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

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Because you trying to run the 64-bit minerd.exe process with the 32-bit pthreadGC2.dll OR you are trying to run an old version of minerd by double clicking it. i.e no arguments in which case it will crash due to an uninitialized mutex lock.
I believe it to be the latter!

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[ripper234]

Because you trying to run the 64-bit minerd.exe process with the 32-bit pthreadGC2.dll as far as I can see

How can I fix? This was some time ago, but I do believe I took one complete binary from the top of this thread and ran it, I didn't inject any DLLs of my own into it.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Your crash is with time stamp 1324309652 which is Dec 19 2011. You are using older binaries.

[ripper234]

Your crash is with time stamp 1324309652 which is Dec 19 2011. You are using older binaries.

Alright, it was indeed a while since I tried.
I'll try again today/tomorrow when I get home with the latest binaries.

[ripper234]

Nice, I finally tried this, got a fresh install, and everything worked - I probably did mix some DLLs before.

Got a 300% increase in performance - it might be worth it to mine again.

Is there a mining profitability calculator for LTC? I'm too lazy to do the math.
Some website with a textbox where I can input like 35k hashes/sec and get a result in LTC/day.

[pooler]

Nice, I finally tried this, got a fresh install, and everything worked - I probably did mix some DLLs before.

Got a 300% increase in performance - it might be worth it to mine again.

Is there a mining profitability calculator for LTC? I'm too lazy to do the math.
Some website with a textbox where I can input like 35k hashes/sec and get a result in LTC/day.

http://allchains.info/calc.html
http://www.litecoinpool.org/calc

[ripper234]

Nice, I finally tried this, got a fresh install, and everything worked - I probably did mix some DLLs before.

Got a 300% increase in performance - it might be worth it to mine again.

Is there a mining profitability calculator for LTC? I'm too lazy to do the math.
Some website with a textbox where I can input like 35k hashes/sec and get a result in LTC/day.

http://allchains.info/calc.html
http://www.litecoinpool.org/calc

Sweet, so at current difficulty I should be netting about 30 coins a day.
Historically I always felt like I solved less blocks than I should have. Will keep an eye on this.

[GenTarkin]

Small update here, using the latest version posted ..
A stock FX4100 achieves nearly 5kh/s/core

[pooler]

If you are watching the GitHub repo, you may have noticed that I have released a few new versions of the miner.

Here are the most interesting minor changes:

• First off, I have finally started changing the version number, which is now 2.1.1. I have also updated the NEWS file to reflect the main changes introduced since jgarzik's last release.
• No new performance optimizations since the January 11 version. Nonetheless, the reported hashrate could be slightly higher or lower (depending on your CPU, CFLAGS and compiler version) because of some minor changes I made to the C wrapper of the hashing function. For some reason, it seems to be slightly faster on K10's. I am talking of fluctuations of the order of +/- 0.5%, so nothing one should worry about.
• Now the miner automatically sets its priority to idle on Windows.
• I have fixed the short options -u and -p, that didn't work, and I have added short versions of --url and --userpass, following the naming convention used by cgminer (-o and -O).

Finally, the most important change. I have tried to drastically increase the getwork efficiency of the miner, so that it spends less time waiting for new work. Indirectly, this should also make the miner faster, even if the speed increase will not be reflected in the reported hashrate, that only takes hashing time into consideration. These are the changes that make the efficiency increase possible:

• The miner no more discards the work returned by long polling.
• If long polling is available, do not ask for new work until the current work is at least 60 seconds old.
• Since the nonce space is quite vast, we don't need different work for each thread. All threads can use the work returned by just one getwork requests.

The latest sources and a couple new binaries for Windows are available at the usual location:
https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer

[drakahn]

• Now the miner automatically sets its priority to idle on Windows.

Wonderful.

[Come-from-Beyond]

Finally, the most important change. I have tried to drastically increase the getwork efficiency of the miner, so that it spends less time waiting for new work. Indirectly, this should also make the miner faster, even if the speed increase will not be reflected in the reported hashrate, that only takes hashing time into consideration.

Very good idea! Would be great if ur miner reported the "real" hashrate as well. So miners would see how hashrate depends on their network/computer settings and could tweak settings.

[hangover]

Unfortunately, new version doesn't compile under FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 with following error:

Code:

# gmake
gmake  all-recursive
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/qwe/cpuminer'
Making all in compat
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/home/qwe/cpuminer/compat'
Making all in jansson
gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/home/qwe/cpuminer/compat/jansson'
gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/qwe/cpuminer/compat/jansson'
gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/home/qwe/cpuminer/compat'
gmake[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/qwe/cpuminer/compat'
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/qwe/cpuminer/compat'
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/home/qwe/cpuminer'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -I./compat/jansson -I/usr/local/include   -g -O2 -MT minerd-scrypt-x64.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/minerd-scrypt-x64.Tpo -c -o minerd-scrypt-x64.o `test -f 'scrypt-x64.S' || echo './'`scrypt-x64.S
scrypt-x64.S: Assembler messages:
scrypt-x64.S:1700: Error: `(%ebp,%ebp,2)' is not a valid 64 bit base/index expression
scrypt-x64.S:1704: Error: `(%ebx,%ebx,2)' is not a valid 64 bit base/index expression
scrypt-x64.S:1709: Error: `(%r8d,%r8d,2)' is not a valid 64 bit base/index expression
gmake[2]: *** [minerd-scrypt-x64.o] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/qwe/cpuminer'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/qwe/cpuminer'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

[pooler]

Unfortunately, new version doesn't compile under FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p2 amd64 with following error:
{code}

My guess is that your version of binutils is too old. Try issuing "ld --version".

In the next release I will try to avoid this problem by changing a few instructions.

[hangover]

Yes, you're right - base FreeBSD version is too old:

Code:

$ ld --version
GNU ld version 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Thank you, will search for workaround.

[pooler]

Version 2.1.2

• Do not submit work that is known to be stale (gaining some more time for hashing).
• Allow miner threads to ask for new work if the current one is at least 45 seconds old and long polling is enabled. This should avoid having all miners asking for work at the same time.
• Refresh work when long polling times out, in order to avoid working on stale work.
• Modify x86-64 code to make it compatible with older versions of binutils.

Source code and Windows/OS X binaries: https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer

hangover: this version should build correctly with binutils 2.15. Let me know if the assembler still complains.

[oscer]

Very happy in the update of this ... i was able to increase my overall hashrate by 3 fold

[Fuzzy]

(Just looked into this "LiteCoin" thing today) Followed the instructions on pool-x for my i7-2600k, got 8.8 khash total for 4 cores.

Just replaced the default files with your ones, now getting 10.5 khash, PER CORE, for a total of 42.0 khash

Wow   

[pooler]

Binaries of version 2.1.2 for Mac OS X are now available.
https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer/downloads

[dishwara]

I am using win 7, 64 bit & i downloaded 2.1.2 from first page & i created a bat file with this code

minerd.exe -t 3 -o http://litecoinpool.org:9332/ -O xxxxx:xxxx

I am getting 15-16 khash/s on Intel core2 Quad Q8400, clock 2.6GHz, threads/core 3

Is that enough or i need further add anything?

[illpoet]

looks like you are good to go. all you need to do know is collect your coins!