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Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 512. (Read 5805546 times)

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legendary
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Ruu \o/
I saw another interesting glitch.  I disabled, then removed pool 4, leaving pools 0, 1, 2, and 3, with priorities to match, and my next share was submitted to, pool 5.  There hadn't been a pool 5 at all, so that was really weird, then it seemed to stop submitting good shares, so I quit and started over.  Obviously there's probably not enough information here to even point toward the problem, but on the off chance that an event like that could lead to an epiphany, I would post about it.  Regarding the git version, I'm not incredibly familiar with git and didn't have a lot of time to figure it out again.  Moreover, I was still waiting to see if the problem I saw within 15 minutes of adding pool 4 the first time happened again, and it didn't all day, since I was done with that pool, I just happened to stumble upon this.  In case this info is helpful, I'm still on a really old sdk, and I compiled with --enable-scrypt, which obviously won't function (as someone pointed out after I asked, and I may have previously known and forgotten).  Point is, I don't know if these non-scrypt bugs are hanging out in the scrypt modifications or not, but maybe they could be?  The only reason I'm not still on 2.4.(whatever the highest was) is because I was having high CPU usage in linux after pool problems, and finally decided to try to end them, 2.6.(whatever the highest was) still had that, and so did 2.7.0 and 2.7.1.  I probably need to find stable pool or just quit mining since all I have is a 5830.
No, once a pool is removed, because there may still be work "in flight" it still keeps a reference to the old pool around till those work items are complete. After a couple of minutes no more shares will be submitted to it. Thanks tho.
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I saw another interesting glitch.  I disabled, then removed pool 4, leaving pools 0, 1, 2, and 3, with priorities to match, and my next share was submitted to, pool 5.  There hadn't been a pool 5 at all, so that was really weird, then it seemed to stop submitting good shares, so I quit and started over.  Obviously there's probably not enough information here to even point toward the problem, but on the off chance that an event like that could lead to an epiphany, I would post about it.  Regarding the git version, I'm not incredibly familiar with git and didn't have a lot of time to figure it out again.  Moreover, I was still waiting to see if the problem I saw within 15 minutes of adding pool 4 the first time happened again, and it didn't all day, since I was done with that pool, I just happened to stumble upon this.  In case this info is helpful, I'm still on a really old sdk, and I compiled with --enable-scrypt, which obviously won't function (as someone pointed out after I asked, and I may have previously known and forgotten).  Point is, I don't know if these non-scrypt bugs are hanging out in the scrypt modifications or not, but maybe they could be?  The only reason I'm not still on 2.4.(whatever the highest was) is because I was having high CPU usage in linux after pool problems, and finally decided to try to end them, 2.6.(whatever the highest was) still had that, and so did 2.7.0 and 2.7.1.  I probably need to find stable pool or just quit mining since all I have is a 5830.
sr. member
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So I upgraded to 2.7.1 and I've been getting cgminer quiting after about an hour. It doesn't crash, it just closes itself.

I had this too, on 3 different rigs both Linux & Windows. With an invalid pool 0 it closes immediately after starting. On Linux I'm using latest git now, let's see if that helps.
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legendary
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Ruu \o/
Alas that was the bug I was trying to fix going from 2.7.0 to 2.7.1. If anyone's on git and want to give the latest git master a try there's one tiny change which might help, but it's a long shot.
Well as usual no one puts their hand up, so here's a windows binary to test instead for those having the refusing to stay on one pool problem:
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/temp/cgminer.exe
hero member
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So I upgraded to 2.7.1 and I've been getting cgminer quiting after about an hour. It doesn't crash, it just closes itself.
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hope someone can help with this problem.
this is my first time using cgminer. i have managed to get it working with one one of my gpu's. however when i have a second gpu plugged in i get some strange results. I can only have 2 gpu at a time due to space and heat.

i have one 5870 working fine in all configurations.
one 5770 only operates at about 50% of potential performance. circa 90-120MHs
one 5870 that fan goes ape shit and BSODs

i can run all these card fine with GUIminer. however i have some asic and fpga on order and wanted to get used to cgminer.

any suggestions.
legendary
Activity: 2576
Merit: 1186
winsows 7 x64
driver 12.8
SDK 2.7
cgminer 2.7.1

after few hours run appear error :

Code:
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to create get_work_thread
Most unusual. That is a fatal error because there are too many threads running or the system has run out of ram. This bug falls into the "I have no idea" category.
Miners used to get this when there were a lot of weird network problems. I fixed it in BFGMiner, but it's back with the 2.7.0 changes. Perhaps my original fix might shed some light on the current problem.
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legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
Alas that was the bug I was trying to fix going from 2.7.0 to 2.7.1. If anyone's on git and want to give the latest git master a try there's one tiny change which might help, but it's a long shot.
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My bonuspool account went apeshit exactly like that for a little while a few hours ago. I switched a couple parts around in my rigs so I wasn't sure if it was a hardware issue, but it seems to have gone away.

I don't think it's bonuspool. The common element was that we both had a pool go down. I use Eclipse and mtred, and when Eclipse went down this morning, I manually added mtred because it wasn't in the config at the time. Later on, I realized Eclipse had come up and was up for awhile, but the miner was doing -exactly- what Morblias was saying: except that I switched it myself, and it was failing to switch back. Actually, I didn't even switch it - I just added mtred manually while it was running, and it went over to mtred on it's own. Of course at first I expected the errors it was giving... because the pool was down. I even checked using ping.eu's port checker function and 8337 on eclipse was closed for all Eclipse servers. Later on when I knew the pool was up, the miner was doing exactly the same thing. Sitting on mtred, and saying Eclipse was down. I even checked again with ping.eu to make sure, and indeed Eclipse was up. So I just closed the miner, repoened it, and voila, connection to Eclipse.

I think this is pretty solid evidence Smiley
I can confirm similar behavior as well in yet another scenario.  I added a 5th pool (I already had pools in positions 0 through 4) through the curses interface.  I then proceeded to switch to it.  Shortly thereafter, cgminer switched back to pool 0 (presumably due to a problem with pool 4), and then I started getting alive and down messages every few minutes but not submitting shares to pool 4 (I also started submitting shares to pools 1 and 2 álong with 0 in spite of --failover-only and 18 hours since launch of cgminer).  I deleted pool 4, added it again, switched to it again, and voila, cgminer is mining on it again.  Next time I may try disabling and re-enabling it instead of deleting it, however I can also report that it said disabled on the pool after I hit P before I deleted it.  I thought they were only supposed to go to disabled (vs dead) after a long string of rejects, and I didn't see any rejects.  I don't know if this additional information is helpful or not, but something is up...

ETA: I am using 2.7.1, I think the two quotes above are too, I just realized none of them indicate it in this post.
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legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
I'm having a problem with dynamic intensity with 2.7.1 on Windows XP:

When I start cgminer with dynamic intensity it generally operates around intensity 3 or 4 depending on what I'm doing on the PC.  Last night I changed the intensity from dynamic to 8 (by typing "g, i, 8" in cgminer) and found the PC almost unresponsive this morning with an intensity of 13.  I expected it to still be at 8.
Not at all expected behaviour.
sr. member
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Merit: 250
I am most certainly not going to give one more second's thought to scrypt.

Don't mean to make you think of it, but, what the heck is "scrypt" anyway?
Sam
Litecoin mining, which I hope dies and goes away.

Why is that?
Because I don't care about LTC, the software to mine it is really awkward, newbies keep coming around expecting me to hold their hands and explain it to them when it is not remotely trivial, and it complicates cgminer code and support.

Ok, thanks for the answer Wink
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legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
I am most certainly not going to give one more second's thought to scrypt.

Don't mean to make you think of it, but, what the heck is "scrypt" anyway?
Sam
Litecoin mining, which I hope dies and goes away.

Why is that?
Because I don't care about LTC, the software to mine it is really awkward, newbies keep coming around expecting me to hold their hands and explain it to them when it is not remotely trivial, and it complicates cgminer code and support.
sr. member
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Merit: 500
New version - 2.7.1, 21st August 2012

Hopefully the gpu-map feature is working for more adl devices than opencl.

Seems to work now, thanks!
sr. member
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I am most certainly not going to give one more second's thought to scrypt.

Don't mean to make you think of it, but, what the heck is "scrypt" anyway?
Sam
Litecoin mining, which I hope dies and goes away.

Why is that?
legendary
Activity: 916
Merit: 1003
I'm having a problem with dynamic intensity with 2.7.1 on Windows XP:

When I start cgminer with dynamic intensity it generally operates around intensity 3 or 4 depending on what I'm doing on the PC.  Last night I changed the intensity from dynamic to 8 (by typing "g, i, 8" in cgminer) and found the PC almost unresponsive this morning with an intensity of 13.  I expected it to still be at 8.
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tester
2GB of system RAM, and is running flags " -g 1 -v 1 -w 256 -I 10 " i run two HD7950
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legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
winsows 7 x64
driver 12.8
SDK 2.7
cgminer 2.7.1

after few hours run appear error :

Code:
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to create get_work_thread
Most unusual. That is a fatal error because there are too many threads running or the system has run out of ram. This bug falls into the "I have no idea" category.
member
Activity: 136
Merit: 10
tester
winsows 7 x64
driver 12.8
SDK 2.7
cgminer 2.7.1

after few hours run appear error :

Code:
 [2012-08-22 08:39:59] Accepted 43ccdc0e.9f4a0881 GPU 1 pool 0 
 [2012-08-22 08:40:02] Accepted 56eb716f.b4d7f8c4 GPU 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-22 08:40:04] Accepted 9f5505de.e0a3aeb7 GPU 1 pool 0
 [2012-08-22 08:40:14] Pool 0 not providing work fast enough
 [2012-08-22 08:40:51] Pool 0 communication failure, caching submissions
 [2012-08-22 08:40:51] Share became stale while retrying submit, discarding
 [2012-08-22 08:40:56] Share became stale while retrying submit, discarding
 [2012-08-22 08:41:00] Share became stale while retrying submit, discarding
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Pool 0 http://pool.ABCPool.co:8332 not responding!
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Switching to http://mine3.btcguild.com:8332
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Long-polling activated for http://mine3.btcguild.com:8332/LP/
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to create get_work_thread
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]
Summary of runtime statistics:

 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Started at [2012-08-21 21:21:42]
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Runtime: 11 hrs : 19 mins : 29 secs
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Average hashrate: 1146.9 Megahash/s
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Solved blocks: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Queued work requests: 11182
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Share submissions: 10516
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Accepted shares: 10480
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Rejected shares: 36
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Reject ratio: 0.3%
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Hardware errors: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Efficiency (accepted / queued): 94%
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Utility (accepted shares / min): 15.42/min
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Work Utility (diff1 shares solved / min): 15.48/min

 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Discarded work due to new blocks: 156
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Stale submissions discarded due to new blocks: 3
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Unable to get work from server occasions: 78
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Work items generated locally: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 1
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] New blocks detected on network: 65

 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Pool: http://pool.ABCPool.co:8332
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Queued work requests: 11180
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Share submissions: 10516
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Accepted shares: 10480
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Rejected shares: 36
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Reject ratio: 0.3%
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Efficiency (accepted / queued): 94%
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Discarded work due to new blocks: 154
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Stale submissions discarded due to new blocks: 3
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Unable to get work from server occasions: 78
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 1

 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Pool: http://mine3.btcguild.com:8332
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Queued work requests: 1
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Share submissions: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Accepted shares: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Rejected shares: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Efficiency (accepted / queued): 0%
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Discarded work due to new blocks: 1
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Stale submissions discarded due to new blocks: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Unable to get work from server occasions: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 0

 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Pool: http://pit.deepbit.net:8332
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Queued work requests: 1
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Share submissions: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Accepted shares: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Rejected shares: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Efficiency (accepted / queued): 0%
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Discarded work due to new blocks: 1
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Stale submissions discarded due to new blocks: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Unable to get work from server occasions: 0
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14]  Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 0

 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Summary of per device statistics:

 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] GPU0                | (5s):551.9 (avg):547.8 Mh/s | A:5049 R:15 HW:0 U:7.4/m I:10
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] GPU1                | (5s):602.9 (avg):599.1 Mh/s | A:5431 R:21 HW:0 U:8.0/m I:10
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] API failed (Socket Error: (10004) Interrupted system call) - API will not be available
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request
 [2012-08-22 08:41:14] Failed to tq_push in queue_request

and cgminer crash.
i will go back to 2.7.0
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Failover only: does this override the default setting which is failover using backup pools when primary pool is lagging?

in other words if i use this parameter will it stay on one pool even if the pool is slow and not accepting shares at my full speed hashrate i could be sending them?

and default it would utilize another pool for some shares that the first pool isn't fast enough to select?
Yep, pretty much.
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Failover only: does this override the default setting which is failover using backup pools when primary pool is lagging?

in other words if i use this parameter will it stay on one pool even if the pool is slow and not accepting shares at my full speed hashrate i could be sending them?

and default it would utilize another pool for some shares that the first pool isn't fast enough to select?
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