Topic: CGMiner connectivity issues - detailed - please help (Read 1848 times)
Stratum should fix the lag issue? Thanks. Comcast has been rather rude to me anyway. Could someone provide a link to stratum setup? Much obliged.
the pool is not responding fast enough to your miner's requests. it's because your internet has too much round trip lag, has severe packet drop, or the pool server is too far away (very unlikely).
if you are only getting the message immediately after a new block notification, you need to get a more reliable connection. or perhaps you could switch to a pool that has servers closer to you. if you're getting the message randomly, switch to a pool that supports local work generation (stratum/GBT).
if you are only getting the message immediately after a new block notification, you need to get a more reliable connection. or perhaps you could switch to a pool that has servers closer to you. if you're getting the message randomly, switch to a pool that supports local work generation (stratum/GBT).
'pool 0 not providing work fast enough' is the main error I keep receiving.
your post is way too long, and I have no idea what your main point is. are you having HW error, network error, or too little hash?
I am having an issue with CGMiner. I've been mining just fine with 2 X 7950s @ around 1.1MH/s for BTB. I recently received risers in the mail -1x to 16x. I have not received my 16x to 16x risers yet, so I am only running 3 GPUs. All Gigabyte 7950s. All new. Haven't had any problems with them except some SICK/DEAD statuses if I let them run too hot for too long. I've realized impatience waiting for all the risers is not worth burning up $1000 worth of GPUs so I am keeping them under clocked for the moment.
I use Team Viewer to monitor the rig while I am away from my home. It usually works flawlessly. The android app is nowhere short of amazing.
I was running Catalyst 13.4 / APP SDK 2.8 / CGMiner 3.1.0. I had been mining for 5 days straight with minimal problems. My only problem was cooling. I have since redesigned my Crate Rig to be more efficient for cooling. I will have to wait until I can put all 4 X 7950s on risers though until I can run at full force and at a manageable temperature.
Now, my CGMiner issue.
With my original drivers stated above, I was having my KH/s range with a -20% +20% range. I closed out of CGMiner to give the rig a moment to rest(again, not trying to burn out my hardware). When I started CGMiner back up, I would get different errors every time. 'Could not connect to pool', 'pool 0 not providing work fast enough' 'Could not connect, make sure the URL is correct' and every other error I know about that deals with trouble connecting. The pool would connect rarely with a slow to nothing connection. I then began getting multiple HW errors for each card. After a couple of minutes the rig was submitting shares. This didn't last long as the cards were heating up so I wanted to fix the connection and HW errors for good.
I was having issues with my ISP so I tethered my Nexus 4 with non throttled HPSA+, but the connection errors are still being shown. Is there something I am missing? Does the currency you intend to mine, have to have the corresponding wallet installed to the PC with the block chain fully caught up? I didn't think so because my BTB wallet was having trouble syncing with a time error. I was still able to mine BTB through binarycoins.eu . I also emailed support for binarycoins.eu and he said that his pool was submitting work and others had no problem connecting. I also tried notroll.in for LTC just to see if it was a computer error or remote server error. All help and suggestions are highly appreciated.
I am running Catalyst 12.8 / APP SDK 2.7 / While trying CGMiner 2.8.0, 2.8.2, 3.1.0, and 3.1.1. Also, last night I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 64x just to see if a Windows update caused the error. Before trying a fresh install, I tried rolling the system restore back and installing all of the above (recommended for best performance) drivers.
These drivers were in a last ditch effort to fix my pool connection issue. They actually blew me away with the capability of the cards. With the one card mounted to the outter PCI-E slot and the one on a 1X to 16X riser mounted to the top of the crate, both run cool. The main slot does not. In a short time of testing even though the pools were not connecting, the cards would start hashing. I was able to push STEADY 700+KH/s for each RADEON 7950!! I thought these cards were only capable of 630KH/s max for litecoin based coins! I can't wait to get this connectivity issue fixed and have my rig running a solid 3KH/s !!
If you guys need to know the rest of my HW:
Seasonic Gold 80+ 1250W Modular
Corsair 4GB DDR 3 1666MHZ
ASUS M5A97 R2.0
500 GB Laptop Drive (soon to be replaced by a 60GB SSD OCZ)
Sempron 145 O/C'd to 3.6 GHz stable. MOBO has built in auto O/C features.
MICRO USB EDIMAX WIFI N
StartMining.bat is pretty generic
cgminer --scrypt -o http://binarycoins.eu:9333/ -u MyMiner.1 -p x
with a few settings added(cant connect to PC at the moment as my ISP COMCAST has their heads up their arses. But I do know the settings I have can hash just fine at good and consistent rates, my main issue is the pool connectivity.
If I missed any details, let me know and I can provide them.
I use Team Viewer to monitor the rig while I am away from my home. It usually works flawlessly. The android app is nowhere short of amazing.
I was running Catalyst 13.4 / APP SDK 2.8 / CGMiner 3.1.0. I had been mining for 5 days straight with minimal problems. My only problem was cooling. I have since redesigned my Crate Rig to be more efficient for cooling. I will have to wait until I can put all 4 X 7950s on risers though until I can run at full force and at a manageable temperature.
Now, my CGMiner issue.
With my original drivers stated above, I was having my KH/s range with a -20% +20% range. I closed out of CGMiner to give the rig a moment to rest(again, not trying to burn out my hardware). When I started CGMiner back up, I would get different errors every time. 'Could not connect to pool', 'pool 0 not providing work fast enough' 'Could not connect, make sure the URL is correct' and every other error I know about that deals with trouble connecting. The pool would connect rarely with a slow to nothing connection. I then began getting multiple HW errors for each card. After a couple of minutes the rig was submitting shares. This didn't last long as the cards were heating up so I wanted to fix the connection and HW errors for good.
I was having issues with my ISP so I tethered my Nexus 4 with non throttled HPSA+, but the connection errors are still being shown. Is there something I am missing? Does the currency you intend to mine, have to have the corresponding wallet installed to the PC with the block chain fully caught up? I didn't think so because my BTB wallet was having trouble syncing with a time error. I was still able to mine BTB through binarycoins.eu . I also emailed support for binarycoins.eu and he said that his pool was submitting work and others had no problem connecting. I also tried notroll.in for LTC just to see if it was a computer error or remote server error. All help and suggestions are highly appreciated.
I am running Catalyst 12.8 / APP SDK 2.7 / While trying CGMiner 2.8.0, 2.8.2, 3.1.0, and 3.1.1. Also, last night I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 64x just to see if a Windows update caused the error. Before trying a fresh install, I tried rolling the system restore back and installing all of the above (recommended for best performance) drivers.
These drivers were in a last ditch effort to fix my pool connection issue. They actually blew me away with the capability of the cards. With the one card mounted to the outter PCI-E slot and the one on a 1X to 16X riser mounted to the top of the crate, both run cool. The main slot does not. In a short time of testing even though the pools were not connecting, the cards would start hashing. I was able to push STEADY 700+KH/s for each RADEON 7950!! I thought these cards were only capable of 630KH/s max for litecoin based coins! I can't wait to get this connectivity issue fixed and have my rig running a solid 3KH/s !!
If you guys need to know the rest of my HW:
Seasonic Gold 80+ 1250W Modular
Corsair 4GB DDR 3 1666MHZ
ASUS M5A97 R2.0
500 GB Laptop Drive (soon to be replaced by a 60GB SSD OCZ)
Sempron 145 O/C'd to 3.6 GHz stable. MOBO has built in auto O/C features.
MICRO USB EDIMAX WIFI N
StartMining.bat is pretty generic
cgminer --scrypt -o http://binarycoins.eu:9333/ -u MyMiner.1 -p x
with a few settings added(cant connect to PC at the moment as my ISP COMCAST has their heads up their arses. But I do know the settings I have can hash just fine at good and consistent rates, my main issue is the pool connectivity.
If I missed any details, let me know and I can provide them.
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