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

[bulanula]

As each pool has a different idea about when the block changes, if I choose the first pool's block change to discard all work from all pools then there can be quite a long period across block changes where cgminer throws out lots of work because it will continue to consider it from the old block. I had to relax the stale testing for load balance to prevent this work from being thrown out. On the other hand it's almost certainly what's leading to higher stales at every longpoll/block change. People generally get scared when they see a huge dip in hashrate across longpoll and start blaming cgminer for not keeping the devices busy. It probably makes more sense to throw out the work and accept the dip in hashrate so I can do that next version, but no matter what I choose, someone will complain  

I was wondering if something like this was the case. Looking at the log that seemed to me what was happening, but I was having difficulty translating what was going on... (for one, the specific pool/device the message is about is rarely referenced in the logs!).

If there's not much you can do, there's not much you can do! I'll just stick to fail-over then

I'd say taking the dip in hashrate would be better option though. I prefer not to start work than throw away work done...
1. You won't waste power calculated hashes you know will be stale.
2. You don't get stales appearing in the stats.

Absolute genius !

And now each 10 minutes / new block found my GPUs will go to no load / very low temps and then to high load / very high temps in a timeframe of 1 minute.

This hot -> cold -> hot cycle is not good for the fans or for the GPU itself. Same with FPGAs if you have that junk.

Brilliant, I tell you !

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[check_status]

Just installed 2.4.2 and received a strange message:

Code:

No login credentials for pool 0 http://p2pool:9332 -u bitcoinaddress -u <-imadummy

Edit: My mistake, I typoed the script to run. 

[JBDive]

Boy aVast sure doesn't like this update. Have not had it complain about my current version but it doesn't even want me to download this one saying it's Malware. Reported as False like that will make a difference.

[ZodiacDragon84]

Boy aVast sure doesn't like this update. Have not had it complain about my current version but it doesn't even want me to download this one saying it's Malware. Reported as False like that will make a difference.

Same here. I reported as a false positive, and I am trying to get it on my excluded list, when I can can figure out where its at!

[Inaba]

Heh.. avast seems to be going apeshit with Bitcoin related stuff lately.  They flagged OzCoin and apparently my pool as well (though I think it's since been corrected) ... WTH is up over there at Avast, are they just stupid?

[Aseras]

they have probably found code and traced web connections from trojans that are using cgminer and your pools and are flagging anything that appears to match.

[JBDive]

Problem with aVast, even though I still prefer it, is the same thing that's wrong with all the other AV vendors, they toss the kitchen sink into it. By that I mean somebody like PCMag will do a review with a nice table saying what each AV product does with nice little check marks then management sees these charts and comes back at the Devs and says "why isn't our product also scanning for XYZ"? With each new tool added into the product it gets slower, more intrusive and overall less popular, look at McAfee, the number one product for years yet like Norton most educated users stay far away from both now.

With aVast I love how it scans webpages for rogue code so much better than others but it's becoming a challenge to stick with them. I am still on version 4.8 as it's lighter than the new releases PLUS allows for URL blocking which is great for those ad banners. I'm a bit ticked at it blocking downloading of CGMiner yet it's log does not show any event concerning that block. Having to disable scanning just to download is a total fail on their part.

ok sorry for the thread steal, back to CGMiner.

[Luke-Jr]

Quite frankly, antivirus blacklists/scanners seem to be turning into more of a problem than the virii/trojans themselves. But maybe I'm biased because I've never been infected (even when I ran Windows; and no, I've never used antivirus)

[bulanula]

Quite frankly, antivirus blacklists/scanners seem to be turning into more of a problem than the virii/trojans themselves. But maybe I'm biased because I've never been infected (even when I ran Windows; and no, I've never used antivirus)

Same here. Ran Windows 2000 SP4 with updates turned off and if you have a brain you never have any problems. If you don't and have the best antivirus you still can get raped.

[yxt]

av is snake oil 

[Krak]

So after updating to 2.4.2, I decided to try switching to 2 threads per GPU again. The problem is still there; my display GPU starts to function really slowly, both mining and drawing my desktop. It's on dynamic intensity which means it's still only running on 1 thread, right? Why would enabling 2 threads affect it at all?

I have my .sh script set to run the export commands:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
export DISPLAY=:0
~/Dropbox/cgminer/cgminer -c ~/Dropbox/cgminer/cgminer.conf

Is that maybe my problem? Not sure what could possibly be causing this.

[kano]

what is in ~/.cgminer/cgminer.conf ...

[Krak]

Code:

{
"pools" : [
(pool info here)
],

"intensity" : "d,9",
"vectors" : "2,2",
"worksize" : "128,128",
"kernel" : "phatk,phatk",
"gpu-engine" : "700-960,700-960",
"gpu-fan" : "0-85,0-85",
"gpu-memclock" : "0,0",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0,0",
"gpu-powertune" : "0,0",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000,0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95,95",
"temp-overheat" : "85,85",
"temp-target" : "75,75",
"api-port" : "4028",
"auto-fan" : true,
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "1",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "1",
"retry-pause" : "5",
"scan-time" : "60",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

Pretty much just stuff that got written to the file when I made it through cgminer's menu.

[kano]

i.e. you have two conf files:
 ~/Dropbox/cgminer/cgminer.conf
and
 ~/.cgminer/cgminer.conf
so you have to consider the affect of both of them
... was the point of my question

[Aseras]

Are you sure your first core is the one running your desktop?

Try switching the intensity values around.   9,d

[Krak]

i.e. you have two conf files:
 ~/Dropbox/cgminer/cgminer.conf
and
 ~/.cgminer/cgminer.conf
so you have to consider the affect of both of them
... was the point of my question

I wrote the .conf from cgminer and then moved it out of the default folder into my Dropbox folder. There's nothing in ~/.cgminer anymore.

Are you sure your first core is the one running your desktop?

Try switching the intensity values around.   9,d

I'm positive I have the right ones. My desktop would hardly function if my display GPU was on 9.

[joyyen]

I have run my CGminer about 7 days, and i have about 11 Rigs with 5x 5850 and until today morning i found that some of my CGminer Freeze and stop sending share and i found some funny figure when i freeze something like "LW:50" and high figure around beside "LW"

where some of my CGminer still running fine thich is "LW:0"

you can see that on top of the cgminer !

anyone pls help

i cannot provide screen shot because it is not convenient and it is far from my house to warehouse

so anyone pls help if it happen again i will get the screen shot

sry for my English !

The LW value is almost certainly completely unrelated. If it crashes at approximately 7 days, then you are being hit by the ATI Display Library crashing after a week bug that happens only on windows. Try starting cgminer with --no-restart . You will lose temperature and/or fanspeed monitoring after a week but it at least wont crash.

I have tried the --no-restart but still no luck cg miner crash after 7 days

and some of my miner appear something like gpu2 display driver corrupted, disabling monitoring fan/gpu control  ................ and then it freeze the same

please i need solution for this anyone please tell me !

[sharky112065]

I have tried the --no-restart but still no luck cg miner crash after 7 days

and some of my miner appear something like gpu2 display driver corrupted, disabling monitoring fan/gpu control  ................ and then it freeze the same

please i need solution for this anyone please tell me !

Cgminer 2.4.2 has been out for less than 4 days. How can you say you have run Cgminer for "about 7 days" when the current version has not been out that long?

Edit: That was my sarcastic way of saying try 2.4.2.

[check_status]

I have tried the --no-restart but still no luck cg miner crash after 7 days

and some of my miner appear something like gpu2 display driver corrupted, disabling monitoring fan/gpu control  ................ and then it freeze the same

please i need solution for this anyone please tell me !

Cgminer 2.4.2 has been out for less than 4 days. How can you say you have run Cgminer for "about 7 days" when the current version has not been out that long?

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The LW value is almost certainly completely unrelated. If it crashes at approximately 7 days, then you are being hit by the ATI Display Library crashing after a week bug that happens only on windows. Try starting cgminer with --no-restart . You will lose temperature and/or fanspeed monitoring after a week but it at least wont crash.

I have tried the --no-restart but still no luck cg miner crash after 7 days

and some of my miner appear something like gpu2 display driver corrupted, disabling monitoring fan/gpu control  ................ and then it freeze the same

please i need solution for this anyone please tell me !

[crazyates]

I have tried the --no-restart but still no luck cg miner crash after 7 days

and some of my miner appear something like gpu2 display driver corrupted, disabling monitoring fan/gpu control  ................ and then it freeze the same

please i need solution for this anyone please tell me !

Cgminer 2.4.2 has been out for less than 4 days. How can you say you have run Cgminer for "about 7 days" when the current version has not been out that long?

-------------------------^^^^^^^^

The LW value is almost certainly completely unrelated. If it crashes at approximately 7 days, then you are being hit by the ATI Display Library crashing after a week bug that happens only on windows. Try starting cgminer with --no-restart . You will lose temperature and/or fanspeed monitoring after a week but it at least wont crash.

I have tried the --no-restart but still no luck cg miner crash after 7 days

and some of my miner appear something like gpu2 display driver corrupted, disabling monitoring fan/gpu control  ................ and then it freeze the same

please i need solution for this anyone please tell me !

Thats so weird how they both have the same problem. What a crazy random happenstance!