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

[Vbs]

oops, looks like something eat me one core and miner not have enough priority.
It works same now
Sorry!

It (miner) is not very cpu hungry (taking about 1-2%), but better to rise it priority to "above normal".

I always run cgminer at "realtime" priority!

[os2sam]

oops, looks like something eat me one core and miner not have enough priority.
It works same now
Sorry!

It (miner) is not very cpu hungry (taking about 1-2%), but better to rise it priority to "above normal".

I always run cgminer at "realtime" priority!

Really? Does that make a difference in hash rate?
Sam

[dave3]

I've been running 2.6.2 for awhile now, and ran into the BFL error again, but it seemed to recover faster than with 2.6.1-9.

Code:

 cgminer version 2.6.2 - Started: [2012-08-03 11:01:01]
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 (5s):1742.8 (avg):1607.1 Mh/s | Q:1338  A:18444  R:118  HW:0  E:1378%  U:22.2/m
 TQ: 4  ST: 2  SS: 10  DW: 151  NB: 111  LW: 18514  GF: 106  RF: 23
 Connected to http://us2.eclipsemc.com:8337 with LP as user ---
 Block: 000000fef54454de78f71d88e1682ac1...  Started: [00:50:34]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 BFL 0:  56.8C         | 764.5/803.5Mh/s | A:9223 R:54 HW:0 U:11.11/m
 BFL 1:  59.3C         | 795.5/803.6Mh/s | A:9224 R:64 HW:0 U:11.11/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2012-08-04 00:49:49] Accepted 642b0a10.439f01a5 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:49:49] Accepted 99bc51ae.af7b0fb2 BFL 0 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:49:55] Accepted c1141456.8d3bc2e8 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:49:55] Accepted af80a22c.8ede0eb0 BFL 0 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:00] Accepted 2051832a.8ec1030b BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:11] Accepted 2348c318.bfdc7136 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:21] Accepted 1437218f.aa9cdb6a BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:21] BFL0: Error: Get temp returned empty string/timed out
 [2012-08-04 00:50:26] BFL0: Error: Get result reports: Temperature (celcius): 57.8
 [2012-08-04 00:50:26] Accepted 099e869b.522a22ef BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:26] Accepted cad1b030.cb2821a3 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:32] Accepted 208e9cf7.a2ce42d5 BFL 0 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:32] Accepted 95a0b59c.aa2bef25 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:34] LONGPOLL from pool 0 detected new block
 [2012-08-04 00:50:34] Pool 0 not providing work fast enough
 [2012-08-04 00:50:41] Accepted a65f79cb.fd521ce9 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:41] Accepted e3598f3f.79c13014 BFL 1 pool 0

[Tittiez]

Thought this might interest someone: setting intensity on the 6850 to, say, 3-8 make no more then a .5MH/s difference. So anyone using a 6850 for a display card and mining at the same time intensity 3 is great. 250Mh/s

[-ck]

I've been running 2.6.2 for awhile now, and ran into the BFL error again, but it seemed to recover faster than with 2.6.1-9.

Code:

 cgminer version 2.6.2 - Started: [2012-08-03 11:01:01]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):1742.8 (avg):1607.1 Mh/s | Q:1338  A:18444  R:118  HW:0  E:1378%  U:22.2/m
 TQ: 4  ST: 2  SS: 10  DW: 151  NB: 111  LW: 18514  GF: 106  RF: 23
 Connected to http://us2.eclipsemc.com:8337 with LP as user ---
 Block: 000000fef54454de78f71d88e1682ac1...  Started: [00:50:34]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 BFL 0:  56.8C         | 764.5/803.5Mh/s | A:9223 R:54 HW:0 U:11.11/m
 BFL 1:  59.3C         | 795.5/803.6Mh/s | A:9224 R:64 HW:0 U:11.11/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 [2012-08-04 00:49:49] Accepted 642b0a10.439f01a5 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:49:49] Accepted 99bc51ae.af7b0fb2 BFL 0 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:49:55] Accepted c1141456.8d3bc2e8 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:49:55] Accepted af80a22c.8ede0eb0 BFL 0 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:00] Accepted 2051832a.8ec1030b BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:11] Accepted 2348c318.bfdc7136 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:21] Accepted 1437218f.aa9cdb6a BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:21] BFL0: Error: Get temp returned empty string/timed out
 [2012-08-04 00:50:26] BFL0: Error: Get result reports: Temperature (celcius): 57.8
 [2012-08-04 00:50:26] Accepted 099e869b.522a22ef BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:26] Accepted cad1b030.cb2821a3 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:32] Accepted 208e9cf7.a2ce42d5 BFL 0 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:32] Accepted 95a0b59c.aa2bef25 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:34] LONGPOLL from pool 0 detected new block
 [2012-08-04 00:50:34] Pool 0 not providing work fast enough
 [2012-08-04 00:50:41] Accepted a65f79cb.fd521ce9 BFL 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-04 00:50:41] Accepted e3598f3f.79c13014 BFL 1 pool 0

That's great. It means there was perhaps a single throttling incident and the code changes I made allowed it to recover fairly quickly.

[420]

Using integrated graphics, i found I can mine with CGMiner and newest radeon driver

However [replace with But here if you like But's]

It doesn't apply my overclock settings and gives me this message on startup, wondering how I would code to fix it if possible:

"ADL found less devices than opencl!
There is possibly more than one display attached to a GPU
Use the gpu map featured to reliably map OpenCL to ADL"
Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!

Doesn't show temperature of my cards which is a real problem and makes me have to rely on other overclock software

[dave3]

That's great. It means there was perhaps a single throttling incident and the code changes I made allowed it to recover fairly quickly.

Very good.  It's still running fine.

[rav3n_pl]

oops, looks like something eat me one core and miner not have enough priority.
It works same now
Sorry!

It (miner) is not very cpu hungry (taking about 1-2%), but better to rise it priority to "above normal".

I always run cgminer at "realtime" priority!

Really? Does that make a difference in hash rate?
Sam

Yes, it is.
Try run few cpu (not GPU) consuming programs and see difference

[420]

oops, looks like something eat me one core and miner not have enough priority.
It works same now
Sorry!

It (miner) is not very cpu hungry (taking about 1-2%), but better to rise it priority to "above normal".

I always run cgminer at "realtime" priority!

Really? Does that make a difference in hash rate?
Sam

Yes, it is.
Try run few cpu (not GPU) consuming programs and see difference

Unable to set priority to realtime, set priority to High instead

EDIT: Until I opened task manager as Admin

[os2sam]

Just upgraded to 2.6.2.

When I try to disable a pool from the menu it says "cannot disable last pool".  All I do is press P and D and get this message, I don't get a chance to select a pool to disable.
Sam

[MaGNeT]

I created a little "how to" video for CGMiner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TKYpxTmso

Not perfect, but it's a start 

[rav3n_pl]

Just upgraded to 2.6.2.

When I try to disable a pool from the menu it says "cannot disable last pool".  All I do is press P and D and get this message, I don't get a chance to select a pool to disable.
Sam

Switch to another pool, then disable.

[os2sam]

Just upgraded to 2.6.2.

When I try to disable a pool from the menu it says "cannot disable last pool".  All I do is press P and D and get this message, I don't get a chance to select a pool to disable.
Sam

Switch to another pool, then disable.

Tried that, per your suggestion, but still no go.

Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Sam

[-ck]

Just upgraded to 2.6.2.

When I try to disable a pool from the menu it says "cannot disable last pool".  All I do is press P and D and get this message, I don't get a chance to select a pool to disable.
Sam

Switch to another pool, then disable.

Tried that, per your suggestion, but still no go.

Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Sam

Looks like a new bug, will fix next version, thanks.

[os2sam]

Just upgraded to 2.6.2.

When I try to disable a pool from the menu it says "cannot disable last pool".  All I do is press P and D and get this message, I don't get a chance to select a pool to disable.
Sam

Switch to another pool, then disable.

Tried that, per your suggestion, but still no go.

Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Sam

Looks like a new bug, will fix next version, thanks.

Sounds great.
Thanks,
Sam

[420]

I created a little "how to" video for CGMiner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TKYpxTmso

Not perfect, but it's a start 

great

[-ck]

New version: 2.6.3 - August 5th 2012

Mostly bugfixes but one significant code rewrite

Human readable changelog
The most significant change in this version is a complete rewrite of the queueing mechanism which gets new work from the pools. The code in that section had gotten out of hand and become a "state machine" that was difficult to model its behaviour and occasionally led to stalls during startup and what-not without work and perhaps queued too much work in general. Now it monitors carefully the amount of queued and available work on a pool-by-pool basis and only queues when needed, but tries hard to make sure it doesn't run empty. You will notice the the TQ value now hovers around zero when all is well, and only jumps up transiently, all going well. Hopefully the efficiency is even higher now too. Detection of pool lag should be more accurate now, and less shares should leak to backup pools now as well.
Autodetect of BFL devices now works on windows too, courtesy of code from jesusminer.
Fixed the inability to disable pools from the menu.
Fixed writing of scrypt parameters to the configuration file.
Can set failover-only mode now from the menu during runtime.
No work is done by backup pools in failover-only mode at startup once again.
The API should be able to bind to the port immediately on linux now instead of having to wait 60 seconds as it used to.
Throttling episodes on bitforce devices will now register as HW errors.

Full changelog

- Count likely throttling episodes on bitforce devices as hardware errors.
- Style cleanups.
- Use FTD2XX.DLL on Windows to autodetect BitFORCE SHA256 devices.
- Make pool_disabled the first in the enums == 0, fixing the pool enabled count
which compares if value is not enabled before enabling it.
- Correct writing of scrypt parameters to config file based on command line
parameters only.
- Use different variables for command line specified lookup gap and thread
concurrency to differentiate user defined versus auto chosen values.
- Queue a request on pool switch in case we have no work from the new pool yet.
- Display failover only mode in pool menu and allow it to be toggled live.
- Reinstate check for system queueing lag when the current pool's queue is maxed
out, there is no staged work, and the work is needed now.
- There is no need for pool active testing to be mandatory any more with queue
request changes.
- Fix harmless warnings.
- Check the current staged and global queued as well before queueing requests.
Discard stales before ageing work in the watchdog thread. Queue requests after
discarding and ageing work in watchdog thread. Display accurate global queued in
curses output. Reuse variable in age_work().
- The queueing mechanism has become a complex state machine that is no longer
predictable. Rewrite it from scratch watching only current queues in flight and
staged work available on a pool by pool basis.
- API remove unused warning in non-GPU compile
- api.c in linux allow to open a closed socket in TIME_WAIT
- Queue an extra request whenever staged work drops below mining thread count in
hash_pop.
- Update debian package configs to v2.6.2

[Krak]

Getting this when I try to start 2.6.3.

Code:

error while loading shared libraries: libOpenCL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[-ck]

Getting this when I try to start 2.6.3.

Code:

error while loading shared libraries: libOpenCL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

With my binaries you need to install opencl, usually from AMD, although the NVIDIA or even the Intel one will suffice. This has ALWAYS been the case.

http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/Pages/default.aspx

[Krak]

With my binaries you need to install opencl, usually from AMD, although the NVIDIA or even the Intel one will suffice. This has ALWAYS been the case.

http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/Pages/default.aspx

I've always had the SDK installed and up through 2.6.2, it was working fine...