An (even more) optimized version of cpuminer (pooler's cpuminer, CPU-only)

[pooler]

can you profide me the newest phtreadGC2XXX  for 64bit file please ??

It isn't clear to me why you'd want to update the DLLs, if those provided with the binary package work. If you are trying to make the miner faster, you are definitely looking in the wrong place.

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[paulus51]

wel no i am not trying to make it faster...

but this version should be 64 bit right ?  that dll is for 32 bit , i am only asking for a 64 bit dll file

you did a great job on it thats not the point 

i dont want to make it faster i just want my files be up to date , there is nothing wrong with i think ..........

[pooler]

but this version should be 64 bit right ?  that dll is for 32 bit , i am only asking for a 64 bit dll file

That file should be 64-bit just like the rest. What makes you think it isn't? Just the filename?

[paulus51]

well it issent the source it selfs say's it 


i have done resource about this and the source ...


source force say : specific :  "pthreadGC2.dll" (for 32-bit programs) or "pthreadGC2_64.dll" (for 64-bit programs)


compiler issue ?

package the wrong dll file with it ?

[pooler]

source force say : specific :  "pthreadGC2.dll" (for 32-bit programs) or "pthreadGC2_64.dll" (for 64-bit programs)

Not sure what you are referring to. The filename is just a name. As they say, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Anyway, I have briefly tested the 64-bit package with wine64, and as expected it doesn't work if I remove pthreadGC2.dll or if I replace it with the one from the 32-bit package. That pretty much proves that the file is 64-bit, to me. I'm not a Windows expert, but I do know that function calling conventions are different for 32-bit and 64-bit programs, so I very much doubt that a 64-bit program can use 32-bit libraries.

[Spoetnik]

i noticed long ago in the miner_thread() function the scantime setting does not do anything
unless Stratum and Longpolling is NOT found.. i can prove this easily and show lines of source doe etc

SO this leads me to believe a lot of people out there are led to believe --scantime may be doing something when in fact it can't

Is this by design ?

i have made my own mod(s) on this mod of yours and fixed it so to speak. (i made a mod of cudaminer and quarkminer that are based on your miner)

so do you know what i am saying or should post the exact parts of the code ?

[pooler]

i noticed long ago in the miner_thread() function the scantime setting does not do anything
unless Stratum and Longpolling is NOT found.. i can prove this easily and show lines of source doe etc

SO this leads me to believe a lot of people out there are led to believe --scantime may be doing something when in fact it can't

Is this by design ?

i have made my own mod(s) on this mod of yours and fixed it so to speak. (i made a mod of cudaminer and quarkminer that are based on your miner)

so do you know what i am saying or should post the exact parts of the code ?

Brief note on the -s/--scantime option
I have seen people suggest various values for this option in order to reduce stales when mining in pools.
The funny thing is that, to my knowledge, all Litecoin pools have long polling permanently enabled (which is good), and when long polling is enabled the scantime parameter is completely ignored.
For this reason, the use of this parameter only makes sense when you are mining solo.

Is having a lower scantime better when solo mining?

If you are solo mining you may want to set it to a lower value than the default (5 seconds), provided that the *coin daemon is running locally. That can lower the probability of your solutions getting rejected.
If you are mining at a pool, the option is completely ignored by the miner, as better solutions (long polling or Stratum) will then be available.

[pluMmet]

Solo mining for the first time here.

When pool mining the cmd window shows my cpu info and reprints it when pool finds block.

Solo mining prints info just once (no blocks yet i get it) but how do i know its not just frozen?

It just says bind thread 8 times  (0-7) thats it. No mh reading or anything.

Is my little comp dead in the water or is this how cpuminer works while solo mining?

[K1773R]

Solo mining for the first time here.

When pool mining the cmd window shows my cpu info and reprints it when pool finds block.

Solo mining prints info just once (no blocks yet i get it) but how do i know its not just frozen?

It just says bind thread 8 times  (0-7) thats it. No mh reading or anything.

Is my little comp dead in the water or is this how cpuminer works while solo mining?

yes this is normal, check your CPU usage
solomining with CPUs wont get you any blocks on the bigger coins.

[GigaPixels]

2.) Is there anyway to have it run in the background, I have a million spreadsheets open at once and I keep closing the minimized window by accident.

shell "C:\Users\YOU\yourconfig.bat", vbHide

Step by step for dummies.  Thought based on some reading probably not a good idea to mine on my latptop anyway.  Still handy for the couple desktops we have in the office.

Here you can: http://thomasvanhoutte.be/blog/2013/12/04/hide-cpugpu-miner-window/

Also, there is an explanation on how to run your miner (in the background) on system start-up.

Enjoy!

[eRRoRist]

Guys I seem to be having some problem using CPUminer behind a firewall.

All my internet traffic needs to go through a proxy server. I have no problem mining BTC using any miner that lets me specific a proxy i.e cgminer...bfgminer.

I'm now try to mine LTC via scrypt + CPU + cpuminer. This is was I use.

minerd --url=stratum+tcp://global.wemineltc.com:3333 --proxy=http://proxy:8080 -u xxx -p xxx

Stratum connection failed: Failed connect to global.wemineltc.com:3333; No error

 

I'm also looking at going through stratum proxy but I don't think it supports a proxy server? Any help from you guys will be greatly appreciated!!

[pooler]

All my internet traffic needs to go through a proxy server. I have no problem mining BTC using any miner that lets me specific a proxy i.e cgminer...bfgminer.

I'm now try to mine LTC via scrypt + CPU + cpuminer. This is was I use.

minerd --url=stratum+tcp://global.wemineltc.com:3333 --proxy=http://proxy:8080 -u xxx -p xxx

Stratum connection failed: Failed connect to global.wemineltc.com:3333; No error

You can't use Stratum with a HTTP proxy because Stratum does not operate over HTTP, but you can use a SOCKS4/5 proxy.

[matthewh3]

Code:

$ ./minerd -a quark -o stratum+tcp://qrk.coinmine.pl:6010 -u matthewh3.1 -p x
Try `minerd --help' for more information. 

Anyone know what the correct argument is that I need to put?

[pooler]

Code:

$ ./minerd -a quark -o stratum+tcp://qrk.coinmine.pl:6010 -u matthewh3.1 -p x
Try `minerd --help' for more information. 

Wrong thread. This miner only supports algorithms SHA-256d and scrypt.

[Sheldor333]

Ok so this is the third day I've been trying to get this running. No luck. I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I've been using a lot of tuts from here to try to install it. No luck. Last one I've used was from this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=200147.0 it gave me errors at ./autogen.sh telling me it doesn't exist. Is there some complete tutorial on how to install it. I can configure it later for different pools that is easy.

[jedimstr]

Ok so this is the third day I've been trying to get this running. No luck. I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I've been using a lot of tuts from here to try to install it. No luck. Last one I've used was from this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=200147.0 it gave me errors at ./autogen.sh telling me it doesn't exist. Is there some complete tutorial on how to install it. I can configure it later for different pools that is easy.

Why don't you just download the binaries from the first post for Linux.  There's a 32bit and 64bit one.  I have the 64bit running on my Lubuntu and Xubuntu workstations now from those binaries.

[Sheldor333]

Ok so this is the third day I've been trying to get this running. No luck. I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I've been using a lot of tuts from here to try to install it. No luck. Last one I've used was from this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=200147.0 it gave me errors at ./autogen.sh telling me it doesn't exist. Is there some complete tutorial on how to install it. I can configure it later for different pools that is easy.

Why don't you just download the binaries from the first post for Linux.  There's a 32bit and 64bit one.  I have the 64bit running on my Lubuntu and Xubuntu workstations now from those binaries.

Because only line script is available to me. True it would be a lot easier that way if I could just use the binaries, but I can't. Can't believe there no tut that works around here.

[jedimstr]

Ok so this is the third day I've been trying to get this running. No luck. I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I've been using a lot of tuts from here to try to install it. No luck. Last one I've used was from this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=200147.0 it gave me errors at ./autogen.sh telling me it doesn't exist. Is there some complete tutorial on how to install it. I can configure it later for different pools that is easy.

Why don't you just download the binaries from the first post for Linux.  There's a 32bit and 64bit one.  I have the 64bit running on my Lubuntu and Xubuntu workstations now from those binaries.

Because only line script is available to me. True it would be a lot easier that way if I could just use the binaries, but I can't. Can't believe there no tut that works around here.

Wait, so you're trying to run cpuminer on an Ubuntu server/station that you don't have permissions to wget and execute binaries but you do have permissions to compile?  Not quite seeing why you can't use wget to download the binaries from the shell.

[xminerx]

Fun little piece of software! I'm getting about 100 kh/s on my 4770k. That's nearly a third of what my 7850 is doing.

[dark143i]

How do I know its running. Its showing block found etc etc. However, in my account Under Worker The Status shows as (X). Can anyone help me please.