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

[Luke-Jr]

I tried your version when mining on windows and my antivirus (Bitdefender) wanted no part of it.

Oh well, nothing I can do about malware "antivirus software".

So I have no opinion whether or not it works. I settled on CGminer till I got the raspberry going. Then the instructions for the Raspberry were provided for CGminer. So here I am in the CGminer thread.

If it works and you're perfectly happy with it, great.
If it's lacking for you in any way, you might try BFGMiner to see if it already has your needs addressed.
If neither do, it never hurts to post a feature request to both.

My unmentionable "alt coins" are also chugging along on 3.7.2 without complaints.

I always advise against running unmaintained software.
Whether you go with cgminer, BFGMiner, Linux, Windows, or whatever, always use something receiving developer attention for security patches.

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[matt4054]

And you could disable pools

I think you can't disable the last active pool.

Yeah it's anecdotic, just an attempt to put the topic back on rails, although I know many of you are eating popcorn while reading it

[sanyi1977]

Hi!

The antminer U1 device with the latest software cgminer 3.12.0 can overclock with he icarus option?

[-ck]

Hi!

The antminer U1 device with the latest software cgminer 3.12.0 can overclock with he icarus option?

Not yet, no.

[stewart2012]

hi dear kolivas

do you removed downlaod link for cgminer 3.7.0 for windows from your site ?

i cant found link for windows in this path :

http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/3.7/

 

[HellDiverUK]

For some people, cgminer works better (hot unplug and Avalon dynamic clocking come to mind as cgminer advantages at the moment).
For many others, BFGMiner is the clear winner... and we strive to make it better all the time.

For some, like me, must use both, because some of my hardware is only supported by cgminer, and some of my other hardware works better on bfgminer. 

It's especially annoying when hardware guys don't cooperate with either the cgminer or bfgminer teams and just release their own patched, bug-filled version of the miners and call it a day.  I mean, I still have to run a terrible patched cgminer to get my HEX16A2 boards to run.    I have to run a different cgminer instance to support my Bitburner Fury because they didn't bother cooperating with any of the bfgminer folks to get support there either, and it won't run on the same cgminer instance as the HEX16A2 because the Fury uses Avalon timing arguments which aren't compatible with the HEX16A2 and vice-versa.   

[vayvanne]

I guess big brother frightened luke setting him reponsible on using cgminer in trojan networks.
I want to inform that 3.12 is not stable on my setup. The question is about temperature and voltage output. 3.7.2 shows 3.23V and 3.10 0.99-1V. One of my BFL LSes regularly goes higher than 82'C and I saw that 3.10 does throttling when this happens. I was expecting the same from 3.7.2 but yesterday I saw 84'C and now I am concerning about overheat.
By the way is there in LSes internal overheat protection? After all the BFL problems with RMAs it is difficult to suppose on them.

[-ck]

I guess big brother frightened luke setting him reponsible on using cgminer in trojan networks.
I want to inform that 3.12 is not stable on my setup. The question is about temperature and voltage output. 3.7.2 shows 3.23V and 3.10 0.99-1V. One of my BFL LSes regularly goes higher than 82'C and I saw that 3.10 does throttling when this happens. I was expecting the same from 3.7.2 but yesterday I saw 84'C and now I am concerning about overheat.
By the way is there in LSes internal overheat protection? After all the BFL problems with RMAs it is difficult to suppose on them.

What's wrong with 3.12 ? The BFL SCs throttle themselves at higher temps than cgminer does but it usually comes with a very ungraceful period of not responding followed by tons of communication errors and then eventually recovery.

[kano]

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The question is about temperature and voltage output. 3.7.2 shows 3.23V and 3.10 0.99-1V.
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As per the NEWS file, it was changed at request of a hardware developer.
~1V is the chip voltage which is way more of interest than the 3.xxV that I originally chose (at random )

[vayvanne]

What's wrong with 3.12 ? The BFL SCs throttle themselves at higher temps than cgminer does but it usually comes with a very ungraceful period of not responding followed by tons of communication errors and then eventually recovery.

Here is the end of log: http://pastebin.com/XsPmkbKz
It just exits.

[-ck]

What's wrong with 3.12 ?

Here is the end of log: http://pastebin.com/XsPmkbKz
It just exits.

Hmm you may be getting bitten by the signal handling bug. It looks like you're on windows; if so, try this binary in place of the 3.12.0 one:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer.exe

[vayvanne]

The same, zombying, restarting thread, exit. Log is here this time as bit bigger: http://files.mail.ru/EF1CB1489DFB4CD08B5A99FD9EEC9ECF
It's in russian, wait some seconds, two buttons will appear, green and red. Click red one.

[-ck]

The same, zombying, restarting thread, exit. Log is here this time as bit bigger: http://files.mail.ru/EF1CB1489DFB4CD08B5A99FD9EEC9ECF
It's in russian, wait some seconds, two buttons will appear, green and red. Click red one.

Okay, try redownloading it again and see if this one's any better please:

http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer.exe

[techman05]

Did you get any helpful details from the pictures I sent? I haven't been sure whats happening and I've had to resort to having cgwatcher monitor when cgminer dies .

I need help making a log for cgminer if you can't get anything from the pictures. Most of them show that one of the pools just keeps saying found a block over and over then everything else goes bleh. It happens whether its one pool or a few. Right now I just have btc guild running on one profile and cgminer set to rotate on coin change to keep it up.

Thanks?

[fastcore]

You could disable devices. And you could disable pools. Both "pause" mining.  Does this fit for you?

I think so, will mess with those. I have these set up on a media center machine and would love to have them auto pause on launch of a program like VLC like BOINC. Alternatively would be nice to have a one button pause/unpause. GPU crunching and video playing don't do well together.

[rgr_rgr]

"The small guy is able to mine".  I think you missed the point. 

The small guy's mining with a USB stick is meaningless in the face of massive centralized mining operations. 

Maybe I missed the point. Sure, the small guy is meaningless in face of big organisations. But a GPU doesn't help either in this situation.

I understood that you are complaining the abonding of supporting GPUs because the small guy is not able to mine anymore.

If this is not your point - what is it? Where is the context to GPU?

[vayvanne]

ckolivas
2nd temp binary is still running ok yet.

[navigator]

Not sure where to direct this question, but hope you're willing to help.

There are many of us that cannot solo mine using our antminer S1's. We get nothing but rejects when it finds a block. Other miners pointed to the same client are able to find blocks.

Is this because the antminer is too fast for the getwork protocol and we need a stratum proxy for it to work?

I read on http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining about ntime rolling and that 'a block created from massively modified ntime can be rejected by Bitcoin network'. Is this what's happening?

Appreciate any info. Thanks.

[fastcore]

You could disable devices. And you could disable pools. Both "pause" mining.  Does this fit for you?

I think so, will mess with those. I have these set up on a media center machine and would love to have them auto pause on launch of a program like VLC like BOINC. Alternatively would be nice to have a one button pause/unpause. GPU crunching and video playing don't do well together.

Yeah nevermind. G then D will disable the GPU pretty well, thanks!

[-ck]

ckolivas
2nd temp binary is still running ok yet.

Thanks very much for your testing. This confirms that the upgrade from libusb to the merged libusb/x is at fault. It seems that libusbx is still not up to the task. I will revert to the good working libusb in the next  version again.