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

[os2sam]

Yeah I mentioned that at the start also
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg1158935#msg1158935

Though I did add the edit back then saying if there was a bug it would need following up just in case I was wrong.

I guess that comment about --auto-gpu --auto-fan has been missed each time?

No, I saw it, and I already changed my command line to include it.  Someone else, might have been you, to add the cutoff, which was already in the config.

What was tripping me up was the lines in the config that I didn't put there, and someone telling me to add the temp cutoff line.

Thanks for the assistance.

M

EDIT: It occurred to me after I wrote this that the auto-gpu and auto-fan lines might have been in the config file to begin with, and I might have removed them.  That of course would lead to this situation.  I don't recall doing so, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

This little exercise in frustration is why I still use all command line options.

Of course I also prefer a config.sys to a registry any day too
Sam

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[mdude77]

No, I saw it, and I already changed my command line to include it.  Someone else, might have been you, to add the cutoff, which was already in the config.

What was tripping me up was the lines in the config that I didn't put there, and someone telling me to add the temp cutoff line.

Thanks for the assistance.

M

EDIT: It occurred to me after I wrote this that the auto-gpu and auto-fan lines might have been in the config file to begin with, and I might have removed them.  That of course would lead to this situation.  I don't recall doing so, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Alright, I just got this error that I've never seen before.  I've seen others report this, I never have until I added those two lines:

Code:

[2012-09-04 20:43:11] Rejected 36800659.0478c728 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:17] Rejected 710d0f98.46c1d6fc GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:19] Rejected 1617f4a0.ca588d24 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:20] Rejected d857c0d0.b392795b GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:20] Rejected 0af37905.5c08917f GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:23] Rejected 9b8e310c.5e5363de GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:23] Rejected 2186400e.50964116 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:33] Rejected 80a6c9cb.0acea6f5 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:41] Rejected 6a9eaba7.fe0df6c3 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:43] Rejected ef982720.75f0d021 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:46] Rejected 22eb21ec.e426caee GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:53] Rejected 2aa476d7.db9f2003 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)

M

[crazyates]

No, I saw it, and I already changed my command line to include it.  Someone else, might have been you, to add the cutoff, which was already in the config.

What was tripping me up was the lines in the config that I didn't put there, and someone telling me to add the temp cutoff line.

Thanks for the assistance.

M

EDIT: It occurred to me after I wrote this that the auto-gpu and auto-fan lines might have been in the config file to begin with, and I might have removed them.  That of course would lead to this situation.  I don't recall doing so, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Alright, I just got this error that I've never seen before.  I've seen others report this, I never have until I added those two lines:

Code:

[2012-09-04 20:43:11] Rejected 36800659.0478c728 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:17] Rejected 710d0f98.46c1d6fc GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:19] Rejected 1617f4a0.ca588d24 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:20] Rejected d857c0d0.b392795b GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:20] Rejected 0af37905.5c08917f GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:23] Rejected 9b8e310c.5e5363de GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:23] Rejected 2186400e.50964116 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:33] Rejected 80a6c9cb.0acea6f5 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:41] Rejected 6a9eaba7.fe0df6c3 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:43] Rejected ef982720.75f0d021 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:46] Rejected 22eb21ec.e426caee GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)
[2012-09-04 20:43:53] Rejected 2aa476d7.db9f2003 GPU 0 pool 0 (Stale or unknown
work)

M

--auto-gpu and --auto-fan don't have anything to do with stales. Perhaps you missed a LP? Happens to me every once in a while.

[kano]

...
M

Completely unrelated to using those two options.
We'd need to know about the cgminer version you are using (certain older versions have known issues) and the pool being used and other such information.
Also, that is well known to happen with pools like ABC and GPUMax caused by the pool.

[mdude77]

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M

Completely unrelated to using those two options.
We'd need to know about the cgminer version you are using (certain older versions have known issues) and the pool being used and other such information.
Also, that is well known to happen with pools like ABC and GPUMax caused by the pool.

Using 2.7.4 on ozcoin.

M

[kano]

...
M

Completely unrelated to using those two options.
We'd need to know about the cgminer version you are using (certain older versions have known issues) and the pool being used and other such information.
Also, that is well known to happen with pools like ABC and GPUMax caused by the pool.

Using 2.7.4 on ozcoin.

M

2 things:
1) Is that once or over and over again?
Things like a dynamic IP address change, or an OzCoin server DNS switch, or a pool restart can cause that.
2) Try 2.7.5

[mdude77]

1) Is that once or over and over again?
Things like a dynamic IP address change, or an OzCoin server DNS switch, or a pool restart can cause that.
2) Try 2.7.5

Endlessly, a page of it before I restarted it.

If it happens again I'll upgrade.. I like stability.

Tx,

M

[Subo1977]

It there a Plan to implemet queue and Threats in the API?

[kano]

It there a Plan to implemet queue and Threats in the API?

At the moment the socket queue is 100 but a single thread.
What are you doing with the API that needs more than that?

[Subo1977]

It there a Plan to implemet queue and Threats in the API?

At the moment the socket queue is 100 but a single thread.
What are you doing with the API that needs more than that?

Ok i miswrote it.
I dont wont Threat and queue for the API. I want to Set These options over the API like Intensity.

If i Mine with a normal Pool the Standard Setting for these Parameters are ok.

If i Switch to p2pool over the API in an Script, i want to change the Queue And threats too.

[steveme]

Or if anyone is interested in additions after 2.7.5

The master branch in my git has a rather large number of commits I've worked on in the last 24 hours (and a couple before that)
The list is: debug control in the API, generic HW error handling for all devices except ztex, Diff1 information, BFL identify via a led flash, BFL throttle counter in 'notify' and a few other bit and pieces.

The pull request is here: https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/pull/310 that shows them all.
That is simply my master branch - and each change I've done I keep adding to that pull request.

Anyone interested in any of those additions feel free to compile my master and let me know if you have any problems.
I haven't changed the ztex code coz I don't have any ztex hardware and the original code does some weird shit dealing with HW errors - if someone has a ztex and has time to visit IRC I could add some changes in another branch and get them to test it also.

Thanks for anyone who can test this.

Edit: of course this is what I am running on my 2 rigs - BFL, and ICA+GPU

I built it last night on 32bit Ubuntu 12.04. It's been running for 8hrs and is showing a modest amount of HW errors for my CM1 board.

Looks good

[kano]

It there a Plan to implemet queue and Threats in the API?

At the moment the socket queue is 100 but a single thread.
What are you doing with the API that needs more than that?

Ok i miswrote it.
I dont wont Threat and queue for the API. I want to Set These options over the API like Intensity.

If i Mine with a normal Pool the Standard Setting for these Parameters are ok.

If i Switch to p2pool over the API in an Script, i want to change the Queue And threats too.

Ah OK - Queue, ScanTime and Expiry are certainly no issue to add.
(It currently shows ScanTime, but doesn't let you change it - easy enough to do that)
I'll add them to my list of stuff to be done some time in the future ... or you can prompt me to do it sooner ...

Adjusting the number of threads ... not in the near future ... cgminer doesn't let you do that through the screen, so doing it via the API might mean a change in the scanhash thread control code ... I'd have to look closer at it ...

[kano]

Or if anyone is interested in additions after 2.7.5

The master branch in my git has a rather large number of commits I've worked on in the last 24 hours (and a couple before that)
The list is: debug control in the API, generic HW error handling for all devices except ztex, Diff1 information, BFL identify via a led flash, BFL throttle counter in 'notify' and a few other bit and pieces.

The pull request is here: https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/pull/310 that shows them all.
That is simply my master branch - and each change I've done I keep adding to that pull request.

Anyone interested in any of those additions feel free to compile my master and let me know if you have any problems.
I haven't changed the ztex code coz I don't have any ztex hardware and the original code does some weird shit dealing with HW errors - if someone has a ztex and has time to visit IRC I could add some changes in another branch and get them to test it also.

Thanks for anyone who can test this.

Edit: of course this is what I am running on my 2 rigs - BFL, and ICA+GPU

I built it last night on 32bit Ubuntu 12.04. It's been running for 8hrs and is showing a modest amount of HW errors for my CM1 board.

Looks good

Thanks! - let me know if you find any problems.

[Askit2]

It looks like I can adjust cgminer to fix my problem of ~10% stales. If eclipsemc is working well I can run a scan time of about 90. If I use gpumax to pass work to gpumax I need to have scan time set to 30 or less. it does give me around 8 stales in a row I would assume But I hacked it so that I wouldn't get kicked off gpumax by using eclipsemc's diff10 server prior to remembering this setting. I get 1-2 stales. Granted all the accepted are less frequent too. My average stales on that pool went from `9.8 to 9.5 now that isn't great but my overall submission rate is far lower too so the average would take a while to drop. I really didn't want to restart but it would give me numbers earlier.
For a serious question. Would compliling the API C file just require using minGW? I don't really know how to use the MinGW compiler at all so this would likely be a bad idea.

[kano]

It looks like I can adjust cgminer to fix my problem of ~10% stales. If eclipsemc is working well I can run a scan time of about 90. If I use gpumax to pass work to gpumax I need to have scan time set to 30 or less. it does give me around 8 stales in a row I would assume But I hacked it so that I wouldn't get kicked off gpumax by using eclipsemc's diff10 server prior to remembering this setting. I get 1-2 stales. Granted all the accepted are less frequent too. My average stales on that pool went from `9.8 to 9.5 now that isn't great but my overall submission rate is far lower too so the average would take a while to drop. I really didn't want to restart but it would give me numbers earlier.
For a serious question. Would compliling the API C file just require using minGW? I don't really know how to use the MinGW compiler at all so this would likely be a bad idea.

There are quite a few steps to compiling cgminer on windows ... all documented in windows-build.txt that Sharky wrote that comes with cgminer.

[Askit2]

It looks like I can adjust cgminer to fix my problem of ~10% stales. If eclipsemc is working well I can run a scan time of about 90. If I use gpumax to pass work to gpumax I need to have scan time set to 30 or less. it does give me around 8 stales in a row I would assume But I hacked it so that I wouldn't get kicked off gpumax by using eclipsemc's diff10 server prior to remembering this setting. I get 1-2 stales. Granted all the accepted are less frequent too. My average stales on that pool went from `9.8 to 9.5 now that isn't great but my overall submission rate is far lower too so the average would take a while to drop. I really didn't want to restart but it would give me numbers earlier.
For a serious question. Would compliling the API C file just require using minGW? I don't really know how to use the MinGW compiler at all so this would likely be a bad idea.

There are quite a few steps to compiling cgminer on windows ... all documented in windows-build.txt that Sharky wrote that comes with cgminer.

So I assume I already have it compiled then. I had hoped by the API readme that I could use some sort of executable to change things. So I either setup php on a computer or my router to get that kind of privelaged access. Apparently the file is API-example.c.

[kano]

It looks like I can adjust cgminer to fix my problem of ~10% stales. If eclipsemc is working well I can run a scan time of about 90. If I use gpumax to pass work to gpumax I need to have scan time set to 30 or less. it does give me around 8 stales in a row I would assume But I hacked it so that I wouldn't get kicked off gpumax by using eclipsemc's diff10 server prior to remembering this setting. I get 1-2 stales. Granted all the accepted are less frequent too. My average stales on that pool went from `9.8 to 9.5 now that isn't great but my overall submission rate is far lower too so the average would take a while to drop. I really didn't want to restart but it would give me numbers earlier.
For a serious question. Would compliling the API C file just require using minGW? I don't really know how to use the MinGW compiler at all so this would likely be a bad idea.

There are quite a few steps to compiling cgminer on windows ... all documented in windows-build.txt that Sharky wrote that comes with cgminer.

So I assume I already have it compiled then. I had hoped by the API readme that I could use some sort of executable to change things. So I either setup php on a computer or my router to get that kind of privelaged access. Apparently the file is API-example.c.

Ah OK.

The api-example.c is one of 4 ways I provided with cgminer to access the API.
It has a comment at the top about how to compile it (that Xiangfu put there)

The 4 are:
1) api-example.c <- this is just a program to send commands to the cgminer API and get replies back in text/json.
2) API.java/API.class <- same as above written in Java (so you just need to have Java on the computer - no compiling needed)
3) api-example.php <- same as above again but written in PHP, so you need PHP on the computer to use it
4) miner.php <- a complete web page (that requires minor or no configuration) to display the status of 1 or more cgminers ... using a web server

Of course on linux there's also
5) Use nc/ncat/netcat to send commands to the API e.g. echo -n summary | nc 127.0.0.1 4028 ; echo

Of those, only miner.php is a complete tool for viewing the API data, while the rest can supply any API data in text dump (or JSON) format that you then need to do something with if you want it to look 'pretty'

To make it simplest for you - use API.class instead of compiling api-example.c - both do exactly the same thing and API.class just needs java installed www.java.com
e.g.
java API summary
java API config 192.168.0.177
java API coin 192.168.0.217 4029

[Askit2]

Thanks for the info. It does sound like miner.php may be a better option but I do have java installed. Sadly I don't think I have ever actually run a java file just compiled and ran using eclipse after I coded them. I should have figured it would be easiest to use java being cross platform and all.

Just short of getting enable and disable working. Will try harder tomorrow.

so far I am using
java API disablepool0
If I add the | it says 0 is an invalid command.

[ydenys]

Hi, sorry for being stupid – What do I put if I don’t want to touch a rather finicky GPU?

Like 5850/5830/5770 with 5830 being faulty – 750,???,900 core, 250,???,250 memory 100,???,100 fan?

I cannot touch any of those without a forced restart. Setting defaults does not work either. Auto gpu/fan restarts as well.

The card works okay with no modification on any kernel/vectors/aggression setting, the only thing is, I cannot overclock the stable cards on the same machine. Or can i (without afterburner's/etc's manual set up)?

TIA.

Just don't give it any gpu parameters and it won't try to set anything. Or if you want to disable all the gpu monitoring entirely, start it with --no-adl

Thank you for a prompt reply.

What i meant is that i need to OC/UC the other two cards through the .bat/autostart without touching the faulty one. (i can only restart, it is difficult for me to manage it remotely with afterburner/etc. on my current soft, and i visit only weekly/less often).

I had tried x, ,x and x,,x  and x,stock,x for memory/core and both of those make the faulty card restart (GPU1).

It works fine with no arguments for core/memory as well as with settings from afterburner for GPU0/GPU2. (I had connected the fan from the mobo to eliminate it, so it does not matter now).

Unfortunately the other cards have to be managed otherwise they are causing restarts.

TIA.

[kano]

Thanks for the info. It does sound like miner.php may be a better option but I do have java installed. Sadly I don't think I have ever actually run a java file just compiled and ran using eclipse after I coded them. I should have figured it would be easiest to use java being cross platform and all.

Just short of getting enable and disable working. Will try harder tomorrow.

so far I am using
java API disablepool0
If I add the | it says 0 is an invalid command.

Then you must put it in quotes:
java API "disablepool|0"