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

[kano]

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Perfect - thanks Kano. Sorted.

Heh - timed that well (badly)
I tried to upload 2.10.1a at the same time you posted ... then spent a while messing around creating a new git cgminer-binaries
The download section no longer allows uploading new content and github will be deleting it in 90 days

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[Jay_Pal]

Sorry for posting here, I haven't found the Stratum thread yet (the search leads me to the wrong results), but thank you both for the tip.
I'm already digging into it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108533.msg1180029#msg1180029

Oh.. been searching in mining software... 'facepalm'...
Thank's os2sam!!!

[P_Shep]

The download section no longer allows uploading new content and github will be deleting it in 90 days

Annoying, isn't it :/

Most displeased.

What alternatives are there?

[P_Shep]

Sorry for posting here, I haven't found the Stratum thread yet (the search leads me to the wrong results), but thank you both for the tip.
I'm already digging into it.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108533.msg1180029#msg1180029

Oh.. been searching in mining software... 'facepalm'...
Thank's os2sam!!!

Not really a facepalm, it probably should be in this section.

[Roy Badami]

v2.10.1 tag seems to be missing

[kano]

The download section no longer allows uploading new content and github will be deleting it in 90 days

Annoying, isn't it :/

Most displeased.

What alternatives are there?

Well as I mentioned, I just created a cgminer-binaries git
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries

Sorta solves the problem

Though, you can see on the old /downloads/ how many times the old ones have been downloaded, but not on a git page.
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/downloads/

[Morblias]

I've uploaded some fresh debug builds for windows here for those who want to try and help me get debug information:

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

These builds have optimisations disabled to hopefully try and get meaningful debug information out of them. It's annoying how hard windows builds are to debug...

Oh and the libcurl dll included in the 2.10.0 archive is already one with the fix from 2.9.7 (even though it's a different size) so there's no point trying a different dll if you are getting crashes.

cgminer.exe caused an Access Violation at location 65722074 Reading from location 65722074.

Registers:
eax=00000000 ebx=0028f570 ecx=747b2e09 edx=00000000 esi=00000002 edi=00000000
eip=771c15de esp=0028f55c ebp=0028faa4 iopl=0         nv up ei pl zr na po nc
cs=0023  ss=002b  ds=002b  es=002b  fs=0053  gs=002b             efl=00000246

Call stack:
771C15DE  ntdll.dll:771C15DE  ZwRaiseException
75111A2C  kernel32.dll:75111A2C  WaitForMultipleObjectsEx
75114220  kernel32.dll:75114220  WaitForMultipleObjects
6248320B  pthreadGC2.dll:6248320B  pthreadCancelableTimedWait

[-ck]

I've uploaded some fresh debug builds for windows here for those who want to try and help me get debug information:

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

These builds have optimisations disabled to hopefully try and get meaningful debug information out of them. It's annoying how hard windows builds are to debug...

Oh and the libcurl dll included in the 2.10.0 archive is already one with the fix from 2.9.7 (even though it's a different size) so there's no point trying a different dll if you are getting crashes.

cgminer.exe caused an Access Violation at location 65722074 Reading from location 65722074.

Registers:
eax=00000000 ebx=0028f570 ecx=747b2e09 edx=00000000 esi=00000002 edi=00000000
eip=771c15de esp=0028f55c ebp=0028faa4 iopl=0         nv up ei pl zr na po nc
cs=0023  ss=002b  ds=002b  es=002b  fs=0053  gs=002b             efl=00000246

Call stack:
771C15DE  ntdll.dll:771C15DE  ZwRaiseException
75111A2C  kernel32.dll:75111A2C  WaitForMultipleObjectsEx
75114220  kernel32.dll:75114220  WaitForMultipleObjects
6248320B  pthreadGC2.dll:6248320B  pthreadCancelableTimedWait

Oh well. Hopefully avoiding using curl as much as possible with raw sockets on stratum in 2.10.1 fixes it.

[wachtwoord]

I have tried to run cgminer with scrypt enabled on my windows 7 machine with a 6850hd for fun but cannot get it to run. I followed the tutorial and ended up with:

cgminer --scrypt -o #somep2ppool# -u myAddress -p x --shaders 960 --intensity 12 --worksize 128 -g 1

but it just crashes. Even: cgminer --scrypt crashes.

Do I need to install/compile some scrypt library or something? (I have been using the windows binaries)

[-ck]

I have tried to run cgminer with scrypt enabled on my windows 7 machine with a 6850hd for fun but cannot get it to run. I followed the tutorial and ended up with:

cgminer --scrypt -o #somep2ppool# -u myAddress -p x --shaders 960 --intensity 12 --worksize 128 -g 1

but it just crashes. Even: cgminer --scrypt crashes.

Do I need to install/compile some scrypt library or something? (I have been using the windows binaries)

Make sure you at least have sdk2.6 as well, meaning the one that comes with driver 11.12 or later, and you need MORE SYSTEM RAM to mine ltc.

[K1773R]

I've uploaded some fresh debug builds for windows here for those who want to try and help me get debug information:

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

These builds have optimisations disabled to hopefully try and get meaningful debug information out of them. It's annoying how hard windows builds are to debug...

Oh and the libcurl dll included in the 2.10.0 archive is already one with the fix from 2.9.7 (even though it's a different size) so there's no point trying a different dll if you are getting crashes.

cgminer.exe caused an Access Violation at location 65722074 Reading from location 65722074.

Registers:
eax=00000000 ebx=0028f570 ecx=747b2e09 edx=00000000 esi=00000002 edi=00000000
eip=771c15de esp=0028f55c ebp=0028faa4 iopl=0         nv up ei pl zr na po nc
cs=0023  ss=002b  ds=002b  es=002b  fs=0053  gs=002b             efl=00000246

Call stack:
771C15DE  ntdll.dll:771C15DE  ZwRaiseException
75111A2C  kernel32.dll:75111A2C  WaitForMultipleObjectsEx
75114220  kernel32.dll:75114220  WaitForMultipleObjects
6248320B  pthreadGC2.dll:6248320B  pthreadCancelableTimedWait

haha, winblows API on its finest

[wachtwoord]

I have tried to run cgminer with scrypt enabled on my windows 7 machine with a 6850hd for fun but cannot get it to run. I followed the tutorial and ended up with:

cgminer --scrypt -o #somep2ppool# -u myAddress -p x --shaders 960 --intensity 12 --worksize 128 -g 1

but it just crashes. Even: cgminer --scrypt crashes.

Do I need to install/compile some scrypt library or something? (I have been using the windows binaries)

Make sure you at least have sdk2.6 as well, meaning the one that comes with driver 11.12 or later, and you need MORE SYSTEM RAM to mine ltc.

I didn't know how to see which SDK I have but after your comment I updated Catalyst to the latest non-beta version (12.10) and this did not change behaviour.

Note I did not follow this part of the readme (because I am not using a Linux distro):

Code:

Step 1 on linux:
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
If you do not do this, you may find it impossible to scrypt mine. You may find
a value of 40 is enough and increasing this further has little effect.

export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
may help CPU usage a little as well.

Is anything logged somewhere? It just doesn't work and doesn't give me anything to work with.

[wachtwoord]

Bump. Does anyone have an idea what can cause this? I cannot find any log files anywhere. It merely crashes.

[juhakall]

I've noticed two problems with stratum backup pools, that still exist on 2.10.1. The bigger problem is that stratum backup pools can become permanently dead. This is only happening on my rigs with wireless connections, so maybe it's a problem with latency / packet loss? Second problem is that with failover-only disabled, most leaked shares seem to go to my getwork backup pool, even though it's last on the list. I have two stratum backup pools with higher priority than the getwork pool, but they rarely (if ever) get leaked shares. This is only a small matter, since share leakage is very low.

[wachtwoord]

Thanks for the reply. I don't really know what Stratum backup servers are so I think it is unlikely this is the cause (right?). I FYI this crash happens the second after I run the bat file.

Concerning the wireless issues I am on wireless (via an adapter) because there is no clear way to connect my router to my pc without laying the cable all across the living room

When I run the exact same script without the --scrypt it does work (with the litecoin p2ppool) but it runs at 220Mh/s or something so I guess it is not doing anything useful then right? (it is very weird that shares are being accepted though, how can that be?)

[wachtwoord]

I have tried to run cgminer with scrypt enabled on my windows 7 machine with a 6850hd for fun but cannot get it to run. I followed the tutorial and ended up with:

cgminer --scrypt -o #somep2ppool# -u myAddress -p x --shaders 960 --intensity 12 --worksize 128 -g 1

but it just crashes. Even: cgminer --scrypt crashes.

Do I need to install/compile some scrypt library or something? (I have been using the windows binaries)

Make sure you at least have sdk2.6 as well, meaning the one that comes with driver 11.12 or later, and you need MORE SYSTEM RAM to mine ltc.

I found out you meant the ACL SDK. I just updated that to 2.8 to no avail

[-ck]

I've noticed two problems with stratum backup pools, that still exist on 2.10.1. The bigger problem is that stratum backup pools can become permanently dead. This is only happening on my rigs with wireless connections, so maybe it's a problem with latency / packet loss? Second problem is that with failover-only disabled, most leaked shares seem to go to my getwork backup pool, even though it's last on the list. I have two stratum backup pools with higher priority than the getwork pool, but they rarely (if ever) get leaked shares. This is only a small matter, since share leakage is very low.

I need to investigate the dead pool issue. I haven't seen it happen myself.
As for leaking shares, stratum and gbt pools actually don't leak shares at all with or without failover-only mode. You only get leakage if the primary pool is getwork and you're not in failover only mode.

[cypherdoc]

i've been running 2.10.1 for over 24 hrs now w/o any issues on win 7.   

[-ck]

i've been running 2.10.1 for over 24 hrs now w/o any issues on win 7.   

well it was the main reason for the updated version. Glad to see I finally resolved that annoying bug, and it was as expected deep within libcurl dll for windows managing raw sockets. I fixed one bug but there seem to be numerous others...

[BitMinerN8]

i've been running 2.10.1 for over 24 hrs now w/o any issues on win 7.   

well it was the main reason for the updated version. Glad to see I finally resolved that annoying bug, and it was as expected deep within libcurl dll for windows managing raw sockets. I fixed one bug but there seem to be numerous others...

Going on about 30+ hours now, zero issues. (Win7 x64) Thanks!