Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 203. (Read 5805670 times)

Sweet

hmmm. got 27 block errupters running on raspi with 3.6.4.... works pretty nice here!

-> http://imgur.com/a/j5vTt

Unofficial Mac binaries for 3.6.4 now posted.

cgminer for Mac OS X 3.6.4 (direct download link)
http://spaceman.ca/cgminer (website)

Raspberry Pi still crashes after some minutes.
Nothing in logs, just a complete freeze.

3.6.4 works great on Macs again, thank you!

There are two minor bugs, but they don't affect mining.  The first one occurs during building, where I must now explicitly use "--disable-adl" whereas I didn't need to in 3.6.3.  ADL isn't used on the Mac, so it's no loss, but since it is a non-default option it's a caveat Mac users will need to remember if they want to successfully build it for 3.6.4.  Here is readout from make:


Again, using "--disable-adl" solves it.  The other bug(?) occurs when quitting cgminer, the following messages are output.


The "usbutils.c" error (4th line down) I think is atypical.  Neither of these affect usability of the program.  Thanks for the great update!

I just upgraded my Windows machines from 3.1.1 to 3.6.4 and was wondering if it's possible to have each accepted share show as "1" instead of the share's actual value? I've been checking the readme but can't find anything.

Thanks for your great work, ckolivas.

I'll try 3.6.4 when I get home. Good you found the problem. Just makes me wish I could direct update from my phone right now.

In hope it pushes the priority a little I'd like to mention that buyers of KFC's 'ultimate boxes' will donate for improvements made on KFC sauce  

New version: 3.6.4 - 18th October 2013

Thank you for your patience through this rough ride of changes in 3.6. Hopefully we're close to a stable release on all OSes now. There are actually some other bugfixes in this one besides more libusb massaging.


Human readable changelog:

- Found the source of the memory leak on windows AND the source of the too many files open error on OSX. Both have been rectified, and fully asynchronous transfers are used on all OSes.
- Fixed numerous causes of problems on shutdown.
- Fixed some BFLSC parameters not being read properly.
- Fixed the problem of lost communications and lots of errors on devices on shutdown and possibly unsuccessful shutdown/reset.
- Fixed a bug where  bogus work was being generated at extreme hashrates.
- Decreased the overhead in generating more work for queued devices (eg BFLSC).
- Fixes to klondike driver



Full changelog:

- Fixing the memory leak for remaining semaphores means we can go back to using
async transfers on other OSes with our own timeout management again.
- Use the forcelog function on shutdown to cope with indeterminate console lock
states due to killing of threads.
- Add a forcelog variant of applog which invalidates any console lock to force
output.
- Send pthread_cancel to failed completion_timeout that has timed out.
- Simplify queued hashtable by storing unqueued work separately in a single
pointer.
- bflsc use getinfo chip parallelization if it is present
- bflsc - fix brackets so [Chips] isn't always null
- Remove unused variables.
- Use cgcompletion timeouts for the unreliable shutdown functions on kill_work.
- Fix cgcompletion return code and free on successful completion.
- Provide a cg_completion_timeout helper function for unreliable functions that
takes arbitrary functions and parameters and reliably returns.
- Perform sync transfers on shutdown to allow final transfers to complete.
- Destroy cgsems used after transfers to not leave open files on osx.
- klondike rewrite work control
- allow __work_complete() access
- miner.h allow devices to tv_stamp work

That's nice to see their sauce at last. Furthermore, KFC have finally decided to engage us (well just me) and are sending me a unit. Unfortunately for KFC users, I am currently being paid by other manufacturers to work on their drivers, so modifying the KFC driver will go lower priority than those other manufacturers, but I will get around to it eventually. [sic]

The idea is that it isn't supposed to run out of memory instead.

just saw this right now at kncminers homepage:

They all seemed to come back up when I replugged them. I was hoping you found a way to catch it and stop calling the device when it thought I was out of memory and clean the memory out.

I'm going to run it for a few hours and see what happens. I hope nothings going bad  ....

Nope, it's php issue.

I''ll see if I can upgrade php.

Thanks for testing. I'm going to be brave and say this is unrelated since it's a totally different type of failure, suggestive of hardware failure, perhaps usb perhaps heat. Once you get them going again could you please retry the experimental exe you downloaded?

Just died about now. 5-6 devices showed as sick and one as zombie. cgminer had a caption trying to restart. Apparently it didn't. I did try to back run to 3.5.1 and now it doesn't recognize 2 devices saying incorrect driver. I'm going to pull them in the morning and  pop them back in  then restart.

The "x" would be your password (preceded by the -p flag) and the "-I 9" would set your GPU intensity to 9, assuming you're mining with a GPU. If you're not GPU mining, the intensity flag is unnecessary.

When using with Eligius it tells me to use this line:
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u YourAddress -p x -I 9

Towards the end of that line, can someone let me know what the "x -I 9" means? I can't seem to find it in any of the readme files.


Thanks

USB problems?

Buy a $40 raspberry Pi, grab one of the mining-pre-loaded distros like

 MiningPeon -- http://minepeon.com/index.php/Main_Page
 PiMiner -- http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner/

And don't worry about windows broken-ness any more... totally worth it.

Yes, just replace the exe you normally use with the equivalent one from in there. Thanks.