Hi, I have been running cgminer for 30 minutes and when I check my pool site it says my worker is inactive and I am contributing nothing. What am I doing wrong?
When you start cgminer, what does it tell you?
Can it connect to the stratum server of the pool?
Does it get new blocks from the pool?
Is there an authentication error (wrong worker name and password)?
Note that you need to configure a worker at the pool website, then enter that name and password in your miner.
But you need to precede the worker name with your account name at the pool,
so for example if your pool website account is venmo and your worker name and password are worker1 and pass1
then you configure your miner with user name: venmo.worker1 and the password: pass1
Preferably your worker password is different from your pool account password.
If all that is correct, you may have other config parameters of the miner set incorrectly,
we may make some suggestions if you post your settings (minus your account name and password)
One thing that I find often set too high is the "intensity" - my miner works best with intensity set to 11
as it starts giving HW errors as soon as I set it to 12 (and then the Work Units per minute go down sharply)
while on many lists I see people suggest intensity of 17 or 18. The rule is: start low and increase it until you get HW errors or the WU count does not go as high, then back down one step to where it was maximum. My WU/minute count is almost as high as the hash rate in kh/s:
I am hashing at 214 kh/s (it is an older HD6870) and I see approx 192 WU/minute.
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