OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 473.

os2sam

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Think for yourself

Quote from: GernMiester on October 10, 2012, 06:01:48 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

I don't care, OK?

OK.
LOL only an idiot would not care about wasting money day in and day out for as long as they are dumb enough to continue.

Well, I can't speak to his motivations as to why he want's to use his 4670 for mining.

But I started with CPU mining and then GPU mining with a 4670 as well. It was a great training exercise and nobody would help me with it, over a year and a half ago, either. So I can see doing it now too for the learning experience.

Now whether he want's to keep on using that for mining for the foreseeable future or not is worth debating the wisdom of.

I agree with his implication that we should be more understanding and helpful with noob's.
Sam

GernMiester

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I don't care, OK?
[/quote]

OK.
LOL only an idiot would not care about wasting money day in and day out for as long as they are dumb enough to continue.

slush

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Are all of these users using Stratum proxy in the chain?

os2sam

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Think for yourself

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: -ck on July 12, 2011, 10:02:53 PM

Q: Which ATI SDK is the best for cgminer?
A: At the moment, versions 2.4 and 2.5 work the best. If you are forced to use
the 2.6 SDK, the phatk kernel will perform poorly, while the diablo or my
custom modified poclbm kernel are optimised for it.

I can't find any version of cgminer which would allow me to mine using Radeon HD4670 on WinXP SP3. I have Catalyst
version 11.12 installed, which is the last version supporting SDK on WinXP. SDK version is 2.5, OpenCL version is 1.1

I would like to setup both solo and pooled mining, with long-polling, as explained here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1215083

As I stated before I am willing to try and help you out with this since I have some experience with this GPU.

What error's are you getting with CG Miner?
Are you able to mine with any miner with this GPU?
Is your GPU AGP or PCIe? hopefully the latter.
Sam

eleuthria

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There is definitely something wrong in 2.8.1's release and dynamic difficulty adjustments. It seems to happen at diff=4 (or possibly when they move to diff=8). The users reporting the problem are getting stuck at difficulty of 4, on rigs that were at difficulty=8 or difficulty=16 prior to upgrading to 2.8.1. This is reflected by a drastic drop in their hash rates (50% or 75% drop).

My best guess is the integer difficulty isn't adjusting to the proper target. So users are working on a harder target than what they should be, reducing their share submissions.

slush

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Code:

 [2012-10-10 16:38:44] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2012-10-10 16:38:44] Accepted 96dd686b Diff 1 BFL 0
 [2012-10-10 16:38:50] Accepted 45f658d1 Diff 1 BFL 0
 [2012-10-10 16:38:50] Accepted a2c9ffeb Diff 1 BFL 0
 [2012-10-10 16:38:55] Pool 0 http://192.168.3.9:3333 not responding!

~~It is already over 5 minutes and no reconnect so far :-(. It happen during pool restart (no client.reconnect() has been sent). Using latest git.~~

It was fault in my code, I'm sorry for the report. That happen when all pieces of used software are bleeding edge, one never know what exactly might be broken *right now*.

os2sam

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Think for yourself

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: -ck on July 12, 2011, 10:02:53 PM

Q: Which ATI SDK is the best for cgminer?
A: At the moment, versions 2.4 and 2.5 work the best. If you are forced to use
the 2.6 SDK, the phatk kernel will perform poorly, while the diablo or my
custom modified poclbm kernel are optimised for it.

I can't find any version of cgminer which would allow me to mine using Radeon HD4670 on WinXP SP3. I have Catalyst
version 11.12 installed, which is the last version supporting SDK on WinXP. SDK version is 2.5, OpenCL version is 1.1

I would like to setup both solo and pooled mining, with long-polling, as explained here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1215083

I am mining with an AGP Radeon 4670 in my print server. I had a very hard time getting it to work at all. I am currently getting about 34Mhs/s in a configuration that still lets me game at the same time.

Here is what I use to make it work and it is a bit off topic for this forum and I apologize in advance.

The ONLY Catalyst version I could get to work is the 10.7
The ONLY SDK I could get to work is 2.2
The miner I could get to work best is Phoenix 1.5 and 1.75
CGMiner only gets 20Mhs/s or so since Catalyst 10.7 does not have ADL support

The pool that works the best with this setup is Ozco, all other pools give me about 20-25% rejects.

If you need any other suggestions please PM me or take it the Phoenix 1.x thread.
Hope this helps,
Sam

Edit: Or we can work through it on this thread

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.294832

Joshwaa

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You will be better off just buying the coins. The Radeon HD4xxx series is not worth it. You will pay more for power.

AxelMi

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averwind

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Following is how I am using the new stratum version:

cgminer -o btcguild.com:8332 -u averwind -p x -I 9 -v 2 -w 128

I have 10miners and all of them had the same windows message this morning "cgminer has stopped working".

Edit: I don't know if this will help but one of the 10 miners had "low memory" warning telling me to restart so that programs will run fine again.

rav3n_pl

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Don`t panic! Organize!

Quote from: -ck on October 09, 2012, 11:47:12 PM

Quote from: SiegeBreaker on October 09, 2012, 11:13:53 AM

For me, whatever changes happened to dynamic in 2.7.6 have made it work poorly again. It is back to being really unresponsive to lowering when I am using the gpu for other things. It will lower one intensity or even stay the same as when I am not using the gpu for something else. I am on Windows 7 with two 5870s. What specifically changed with the algorithm in 2.7.6?

(2.7.5 is running smooth, and responds quickly when other programs use the gpu, and all I have to do on that version is set the intensity to fixed then back to dynamic and I never get the negative intensity bug anymore. 2.7.5 is the first version since 2.1.2 that I can get high performance when not using the gpu for other things and still have really responsive backing off of intensity when I do).

I got rid of the long term history in dynamic intensity going into 2.7.6, as the long term history was occasionally getting a dud result and pegging intensity to some small value indefinitely. I guess I'll just have to keep reworking this till it works everywhere.

Maybe change it to "manual auto"? Let user choose 2 values of I and delay - when PC is on idle and when is busy. Then change lower intensity instantly when detected user activity and change to higher intensity when there is no user input over given time.

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: SiegeBreaker on October 09, 2012, 11:13:53 AM

For me, whatever changes happened to dynamic in 2.7.6 have made it work poorly again. It is back to being really unresponsive to lowering when I am using the gpu for other things. It will lower one intensity or even stay the same as when I am not using the gpu for something else. I am on Windows 7 with two 5870s. What specifically changed with the algorithm in 2.7.6?

(2.7.5 is running smooth, and responds quickly when other programs use the gpu, and all I have to do on that version is set the intensity to fixed then back to dynamic and I never get the negative intensity bug anymore. 2.7.5 is the first version since 2.1.2 that I can get high performance when not using the gpu for other things and still have really responsive backing off of intensity when I do).

I got rid of the long term history in dynamic intensity going into 2.7.6, as the long term history was occasionally getting a dud result and pegging intensity to some small value indefinitely. I guess I'll just have to keep reworking this till it works everywhere.

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-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: wind on October 09, 2012, 02:19:41 PM

Quote from: -ck on October 08, 2012, 02:35:27 AM

Quote from: wind on October 08, 2012, 02:30:50 AM

Quote from: -ck on October 07, 2012, 04:18:32 PM

Last time this happened it was a packaging error on my part. ~~I'll reupload shortly.~~ I've reuploaded it.

ckolivas I've just downloaded the last zipped source from your git but the problem is Sad

Code:

 OpenCL...............: NOT FOUND. GPU mining support DISABLED

That's a different one and a problem with your installation lacking the AMD APP SDK, or you lack including the directories (with -I) you have the sdk installed into.

ckolivas
Compiling under Win7 x64 is ok after modification of configure.ac

Code:

elif test "x$AMDAPPSDKROOT" != x; then
	OPENCL_FLAGS="-I$AMDAPPSDKROOT/include $OPENCL_FLAGS"
	OPENCL_LIBS="-L$AMDAPPSDKROOT/lib/$ARCH_DIR $OPENCL_LIBS"

this code was commented and I have no error
What do you say about that?

What I say is it works for me. From git you usually need ./autogen.sh first. Not sure on a zipball from git, might be the same. Try a source tarball from my server instead of from git.

-ck

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-ck

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Quote from: mezzomix on October 09, 2012, 10:43:03 AM

I'm running 2.8.1 now. It seems to me that stratum+tcp pools that fail once are marked as dead and never will become alive again.

Code:

 cgminer version 2.8.1 - Started: [2012-10-09 22:36:17]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):11.3 (avg):11.1 Mh/s | Q:3376  A:158  R:6  HW:0  E:5%  U:0.1/m
 TQ: 0  ST: 3  SS: 1  DW: 575  NB: 109  LW: 5813  GF: 5  RF: 1  WU: 0.1
 Connected to http://mining.eligius.st:8337 with LP as user 
 Block: 000003b4be07550c78f0b88a71d20b77...  Started: [17:32:35]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  71.0C         |  11.2/ 11.1Mh/s | A:158 R:6 HW:0 U:0.14/m I: 9
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

0: Enabled Dead Priority 0: api-stratum.bitcoin.cz  User:
1: Enabled Dead Priority 1: stratum.btcguild.com  User:
2: Enabled Alive Priority 2: http://mining.eligius.st:8337  User:

Current pool management strategy: Failover
[F]ailover only disabled
[A]dd pool [R]emove pool [D]isable pool [E]nable pool
[C]hange management strategy [S]witch pool [I]nformation
Or press any other key to continue

When I stop cgminer and start it again, the first stratum pool in my list is alive again. The second stratum pool in the list is always dead.

Code:

0: Enabled Alive Priority 0: api-stratum.bitcoin.cz  User:
1: Enabled Dead Priority 1: stratum.btcguild.com  User:
2: Enabled Alive Priority 2: http://mining.eligius.st:8337  User:

Yep, could be a bug. Investigating to see why that would be the case because it's meant to try reconnecting regularly.

-ck

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wind

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Quote from: -ck on October 08, 2012, 02:35:27 AM

Quote from: wind on October 08, 2012, 02:30:50 AM

Quote from: -ck on October 07, 2012, 04:18:32 PM

Last time this happened it was a packaging error on my part. ~~I'll reupload shortly.~~ I've reuploaded it.

ckolivas I've just downloaded the last zipped source from your git but the problem is Sad

Code:

 OpenCL...............: NOT FOUND. GPU mining support DISABLED

That's a different one and a problem with your installation lacking the AMD APP SDK, or you lack including the directories (with -I) you have the sdk installed into.

ckolivas
Compiling under Win7 x64 is ok after modification of configure.ac

Code:

elif test "x$AMDAPPSDKROOT" != x; then
	OPENCL_FLAGS="-I$AMDAPPSDKROOT/include $OPENCL_FLAGS"
	OPENCL_LIBS="-L$AMDAPPSDKROOT/lib/$ARCH_DIR $OPENCL_LIBS"

this code was commented and I have no error
What do you say about that?

P_Shep

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This is not OK.

After 13 days non-stop operation, cgminer rotate has stopped rotating. Stuck on one pool now.

Maniac

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I have problem with mining litecoins on some my rigs.
My 6 rigs mining very great.

For example:

GPU: 6870, 6870, 6770, 6770
Mobo: Asrock 890 FX Deluxe 5
RAM: 2 Gb
OS: Win7 64
Drivers: 11.12 with OCL libs from 11.11 (for mining bitcoins when it more profitable)

cgminer.cmd (I use same copies of cmd's on all my rigs and it works very well)
cgminer --scrypt --worksize 256 --shaders 1280 --lookup-gap 2 -g 1 --thread-concurrency 8192 --intensity 17 -o http://ltc.xurious.com:9332 -u user -p pass

Screenshot (the picture is clickable):
Xocтинг фoтoгpaфий

But there is one problem rig:

GPU: 6870, 6770
Mobo: Asus P5KPL AM SE
RAM: 1 Gb
OS: Win7 64
Drivers: 11.12 with OCL libs from 11.11

This rig mining bitcoins without any problems (I use phoenix 2.7.5).

But there are problems with mining litecoins. I tried also reaper (it works better on my rig with 7970) but not good too.

When I start cgminer.cmd it does not work:

Xocтинг фoтoгpaфий

If I change cgminer.cmd to
cgminer --scrypt --worksize 256 --shaders 1280 --lookup-gap 2 -g 1 --thread-concurrency 2048 --intensity 12 -o http://ltc.xurious.com:9332 -u user -p pass
it work, but hashrate is very very low.

If I up --thread-concurrency, it does not work.

If I up --intensity, it makes HW and not makes accepted shares:

Xocтинг фoтoгpaфий

I tried versions 2.7.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6 and 2.8.1.

Help me, please.
While my GPU can't mining litecoins I am very unhappy.
Thank you.

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