OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 469.

Askit2

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Quote from: Krak on October 13, 2012, 03:51:21 PM

Quote from: Askit2 on October 13, 2012, 03:42:03 PM

I could now use the API to periodically reorder them. I wonder if there is a way to make the automatic switching not mess with the priority. I have been trying 2.8.x. I don't even have a stratum pool so it's fairly worthless to try. I won't find any bugs. Since eclipse is so reliable I really have not been able to retest the failover.

I think it would be pretty cool to be able to easily reorder and add pools in miner.php.

If you can switch pools and switching causes the one switched to, to move in the order to the top you just have to start at lowest priority then switch to increasingly higher priorities. At least the java API it works just fine.

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Quote from: Askit2 on October 13, 2012, 03:42:03 PM

I could now use the API to periodically reorder them. I wonder if there is a way to make the automatic switching not mess with the priority. I have been trying 2.8.x. I don't even have a stratum pool so it's fairly worthless to try. I won't find any bugs. Since eclipse is so reliable I really have not been able to retest the failover.

I think it would be pretty cool to be able to easily reorder and add pools in miner.php.

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I am not sure if this is the expected result but on 2.7.7 (I think it was) when most of eclipse died a while back (bad data center) one of the servers (good data center) kept working. The falling back to a lower pool happened. The good eclipse server was marked dead or sick, so the hashing fell back to my last backup. So far all is expected. When the one that would live seemed to be not dead cgminer switched to that pool. I was actually watching it work so I was really impressed. The next day I noticed something strange, cgminer was still mining on pool 3. I checked and pools 0, 1, and 2 all where alive and enabled but the priority was not in the order I had them set. Pool 3 was now priority 0. I expect that since switching pools manually does alter priority (thats how I got back to the priority I wanted) that the automated switching does the same.

I could now use the API to periodically reorder them. I wonder if there is a way to make the automatic switching not mess with the priority. I have been trying 2.8.x. I don't even have a stratum pool so it's fairly worthless to try. I won't find any bugs. Since eclipse is so reliable I really have not been able to retest the failover.

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Quote from: Plazzman on October 13, 2012, 12:34:14 PM

@Kano have you had any success with getting the Modminer driver working?

Nothing working yet.
I've been 'non-BTC work' busy for a few days, with 1 or 2 still to go Sad

Thanks to TheSeven for MPBM

I've actually been running MPBM, since on my linux (Xubu 11.04 and Fedora 17) the current MMQ code doesn't even work ...
(and also been getting rather annoyed at not having the time to do it)
I guess the current code may actually work on windows since the I/O is done differently, but I didn't get to trying that out

After spending some effort working out what was wrong with the current code on linux and deciding what to do about it - I just need a couple of days to rewrite all the linux I/O code which should be done this week - and yes decision made with help from ckolivas also

I'll put up a pull once I get the basics done, then get to optimising and chasing bugs anyone finds in it after that.

This will also be in preparation for the up coming bASIC of course - so once I've changed/rewritten the MMQ code, the design should be ready also for a hopefully quick bASIC implementation once we get the dev devices.

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Perhaps I'm doing doing something right... But it seems like when a pool goes down, cgminer just keeps submitting stale shares to the pool instead of switching to a backup, despite having it set to do so.

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@Kano have you had any success with getting the Modminer driver working?

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Quote from: -ck on October 13, 2012, 11:07:06 AM

Quote from: ocminer on October 13, 2012, 08:55:21 AM

Is there a possibility to stop a ICA/ZTX worker/thread ?

I'd like to "Disable" ICA2 i.e. and let the others running.. like with GPU's

No.

Is it planned to be possible some day?

As this way I can very easy identify a particular FPGA Board and debug it further/reflash it and so on..

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ckolivas, your miner is great for my scrypt mining.

There's just one thing that bothers me, and only me I believe. I mine on working computers, and I find myself changing intensities a lot. I wish that cgminer could use the "enter" key on the 10-key as well as the regular "enter" key.

Lol, in the early days, i would press: "G U 0", then go to the 10-key and finish with "1 2 enter" but that enter never worked!

Maybe include that in the next full release? It's not that big a deal tho.

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I was using 2.7.6 on my dual 7970 (Club 3D and Sapphire with AMD cooling) rigs for as long as it was out now, with 1125MHz core & 1000 mem, no voltage change, power setting at -20%, all Win7 32, 1250Mh per rig.
I have noticed all 2.8 builds have the problem of declaring the GPUs sick with that clock rate.
They work with the stock 925 and a little bit more, but above 1000 i get sick fast.
I have not modded the cards in any way, just plugged them in, installed latest AMD driver and started CGM.
It (or the driver?) itself set the clock up to 1125, the maximum, more is not allowed by the bios.
I have to manually reduce engine clock to below 1000 to have it run a few hours, but then it inevitably dies with GPU declared sick, and a windows pops up "CGMiner.exe has stopped working".
What is going on here?

I better stick to 2.7.6 and use the proxy, that does work for days now.

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Quote from: AxelMi on October 13, 2012, 11:33:10 AM

My Driver is only usefull for my self build Hardware.
so i think it doesn't make sense.

But if you wanna have it. you can get it.

If it's one of a kind, it's okay there is no point merging the code. Thanks though.

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My Driver is only usefull for my self build Hardware.
so i think it doesn't make sense.

But if you wanna have it. you can get it.

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Quote from: AxelMi on October 13, 2012, 11:21:11 AM

Now i got CGminer 2.8.3 with Stratum running on my ARM Hardware.

on my patched version are the lines different, because i have implemented my own driver.

Well done, thanks. These are trivial enough to become part of the cgminer codebase. It does seem ARM wants things aligned to 4 byte boundaries.

Any chance your "own driver" is something other people would like and could become part of cgminer?

Quote from: AxelMi on October 13, 2012, 11:21:11 AM

My GPU Miners with 2.8.3 and running stratum died also ~6hours ago. (20 Machines running all with the win32 build)

Not so good. I don't know what's plaguing windows builds now.

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Now i got CGminer 2.8.3 with Stratum running on my ARM Hardware.

i changed the following lines.

Code:

1981c1978
<       char rhash[36];
---
>       char rhash[33];

4596c4594
<       unsigned char hash1[36];
---
>       unsigned char hash1[33];

4608c4606
<       unsigned char rtarget[36], target[36];
---
>       unsigned char rtarget[33], target[33];

4634,4635c4631,4632
<       unsigned char *coinbase, merkle_root[36], merkle_sha[68], *merkle_hash;
<       char header[260], hash1[132], *nonce2;
---
>       unsigned char *coinbase, merkle_root[33], merkle_sha[65], *merkle_hash;
>       char header[257], hash1[129], *nonce2;
4664c4661
<               unsigned char merkle_bin[36];
---
>               unsigned char merkle_bin[33];

on my patched version are the lines different, because i have implemented my own driver.

My GPU Miners with 2.8.3 and running stratum died also ~6hours ago. (20 Machines running all with the win32 build)

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And regarding my absence last month and the family tragedy I mentioned, for those who expressed their well wishes...

http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-vicissitudes-of-life.html

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Quote from: dietwice on October 13, 2012, 08:18:21 AM

2.8.3 on Win7 x64 and XP x32 crashes eventually.

Last time it crashed on 2 different XP rigs at the same time so I think it could be related to some network events processing.

Sorry, no logs Sad

Hmm I wonder why. Is this while mining with stratum? Curious to see what happens in your rigs when you disconnect the network cable or something like that. Alas I don't have anything but a laptop that has windows which doesn't mine any useful amount and it doesn't behave like this.

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Quote from: ocminer on October 13, 2012, 08:55:21 AM

Is there a possibility to stop a ICA/ZTX worker/thread ?

I'd like to "Disable" ICA2 i.e. and let the others running.. like with GPU's

No.

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Quote from: Frizz23 on October 13, 2012, 08:16:24 AM

Quote from: -ck on October 12, 2012, 05:13:38 PM

Quote from: Frizz23 on October 12, 2012, 03:43:57 PM

@ckolivas: Will cgminer support BFL ASICs? Are you already working on this?

It will, along with ASICs from other manufacturers. I am not directly working on the driver for it yet because they have not released any specifications yet.

On the other hand, there have been numerous changes made to cgminer in preparation for those ASICs. This is precisely why cgminer now supports the stratum protocol, has massive rolltime support and can display devices up to exahash speed.

Did Josh/BFL already contact you?

From https://forums.butterflylabs.com/showthread.php/125-Can-you-send-a-%28beta%29-ASIC-device-to-ckolivas-%28developer-cgminer%29?p=1667&viewfull=1#post1667
Q: Would it be possible that you send one of your (beta) ASIC devices to ckolivas (the developer of cgminer) so that he can start supporting it?
A: Yes, as soon as we have something available, we will be sending him one.

I originally approached Sonny from BFL a long time ago about this and he said they should be able to send me hardware, though I have not been contacted directly by BFL since then, so this is good news.

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Quote from: NLA on October 13, 2012, 09:58:49 AM

Is it possible to point particular GPU's in a single instance of cgminer to different pools, rather than having to do so with multiple cgminer instances? For instance, say I want to launch just one cgminer instance, and point one GPU explicitly at Eclipse, one at Bitminter, and one at Slush, all with different login credentials?

It's been asked before. Than answer is no, you have to use multiple instances.

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How does I shot web?

Is it possible to point particular GPU's in a single instance of cgminer to different pools, rather than having to do so with multiple cgminer instances? For instance, say I want to launch just one cgminer instance, and point one GPU explicitly at Eclipse, one at Bitminter, and one at Slush, all with different login credentials?

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Is there a possibility to stop a ICA/ZTX worker/thread ?

I'd like to "Disable" ICA2 i.e. and let the others running.. like with GPU's

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