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

[bulanula]

What is "P in cgminer?

Powertune.

Thanks it isn't in the docs.  I ended up finding it in the source.  Was coming back to answer my own question.  I got only 5000 series so they are always 0%.

Same here. What would a value of 20% mean ?

Or 0% ? Or -20% ? I did RTFM but I did not quite understand as this seems to be an undocumented feature.

Thanks !

[-ck]

Results of ./cgminer -D -T (with pool, user, and pass, of course) Might be a tad bit long:

Code:

[2012-02-11 22:36:59] GPU 0 iAdapterIndex 0 strUDID 296:38676:4098:53248:5208 iBusNumber 1 iDeviceNumber 5 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 4098 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 4290                     
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] GPU 1 iAdapterIndex 2 strUDID 512:26808:4098:8663:5208 iBusNumber 2 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber 0 iVendorID 4098 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series                     
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] ADL found more devices than opencl!                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] There is possibly at least one GPU that doesn't support OpenCL                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] WARNING: Number of OpenCL and ADL devices does not match!                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!                    
[2012-02-11 22:36:59] GPU 0 ATI Radeon HD 4290 hardware monitoring enabled                    

Code:

[2012-02-11 22:37:05] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.0 ATI-Stream-v2.1 (145)                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] Error: Building Program (clBuildProgram)                    
[2012-02-11 22:37:05] sh: /bin/x86_64/clc: not found

                 

Code:

[2012-02-11 23:24:04] Error: Building Program (clBuildProgram)                    
[2012-02-11 23:24:04] /tmp/OCLDOCSn7.cl(177): warning: variable "t1" was set but never used
  	u t1;
  	  ^

1: You have hardware monitoring on a device that can't mine. OpenCL doesn't communicate with the ATI Display Library to tell it which device is which. --gpu-reorder may help that.
2: With that older stream (2.1) it uses the binary clc as part of building kernels. The fact is this is your main problem here and it cannot build anything and is not cgminer's fault. Usually this would happen if your installation is corrupt, but the fact that you have had other binaries built fine means it's something else. The other thing that comes to mind is that you are starting cgminer as a different user and it doesn't have access to where the binary is in that user's path: eg. starting as sudo when the binary is in /usr/local or vice versa.
3. That t1 warning is a warning and will not break compilation.

[Frizz23]

which command line options to set for optimum 7970 performance?

[-ck]

which command line options to set for optimum 7970 performance?

-I 11 for the 7970.

[-ck]

Just installed 2.2.4 on WinXP Catalyst 11.6.

It did not generate the .bin files for me.  I tried multiple times with different command line options and rebooted and tried again.

I copied my renamed .bin files over from the previous install and am working now.
Thanks,
Sam

I know this has been long standing, but there is more debugging in newer versions. Just once more for my crying pleasure, can you start it with --verbose -D -T (without any bin files in the directory) and give me the full output please?

[os2sam]

Just installed 2.2.4 on WinXP Catalyst 11.6.

It did not generate the .bin files for me.  I tried multiple times with different command line options and rebooted and tried again.

I copied my renamed .bin files over from the previous install and am working now.
Thanks,
Sam

I know this has been long standing, but there is more debugging in newer versions. Just once more for my crying pleasure, can you start it with --verbose -D -T (without any bin files in the directory) and give me the full output please?

Here you go.  Let me know if you need anything else.  I appreciate it.
Thanks,
Sam

Code:

cgm224>cgminer --verbose -D -T
[2012-02-11 16:50:20] Started cgminer 2.2.4
[2012-02-11 16:50:20] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[2012-02-11 16:50:20] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

[2012-02-11 16:50:20] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (650.9)

[2012-02-11 16:50:20] Platform 0 devices: 2
[2012-02-11 16:50:20] GPU 0 iAdapterIndex 0 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_689E&SUBSYS
_E177174B&REV_00_4&3014B34A&0&0020A iBusNumber 2 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber
 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

[2012-02-11 16:50:20] GPU 1 iAdapterIndex 2 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_68B8&SUBSYS
_21401462&REV_00_4&276E9505&0&0010A iBusNumber 1 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber
 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series

[2012-02-11 16:50:20] GPU 0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series   hardware monitoring enab
led
[2012-02-11 16:50:20] GPU 1 ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series hardware monitoring enable
d
[2012-02-11 16:50:20] Need to specify at least one pool server.

Pool setup failed

[jjiimm_64]

which command line options to set for optimum 7970 performance?

-I 11 for the 7970.

keeping in mind,  on windoz you have to go down to 9 to prevent high CPU usage.

also, if you are on windoz, and you want an Intensity above 9, and you have more then 1 card.  then you will need to let cgminer have more cores if you have them.

with 5 cards and 1 core, I-11  clock:1125/1000   Mhash will be under 400, and jumpy.

with all cores (I have 4)  then you can get the ~650Mh, but CPU usage will be above80% all cores.


I have to run mine at I-9 for now for 2 reasons,  1.  my cpu fan crapped.  2. I dont like running at 90%cpu for all cores.

so, for now, I am sacrificing a couple of hundred Mhash using cgminer for the RPC api, worth it to use webmonitor

Code:

cgminer version 2.2.3 - Started: [February 11, 2012, 5:36 pm]    Rig: minerwb
(5s):3143.86  (avg): 3135.55 Mh/s  |    Q:707   A:660   R:4   HW:0   E:?%   U:43.29/m
TQ:?   ST:0   SS:?   DW:7   NB:3   LW:0   GF:0   RF:0
Connected to http://gpumax.com:8332 with LP as user ?
GPU 0:	72.0C	3219RPM 	52% | 	628.8/626.9Mh/s | 	1100Mhz 	950Mhz 	1.17V 	A:124	R:0	HW:0	U:8.13/m 	I: 9
GPU 1:	73.0C	3124RPM 	55% | 	628.8/628.1Mh/s | 	1100Mhz 	950Mhz 	1.17V 	A:132	R:2	HW:0	U:8.66/m 	I: 9
GPU 2:	74.0C	3241RPM 	52% | 	628.8/626.8Mh/s | 	1100Mhz 	950Mhz 	1.17V 	A:134	R:2	HW:0	U:8.79/m 	I: 9
GPU 3:	72.0C	2715RPM 	48% | 	628.8/625.3Mh/s | 	1100Mhz 	950Mhz 	1.17V 	A:117	R:0	HW:0	U:7.67/m 	I: 9
GPU 4:	72.0C	3098RPM 	51% | 	628.8/628.5Mh/s | 	1100Mhz 	950Mhz 	1.17V 	A:153	R:0	HW:0	U:10.03/m 	I: 9

[-ck]

Just installed 2.2.4 on WinXP Catalyst 11.6.

It did not generate the .bin files for me.  I tried multiple times with different command line options and rebooted and tried again.

I copied my renamed .bin files over from the previous install and am working now.
Thanks,
Sam

I know this has been long standing, but there is more debugging in newer versions. Just once more for my crying pleasure, can you start it with --verbose -D -T (without any bin files in the directory) and give me the full output please?

Here you go.  Let me know if you need anything else.  I appreciate it.
Thanks,
Sam

cgm224>cgminer --verbose -D -T

No sorry, I mean add those to your regular command line options.

[-ck]

which command line options to set for optimum 7970 performance?

-I 11 for the 7970.

keeping in mind,  on windoz you have to go down to 9 to prevent high CPU usage.

also, if you are on windoz, and you want a I above 9, and you have more then 1 card.  then you will need to let cgminer have more cores if you have them.

with 5 cards and 1 core, I-11  clock:1125/1000   Mhash will be under 400, and jumpy.

with all cores (I have 4)  then you can get the ~650Mh, but CPU usage will be ~80% all cores.


I have to run mine at I-9 for now.

Oh really? Suckage. Presumably that's because there is no way to 'export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1' on windows which fixes the CPU usage on linux. Maybe some hidden option in the catalyst control centre?

[jjiimm_64]

Oh really? Suckage. Presumably that's because there is no way to 'export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1' on windows which fixes the CPU usage on linux. Maybe some hidden option in the catalyst control centre?

I have not gotten the 7970 to work on linuxcoin yet.......  anyone?  bounty for a step by step guide

[os2sam]

Just installed 2.2.4 on WinXP Catalyst 11.6.

It did not generate the .bin files for me.  I tried multiple times with different command line options and rebooted and tried again.

I copied my renamed .bin files over from the previous install and am working now.
Thanks,
Sam

I know this has been long standing, but there is more debugging in newer versions. Just once more for my crying pleasure, can you start it with --verbose -D -T (without any bin files in the directory) and give me the full output please?

Here you go.  Let me know if you need anything else.  I appreciate it.
Thanks,
Sam

cgm224>cgminer --verbose -D -T

No sorry, I mean add those to your regular command line options.

Yep,  I figured that after I sent the last one.
Thanks again,
Sam

Code:

cgm224>cgminer -o http://pit.deepbit.net:8332 -u XXXX -p ZZZZ --verbose -D -T
[2012-02-11 16:59:56] Started cgminer 2.2.4
[2012-02-11 16:59:56] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[2012-02-11 16:59:56] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

[2012-02-11 16:59:56] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (650.9)

[2012-02-11 16:59:56] Platform 0 devices: 2
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] GPU 0 iAdapterIndex 0 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_689E&SUBSYS
_E177174B&REV_00_4&3014B34A&0&0020A iBusNumber 2 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber
 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

[2012-02-11 16:59:57] GPU 1 iAdapterIndex 2 strUDID PCI_VEN_1002&DEV_68B8&SUBSYS
_21401462&REV_00_4&276E9505&0&0010A iBusNumber 1 iDeviceNumber 0 iFunctionNumber
 0 iVendorID 1002 strAdapterName  ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series

[2012-02-11 16:59:57] GPU 0 ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series   hardware monitoring enab
led
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] GPU 1 ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series hardware monitoring enable
d
[[22[002110221--200-220--211-111  111 661::655:995::955:775]]7  ]PP orPpoopbpiip
nniggn  gwf oowrrok r atkno   tawolo irsvkte a tgpheor oetlah dr  e  a  d


 [ 2
012-02-11 16:59:57] Testing pool http://pit.deepbit.net:8332

[2012-02-11 16:59:57] Successfully retrieved and deciphered work from pool 0 htt
p://pit.deepbit.net:8332
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] Pushing pooltest work to base pool
[2[021021-20-20-21-11 116 1:6:5599::5577]]  PPouoslh i0n hgt wtopr:k/ t/op giett
.wdoerekp qbuietu.en   e  t  : 8  3  3  2   a  c  t
i[v2e0  1 2  -  0  2  -  1  1    1 6
:[5290:1527-]0 P2o-p1p1i 1n6g: 5w9o:r5k7 t]o  sPtuasghei tnhgr peiandg  t  o   l
 o n  g p o  l  l  t  h  r
ead
[[22001122--0022--1111  1166::5599::5577]] L Pounsgh-ipnogl pliinngg t aoc tthir
veaatde d0 f  o  r  h  t  t p  :  /  /  p  i
t[.2d0e1e2p-b0i2t-.1n1e t1:68:35392:/5l7i]s ItneintC GhPaUn tnherle  a  d   0  G
 P U    0   v  i  r  t
ual GPU 0
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[2012-02-11 16:59:57] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

[2012-02-11 16:59:57] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (650.9)

[2012-02-11 16:59:57] List of devices:
[2012-02-11 16:59:57]   0       Juniper
[2012-02-11 16:59:57]   1       Cypress
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] Selected 0: Juniper
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] Preferred vector width reported 4
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] Max work group size reported 256
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] No binary found, generating from source

[2012-02-11 16:59:57] Setting worksize to 128
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] Patched source to suit 2 vectors
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] cl_amd_media_ops found, setting BITALIGN

[2012-02-11 16:59:57] BFI_INT patch requiring device found, patched source with
BFI_INT
[2012-02-11 16:59:57] CompilerOptions: -D WORKSIZE=128 -D VECTORS2 -D BITALIGN -
D BFI_INT
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] binary size 0 : 0
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] OpenCL compiler generated a zero sized binary, may need to
 reboot!
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] Restarting the GPU from the menu will not fix this.

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] Try restarting cgminer.
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] Init GPU thread 1 GPU 0 virtual GPU 0
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (650.9)

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] List of devices:
[2012-02-11 17:00:00]   0       Juniper
[2012-02-11 17:00:00]   1       Cypress
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] Selected 0: Juniper
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] Preferred vector width reported 4
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] Max work group size reported 256
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] No binary found, generating from source

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] Setting worksize to 128
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] Patched source to suit 2 vectors
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] cl_amd_media_ops found, setting BITALIGN

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] BFI_INT patch requiring device found, patched source with
BFI_INT
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] CompilerOptions: -D WORKSIZE=128 -D VECTORS2 -D BITALIGN -
D BFI_INT
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] binary size 0 : 0
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] OpenCL compiler generated a zero sized binary, may need to
 reboot!
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] Failed to init GPU thread 1, disabling device 0

[2012-02-11 17:00:02] Pushing ping to thread 2
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] Init GPU thread 2 GPU 1 virtual GPU 1
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[2012-02-11 17:00:02] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

[2012-02-11 17:00:02] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (650.9)

[2012-02-11 17:00:02] List of devices:
[2012-02-11 17:00:02]   0       Juniper
[2012-02-11 17:00:02]   1       Cypress
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] Selected 1: Cypress
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] Preferred vector width reported 4
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] Max work group size reported 256
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] No binary found, generating from source

[2012-02-11 17:00:02] Setting worksize to 128
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] Patched source to suit 2 vectors
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] cl_amd_media_ops found, setting BITALIGN

[2012-02-11 17:00:02] BFI_INT patch requiring device found, patched source with
BFI_INT
[2012-02-11 17:00:02] CompilerOptions: -D WORKSIZE=128 -D VECTORS2 -D BITALIGN -
D BFI_INT
[2012-02-11 17:00:04] binary size 1 : 0
[2012-02-11 17:00:04] OpenCL compiler generated a zero sized binary, may need to
 reboot!
[2012-02-11 17:00:04] Failed to init GPU thread 2, disabling device 1

[2012-02-11 17:00:04] Init GPU thread 3 GPU 1 virtual GPU 1
[2012-02-11 17:00:04] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

[2012-02-11 17:00:04] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

[2012-02-11 17:00:04] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.1 AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4 (650.9)

[2012-02-11 17:00:05] List of devices:
[2012-02-11 17:00:05]   0       Juniper
[2012-02-11 17:00:05]   1       Cypress
[2012-02-11 17:00:05] Selected 1: Cypress
[2012-02-11 17:00:05] Preferred vector width reported 4
[2012-02-11 17:00:05] Max work group size reported 256
[2012-02-11 17:00:05] No binary found, generating from source

[2012-02-11 17:00:05] Setting worksize to 128
[2012-02-11 17:00:05] Patched source to suit 2 vectors
[2012-02-11 17:00:05] cl_amd_media_ops found, setting BITALIGN

[2012-02-11 17:00:05] BFI_INT patch requiring device found, patched source with
BFI_INT
[2012-02-11 17:00:05] CompilerOptions: -D WORKSIZE=128 -D VECTORS2 -D BITALIGN -
D BFI_INT
[2012-02-11 17:00:07] binary size 1 : 0
[2012-02-11 17:00:07] OpenCL compiler generated a zero sized binary, may need to
 reboot!
[2012-02-11 17:00:07] Failed to init GPU thread 3, disabling device 1

[2012-02-11 17:00:07] 4 gpu miner threads started
[2012-02-11 17:00:12] API not running - API will not be available

[2012-02-11 17:01:07] Testing pool http://pit.deepbit.net:8332

[2012-02-11 17:01:08] Successfully retrieved and deciphered work from pool 0 htt
p://pit.deepbit.net:8332
[2012-02-11 17:01:08] Pushing pooltest work to base pool
[[22001122--0022--1111  1177::0011::080]8 ]P Pouoslh i0n gh wtotrpk: t/o/ gpeitt
w.odreke qpubeiute. n e  t :  8 3 3 2    a  l  i  v
e[ 2 0 1 2 - 0 2 - 1 1  1 7 : 0 1 :   0 8
] Popping work to stage thread

[-ck]

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] binary size 0 : 0
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] OpenCL compiler generated a zero sized binary, may need to
 reboot!

This is totally  crazy, but perhaps the command is actually non-blocking even though it's meant to be blocking and c is fast so the compiler hasn't returned yet or something stupid like that on windows. Anyway try this totally crazy exe with your regular commands (put into a fresh 2.2.4 directory):
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer.exe
This will wait until it returns a non-zero value. If it seems to just sit there doing nothing after a minute or so, just stop it.

[os2sam]

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] binary size 0 : 0
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] OpenCL compiler generated a zero sized binary, may need to
 reboot!

This is totally  crazy, but perhaps the command is actually non-blocking even though it's meant to be blocking and c is fast so the compiler hasn't returned yet or something stupid like that on windows. Anyway try this totally crazy exe with your regular commands (put into a fresh 2.2.4 directory):
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer.exe
This will wait until it returns a non-zero value. If it seems to just sit there doing nothing after a minute or so, just stop it.

It's just hanging at /listenChannel line for like 7 minutes now.  Doesn't appear to be doing anything.
Sam

[-ck]

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] binary size 0 : 0
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] OpenCL compiler generated a zero sized binary, may need to
 reboot!

This is totally  crazy, but perhaps the command is actually non-blocking even though it's meant to be blocking and c is fast so the compiler hasn't returned yet or something stupid like that on windows. Anyway try this totally crazy exe with your regular commands (put into a fresh 2.2.4 directory):
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer.exe
This will wait until it returns a non-zero value. If it seems to just sit there doing nothing after a minute or so, just stop it.

It's just hanging at /listenChannel line for like 7 minutes now.  Doesn't appear to be doing anything.
Sam

Darn. Throw out that binary. What happens if you try with a different kernel like -k poclbm ?

[A1BITCOINPOOL]

Whats the best catalyst driver setup for cgminer.  I'm currently running 11.9 on of my rigs with cgminer 2.1.3 and the speed on my 5870 is about 50mhash less then on my other rig that has 12.1 and same cg miner(bins might be different then 12.1 because it was changed so many times without deleting bins).  I did delete the bin on the slower one and also did a driver sweep before install and its still slower.  I have this problem on 4 other rigs.  I did copy the bin from the faster rig to the slower one and its speed increased only on that one video card.   Any help is appreciated. 

[os2sam]

[2012-02-11 17:00:00] binary size 0 : 0
[2012-02-11 17:00:00] OpenCL compiler generated a zero sized binary, may need to
 reboot!

This is totally  crazy, but perhaps the command is actually non-blocking even though it's meant to be blocking and c is fast so the compiler hasn't returned yet or something stupid like that on windows. Anyway try this totally crazy exe with your regular commands (put into a fresh 2.2.4 directory):
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer.exe
This will wait until it returns a non-zero value. If it seems to just sit there doing nothing after a minute or so, just stop it.

It's just hanging at /listenChannel line for like 7 minutes now.  Doesn't appear to be doing anything.
Sam

Darn. Throw out that binary. What happens if you try with a different kernel like -k poclbm ?

No that didn't work either.
Sam

[-ck]

Con, I don't have any success in editing the .cl file for DiaKGCN, it only generates HW errors. Tried a forced submitting of these shares with --submit-stale, but that seems to not trigger a forwarding to the pool. Is there any change to output the nonce or hash that DiaKGCN produces and which is considered a HW error?

This makes me crazy, because in Phoenix it's a healthy kernel ... dunno how to cure it for CGMINER currently :-(.

Thanks,
Dia

Guess I can give up on diapolo kernel then cause neither you nor me can seem to fix it.

[-ck]

No that didn't work either.

Thanks for trying. I'll consider this a permanent "feature" bug on cgminer on fucking windows then goddamnit...

EDIT:
I have looked at the code in question a billion times and I simply cannot see why it's failing. I need someone with fresh eyes to look at it and tell me "oh you're just doing this wrong" but there are so few of us that work on this code, and we're all working on "competing" code, even though that's not the truth. I'd give 5 BTC to someone who found what I was doing to cause this bug and how to fix it.

[Elmojo]

HI all,
I'm just getting started here, so please excuse any noob statements or questions.
I followed the instructions for mining in P2Pool, and have it running smoothly, I think.
However, whenever I launch cgminer, it crashes my display driver (it recovers and reloads), then proceeds to give a bunch of errors and not do any mining that I can tell.
Where should I start looking to troubleshoot?
I can't attach images yet, but here's are links to screenshots showing the issue:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/842/cap002k.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/26/cap003t.jpg/

After I see this, if I click in cgminer window and press enter, it closes.

Thoughts?

[kano]

No idea, however, the startup may show something ...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg742897#msg742897 (the bit after 4) )