Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 367. (Read 5806057 times)

Just a quick question for a minor still annoying issue 

every time i run cgminer a file named
poclbm130302GeForce GT 330Mv1w256l4.bin
appears in my desktop.

Is there a configuration to stop this from happening or to move it to another folder?

Thank you.

I hope so too man. I have not been contacted, but they do have my address. I would not keep it a secret if do receive something.

I have been noticing my cgminer 2.11.4 has been alternating the order of the cards between my 7850 and my 7970. Refer to my per device logs below. At first I thought it was saying my 7850 was cranking at the 7970 rate, but later I realized that it was just swapping the order of report. Anyone else seeing this? Thoughts on what options I have? I have read the README over and over, and tweaked a number of settings and remapped the GPUs since they were originally flipped. Am running W8Pro, AMD APP SDK v2.7. I've also been seeing cases of driver crash and recovering (mostly as I get aggressive with OC (<7850,7970> --gpu-engine 800-1100,900-1110 --gpu-memclock 1240,1430). My 7850 is on the cooler side of the case and it likes 340-350 MH/s, but my 7970 seems to be wimpy. I am a newb so please forgive any ignorance on my part!

 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] Started cgminer 2.11.4
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] CL Platform 0 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] CL Platform 0 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] Platform 0 devices: 2
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50]    0   Pitcairn
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50]    1   Tahiti
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] Mapping OpenCL device 0 to ADL device 1
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] Mapping OpenCL device 1 to ADL device 0
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series hardware monitoring enabled
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] GPU 1 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series hardware monitoring enabled
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-04-19 23:48:50] Testing pool http://xxxx
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Pool 0 http://xxxx alive
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] GBT longpoll ID activated for http://xxxx
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Init GPU thread 0 GPU 0 virtual GPU 0
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] List of devices:
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54]    0   Pitcairn
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54]    1   Tahiti
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Selected 0: Pitcairn
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Initialising kernel diablo130302.cl with bitalign, 1 vectors and worksize 256
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] initCl() finished. Found Pitcairn
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Init GPU thread 1 GPU 0 virtual GPU 0
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] List of devices:
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54]    0   Pitcairn
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54]    1   Tahiti
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Selected 0: Pitcairn
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Initialising kernel diablo130302.cl with bitalign, 1 vectors and worksize 256
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] initCl() finished. Found Pitcairn
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Init GPU thread 2 GPU 1 virtual GPU 1
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] List of devices:
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54]    0   Pitcairn
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54]    1   Tahiti
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Selected 1: Tahiti
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Initialising kernel diablo130302.cl with bitalign, 1 vectors and worksize 64
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] initCl() finished. Found Tahiti
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Init GPU thread 3 GPU 1 virtual GPU 1
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] CL Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] List of devices:
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54]    0   Pitcairn
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54]    1   Tahiti
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Selected 1: Tahiti
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] Initialising kernel diablo130302.cl with bitalign, 1 vectors and worksize 64
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] initCl() finished. Found Tahiti
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] 4 gpu miner threads started
 [2013-04-19 23:48:54] New block: 010943077xxxx82... diff 8.97M
 [2013-04-19 23:48:56] GPU0  56.0C 2159RPM | (5s):58.64M (avg):268.4Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.0/m I:13
 [2013-04-19 23:48:56] GPU1  56.0C 2460RPM | (5s):116.9M (avg):536.9Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.0/m I:14
 [2013-04-19 23:49:00] ALL (5s):464.3M (avg):733.5Mh/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  U:0.0/m  WU:10.9/m
 [2013-04-19 23:49:00] Accepted 2xxxxx61 Diff 6/1 GPU 0
 [2013-04-19 23:49:00] Setting GPU 0 fan percentage to 49
 [2013-04-19 23:49:00] Setting GPU 1 fan percentage to 49
 [2013-04-19 23:49:01] GPU0  58.0C 2069RPM | (5s):235.5M (avg):293.4Mh/s | A:1 R:0 HW:0 U:10.9/m I:13
 [2013-04-19 23:49:02] GPU1  58.0C 2391RPM | (5s):541.7M (avg):782.5Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.0/m I:14
 [2013-04-19 23:49:04] Setting GPU 0 fan percentage to 48
 [2013-04-19 23:49:06] ALL (5s):726.0M (avg):807.8Mh/s | A:1  R:0  HW:0  U:5.3/m  WU:5.3/m
 [2013-04-19 23:49:06] Accepted 1xxxxx34 Diff 8/1 GPU 0
 [2013-04-19 23:49:06] Setting GPU 0 fan percentage to 47
 [2013-04-19 23:49:06] Setting GPU 1 fan percentage to 48
 [2013-04-19 23:49:08] GPU0  58.0C 1848RPM | (5s):270.6M (avg):285.1Mh/s | A:2 R:0 HW:0 U:10.6/m I:13
 [2013-04-19 23:49:08] GPU1  60.0C 2349RPM | (5s):598.5M (avg):665.2Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.0/m I:14
 [2013-04-19 23:49:08] Setting GPU 0 fan percentage to 46
 [2013-04-19 23:49:10] Setting GPU 0 fan percentage to 45
 [2013-04-19 23:49:12] ALL (5s):745.2M (avg):797.2Mh/s | A:2  R:0  HW:0  U:6.9/m  WU:6.9/m
 [2013-04-19 23:49:12] Setting GPU 1 fan percentage to 47
 [2013-04-19 23:49:14] GPU1  61.0C 2273RPM | (5s):631.8M (avg):643.9Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 U:0.0/m I:14
 [2013-04-19 23:49:14] GPU0  59.0C 1654RPM | (5s):259.1M (avg):276.0Mh/s | A:2 R:0 HW:0 U:6.9/m I:13
 [2013-04-19 23:49:14] Setting GPU 0 fan percentage to 44
 [2013-04-19 23:49:14] Setting GPU 1 fan percentage to 46
 [2013-04-19 23:49:16] Accepted 8xxxxxa4 Diff 1/1 GPU 1
 [2013-04-19 23:49:16] Setting GPU 0 fan percentage to 43
 [2013-04-19 23:49:17] ALL (5s):833.4M (avg):840.2Mh/s | A:3  R:0  HW:0  U:7.9/m  WU:7.9/m
 [2013-04-19 23:49:18] Setting GPU 0 fan percentage to 42
 [2013-04-19 23:49:19] GPU1  63.0C 2225RPM | (5s):683.1M (avg):639.0Mh/s | A:1 R:0 HW:0 U:2.6/m I:14
 [2013-04-19 23:49:19] GPU0  59.0C 1410RPM | (5s):264.2M (avg):284.0Mh/s | A:2 R:0 HW:0 U:5.3/m I:13
 [2013-04-19 23:49:20] Setting GPU 0 fan percentage to 41
 [2013-04-19 23:49:20] Setting GPU 1 fan percentage to 45
 [2013-04-19 23:49:22] ALL (5s):819.2M (avg):831.9Mh/s | A:3  R:0  HW:0  U:6.5/m  WU:6.5/m
 [2013-04-19 23:49:23] Setting GPU 1 fan percentage to 44
 [2013-04-19 23:49:25] Setting GPU 0 fan percentage to 40
 [2013-04-19 23:49:25] GPU0  60.0C 1283RPM | (5s):266.3M (avg):280.5Mh/s | A:2 R:0 HW:0 U:4.3/m I:13
 [2013-04-19 23:49:26] GPU1  64.0C 2094RPM | (5s):608.2M (avg):657.8Mh/s | A:1 R:0 HW:0 U:2.2/m I:14

Do you have recommendations for best versions to try with my setup?

Hopefully at least one of these is going to you guys.

Oh, thank you. Had no idea. I was running 2.11.3. I'll go upgrade.

No you've got it backwards. The DW field is now GONE because it's meaningless so you are running an older version.

The README needs updated on the display:


Since there is a DW now as well, which isn't listed. It's for Discarded Work per the pool info screen. What does that actually mean though? I have 3 rejected shares, 11 stale submissions discarded due to new blocks, and 5049 discarded work due to new block. But I don't know what discard work actually is. Shares not submitted similar to stales? Or something else?

With 4716 share submissions (3 rejected) at difficulty 2 (so 9426 accepted / 6 rejected at difficulty 1) is 5049 discarded work due to new blocks high? It seems like a big number.

Thanks.

When I installed Catalyst 12.1 for use with my 5000 series cards I had to do a custom install and deselect SDK 2.6 and then manually install SDK 2.5.  So if you didn't deselect the OpenCL SDK then the version that came with catalyst got installed and the post 2.6 versions are terrible for 5000 series GPU.
Sam

OK, it is working now.

Should be fixed now. 

Why issues disabled? Because people used to use it for support for their mining issues rather than meaningful code issues.

Oops, can`t compile latest git on windoze https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/commit/d5981f83804492a70a4aa309f8f83a200f88f478
ps. why "issues" are disabled on git?

Thanks! Much nicer than the same newbie questions over and over again

Alas it's not up to stratum or cgminer to set difficulty as there is no official way to do so (yet?). Though some pools allow you to specify by the password field instead as you can see from rav3n_pl's  response.

If you use stratum and make over 1 diff1 share per second it will rise automagically.
You can add /n or +n at end of username to get share diff=n
It is useful only on high power or you need lower data stream miner<>pool.

is there any way to "specify share difficulty" in cgminer, in .conf file maybe? i switched to P2Pool on stratum and was wondering if i can change to diff2 shares instead of diff1? or does it even matter?

P.S. Cgminer is the best miner out there in my opinion. Con keep up the great work!!!!

just upgraded pc and now cgminer cant find cards.. other miners can

says all devices disabled.


using cgminer 2.4.4
amd drivers 13.1
sdk 2.5.. tried 2.8 as well


i'm guessing it is due to the intel opencl  on here?

Driver baby.

Hey tiktoc,


Nope it runs dual 5870Ms stock speeds the cards should be getting 150mhash each and OCed 185ish mhash.

bump for help.... when i specify to use one card of the other, it seems only the left card gets used as the right side dosnt even get warm.. not sure if its a cgminer glitch, driver issue or hardware problem :-/ still trying to work it out.

I want to run cgminer for my ati 5850 and ati drivers 12.8 (i didnt installed any sdk), i try with this bat:

start /D "C:\cgminer" cgminer.exe -o http://api.bitcoin.cz:8332 -u XXXXXX.worker1 -p XXXXXXX -d 0 -I 9 -k diablo -v 2 -w 256

But it stop working, the alst time after 2 hours.

Phoenix 1.75 with Dia Kernel works for days.

Why i didnt installed any sdk?

Last time i try 2.5 sdks, i try to run cgminer with phatk, and cgminer said im running sdk 2.6 +, and phatk will not perform good.
Then i try more times doing clean installs, but it kepp saying that

Im running w7, using my oboard for my desktop (nvidia onboard graphics) and a second screen for ati, where runs phoenix its fine, but i want to run cgminer.

I have a puzzler. I am dabbling into Lightcoin mining and after setting up all major CPUs on my rigs to go for LTC, I decided to try one of my GPUs.
LTC on CPUs:
i7-3930K, @ 4.1GHz: ~80Khs (11 threads)
Q6600 @ 2.4GHz: ~19KHz

This is my reference for LTC speeds. GPUs should do better than CPUs, right?

My cards, currently mining for BTC are:
2xHD7970 (1150MHz, 300MHz, 1.140v, CrossFire): ~1300 Mhs together
2xHD6670 (960MHz, 400MHz, two different machines): ~127Mhs each
HD6570 (900MHz, 400MHz): ~117MHs
GTX 560 Ti (980MHz, 2400MHz, 1.062v): ~100MHs

All machines have Catalyst 13.1 with the bundled SDK installed.
2D Driver: 8.01.01.1266

Output from cgminer -n
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] CL Platform 0 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] CL Platform 0 name: NVIDIA CUDA
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] CL Platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.1 CUDA 4.2.1
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] Platform 0 devices: 1
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32]  0       GeForce GTX 560 Ti
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] CL Platform 1 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] CL Platform 1 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] CL Platform 1 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1084.4)
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] Platform 1 devices: 2
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32]  0       Turks
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32]  1       Turks
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] Failed to ADL_Adapter_ID_Get. Error -1
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] ADL found less devices than opencl!
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] There is possibly more than one display attached to a GPU
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] Use the gpu map feature to reliably map OpenCL to ADL
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] WARNING: Number of OpenCL and ADL devices did not match!
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] 2 GPU devices max detected
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] USB all: found 12 devices - listing known devices
 [2013-04-18 12:31:32] No known USB devices

On PL 1: #0 is HD 6670, #1 is HD 6570
The screen is on nVidia; AMD cards are headless, used solely for mining.

Now that you have the reference speeds, here is what I experience with CGMiner, and Scrypt. I am trying things out on the HD6570 card, so as to see how things turn out and to not impact the ongoing BTC mining too much. I also see here that HD6570 can be pushed to give ~55Khs

When I run cgminer with almost all default setting, targeting this card, I get ~16Khs:
-T -l 1 --scrypt -g 2 -w 256 --lookup-gap 2 -I d --gpu-platform 1 -d 1

Adding --auto-gpu --thread-concurrency 5760 --gpu-memclock900 I get a whopping 18Khs, which is nowhere near the expected 55

The same story is on the other cards - they perform way below what I would expect to see, based on the tables in the link above.

Am I missing something? To me it looks like it is more profitable to use the cards for BTC mining and leave LTC to my CPUs...

You aren't "competing with yourself."  Difficulty is programed to adjust periodically to a target of 6 blocks per hour.  Mining slower to only get 6 blocks per hour will prevent a difficulty change, but won't change how often you get a block vs mining faster once difficulty is done adjusting.  If you want difficulty to stay low, you could CPU mine (although not with cgminer).  If you need more than 6 blocks per hour, maybe modifying the code for your testchain would make more sense.  If you want to use less power, then it probably makes sense to "detune" your video card.  In that case, I would recommend starting with the tuning suggestions in the readme and trying to use logic to get the results you want (IE, underclock the video card).