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

[miscreanity]

Let's talk interface. What's needed, what's considered redundant, and what's missing?

For me, miner.php actually does most of what's needed quite well, aside from saving the configuration and some of the more advanced features in other projects (like email notifications). I don't even use the command line interface once it's started, unless troubleshooting - even then, dumping to a log is easier. So is the text interface even necessary anymore?

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[rjk]

Let's talk interface. What's needed, what's considered redundant, and what's missing?

For me, miner.php actually does most of what's needed quite well, aside from saving the configuration and some of the more advanced features in other projects (like email notifications). I don't even use the command line interface once it's started, unless troubleshooting - even then, dumping to a log is easier. So is the text interface even necessary anymore?

Well yeah, if you don't want to run a php interpreter, a web server, and a browser...

[-ck]

Let's talk interface. What's needed, what's considered redundant, and what's missing?

For me, miner.php actually does most of what's needed quite well, aside from saving the configuration and some of the more advanced features in other projects (like email notifications). I don't even use the command line interface once it's started, unless troubleshooting - even then, dumping to a log is easier. So is the text interface even necessary anymore?

I use the text interface myself. So you have zero chance of me getting rid of it.

[miscreanity]

Well yeah, if you don't want to run a php interpreter, a web server, and a browser...

Fair enough. What about just displaying totals with max/min ranges for each device class? It'd be easier to see at a glance whether something is amiss. Status on individual devices could still be available from a menu. A notification area would be able to alert for any abnormal events.

Code:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [U]nit management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 CPU:   78.0C 3265RPM | 718.6/716.7Kh/s | A:496   R:  3 HW:0 U:  0.12/m I: 6
        77.5C 3265RPM | 712.2/704.3Kh/s
 GPU:   72.5C 4346RPM | 430.5/428.7Mh/s | A:29367 R: 79 HW:0 U:  5.92/m I: 9
        38.0C 1128RPM | 119.2/124.3Mh/s
 FPGA:  67.0C 3641RPM | 449.5/446.7Mh/s | A:60990 R: 93 HW:0 U: 12.25/m I: 9
        67.0C 3641RPM | 449.5/446.7Mh/s
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you want to see all devices all the time, the API seems the best option.

Edit: changed to mock-up minimums; it's easy to see a problem with one of the GPUs while the others are good

[kano]

Let's talk interface. What's needed, what's considered redundant, and what's missing?

For me, miner.php actually does most of what's needed quite well, aside from saving the configuration and some of the more advanced features in other projects (like email notifications). I don't even use the command line interface once it's started, unless troubleshooting - even then, dumping to a log is easier. So is the text interface even necessary anymore?

Well yeah, if you don't want to run a php interpreter, a web server, and a browser...

Well the web server (with php interpreter) can run on any machine on the internet and have cgminer give it read access

I don't really know of anyone who has computers and at least one doesn't have a web browser open ...

I did write the few commands necessary to get it working in linux on xubuntu and posted it here before ...

Hmm :
add "--api-listen" to cgminer startup

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

copy miner.php into /var/www/

browser view http://yourcomputer/miner.php (of course where yourcomputer is the name or IP of your miner)

You wont need to edit miner.php if it is the same computer as cgminer

Once you try anything more complex - multiple rigs or a different computer running the web server:

You only need miner.php to run on one computer even if you have multiple rigs:
For multiple rigs (or where miner.php is on a different computer to the single rig)
Read the top of the code.

But basically, each cgminer will need to grant read access to the machine running miner.php
(if you don't care about read access security just use --api-listen --api-network)
To grant read access in cgminer to the web server IP: --api-listen --api-allow IP/32
To grant write/privileged access in cgminer to the web server IP: --api-listen --api-allow W:IP/32

Then you just edit the $rigs at the top of miner.php (it has 2 examples)
and you can read about the other options there also.

[Inaba]

I talked to Sonny today at BFL, the default temp-cutoff for BFL units in cgminer is set way too low.  He advised at the default should be around 85C... right now it seems to be set at 30C or so (I've not checked the code) - so trying to startup a BFL unit with a stock cgminer at rev 2.3.3 starts with an immediate temp cutoff warning and the unit goes into REST. 

Manually setting the cutoff gets around the issue, but 30C is even above idle temps for a powered on unit.

[kano]

I talked to Sonny today at BFL, the default temp-cutoff for BFL units in cgminer is set way too low.  He advised at the default should be around 85C... right now it seems to be set at 30C or so (I've not checked the code) - so trying to startup a BFL unit with a stock cgminer at rev 2.3.3 starts with an immediate temp cutoff warning and the unit goes into REST. 

Manually setting the cutoff gets around the issue, but 30C is even above idle temps for a powered on unit.

The cutoff temp defaults to 95°C

Please check that you do not have an autoloaded cgminer.conf that contains 30°C or you somehow accidentally put that on your command line.

If this has never worked, then maybe the code Luke-jr uses only detects the 2nd version of the Temperature message that BFL devices can send (BFL doesn't like people knowing that information it would appear from a discussion I've had with someone else on the same subject earlier today)

So ... is this something new with 2.3.3 (where the temp handling code hasn't changed recently) or something that never worked before?
Or do you have a specific version that does work and the current version no longer works?
(this could be related to the issue I mentioned about BFL changing the status reply)

Though I'd guess Luke-jr should know about which versions of his bitforce.c code that support which messages.

[Luke-Jr]

I talked to Sonny today at BFL, the default temp-cutoff for BFL units in cgminer is set way too low.  He advised at the default should be around 85C... right now it seems to be set at 30C or so (I've not checked the code) - so trying to startup a BFL unit with a stock cgminer at rev 2.3.3 starts with an immediate temp cutoff warning and the unit goes into REST. 

Manually setting the cutoff gets around the issue, but 30C is even above idle temps for a powered on unit.

Sure you (or Sonny) aren't confusing C and F? He told me BFL Singles need 72 F / 22 C) ambient temp to run at full speed. My on-FPGA temp for BFSingle is 149 F / 65 C even with an ambient temp of about 80 F. There shouldn't be a 30 C cutoff...

[Inaba]

2.3.1 did/does not exhibit this behavior with the same cgminer.conf file.

No, I'm not confusing it.  The thermostat between the chips is what it's reading I believe, so 85C is the correct temperature for that particular reading.  72F is for ambient temperature, not die/near die temp.

[dietwice]

Both 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 windows versions stop working on user switching.
2.3.1 works well.
Win7 x64, SDK 2.6.

[-ck]

Both 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 windows versions stop working on user switching.
2.3.1 works well.
Win7 x64, SDK 2.6.

User switching?... What on earth has the cgminer version got to do with that?

[-ck]

Re: The display.

Screw it, I don't really want to change the layout, or what's displayed, so I've spent the afternoon fighting with curses to try and get it working with any number of devices, provided your window is long enough. If it's not, you'll lose the log window output.

[P4man]

OK, I read your PM.
It's in the pull request now also.

Thank you. 5BTC sent.

[bitlane]

Using this example/option from another thread....

Code:

cgminer version 2.3.1m - Started: [2012-03-25 20:43:39]
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 (5s):1878.8 (avg):1856.0 Mh/s | Q:41418  A:107620  R:770  HW:0  E:260%  U:26.23/m
 TQ: 6  ST: 7  SS: 389  DW: 3386  NB: 546  LW: 247388  GF: 7  RF: 14
 Connected to http://au.ozco.in:8331 with LP as user miku.1
 Block: 00000a240880dae42eea41dd1b91940a...  Started: [11:29:40]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 Radeon 5850: 76.0C 3277RPM | 358.7/358.5Mh/s | A:26060 R:114 HW:0 U: 4.99/m I: 9
 Radeon 5870: 69.0C 2898RPM | 367.1/365.7Mh/s | A:26372 R:112 HW:0 U: 5.05/m I: 9
      Icarus:               | 370.7/366.1Mh/s | A:27565 R:273 HW:0 U: 5.28/m
   BF Single: 64.1C         | 504.1/765.6Mh/s | A:27625 R:271 HW:0 U: 5.29/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[2012-03-29 11:39:22] Accepted 00000000.df0f50fd.43d06b28 Icarus thread 4 pool 0
[2012-03-29 11:39:24] Accepted 00000000.a7607fe8.9e9ac7de BF Single thread 5 pool 0
[2012-03-29 11:39:27] Accepted 00000000.0e7a8c29.192f6ff1 BF Single thread 5 pool 0

Is there currently a supported API call in 2.3.3 that will return GPU MODEL or GPU FAMILY ?

[dietwice]

Both 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 windows versions stop working on user switching.
2.3.1 works well.
Win7 x64, SDK 2.6.

User switching?... What on earth has the cgminer version got to do with that?

I don't know O_o.
But when I return back to the user running cgminer I see that no more shares were submitted since I switched out.
It just staying still.

[-ck]

Using this example/option from another thread....

Code:

cgminer version 2.3.1m - Started: [2012-03-25 20:43:39]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):1878.8 (avg):1856.0 Mh/s | Q:41418  A:107620  R:770  HW:0  E:260%  U:26.23/m
 TQ: 6  ST: 7  SS: 389  DW: 3386  NB: 546  LW: 247388  GF: 7  RF: 14
 Connected to http://au.ozco.in:8331 with LP as user miku.1
 Block: 00000a240880dae42eea41dd1b91940a...  Started: [11:29:40]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 Radeon 5850: 76.0C 3277RPM | 358.7/358.5Mh/s | A:26060 R:114 HW:0 U: 4.99/m I: 9
 Radeon 5870: 69.0C 2898RPM | 367.1/365.7Mh/s | A:26372 R:112 HW:0 U: 5.05/m I: 9
      Icarus:               | 370.7/366.1Mh/s | A:27565 R:273 HW:0 U: 5.28/m
   BF Single: 64.1C         | 504.1/765.6Mh/s | A:27625 R:271 HW:0 U: 5.29/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[2012-03-29 11:39:22] Accepted 00000000.df0f50fd.43d06b28 Icarus thread 4 pool 0
[2012-03-29 11:39:24] Accepted 00000000.a7607fe8.9e9ac7de BF Single thread 5 pool 0
[2012-03-29 11:39:27] Accepted 00000000.0e7a8c29.192f6ff1 BF Single thread 5 pool 0

Is there currently a supported API call in 2.3.3 that will return CARD MODEL or CARD FAMILY ?

I'm sorry but this is virtually impossible to do reliably (the GPU part). OpenCL doesn't tell us what the devices are. cgminer tries to guess with ADL and it's not entirely reliable.

[iopq]

For my 5xxx cards, I found out that 2.2.6 works best. Although 2.3.3 also works fine, the cursor jumps everywhere on the screen randomly

did you set the intensity too high? I set mine to 4 on my faster cards and 2 on my slower cards
I never use d

[-ck]

Both 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 windows versions stop working on user switching.
2.3.1 works well.
Win7 x64, SDK 2.6.

User switching?... What on earth has the cgminer version got to do with that?

I don't know O_o.
But when I return back to the user running cgminer I see that no more shares were submitted since I switched out.
It just staying still.

Well you'll have to look elsewhere to see what permissions you extracted the zip file with or something like that, because cgminer has no clue about users or permissions like that.

[bulanula]

I don't know about others but for me the display of cgminer is great.

Sounds to me like nit picking

The code is much more important than the display.

If you want pretty colors and some other crap in the display then feel free to code it yourself ...

[kano]

OK, I read your PM.
It's in the pull request now also.

Thank you. 5BTC sent.

Thanks extremely Got it
(and yep it's in ckolivas' git now too)