Is Linux Supposed to be laggy while mining?

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Quote from: Scyntech on January 19, 2014, 12:02:10 AM

Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 18, 2014, 11:58:32 PM

Quote from: matt4054 on January 18, 2014, 11:51:54 PM

Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 18, 2014, 11:51:12 PM

Yeah, why hold us in suspense? Other people might be having the same issue ....

I think you missed it

But thats Windows. The OP is running on Linux no?

correct, I only suggested to him to adjust setting a desired effect.

Cool. Let's hope it works for him.

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Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 18, 2014, 11:58:32 PM

Quote from: matt4054 on January 18, 2014, 11:51:54 PM

Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 18, 2014, 11:51:12 PM

Yeah, why hold us in suspense? Other people might be having the same issue ....

I think you missed it

But thats Windows. The OP is running on Linux no?

correct, I only suggested to him to adjust settings for a desired effect.

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Quote from: matt4054 on January 18, 2014, 11:51:54 PM

Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 18, 2014, 11:51:12 PM

Yeah, why hold us in suspense? Other people might be having the same issue ....

I think you missed it

But thats Windows. The OP is running on Linux no?

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Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 18, 2014, 11:51:12 PM

Yeah, why hold us in suspense? Other people might be having the same issue ....

I think you missed it

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Quote from: Kenshin on January 18, 2014, 11:14:15 PM

Quote from: Scyntech on January 18, 2014, 11:12:06 PM

Sent you a PM Gazza1, not sure if the info will help any.

Are you teaching him some secret techniques? Why don't you post the info here, so we can all learn something.

Yeah, why hold us in suspense? Other people might be having the same issue ....

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Quote from: Scyntech on January 18, 2014, 11:28:40 PM

I'm a hobby miner, so my work PC is also my mining PC. I doubt this is anything new for you guys. Just a suggestion for Gazza1.

Sometimes I wish I am still working as a System Admin. I can install so many miners on all the work PC and Servers. Tongue

Lucky you.

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“Blockchain Just Entered The Real World”

Quote from: Kenshin on January 18, 2014, 11:14:15 PM

Quote from: Scyntech on January 18, 2014, 11:12:06 PM

Sent you a PM Gazza1, not sure if the info will help any.

Are you teaching him some secret techniques? Why don't you post the info here, so we can all learn something.

lol no, I'm new to mining as well. From my experience, adjusting the mining programs settings allowed me to watched movies, surf and use other programs with minimal lag but have an increased hash rate.

This is GUIMiner Alpha on Windows 7 64bit
7850(low)
Thread concurrency: 8192
Vectors: 1
GPU threads: 2
Worksize: 256
Intensity: 13
345 Kh/s

My new settings
Thread concurrency: 6720
Vectors: 1
GPU threads: 2
Worksize: 256
Intensity: 12
369-372 Kh/s

I'm a hobby miner, so my work PC is also my mining PC. I doubt this is anything new for you guys. Just a suggestion for Gazza1.

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Quote from: Scyntech on January 18, 2014, 11:12:06 PM

Sent you a PM Gazza1, not sure if the info will help any.

Are you teaching him some secret techniques? Why don't you post the info here, so we can all learn something.

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“Blockchain Just Entered The Real World”

Sent you a PM Gazza1, not sure if the info will help any.

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Also keep this in mind (cgminer README):

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--intensity|-I Intensity of GPU scanning (d or -10 -> 10, default: d to maintain desktop interactivity)

So keeping a responsive GUI is not expected behavior when using -I 13, even though the mouse pointer may keep more responsive of Windows. I have dozens of rigs running Win7 and the mouse pointer is indeed never laggy, but all the rest of the system is, i.e. 1500 ms average click-to-action response time (although I admit it's generally more with -I 18+ than 13).

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Quote from: Gazza1 on January 18, 2014, 12:04:33 PM

same as other rigs, I 13.

There are plenty of reasons for needing to get in the rig at times while mining. it's not like I plan to transcode videos or play games on it. come on now...

The mouse cursor graphic might be using GPU resources on Linux, I'm not sure. If so, it will be laggy, because the GPU is being eaten up by the mining. Just depends on how the mouse cursor is programmed on your box.

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Quote from: tum0r on January 18, 2014, 10:01:15 PM

Quote from: Kenshin on January 18, 2014, 09:52:18 PM

Quote from: Gazza1 on January 18, 2014, 09:45:56 PM

I appreciate your help in the other thread but you are acting like a dick in this one. So knock off your sarcasym or take a hike. I'm not a moron and as I said I don't plan to do anything on my mining rigs other than mining, apparently you can't read.

Thanks other guys for your non judgmental help Cool

When did I judge you? Why are you calling me a dick for? I have also help you in this thread. This name calling is uncalled for. Tongue

Hahaha. Damn... just reading this post. THEN BANG. Op gets all jersy shore on you..hehe.. and for no apparent reason.
I got ur back bro.

That is what I mean, this is a friendly forum. If I want to act like a dick will I bother to help him?? What a strange world we live in. Grin

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Quote from: Kenshin on January 18, 2014, 09:52:18 PM

Quote from: Gazza1 on January 18, 2014, 09:45:56 PM

I appreciate your help in the other thread but you are acting like a dick in this one. So knock off your sarcasym or take a hike. I'm not a moron and as I said I don't plan to do anything on my mining rigs other than mining, apparently you can't read.

Thanks other guys for your non judgmental help Cool

When did I judge you? Why are you calling me a dick for? I have also help you in this thread. This name calling is uncalled for. Tongue

Hahaha. Damn... just reading this post. THEN BANG. Op gets all jersy shore on you..hehe.. and for no apparent reason.
I got ur back bro.

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Quote from: Gazza1 on January 18, 2014, 09:45:56 PM

I appreciate your help in the other thread but you are acting like a dick in this one. So knock off your sarcasym or take a hike. I'm not a moron and as I said I don't plan to do anything on my mining rigs other than mining, apparently you can't read.

Thanks other guys for your non judgmental help Cool

When did I judge you? Why are you calling me a dick for? I have also help you in this thread. This name calling is uncalled for. Tongue

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Quote from: Kenshin on January 18, 2014, 08:48:41 PM

Quote from: melmo on January 18, 2014, 04:58:38 PM

SSH into the box instead of using the desktop.

Exactly, that is my point. Why do you want to use the mining rig to do anything anyway. You are wasting hashing power when you use it. Roll Eyes

Never mind, I guess no one can stop you from doing this not so good habit.

As said before the question was relevant in the way to make sure we hadn't done anything wrong. I appreciate your help in the other thread but you are acting like a dick in this one. So knock off your sarcasym or take a hike. I'm not a moron and as I said I don't do anything on my mining rigs other than mining, apparently you can't read.

Thanks other guys for your non judgmental help Cool

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Be kind man, don't be mankind

*everything* is laggy on a machine that's mining! And everything you do on it that's not mining is slowing down your mining.
It just feels laggier on linux because your hardware is concentrating on the mining, not giving you a smooth time. There's less windows in the way.

If you can handle yourself in terminal, just do that. Better yet, SSH it from another machine, and say meh to having a monitor/keyboard/mouse connected to it. Or better yet again, install the server version of your distro instead.

Also if it's fast enough to be usable but laggy while cgminer is active, then hit it with cpuminer too, it clearly has the guts for it.

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Quote from: elchorizo on January 18, 2014, 01:56:58 PM

Ideally we should be able to run cgminer without even having X running but unfortunately the drivers don't allow this so some resources will always be wasted driving the display.

If you set up autologin, then X will run when auto login.

Edit the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf;

To enable autologin, edit the file to look like this:

Code:

[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=
autologin-user-timeout=0
user-session=xubuntu
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter

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Quote from: melmo on January 18, 2014, 04:58:38 PM

SSH into the box instead of using the desktop.

Exactly, that is my point. Why do you want to use the mining rig to do anything anyway. You are wasting hashing power when you use it. Roll Eyes

Never mind, I guess no one can stop you from doing this not so good habit.

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SSH into the box instead of using the desktop.

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Thanks guys sounds good and I'll give that a try. Cool

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