Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 516. (Read 5805728 times)

Great feedback, thanks. Please email me the old binaries [email protected] (one at a time or email will reject them), thanks!

I have some of your old windows binaries. Not sure if it would be any help for you.
I have 2.4.4, 2.5.0, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 and the current 2.7.0 I didn't grab 2.6.0 or 2.6.1 because of BFL issues and since I only have a single to mine with it didn't seem helpful.

Thank You for making WU field. My backup pool uses difficulty 8 shares so I used to have to use just the average because U would be lower due to occasional work from backup pool. My Rejects are maybe 10% of what 2.6.5 had me at. I have had 0 hardware issues today all issues where throttling related and today was cooler, my average is so far 11 Mhash faster and my U is maybe lower but WU is at 12. Very short test so far only hours not days to fully break in the averages but still.

So far it works great for me, no pool slow to provide work, averge higher, shares bleeding to the backup so I get paid rather then a delay on working.

Your crash is entirely within the AMD driver, so either you are having a hardware problem (dodgy card, too much overclocking, overheated vrms etc) or a driver problem. Can't see anything in the backtrace related to cgminer.

Hi ckolivas,
I have an issue with one of the rigs (2 x 5850), no matter which version of cgminer I use. GPU1 dies in matter of a couple of hours, rig does not respond, sometimes a hard reset is inevitable.
The system runs:
CentOS 6.3
kernel 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64
glibc-2.12-1.80.el6_3.4.x86_64
glib2-2.22.5-7.el6.x86_64
gcc-4.4.6-4.el6.x86_64
AMD-APP-SDK-v2.5-lnx64
ati-driver-installer-11-12-x86.x86_64

I tried the latest cgminer-2.7.0, not using any optimizations at all except intensity set to 2. The following is grabbed from /var/log/messages.
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Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [fglrx] ASIC hang happened
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: Pid: 3430, comm: cgminer Tainted: P           ---------------    2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: Call Trace:
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? KCL_DEBUG_OsDump+0xe/0x10 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? firegl_hardwareHangRecovery+0x1c/0x50 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? _ZN4Asic9WaitUntil15ResetASICIfHungEv+0x9/0x10 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? _ZN4Asic9WaitUntil15WaitForCompleteEv+0x9c/0xf0 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? _ZN4Asic19PM4ElapsedTimeStampEj14_LARGE_INTEGER12_QS_CP_RING_+0xaf/0x170 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? firegl_trace+0x72/0x1e0 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? firegl_trace+0x72/0x1e0 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? _ZN15QS_PRIVATE_CORE27multiVpuPM4ElapsedTimeStampEj14_LARGE_INTEGER12_QS_CP_RIN G_+0x33/0x50 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? _Z19uQSTimeStampRetiredmjj14_LARGE_INTEGER+0x74/0x80 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? _Z8uCWDDEQCmjjPvjS_+0x54d/0x10c0 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? down+0x2e/0x50
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? firegl_cmmqs_CWDDE_32+0x332/0x440 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? firegl_cmmqs_CWDDE32+0x70/0x100 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? firegl_cmmqs_CWDDE32+0x0/0x100 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? firegl_ioctl+0x1ed/0x250 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? __do_page_fault+0x1ec/0x480
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? ip_firegl_unlocked_ioctl+0xe/0x20 [fglrx]
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? vfs_ioctl+0x22/0xa0
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x84/0x580
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? sys_ioctl+0x81/0xa0
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: [] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: pubdev:0xffffffffa049ed20, num of device:2 , name:fglrx, major 8, minor 92.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: device 0 : 0xffff88007a1b0000 .
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: Asic ID:0x6899, revision:0x2, MMIOReg:0xffffc90000340000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: FB phys addr: 0xd0000000, MC :0xf00000000, Total FB size :0x40000000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: gart table MC:0xf0fb27000, Physical:0xdfb27000, size:0x1d8000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: mc_node :FB, total 1 zones
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    MC start:0xf00000000, Physical:0xd0000000, size:0xfd00000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0xfb27000, reference count:21, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0x1000000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0xfb27000, size:0x1d9000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: mc_node :INV_FB, total 1 zones
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    MC start:0xf0fd00000, Physical:0xdfd00000, size:0x30300000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x302f4000, size:0xc000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: mc_node :GART_USWC, total 2 zones
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    MC start:0x260c0000, Physical:0x0, size:0x24c00000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0x2000000, reference count:21, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: mc_node :GART_CACHEABLE, total 3 zones
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    MC start:0x10400000, Physical:0x0, size:0x15cc0000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x1500000, size:0x200000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x1400000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x1300000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x1200000, size:0x100000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x1100000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x1000000, size:0x100000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0xf00000, size:0x100000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0xe00000, size:0x100000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0xd00000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0xb00000, size:0x200000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x800000, size:0x300000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x500000, size:0x300000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x200000, size:0x300000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0x200000, reference count:6, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0xef000, size:0x11000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: GRBM : 0xb0633828, SRBM : 0x20000ec0 .
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: CP_RB_BASE : 0x260c00, CP_RB_RPTR : 0x1920 , CP_RB_WPTR :0x1920.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: CP_IB1_BUFSZ:0x0, CP_IB1_BASE_HI:0x0, CP_IB1_BASE_LO:0x2686f000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: last submit IB buffer -- MC :0x2686f000,phys:0x7b4f5000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: device 1 : 0xffff88003759c000 .
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: Asic ID:0x6899, revision:0x2, MMIOReg:0xffffc90004980000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: FB phys addr: 0xe0000000, MC :0xf00000000, Total FB size :0x40000000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: gart table MC:0xf0fb27000, Physical:0xefb27000, size:0x1d8000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: mc_node :FB, total 1 zones
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    MC start:0xf00000000, Physical:0xe0000000, size:0xfd00000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0xfb27000, reference count:20, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0x1000000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0xfb27000, size:0x1d9000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: mc_node :INV_FB, total 1 zones
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    MC start:0xf0fd00000, Physical:0xefd00000, size:0x30300000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x302f4000, size:0xc000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: mc_node :GART_USWC, total 2 zones
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    MC start:0x260c0000, Physical:0x0, size:0x24c00000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0x2000000, reference count:21, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: mc_node :GART_CACHEABLE, total 3 zones
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    MC start:0x10400000, Physical:0x0, size:0x15cc0000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x2c00000, size:0x200000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x2b00000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x2a00000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x2900000, size:0x100000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x2800000, size:0x100000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x2600000, size:0x200000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x1d00000, size:0x900000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x1400000, size:0x900000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0xb00000, size:0x900000, reference count:3, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x200000, size:0x900000, reference count:2, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0x0, size:0x200000, reference count:5, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel:    Mapped heap -- Offset:0xef000, size:0x11000, reference count:1, mapping count:0,
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: GRBM : 0xb0633828, SRBM : 0x200006c0 .
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: CP_RB_BASE : 0x260c00, CP_RB_RPTR : 0x6970 , CP_RB_WPTR :0x6990.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: CP_IB1_BUFSZ:0x0, CP_IB1_BASE_HI:0x0, CP_IB1_BASE_LO:0x262e7000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: last submit IB buffer -- MC :0x262e7000,phys:0x693c3000.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: Dump the trace queue.
Aug 19 06:08:21 hostname kernel: End of dump
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Can you see anything that causes the problem?
Thx in advance.
 
 

Yes it's definitely a bug introduced in 2.6.5 when I tried to work around windows' timers. Why, I dunno cause I can only try it on a laptop with windows that does 9.5Mhash so it's not a very useful piece of hardware to test it on...

I can confirm the same bug with intensity pegging down to -10 on dynamic but in my instance without the high CPU usage.
I upgraded from 2.6.4 which didn't have the problem.

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I looked into the "Switch User" hang reported originally in CGMiner.

It seems the hanging at least is the result of gpu_fanpercent (called by get_opencl_statline_before when updating the summary device status lines) is attempting to log warnings when ADL stops working (as it does in this situation). Logging warnings tries to lock the curses-UI to add it to the log, which just deadlocks since the same thread already has it locked for the general summary updates. There are a number of ways one might fix this, none of which are particularly elegant. Since this is pretty much just Con's domain, I'd appreciate it if someone could relay this information to him (he ignores me), and find out if he intends to fix it or not.

Thanks,

Luke

What is the CGMINER GPU status and CGMINER pool status? Are your other network applications continue operating when you switch user?

Use cgminer API to read GPU and POOL status.

Server is back online. All the files were unintentionally lost by the host provider, so I have had to upload from backups. Thus there will only be a limited number of downloads available, and only binaries from the latest release. I'd apologise for the inconvenience, but the inconvenience to me is far greater...

If a pool screws up somehow (and the proxy pools are the ones most likely to) and starts rejected *all* your shares, cgminer will disable it after 3 minutes and only re-enable it when it starts accepting shares again already.

Does the cgminer actually crash or continues running in ALIVE state and not submitting shares?

If cgminer actually crashes, post WER details.

If cgminer process is still running, check GPU/PGA and pool statuses using ANUBIS or other API status display tools.

I am occasionally running into a lot of stale shares that are causing high numbers of rejects on certain pools.  Mining with a BFL Single farm.  It would be great if the load-balance option automatically switched away from any pool that was getting stale shares until the next block.

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Bitcoind doesn't have LP in it.
It does have an option to run a command on a block change that you can configure yourself.

I have thought of this before with the API - being able to send a message to the API when a block change occurs, however there is one more thing in an LP that would be missing:
The LP includes work on the new block.

Without this work, the LP is simply telling cgminer to go and do a request for work and thus there is the network delay of waiting for work from the pool.

I will skip certain specific details, to protect the innocent , but this process would probably be worse than waiting for the LP

... except when LP's are slow ... which has been happening more frequently in the last few months ... but only if the pool would actually return work during it's LP phase (which wouldn't make much sense since it will already be trying to send you work)

However, this could also lead to stalling the miner due to requesting work from the pool and waiting for it, but then simply getting a piece of work for the same 'previous' block if the pool doesn't already know about the new block.

LP design sux and always has since Deepbit came up with the idea (as I have mentioned before as well) - it needs to be faster (e.g. a simple UDP packet TO the miner might perform a lot better)

Thanks for feedback and much more for the donation

Startup GPU difference is just luck variance showing up. Perfectly normal.

Glad to hear failover works better.

Dynamic will show the "chosen" current intensity, which for an awesome 7970 works out to about 7. Perfectly normal. (shame it only works properly on linux it seems).