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

[-ck]

Any way to troubleshoot this hardware errors?
I think is too much for only 2 hours.
I am using 2 R-BOX connected to the USB ports on the laptop with Bitcoin-0.9.2.1 and cgminer-4.4.1

Code:

[2014-07-16 19:37:58] Work Utility (diff1 shares solved / min): 909.83/min

 [2014-07-16 19:37:58] LIN0 (5s):38.14G (avg):32.55Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:822 WU:454.8/m
 [2014-07-16 19:37:58] LIN1 (5s):34.35G (avg):32.59Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:28 WU:455.4/m

Looks okay to me. 2 hours at 909 shares per min is ~110k shares and you have ~900 errors total.

[smesterj]

Thank you ckolivas, I though something was wrong with the hardware.

When is considered the hardware errors rate too much ?

[-ck]

Thank you ckolivas, I though something was wrong with the hardware.

When is considered the hardware errors rate too much ?

It's very much dependent on the hardware. Some stuff by design has 10% errors in a harmless way (any bitfury). Most hardware designs are under 2% which is fine.

[-ck]

New release: Version 4.4.2, 17th July 2014

A stable/bugfix/driver update release for accumulated issues while I was away.


Human readable changelog:

- Fixed an issue where some types of file configuration parameters (like hfa-fan) would be lost when write config was chosen from the menu.
- Fixed a crash that could occur on trying to connect to a stratum server.
- Fixed write config file crashing when bitfury was compiled in.
- Fixed the "Failed to sem_timedwait" issue seen by some people.
- Fixed failover not working if one of the initial pools never responded.
- Fixed a corruption when solo mining (ALL SOLO MINERS URGED TO UPGRADE!)
- Rbox now accepts frequencies up to 400.
- Spondoolies driver updates including SP30 driver.
- Minion driver updates.
- Avalon2 driver updates.
- Fixed broken S1 compilation.
- Other low level fixes.


Full changelog:

- Fix processarg parameters loaded from a config file not being saveable
- We only use the jansson in our source tree so no need for special case
handling of older versions
- Upgrade jansson to 2.6
- Only clear sockbuf if it's been allocated
- Fix missing osm-led-mode support in write config
- Deal with nanosecond overflow in both directions on both addition and
subtration of timespecs
- Rename sp10 driver internally from spondoolies to sp10
- minion - add a 2nd (optional - disabled) reset test
- production stats added, reset queue added
- minion - correct led ghs2 choice
- minion - correct ghs2 display
- minion - reset the led counter when doing a chip RSTN full reset
- minion - don't reset the led counter for an SPI reset
- minion - led per chip and use all time average
- minion - report spi error counts and settings in stats
- minion - undeclared fix
- minion - chip power cycle option
- minion - record 0xff error history and reduce screen output
- minion - reset on result or fifo 0xff
- minion - clarify the 0 value of spireset
- minion - make SPI reset more configurable
- minion - make the SPI reset ms sleep a parameter and API settable
- sp10 sensors
- sp30
- minion - led+more api setting
- Avoid blocking all pool testing if one pool fails to ever init
- There is no point storing the hints addrinfo in struct pool
- minion - 'reset' SPI when getting errors
- initialise more pool values in benchmark
- minion - auto adjust freq
- merge upstream frequency changes
- icarus - timing history in its own function
- rbox - add lotsa stats, tidy up a bit more
- Fix an off-by-one.
- icarus - detect stat should be LOG_DEBUG
- icarus - tidy up rbox code, remove statics, and add rocketbox
- minion - do an early reset to clear the chip status
- minion - use descriptive names for the list types
- Avalon2: automatic adjust fan speed, using crc16 on job_id compare, turn on
the led by API, detect twice when start, remember the last stratum message
increase the hashrate, add cutoff option
- fix AntS1 breakages from AntS2 changes
- minion - disable dup nonce check
- minion - add an ioseq number for each ioctl to simplify work ordering
- minion - redo old work expiry based on txrx order
- minion - more work stats, minimise queued work, free flushed queued work
- minion - allow resetting a chip via the API
- minion - correct 'WQue Count' in stats
- minion - delay after reset, reset history also, add dups to api stats
- noncedup - give access to the internal stats
- minion - increase reset to 75%
- minion - dup checking, disable reread by default and extra ioctl debugging
- minion - always check the chip queue before queuing new work

[quickbits]

How do I start mining?

[loshia]

Hello Con,

pthread_tryjoin_np was working great for last two days or so. Cgminer starts up for a sec or two:)

However you are removing it due to:
---------------------
Remove the use of the pthread_tryjoin_np which is currently unimplemented on many platforms
---------------------

If you can make it #ifdef where this is implemented will be great.

PS: i have not tested two latest commits after 4.2.2 release yet

Best

[-ck]

pthread_tryjoin_np was working great for last two days or so. Cgminer starts up for a sec or two:)

However you are removing it due to:
---------------------
Remove the use of the pthread_tryjoin_np which is currently unimplemented on many platforms
---------------------

If you can make it #ifdef where this is implemented will be great.

PS: i have not tested two latest commits after 4.2.2 release yet

Yes I know it works for Linux but many platforms don't have it implemented so I needed something cross platform hence the change to the code. The pain of writing cross platform software...

[loshia]

pthread_tryjoin_np was working great for last two days or so. Cgminer starts up for a sec or two:)

However you are removing it due to:
---------------------
Remove the use of the pthread_tryjoin_np which is currently unimplemented on many platforms
---------------------

If you can make it #ifdef where this is implemented will be great.

PS: i have not tested two latest commits after 4.2.2 release yet

Yes I know it works for Linux but many platforms don't have it implemented so I needed something cross platform hence the change to the code. The pain of writing cross platform software...

Yeah i got your point
Something like
#ifndef WIN32
 pthread_tryjoin_np
#else
...
#endif
What about it?
PS: if last two commits do same job then this is not needed of course
 

[jeezy]

Does this now have native Zeus support or do we still need to use the fork from dmaxl? Can't find suitable information on this.

[-ck]

Does this now have native Zeus support or do we still need to use the fork from dmaxl? Can't find suitable information on this.

This is a bitcoin miner. All altcoin variants are forks.

[techman05]

Alot of forks without a table to arrange them on. Makes my head hurt when I try to experiment elsewhere.

[Grayson5]

Making some progress with the Terraminer. I hooked up both boards directly to my PC, installed WinUSB, and then started up version 4.3.5 using the --ps-load 80 parameter since I used to run it at power step 8.

Cgminer recognizes the boards and they get an initial hash rate of about 200g for a second on each board and the over about a minute it goes down to 0.

I get a constant output of checksum bad for each board.

The miner registers on my pool for about 2 minutes and then nothing

Is there a parameter I am missing?

Any suggestions?

[-ck]

Making some progress with the Terraminer. I hooked up both boards directly to my PC, installed WinUSB, and then started up version 4.3.5 using the --ps-load 80 parameter since I used to run it at power step 8.

Cgminer recognizes the boards and they get an initial hash rate of about 200g for a second on each board and the over about a minute it goes down to 0.

I get a constant output of checksum bad for each board.

The miner registers on my pool for about 2 minutes and then nothing

Is there a parameter I am missing?

Any suggestions?

Sorry try 4.3.4 as 4.3.5 had the checksum code which is for newer firmware.

[Grayson5]

Yes! I think that might have done it....thanks!

[-ck]

Yes! I think that might have done it....thanks!

Good. Here's a special build of 4.4.2 for you without the checksum code as well:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer.exe

Just drop that file into a cgminer 4.4.2 folder overwriting the cgminer.exe

[Grayson5]

Thanks! Appreciate all the help.

[michelem]

hello, do you know how to setup logging on cgminer with GNU Screen (linux)?

I'm trying redirecting the stderr but cause of screen that won't work.

This doesn't work:

Code:

/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer bin/cgminer -c miner_conf.json 2>cgminer.log

[Jay_Pal]

hello, do you know how to setup logging on cgminer with GNU Screen (linux)?

I'm trying redirecting the stderr but cause of screen that won't work.

This doesn't work:

Code:

/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer bin/cgminer -c miner_conf.json 2>cgminer.log

Try

Code:

/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer bin/cgminer -c miner_conf.json 2 | tee cgminer.log

Instead

If you want to append the log file, use "tee -a".

[michelem]

hello, do you know how to setup logging on cgminer with GNU Screen (linux)?

I'm trying redirecting the stderr but cause of screen that won't work.

This doesn't work:

Code:

/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer bin/cgminer -c miner_conf.json 2>cgminer.log

Try

Code:

/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer bin/cgminer -c miner_conf.json 2 | tee cgminer.log

Instead

If you want to append the log file, use "tee -a".

No way with tee too.

[-ck]

hello, do you know how to setup logging on cgminer with GNU Screen (linux)?

I'm trying redirecting the stderr but cause of screen that won't work.

This doesn't work:

Code:

/usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer bin/cgminer -c miner_conf.json 2>cgminer.log

Create a script with the redirect in it and call that from screen.