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March 23, 2012, 01:53:23 AM
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Anyone know where I can get a Windows binary of cgminer that has support for the Icarus FPGA board activated? I'm not 100% sure if the stock binary on the first post actually has Icarus support activated. I tried to use it and it did not work - did not detect the FPGAs.



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March 23, 2012, 02:16:32 AM
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What is "Cubby"?
A piece of software by LogMeIn

Wow - Cubby is in super-secret-internal alpha, pre-announcement and all, I'm surprised to see it show up on Software Informer at all.

Anyway, Cubby was just opening the cgminer executable and that's why AVG is even displaying the LogMeIn product. I could have used Windows Explorer to copy it and then AVG would have shown Explorer at the bottom part. This isn't really relevant.

Martona, if you got the executable from Con's homepage, you should be safe.

Yeah that's where it came from, and like I said, I'm pretty sue it's a false positive of AVG's heuristics but I thought it's worth putting it in front of you guys, especially Con.
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Code:
[2012-03-22 22:46:43] Started cgminer 2.3.1

[2012-03-22 22:46:43] Started cgminer 2.3.1
[2012-03-22 22:46:43] Probing for an alive pool
[2012-03-22 22:46:44] Long-polling activated for http://mining.eligius.st:8337/LP
Segmentation fault
root@ds-r:~/cgminer-2.3.1-2#

Running on debian squeeze, sdk 2.4, newer/ish fglrx

I get the same error from both a self built and the pre-built ubuntu binary.
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March 23, 2012, 06:00:21 AM
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Is there a place where i can download old versions of cgminer ?
I dunno what i`m doing wrong, but new 2.3.1 ver. works slower than my old 2.0.6 on my rigs.
Mostly i use 5870/5970.
I`m using just oc parameters, no auto GPU or Auto fan.
I`m planning to buy bigger MB and put somme 7970 into play, but i`m loosing aprox. 150-200Mhash on software... :/
i`ll make somme proof for that - cgminer woriking at least for 2h.
If there is a difference in performance between two version of cgminer then this is caused by one of:
your using different kernels, different SDK or different drivers

When you run the old cgminer it will use the old *.bin that was created with the SDK that was installed back when it created the *.bin file
To see how old the bin files are on linux:
 ls -las *.bin
on windows
 dir /a *.bin
(or view them in windows explorer)

If your ATI drivers are updated, then if it is e.g. 12.2 then you also now are running SDK 2.6 <- the cause of your problem.

Of course, this is already written in the cgminer README file in the FAQ at the end - look for "my hashrate suddenly dropped"
(FAQ means ... ... Frequently Asked Questions)

Edit: why not use autogpu and autofan?
Unless you have some software monitoring those (and cgminer does it very well) you are risking your cards.

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March 23, 2012, 06:02:48 AM
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[2012-03-22 22:46:43] Started cgminer 2.3.1

[2012-03-22 22:46:43] Started cgminer 2.3.1
[2012-03-22 22:46:43] Probing for an alive pool
[2012-03-22 22:46:44] Long-polling activated for http://mining.eligius.st:8337/LP
Segmentation fault
root@ds-r:~/cgminer-2.3.1-2#

Running on debian squeeze, sdk 2.4, newer/ish fglrx

I get the same error from both a self built and the pre-built ubuntu binary.
You included CPU mining didn't you?

If not, then try "-D --verbose -T" and also "-n" to see what's unusual about your computer.

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Code:
zulus@zulus-zulus:~/cgminer-2.0.6$  ls -las *.bin
1708 -rw-r--r-- 1 zulus zulus 1744972 2012-02-22 09:18 phatk110817Cypressbitalignv2w128long8.bin
zulus@zulus-zulus:~/cgminer-2.0.6$

Code:
cgminer version 2.0.6 - Started: [2012-03-23 02:46:38]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):2324.0 (avg):2333.0 Mh/s | Q:10985  A:10320  R:37  HW:0  E:94%  U:31.71/m
 TQ: 2  ST: 6  SS: 0  DW: 173  NB: 23  LW: 0  GF: 7  RF: 8
 Connected to http://gpumax.com:8332 with LP as user 4f39b86921fd404e601c2805
 Block: 000008fad3b8a307c97990e949cf79b0...  Started: [08:09:34]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0: 63.5C 21% | 385.8/339.3Mh/s | A:1535 R:6 HW:0 U:4.72/m I:2
 GPU 1: 56.5C 1255RPM | 331.5/333.8Mh/s | A:1522 R:4 HW:0 U:4.68/m I:9
 GPU 2: 57.5C | 334.0/333.6Mh/s | A:1531 R:4 HW:0 U:4.70/m I:9
 GPU 3: 59.5C  960RPM | 339.9/334.5Mh/s | A:1357 R:5 HW:0 U:4.17/m I:9
 GPU 4: 62.0C | 334.8/333.5Mh/s | A:1473 R:4 HW:0 U:4.53/m I:9
 GPU 5: 62.0C  960RPM | 329.8/331.2Mh/s | A:1463 R:6 HW:0 U:4.50/m I:9
 GPU 6: 60.5C | 325.3/327.6Mh/s | A:1441 R:8 HW:0 U:4.43/m I:9
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

and now cgminer 2.3.1.
Code:
zulus@zulus-zulus:~/cgminer-2.3.1-2-x86_64-built$ ls -las *.bin
1380 -rw-r--r-- 1 zulus zulus 1409068 2012-03-19 18:26 diablo120222Cypressv2w256l8.bin
1872 -rw-r--r-- 1 zulus zulus 1916100 2012-03-20 07:52 phatk120223Cypressv1w128l8.bin
1708 -rw-r--r-- 1 zulus zulus 1745560 2012-03-19 19:58 phatk120223Cypressv2w256l8.bin

i just started cdm 2.3.1 just in education mode, and adter few minutes, it`s like that:
(5s):2113.5 (avg):1970.7 Mh/s | Q:140

i`ll update that post with code of cgminer asap it will pas more than 2h.

Should i say, that no catalyst and no SDK was changed ??
So why newer is worser ?
ATM i`m using SDK2.6 implemented into 12.2 catalyst on ubuntu 11.04 x64
Code:
[ cgminer version 2.3.1 - Started: [2012-03-23 08:16:21]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):2137.6 (avg):2085.5 Mh/s | Q:9271  A:7769  R:10  HW:199890  E:84%  U:29.50
TQ: 5  ST: 7  SS: 12  DW: 240  NB: 25  LW: 0  GF: 2  RF: 3
Connected to http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 with LP as user ummas@op.pl_GNG
Block: 0000000d14a8a028262dab4904b4ddb8...  Started: [12:36:35]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0:  62.0C 100%    | 222.0/245.6Mh/s | A: 897 R:1 HW:23123 U:3.41/m I: 4
GPU 1:  51.5C 1549RPM | 304.1/303.0Mh/s | A:1091 R:1 HW:27984 U:4.14/m I: 9
GPU 2:  52.5C 1549RPM | 305.4/302.8Mh/s | A:1146 R:1 HW:29428 U:4.35/m I: 9
GPU 3:  57.5C  960RPM | 309.9/309.3Mh/s | A:1182 R:3 HW:30351 U:4.49/m I: 9
GPU 4:  60.5C         | 310.9/308.2Mh/s | A:1155 R:1 HW:29722 U:4.39/m I: 9
GPU 5:  60.5C  960RPM | 307.7/308.7Mh/s | A:1146 R:2 HW:29581 U:4.35/m I: 9
GPU 6:  58.5C  960RPM | 312.4/308.4Mh/s | A:1152 R:1 HW:29701 U:4.37/m I: 9
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /code].

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March 23, 2012, 07:23:05 AM
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Well straight up you can see that the old one (that you said is faster?) is phatk2w128 ... which doesn't even exist in your new list.

There is also the point that you'd need to be sure what SDK was installed back on 2012-02-22 vs now.

"./cgminer -n" will tell you what it is now.


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kano, i was using 11.6 catalyst with SDK 2.4 for last 6 months.
I removed it myself and instaled SDK2.6 insted.
I was searching a guide hawto uninstall, but not found, so i decided to experimen a little.
i followed guide of amd guide "haw to check why it`s not working" but in different dirrection.

Drivers was changed(and SDK) this week - monday i think.
I tried to force 2.3.1 with -k phatk -v 2 -w 128 - not working as well as 2.0.6 with nothing.
should i show you my line? i`m not using .cfg files.
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Code:
[2012-03-22 22:46:43] Started cgminer 2.3.1

[2012-03-22 22:46:43] Started cgminer 2.3.1
[2012-03-22 22:46:43] Probing for an alive pool
[2012-03-22 22:46:44] Long-polling activated for http://mining.eligius.st:8337/LP
Segmentation fault
root@ds-r:~/cgminer-2.3.1-2#

Running on debian squeeze, sdk 2.4, newer/ish fglrx

I get the same error from both a self built and the pre-built ubuntu binary.
You included CPU mining didn't you?

If not, then try "-D --verbose -T" and also "-n" to see what's unusual about your computer.

/cgminer-2.3.1-2# ./cgminer -D --verbose -T
[2012-03-23 02:59:44] Started cgminer 2.3.1
*** CAL version mismatch:
This OpenCL build requires version 1.4.879, version 1.4.815 installed.
Aborting.
*** CAL version mismatch:
This OpenCL build requires version 1.4.879, version 1.4.815 installed.
Aborting.
[2012-03-23 02:59:44] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.       
[2012-03-23 02:59:44] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing   
[2012-03-23 02:59:44] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (595.10)
[2012-03-23 02:59:44] Error -1: Getting Device IDs (num)
[2012-03-23 02:59:44] clDevicesNum returned error, no GPUs usable               
All devices disabled, cannot mine!
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ocl mismach .... uninstall all OCL, and install new one.
what Catalyst? - 11.10 or never ??
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March 23, 2012, 08:30:45 AM
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kano, i was using 11.6 catalyst with SDK 2.4 for last 6 months.
I removed it myself and instaled SDK2.6 insted.
I was searching a guide hawto uninstall, but not found, so i decided to experimen a little.
i followed guide of amd guide "haw to check why it`s not working" but in different dirrection.
Well I could point this out but it may not be helpful if you don't know exactly what 2.6 installed
(what and where it put the files)

https://github.com/kanoi/linux-usb-cgminer/blob/master/linux-AMD-SDK-2.4-2.6-upgrade-downgrade

Drivers was changed(and SDK) this week - monday i think.
I tried to force 2.3.1 with -k phatk -v 2 -w 128 - not working as well as 2.0.6 with nothing.
should i show you my line? i`m not using .cfg files.
Yep 2.6 is slower than 2.4/2.5 on phatk on 6xxx cards (and probably 5xxx cards too?)
See if you can work out how to undo your 2.6 (if my doc helps?) - once you get back to 2.4 that MAY resolve it
(if you delete the new *.bin before running cgminer)

However, I found also that even 12.0 (which came with the standalone 2.6 SDK as mentioned in my git document)
was slower with the same *.bin files than 11.4/11.6

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Last edit: March 23, 2012, 11:50:59 AM by ummas
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I dont mind mining on 2.0.6, i had performance simmilar to that i had with sdk 2.4 & cat 11.6.
so for me gold spot - i can run oclhashcat Cheesy

Edit:
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Code:
cgminer version 2.3.1 - Started: [2012-03-23 08:16:21]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):2137.6 (avg):2085.5 Mh/s | Q:9271  A:7769  R:10  HW:199890  E:84%  U:29.50
TQ: 5  ST: 7  SS: 12  DW: 240  NB: 25  LW: 0  GF: 2  RF: 3
Connected to http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 with LP as user ummas@op.pl_GNG
Block: 0000000d14a8a028262dab4904b4ddb8...  Started: [12:36:35]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0:  62.0C 100%    | 222.0/245.6Mh/s | A: 897 R:1 HW:23123 U:3.41/m I: 4
GPU 1:  51.5C 1549RPM | 304.1/303.0Mh/s | A:1091 R:1 HW:27984 U:4.14/m I: 9
GPU 2:  52.5C 1549RPM | 305.4/302.8Mh/s | A:1146 R:1 HW:29428 U:4.35/m I: 9
GPU 3:  57.5C  960RPM | 309.9/309.3Mh/s | A:1182 R:3 HW:30351 U:4.49/m I: 9
GPU 4:  60.5C         | 310.9/308.2Mh/s | A:1155 R:1 HW:29722 U:4.39/m I: 9
GPU 5:  60.5C  960RPM | 307.7/308.7Mh/s | A:1146 R:2 HW:29581 U:4.35/m I: 9
GPU 6:  58.5C  960RPM | 312.4/308.4Mh/s | A:1152 R:1 HW:29701 U:4.37/m I: 9
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Conclusion:
You wont get performance loss using sdk 2.6 on 5xxx series if you use old software?
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I dont mind mining on 2.0.6, i had performance simmilar to that i had with sdk 2.4 & cat 11.6.
so for me gold spot - i can run oclhashcat Cheesy

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Code:
cgminer version 2.3.1 - Started: [2012-03-23 08:16:21]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):2137.6 (avg):2085.5 Mh/s | Q:9271  A:7769  R:10  HW:199890  E:84%  U:29.50
TQ: 5  ST: 7  SS: 12  DW: 240  NB: 25  LW: 0  GF: 2  RF: 3
Connected to http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 with LP as user ummas@op.pl_GNG
Block: 0000000d14a8a028262dab4904b4ddb8...  Started: [12:36:35]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0:  62.0C 100%    | 222.0/245.6Mh/s | A: 897 R:1 HW:23123 U:3.41/m I: 4
GPU 1:  51.5C 1549RPM | 304.1/303.0Mh/s | A:1091 R:1 HW:27984 U:4.14/m I: 9
GPU 2:  52.5C 1549RPM | 305.4/302.8Mh/s | A:1146 R:1 HW:29428 U:4.35/m I: 9
GPU 3:  57.5C  960RPM | 309.9/309.3Mh/s | A:1182 R:3 HW:30351 U:4.49/m I: 9
GPU 4:  60.5C         | 310.9/308.2Mh/s | A:1155 R:1 HW:29722 U:4.39/m I: 9
GPU 5:  60.5C  960RPM | 307.7/308.7Mh/s | A:1146 R:2 HW:29581 U:4.35/m I: 9
GPU 6:  58.5C  960RPM | 312.4/308.4Mh/s | A:1152 R:1 HW:29701 U:4.37/m I: 9
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Conclusion:
You wont get performance loss using sdk 2.6 on 5xxx series if you use old software?

Delete the .bin files from your beloved 2.0.6 installation and try again. You are NOT using the new sdk on the old installation if you still have old .bin files there. I did NOT spend 6 months and hundreds of hours coding upgrades to cgminer to make it slower.

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Delete the .bin files from your beloved 2.0.6 installation and try again. You are NOT using the new sdk on the old installation if you still have old .bin files there. I did NOT spend 6 months and hundreds of hours coding upgrades to cgminer to make it slower.

Shouldn't the cgminer delete old .bin files itself? If it created them before, it should take care of them.

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22.02.2012 wasent the first day of usig, so he did i think...

.bin deleted....
 
Code:
2012-03-23 13:32:28] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0
2012-03-23 13:32:28] Restarting the GPU from the menu is unlikely to fix this.
2012-03-23 13:32:28] Try stopping other applications using the GPU like afterburner.
2012-03-23 13:32:28] Then restart cgminer.
Press enter to continue:
cgminer version 2.0.6 - Started: [2012-03-23 13:32:28]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):0.0 (avg):0.0 Mh/s | Q:2  A:0  R:0  HW:0  E:0%  U:0.00/m
TQ: 2  ST: 3  SS: 0  DW: 0  NB: 1  LW: 0  GF: 0  RF: 0
Connected to http://gpumax.com:8332 with LP as user 4f39b86921fd404e601c2805
Block: 0000037bee13fa9ed034f4ae959e3405...  Started: [13:32:28]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0: 41.5C 100% | DISABLED /0.0Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.00/m I:0
GPU 1: 35.0C 1574RPM | DISABLED /0.0Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.00/m I:9
GPU 2: 35.0C | DISABLED /0.0Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.00/m I:9
GPU 3: 37.5C  960RPM | DISABLED /0.0Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.00/m I:9
GPU 4: 42.0C | DISABLED /0.0Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.00/m I:9
GPU 5: 38.5C  960RPM | DISABLED /0.0Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.00/m I:9
GPU 6: 38.5C | DISABLED /0.0Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.00/m I:9
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I`m not able enable...
Code:
Select GPU to enable:
0
Must restart device before enabling itGPU 0: 0.0 / 0.0 Mh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.00/m  I:0
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Delete the .bin files from your beloved 2.0.6 installation and try again. You are NOT using the new sdk on the old installation if you still have old .bin files there. I did NOT spend 6 months and hundreds of hours coding upgrades to cgminer to make it slower.

Shouldn't the cgminer delete old .bin files itself? If it created them before, it should take care of them.


Why?  Compiling the kernel takes time and resources.  It makes the first start much slower.

That is the entire point of saving a bin file.

1) cgminer looks to see if bin files exists (binary version of OpenCL kernel)
2a) if no bin file exists it compiles the open CL kernel using CURRENTLY INSTALLED SDK and saves a copy as bin file
2b) if bin file exists then cgminer saves time and resources and loads that bin file
3) compiled binary (bin file) is loaded onto the GPU
4) execution begins

The 2a & 2b means if you upgrade sdk but DON'T delete the bin files you will run cgminer used kernel compiled on the SDK at the time of first start.  If later you install a new copy of cgminer (which has no precompiled bin files) then and only then will the new SDK be used.

ckolivas could make cgminer compile on the fly on each startup and it likely would reduce confusion because as soon as you upgraded SDK and restarted cgminer you would see performance drop and people would stop blaming later version of cgminer for the drop. Still that change would only help the uninformed be less clueless and would slow start times for everyone else.
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March 23, 2012, 12:55:41 PM
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So i`m cheating...i like it....
I`m mining this same, but can run other(oclhashcat) software... double win to me.
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I noticed two small issues this morning, one which would be easy to reproduce but doesn't necessarily need fixed, the other which would be difficult to reproduce but should theoretically be fixed for best performance (assuming my observation was correct).

Issue one is related to the use of system time, my mining machine was about 6 minutes slow, over the course of a couple weeks with ntp not running.  I started ntp and when the time changed, cgminer immediately reported "pool not providing work enough" and subsequently switched pools.  This probably wouldn't have happened if ntp was running all along, which is why I think it is a minor issue, but it makes me wonder if DST causes dropped work and pool failovers when they shouldn't exist.  Since that would only be a problem once or twice a year, I still don't know if this would be worth fixing, because I'm guessing it would be difficult to fix (would require a unique time source or some sort of interrupt to deal with known time changes on the existing time source [assuming either one of those is even possible]).

Issue two is related to submission of stale shares.  Note that I did not have --submit-stale on the command line in this case, but I have previously seen cgminer submit detected stales to the pool because it was instructed to (pool is eligius).  This morning, I just happened to look at my miner while this was still on the screen:
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[2012-03-23 08:22:53] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-03-23 08:22:57] Accepted 00000000.949b59d0.7ecd59ab GPU 0 thread 1 pool 0
[2012-03-23 08:23:03] Accepted 00000000.58e019ff.7a3bc657 GPU 0 thread 1 pool 0
[2012-03-23 08:23:05] Pool 0 communication failure, caching submissions
[2012-03-23 08:23:05] Stale share detected, discarding
[2012-03-23 08:23:07] Pool 0 communication resumed, submitting work
[2012-03-23 08:23:07] Accepted 00000000.ade4193a.07083649 GPU 0 thread 0 pool 0
I had recently restarted cgminer, so I can't be 100% certain cgminer was again instructed to submit stales, but assuming it was, I believe the discarded share above would indicate a bug in stale share handling in this scenario.  I also believe it would have been accepted based on the length of time between the last longpoll and this event and the fact that other shares were accepted before and after this one with no other new block event shown.

I can't do much about either of these, but I thought I would bring them up in case anyone who could might want to.
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If you want to avoid the second one there is a submit stale = true option available in the config file.

If the share is genuinely stale though that will simply increase the stale count on the pool server.  If the share is valid it will prevent cgminer from proactively killing it.
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March 23, 2012, 01:20:06 PM
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Why?  Compiling the kernel takes time and resources.  It makes the first start much slower.

That is the entire point of saving a bin file.

1) cgminer looks to see if bin files exists (binary version of OpenCL kernel)
2a) if no bin file exists it compiles the open CL kernel using CURRENTLY INSTALLED SDK and saves a copy as bin file
2b) if bin file exists then cgminer saves time and resources and loads that bin file
3) compiled binary (bin file) is loaded onto the GPU
4) execution begins

The 2a & 2b means if you upgrade sdk but DON'T delete the bin files you will run cgminer used kernel compiled on the SDK at the time of first start.  If later you install a new copy of cgminer (which has no precompiled bin files) then and only then will the new SDK be used.

ckolivas could make cgminer compile on the fly on each startup and it likely would reduce confusion because as soon as you upgraded SDK and restarted cgminer you would see performance drop and people would stop blaming later version of cgminer for the drop. Still that change would only help the uninformed be less clueless and would slow start times for everyone else.

Isn't there a way in OpenCL to check what version of the SDK the .bin was compiled in and re-compile only if the SDK did not match currently installed? Or, encode the version into .bin filename. Sorry for nitpicking Smiley.

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