GUIMiner-scrypt: A GUIMiner fork for mining scrypt chains - page 28.

sinistral

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Awesome expansion to GUIMiner, tacotime (I totally want a taco now)! Thanks a lot!

I have a few questions/feature requests that I hope tacotime or someone else can help me with. I'm not very technical with mining yet and was using a 5850 gpu for about a year until I recently got a new 7970 for gaming. Just doing some on and off mining for fun, but now that BTC has some serious value I'm really looking into it!

Is there any way to have GUIMiner-scrypt start/stop on certain events? I would like to be able to to run something like a batch file command and macro it to switch over profiles for mining; full throttle at idle, moderate setting for some games, and off for gpu intensive ones. Ideally mining would be throttled by resource usage or if a an exe is loaded but I can't code so I can't tweak things. Embarrassed

And to mine both Bitcoins and Litecoins I just need to have two cgminers open and connect to each respective pool, correct?

pentix

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Quote from: tacotime on March 18, 2013, 12:43:08 AM

Please show a screen cap of your configurations and any console output and I'll see if I can figure out what's going on.

It'd also be helpful if you post the contents of C:\Users\you\AppData\Roaming\poclbm\poclbm_scrypt.ini

put intensity down to 12 while i'm on.

console
2013-03-18 07:34:54: Running command: E:\Bitcoin\guiminerLTC\cgminer\cgminer.exe --scrypt -u pentix.1 -p__
-o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3334 -d 0 --thread-concurrency 1600 -w 128 -v 1 -I 12 -g 1 -l 5 -T
2013-03-18 07:34:54: Listener for "coinotron" started
2013-03-18 07:35:01: Listener for "coinotron": [2013-03-18 07:34:55] Started cgminer 2.10.5
2013-03-18 07:35:01: Listener for "coinotron": [2013-03-18 07:34:55] Probing for an alive pool
2013-03-18 07:35:01: Listener for "coinotron": [2013-03-18 07:34:56] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
(keeps saying detected new block)

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tacotime

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Quote from: Beta-coiner1 on March 18, 2013, 12:29:48 AM

Yeah,I'm getting these very same issues in addition to trying to hash in multiple gpus using Catalyst 11.12/AMD SDK 2.5 under XP.

This issue is sometimes due to the wrong platform not being detected, try --gpu-platform 0 or --gpu-platform 1 in extra flags

This will be fixed in 0.03

tacotime

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Please show a screen cap of your configurations and any console output and I'll see if I can figure out what's going on.

It'd also be helpful if you post the contents of C:\Users\you\AppData\Roaming\poclbm\poclbm_scrypt.ini

Beta-coiner1

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Quote from: cdog on March 17, 2013, 11:03:38 AM

Hey, how does this work with overclocking? Set it up via a config or use CCC/Afterburner?

Also, Im having issues connecting to a pool, I can solomine fine via localhost 9332 but when I enter my pool info it never connects.

Yet, I have no trouble connecting using the same info in cgminer...

Yeah,I'm getting these very same issues in addition to trying to hash in multiple gpus using Catalyst 11.12/AMD SDK 2.5 under XP.

pentix

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Quote from: tacotime on March 17, 2013, 09:49:34 AM

This I have never seen. Which miner are you using and over what length of time ddoes this occur?

guiminer-scrypt is useing cgminer. not sure but like a couple hours.
i have ati 5670 redwood. if i use these settings i get 94khash.
TC 1600, vec 1, gpu 1, work 128, in 18

tacotime

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Quote from: cdog on March 17, 2013, 11:03:38 AM

Hey, how does this work with overclocking? Set it up via a config or use CCC/Afterburner?

Also, Im having issues connecting to a pool, I can solomine fine via localhost 9332 but when I enter my pool info it never connects.

Yet, I have no trouble connecting using the same info in cgminer...

Overclocking is with another program eg afterburner

Please let me know what your output is in the console when you are trying to connect to a pool with cgminer (it should show some error)

cdog

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Hey, how does this work with overclocking? Set it up via a config or use CCC/Afterburner?

Also, Im having issues connecting to a pool, I can solomine fine via localhost 9332 but when I enter my pool info it never connects.

Yet, I have no trouble connecting using the same info in cgminer...

tacotime

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This I have never seen. Which miner are you using and over what length of time ddoes this occur?

pentix

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my reported hash rate slowly goes down over time until i restart it. any idea why?

tacotime

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It was compiled under Win7 and doesn't seem to work on x86 or x64 windows XP because of an incompatible build of wx. I will try to compile a version later for Windows XP.

bziubek

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I'm getting an alert "errors occured" and the program crashes right after starting.

Code:

ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2817, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 2194, in __init__
  File "wx\_core.pyo", line 11206, in Enable
PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "item" failed at ..\..\src\common\menucmn.cpp(841) in wxMenuBase::Enable(): wxMenu::Enable: no such item
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2826, in 
  File "guiminer.py", line 2817, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 2194, in __init__
  File "wx\_core.pyo", line 11206, in Enable
wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "item" failed at ..\..\src\common\menucmn.cpp(841) in wxMenuBase::Enable(): wxMenu::Enable: no such item

On Win Xp x64

Any ideas why?

tacotime

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No; I'll try to make it portable in the future though.

ewibit

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is there somewhere a Linux version?
TIA

tacotime

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Yeah, sorry about that. In the next version I will add tool tips to specify what the general values should be for the different options.

Turok

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first of all, great job man!

However, I am experiencing little issues. I have 2 cards, 7970 and 7870. Any time I increase the Thread concurrency to more than 8192, the GUIminer reports an error in Win7.
I was trying to increase this attribute according to your other topic - 7970 -> 21712 and 7870 -> 15360.

Anyone experiencing the same?

edit: nevermind. found out that cgminer doesn't support such high concurrencies, so I had to use Reaper instead.

Zedster

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Quote from: tacotime on March 12, 2013, 12:27:50 PM

Quote from: Zedster on March 12, 2013, 12:25:29 PM

I basiclly stumbled onto this just with playing with cgminer. I read in one post the best thing to do was to adjust mem speeds down to 300. Well this may keep things cool but hash rates suck. I have a couple old 5830's one with 2 pipe cooler and one with the 5 pipe cooler. Keeping the one with the 2 pipe cooler cool is a task. The ratios you mention here are they just from experimenting or is there definitive math proof for the numbers?

For the 7770, yes
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1302319

From what I can tell this holds true for my 7950s too, but I don't have as much quantitative data.

Someone needs to make these same curves for the 5xxx and 6xxx series too, since they use a different architecture. It'd be nice if someone could, I've wanted to roll out a program to do this automatedly for some time but have been working or coding other things.

Very nice thank you sir. I never had a need to go to page 7 of that thread so I missed that.

tacotime

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Quote from: Zedster on March 12, 2013, 12:25:29 PM

I basiclly stumbled onto this just with playing with cgminer. I read in one post the best thing to do was to adjust mem speeds down to 300. Well this may keep things cool but hash rates suck. I have a couple old 5830's one with 2 pipe cooler and one with the 5 pipe cooler. Keeping the one with the 2 pipe cooler cool is a task. The ratios you mention here are they just from experimenting or is there definitive math proof for the numbers?

For the 7770, yes
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1302319

From what I can tell this holds true for my 7950s too, but I don't have as much quantitative data.

Someone needs to make these same curves for the 5xxx and 6xxx series too, since they use a different architecture. It'd be nice if someone could, I've wanted to roll out a program to do this automatedly for some time but have been working or coding other things.

Zedster

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Very nice Mr. Tacotime. I spend some time in the #litecoin channel on IRC and mining is a huge subject atm. I already point people your AMD card post about 10 times a day now I have another one to pass on.

I personally am interested in the reasoning behind this next statement you make:

Quote

A: In addition to tuning the parameters of the program, you will need to tune the GPU core speed and memory. For 5xxx/6xxx cards a good ratio is 0.70 - 0.80 core / memory clock speeds. For 7xxx cards, ratios are best under 0.68, with the 7970 preferring ratios at or under even 0.57 in reaper.
To find your memory speed from the core speed, simply divide by the ratio, e.g. 900 MHz core / 0.68 = 1325 MHz RAM.

I basiclly stumbled onto this just with playing with cgminer. I read in one post the best thing to do was to adjust mem speeds down to 300. Well this may keep things cool but hash rates suck. I have a couple old 5830's one with 2 pipe cooler and one with the 5 pipe cooler. Keeping the one with the 2 pipe cooler cool is a task. The ratios you mention here are they just from experimenting or is there definitive math proof for the numbers?

tacotime

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If the GPU I want to use for mining is not used as first device the miner doesn't see it. In my case I want to use the integrated GPU in my I5 for desktop and mine with my Radeon 5770, but it doesn't work. With the guiminer for Bitcoins this problem doesn't occur, so I dunno if it's my fault or there is a little bug.

With cgminer or reaper? Right now there's a bug with cgminer and you need to add the extra flag,

Code:

--gpu-platform 1

That should fix it. Reaper seems to be unaffected because it enters the platform number. This will be fixed in 0.03 alpha, which should come out this weekend (want to see if any other bugs come out first).

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