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

[Xian01]

Xian - what virus/firewall s/w do you use?

 Microsoft Security Essentials.

 Have not run the debug build yet. I will on next crash.

EDIT: 20GH/s rig crashed. Downloaded the cgminer.exe 3.4.0 debug build and started her up.

[-ck]

Xian - what virus/firewall s/w do you use?

 Microsoft Security Essentials.

 Have not run the debug build yet. I will on next crash.

EDIT: 20GH/s rig crashed. Downloaded the cgminer.exe 3.4.0 debug build and started her up.

Make sure to set up the debugger as described in the readme in that directory.

[Grim]

i have

1x 7950
and
1x 7850


i need to set gpu-threads to 1 for my 7950
and i need to set gpu-threads to 2 for my 7850

but it seems like setting

-g 1,2

doesnt work?!?!

[-ck]

i have

1x 7950
and
1x 7850


i need to set gpu-threads to 1 for my 7950
and i need to set gpu-threads to 2 for my 7850

but it seems like setting

-g 1,2

doesnt work?!?!

Correct, it doesn't. -g is a global setting.

[Grim]

so there is no solution for this???

[kano]

so there is no solution for this???

Run 2 cgminers ...

[PinkMouse]

hello!
Cgminer works well with sha256, but with scrypt does not.
It shows 850 kH (it's too much, right?), with no sound/submitted shares for 3 hours.
Is problem in config or in driver?

Code:

{
"pools" : [
	{
		"url" : "stratum+tcp://127.0.0.1:3333",
		"user" : "2",
		"pass" : "x"
	}
]
,
"scrypt" : true,
"intensity" : "5",
"vectors" : "2",
"worksize" : "64",
"kernel" : "poclbm",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "0",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "600-840",
"gpu-fan" : "50-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "470-900",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"auto-gpu" : true,
"auto-fan" : true,
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "90",
"temp-target" : "80",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"temp-hysteresis" : "2",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I have a Radeon Hd4870 512MB+ Catalyst 11.12 + Win XP (1.5G RAM)

[-Redacted-]

Sigh...

[galgitron]

Is anybody running more than 50 Erupters successfully with either Windows 7 64-bit cgminer or bfgminer? (latest versions...)  If so, how do your erupters appear in Device Manager?

Here's what I finally did to get 181 erupters online in Windows 7 64

1 - Reinstalled the operating system
2 - Installed all the drivers
3 - Installed any and all software
4 - Created a RESTORE POINT (IMPORTANT: Do not insert a single erupter before this point)
5 - staged 10 erupters in their usb slots at a time, up to 100 per bus (don't be fooled by separate ports on your computer, they may still be on the same bus).  A high number of USB devices will make your USB buses quite cantankerous and you should allow 30 seconds at least between device stagings
6 - Make sure they are showing up without error under the COM ports in the Device Manager. 
7 - launched a separate instance of CGMiner 3.1.1 for 10 erupters each (I find 3.1.1 is much leaner and more stable than later versions)

If for any reason I need to bounce my rig, I've found that the COM port allocations get messed up and eventually CGMiner can't find all my miners.  To fix this, I actually perform a system restore to my saved restore point.  This is the only way that I've been able to guarantee purging of COM port allocations and have a fresh start at step 5 above.

T'is a thing of beauty

[Aurum]

hello! Cgminer works well with sha256, but with scrypt does not. It shows 850 kH (it's too much, right?), with no sound/submitted shares for 3 hours. Is problem in config or in driver?

Code:

{
"pools" : [
	{
		"url" : "stratum+tcp://127.0.0.1:3333",
		"user" : "2",
		"pass" : "x"
	}
]
,
"scrypt" : true,
"intensity" : "5",
"vectors" : "2",
"worksize" : "64",
"kernel" : "poclbm",
"lookup-gap" : "0",
"thread-concurrency" : "0",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-engine" : "600-840",
"gpu-fan" : "50-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "470-900",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"auto-gpu" : true,
"auto-fan" : true,
"gpu-powertune" : "0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "90",
"temp-target" : "80",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"temp-hysteresis" : "2",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

I have a Radeon Hd4870 512MB+ Catalyst 11.12 + Win XP (1.5G RAM)

Try this config for starters. Then look here to fine tune: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
"scrypt" : true,
"intensity" : "13",
"vectors" : "2",
"worksize" : "128",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "4000",
"shaders" : "800",
"gpu-engine" : "750",
"gpu-fan" : "25-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "900",
"auto-fan" : true,
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "90",
"temp-target" : "80",
"api-port" : "4028",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"hotplug" : "0",
"log" : "5",
"temp-hysteresis" : "6",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"

[rav3n_pl]

hello!
Cgminer works well with sha256, but with scrypt does not.
It shows 850 kH (it's too much, right?), with no sound/submitted shares for 3 hours.
Is problem in config or in driver?
(...)
I have a Radeon Hd4870 512MB+ Catalyst 11.12 + Win XP (1.5G RAM)

Probably all HW errors...

[The00Dustin]

hello!
Cgminer works well with sha256, but with scrypt does not.
It shows 850 kH (it's too much, right?), with no sound/submitted shares for 3 hours.
Is problem in config or in driver?

Code:

"kernel" : "poclbm",

I have a Radeon Hd4870 512MB+ Catalyst 11.12 + Win XP (1.5G RAM)

Pretty sure you don't want to use a sha256 kernel when you're scrypt mining.  Definitely remove that, also try Aurum's posted advice.

[KyrosKrane]

1 - Reinstalled the operating system
2 - Installed all the drivers
3 - Installed any and all software
4 - Created a RESTORE POINT (IMPORTANT: Do not insert a single erupter before this point)

I wonder, would you be able to do this with a virtual machine instead? Create a VM with just Windows 7, cgminer, and the drivers installed, then save the state.  Next plug in the miners and do the USB device forwarding. Then, if there's some sort of issue, just reset the virtual machine to the saved state each time. I guess the hard part would just be forwarding 181 USB devices to the virtual machine...

[Ghost of USD]

cgminer on my avalon just crashed, and I found this in the kernel log:

Code:

[375254.850000] miner/0 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201da, order=0, oom_score_adj=0
[375254.850000] Call Trace:
[375254.850000] [<8006dd8c>] dump_stack+0x8/0x34
[375254.860000] [<800b6b84>] dump_header.isra.16+0x44/0x128
[375254.860000] [<800b6ec8>] oom_kill_process+0xd4/0x3b0
[375254.870000] [<800b7600>] out_of_memory+0x28c/0x2e4
[375254.870000] [<800ba698>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x540/0x624
[375254.880000] [<800b6194>] filemap_fault+0x294/0x3e8
[375254.880000] [<800cc380>] __do_fault+0xcc/0x444
[375254.890000] [<800cf1a8>] handle_pte_fault+0x32c/0x6dc
[375254.890000] [<800cf608>] handle_mm_fault+0xb0/0xdc
[375254.900000] [<80071208>] do_page_fault+0x110/0x354
[375254.900000] [<80060820>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0xc
[375254.910000] 
[375254.910000] Mem-Info:
[375254.910000] Normal per-cpu:
[375254.920000] CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
[375254.920000] active_anon:4982 inactive_anon:36 isolated_anon:0
[375254.920000]  active_file:2 inactive_file:54 isolated_file:0
[375254.920000]  unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
[375254.920000]  free:180 slab_reclaimable:232 slab_unreclaimable:784
[375254.920000]  mapped:1 shmem:130 pagetables:75 bounce:0
[375254.920000]  free_cma:0
[375254.950000] Normal free:720kB min:720kB low:900kB high:1080kB active_anon:19928kB inactive_anon:144kB active_file:8kB inactive_file:216kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:32512kB managed:28856kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:4kB shmem:520kB slab_reclaimable:928kB slab_unreclaimable:3136kB kernel_stack:392kB pagetables:300kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:88 all_unreclaimable? yes
[375254.990000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
[375255.000000] Normal: 0*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB (R) 0*32kB 1*64kB (R) 1*128kB (R) 0*256kB 1*512kB (R) 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 720kB
[375255.010000] 191 total pagecache pages
[375255.010000] 0 pages in swap cache
[375255.010000] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
[375255.020000] Free swap  = 0kB
[375255.020000] Total swap = 0kB
[375255.030000] 8192 pages RAM
[375255.030000] 921 pages reserved
[375255.030000] 30 pages shared
[375255.030000] 7014 pages non-shared
[375255.040000] [ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss nr_ptes swapents oom_score_adj name
[375255.050000] [  430]     0   430      220       15       3        0             0 ubusd
[375255.050000] [  432]     0   432      192       13       3        0             0 askfirst
[375255.060000] [  534]     0   534      368       44       5        0             0 netifd
[375255.070000] [  624]     0   624      379       22       4        0             0 crond
[375255.080000] [  632]     0   632      289       18       3        0             0 dropbear
[375255.090000] [  648]     0   648      292       28       5        0             0 uhttpd
[375255.090000] [  678] 65534   678      239       22       4        0             0 dnsmasq
[375255.100000] [  690]     0   690      375       18       4        0             0 ntpd
[375255.110000] [22605]     0 22605    14642     4592      18        0             0 cgminer
[375255.120000] [29206]     0 29206      374       17       4        0             0 sh
[375255.130000] [29207]     0 29207      374       17       5        0             0 cgminer-monitor
[375255.130000] [29213]     0 29213      374       17       5        0             0 cgminer-monitor
[375255.140000] [29214]     0 29214      193        9       3        0             0 cgminer-api
[375255.150000] [29215]     0 29215      372       11       3        0             0 grep
[375255.160000] Out of memory: Kill process 22605 (cgminer) score 605 or sacrifice child
[375255.170000] Killed process 22605 (cgminer) total-vm:58568kB, anon-rss:18368kB, file-rss:0kB

[kano]

... it ran out of memory ...

[Xian01]

... it ran out of memory ...

[Askit2]

cgminer on my avalon just crashed, and I found this in the kernel log:

Code:

[375254.850000] miner/0 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201da, order=0, oom_score_adj=0
[375254.850000] Call Trace:
[375254.850000] [<8006dd8c>] dump_stack+0x8/0x34
[375254.860000] [<800b6b84>] dump_header.isra.16+0x44/0x128
[375254.860000] [<800b6ec8>] oom_kill_process+0xd4/0x3b0
[375254.870000] [<800b7600>] out_of_memory+0x28c/0x2e4
[375254.870000] [<800ba698>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x540/0x624
[375254.880000] [<800b6194>] filemap_fault+0x294/0x3e8
[375254.880000] [<800cc380>] __do_fault+0xcc/0x444
[375254.890000] [<800cf1a8>] handle_pte_fault+0x32c/0x6dc
[375254.890000] [<800cf608>] handle_mm_fault+0xb0/0xdc
[375254.900000] [<80071208>] do_page_fault+0x110/0x354
[375254.900000] [<80060820>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0xc
[375254.910000] 
[375254.910000] Mem-Info:
[375254.910000] Normal per-cpu:
[375254.920000] CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
[375254.920000] active_anon:4982 inactive_anon:36 isolated_anon:0
[375254.920000]  active_file:2 inactive_file:54 isolated_file:0
[375254.920000]  unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
[375254.920000]  free:180 slab_reclaimable:232 slab_unreclaimable:784
[375254.920000]  mapped:1 shmem:130 pagetables:75 bounce:0
[375254.920000]  free_cma:0
[375254.950000] Normal free:720kB min:720kB low:900kB high:1080kB active_anon:19928kB inactive_anon:144kB active_file:8kB inactive_file:216kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:32512kB managed:28856kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:4kB shmem:520kB slab_reclaimable:928kB slab_unreclaimable:3136kB kernel_stack:392kB pagetables:300kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB free_cma:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:88 all_unreclaimable? yes
[375254.990000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
[375255.000000] Normal: 0*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB (R) 0*32kB 1*64kB (R) 1*128kB (R) 0*256kB 1*512kB (R) 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 720kB
[375255.010000] 191 total pagecache pages
[375255.010000] 0 pages in swap cache
[375255.010000] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
[375255.020000] Free swap  = 0kB
[375255.020000] Total swap = 0kB
[375255.030000] 8192 pages RAM
[375255.030000] 921 pages reserved
[375255.030000] 30 pages shared
[375255.030000] 7014 pages non-shared
[375255.040000] [ pid ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss nr_ptes swapents oom_score_adj name
[375255.050000] [  430]     0   430      220       15       3        0             0 ubusd
[375255.050000] [  432]     0   432      192       13       3        0             0 askfirst
[375255.060000] [  534]     0   534      368       44       5        0             0 netifd
[375255.070000] [  624]     0   624      379       22       4        0             0 crond
[375255.080000] [  632]     0   632      289       18       3        0             0 dropbear
[375255.090000] [  648]     0   648      292       28       5        0             0 uhttpd
[375255.090000] [  678] 65534   678      239       22       4        0             0 dnsmasq
[375255.100000] [  690]     0   690      375       18       4        0             0 ntpd
[375255.110000] [22605]     0 22605    14642     4592      18        0             0 cgminer
[375255.120000] [29206]     0 29206      374       17       4        0             0 sh
[375255.130000] [29207]     0 29207      374       17       5        0             0 cgminer-monitor
[375255.130000] [29213]     0 29213      374       17       5        0             0 cgminer-monitor
[375255.140000] [29214]     0 29214      193        9       3        0             0 cgminer-api
[375255.150000] [29215]     0 29215      372       11       3        0             0 grep
[375255.160000] Out of memory: Kill process 22605 (cgminer) score 605 or sacrifice child
[375255.170000] Killed process 22605 (cgminer) total-vm:58568kB, anon-rss:18368kB, file-rss:0kB

If you're not already use --lowmem with any other command line args to reduce memory useage.
What version of cgminer are you running?

[kano]

I just fetched the latest CGMiner, and oh, god, what happened to the share logging? Please change it back.

If you mean A: and R: (and WU:) no it will not be changed back to displaying meaningless information

[-ck]

I just fetched the latest CGMiner, and oh, god, what happened to the share logging? Please change it back.

If you mean A: and R: (and WU:) no it will not be changed back to displaying meaningless information

It was very much meaningful information. It told me how many shares I have submitted.

So let me get this straight, rather than have it tell you how much work you've done that the pool will reward you for, you want a variable on the screen from the cpu mining era of diff1 shares that today correlates with absolutely nothing at all unless you happen to mine on one of the last remaining pools that accepts diff1 shares, in which case the result is equal to what's shown in the current cgminer anyway?

[-Redacted-]

If you can multiply, you can probably divide also, right?