bug" - if we can call it that - started with the 3.6.x build:
    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg3443712#msg3443712

Yikes, you and I may have separate issues after all and/or there may be more than one issue to be found. The plot thickens. I sure hope my problem isn't right under my nose.

Well - hopefully it's the same problem!   That's how I stumbled upon this thread in the first place, remember?  We seem to confirm each other's findings re the test-builds, i.e. we both consistently get zombies and/or decaying hash-rates on the builds we've tested, but perhaps I see them more quickly as I'm running 34 erupters. Anyway, at the moment I'm happy with 3.5.1. It's been running about 4 hours in total and no errors, so hopefully it will survive overnight and become my new "stable" build.

As an aside, I have 2 * 7970's in my machine also, but they are happily mining LTC using another instance of 3.3.1 (I'll upgrade that to 3.5.1 at some point, even though it's not strictly necessary).

I haven't bothered trialling the latest test-builds.  I'll just leave 3.5.1 running until morning and see what ckolivas makes of all this.

[aigeezer]

I'll just leave 3.5.1 running until morning and see what ckolivas makes of all this.

I just noticed I went straight from 3.5.0 to 3.6.2 "way back then" - never tried 3.5.1 along the way.

I've been running candidate rs10 all day. It gets occasional zombies but it seems as good as anything for the moment. Maybe I'll add debugging to it and see if that keeps the zombies from showing up the way it used to do.

The pressure mounts!         

[mdude77]

I'd like to think some other variable is at play here.  I've run every single version of cgminer from 3.3.1 to 3.5.1 and have never had a single problem.  I ran it on a Windows 7 machine 24/7 with two 7970 video cards and six block erupters.  The only down time I've had is from halting for software updates and the maybe an average of one restart a month for system updates.  After 3.5.1 I moved the block erupters to a raspberry pi and it has almost literally 100% up time.  The only times it has stopped mining are when I halted the process to start the latest version of cgminer.  It's run every version between 3.5.1 all the way up to 3.6.6 without issue.

There almost has to be some key variable...os, wiring, electrical, hardware defect, environment...

Chad

I have two win7x64 machines. One is AMD based, somewhat older technology (was a sempton single core, is now an athlon II dual core @ 3.4GHz with 4 gb memory), doesn't have any USB 3.0 ports.  3.6.4 works fine with my 36 erupters.  No problems aside from the possible winsock error, but recently I've been restarting it for other reasons before it runs more than a few days, so I don't know if the winsock error is still around or not.

I move the same 36 erupters and same hubs to the other machine, Intel based, core i7, 12 gb of memory, with USB 3.0 ports.  I almost immediately get zombies and IO errors.  Neither of which I get on the older machine.  Oh, and the erupters aren't detected at all on the USB 3.0 ports.  I have to plug them into the 2.0 ports to see them.

I think it's hardware based.  Chipset maybe?  Something beyond your control?

M

[mdude77]

Looks like the "bug" - if we can call it that - started with the 3.6.x build:
    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg3443712#msg3443712

Yikes, you and I may have separate issues after all and/or there may be more than one issue to be found. The plot thickens. I sure hope my problem isn't right under my nose.

I'd get errors left and right on my AMD box with anything after 3.3.4, I think... until 3.6.4.  So what fixed problems for me caused problems for others.

M