Topic: OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 560. (Read 5806088 times)

I have a serious performance problem with my mining setup that I'm hoping someone here can help with.

First of all, it isn't a dedicated miner - it's my desktop PC, running Windows 7 64-bit. I have a pair of HD 6670's in it, one is driving two monitors, the other is dedicated to mining. Before I screwed it up today, I was getting decent performance - about 110-115 Mhash/sec from both cards (the card driving the monitors was set at dynamic, the other card at 9). I was running Catalyst driver version 12.4 and after doing some reading here decided to downgrade to 11.6, the recommended version for mining.

So I uninstalled 12.4, rebooted, installed 11.6, rebooted again, and suddenly my performance plummeted to about 30-40 Mhash/sec on the card driving the monitors and about 13-14 on the secondary card! I found out that I needed to disable ULPS, so I did but that didn't make any difference.

So then I decided to revert back to the driver version that I was running before that was getting decent performance (even though it isn't the recommended version). I went through the whole uninstall, reboot, reinstall, etc. -- making sure I removed every trace of Catalyst I could find (including all "ATI" and "AMD" keys in the registry) in between. I'm still getting shit mining performance. I'm at a loss on what to try next. Any ideas? I'll be happy to post my config and any more info you need.

On a side note, does anyone have the FirePro V4900, and does it work with cgminer? How's its performance? I'm probably getting a new PC in a few weeks, and that's what's on the specs sheet for it.

i.e. the solution to the "run for 7 days then crashed" is the obvious:

Try 2.4.2 ...

Thats so weird how they both have the same problem. What a crazy random happenstance!

Cgminer 2.4.2 has been out for less than 4 days. How can you say you have run Cgminer for "about 7 days" when the current version has not been out that long?

Edit: That was my sarcastic way of saying try 2.4.2.

I have tried the --no-restart but still no luck cg miner crash after 7 days

and some of my miner appear something like gpu2 display driver corrupted, disabling monitoring fan/gpu control  ................ and then it freeze the same

please i need solution for this anyone please tell me !

I wrote the .conf from cgminer and then moved it out of the default folder into my Dropbox folder. There's nothing in ~/.cgminer anymore.

I'm positive I have the right ones. My desktop would hardly function if my display GPU was on 9.

Are you sure your first core is the one running your desktop?

Try switching the intensity values around.   9,d

i.e. you have two conf files:
 ~/Dropbox/cgminer/cgminer.conf
and
 ~/.cgminer/cgminer.conf
so you have to consider the affect of both of them
... was the point of my question

Pretty much just stuff that got written to the file when I made it through cgminer's menu.

what is in ~/.cgminer/cgminer.conf ...

So after updating to 2.4.2, I decided to try switching to 2 threads per GPU again. The problem is still there; my display GPU starts to function really slowly, both mining and drawing my desktop. It's on dynamic intensity which means it's still only running on 1 thread, right? Why would enabling 2 threads affect it at all?

I have my .sh script set to run the export commands:


Is that maybe my problem? Not sure what could possibly be causing this.

Many web stats display/monitors are available.  Nice charts and all.  So I'd not waste time on this.
My take on this is that charts are nice to look at but they don't make money. Your miner does.

If you interested in something that would actively control your miner process, you might take a look at my akbash.
It can be set to monitor many miner, Windows and GPU hardware statistics.  When triggers (hash rates, hw errors, process handle count or working set, GPU H/W temp, utilization, faulty fans etc) are met, miner (or OS) is restarted, email notifications are sent.  Most importantly, driver crashes and werfault conditions are detected.

av is snake oil 

Same here. Ran Windows 2000 SP4 with updates turned off and if you have a brain you never have any problems. If you don't and have the best antivirus you still can get raped.

Quite frankly, antivirus blacklists/scanners seem to be turning into more of a problem than the virii/trojans themselves. But maybe I'm biased because I've never been infected (even when I ran Windows; and no, I've never used antivirus)

Problem with aVast, even though I still prefer it, is the same thing that's wrong with all the other AV vendors, they toss the kitchen sink into it. By that I mean somebody like PCMag will do a review with a nice table saying what each AV product does with nice little check marks then management sees these charts and comes back at the Devs and says "why isn't our product also scanning for XYZ"? With each new tool added into the product it gets slower, more intrusive and overall less popular, look at McAfee, the number one product for years yet like Norton most educated users stay far away from both now.

With aVast I love how it scans webpages for rogue code so much better than others but it's becoming a challenge to stick with them. I am still on version 4.8 as it's lighter than the new releases PLUS allows for URL blocking which is great for those ad banners. I'm a bit ticked at it blocking downloading of CGMiner yet it's log does not show any event concerning that block. Having to disable scanning just to download is a total fail on their part.

ok sorry for the thread steal, back to CGMiner.

they have probably found code and traced web connections from trojans that are using cgminer and your pools and are flagging anything that appears to match.

Heh.. avast seems to be going apeshit with Bitcoin related stuff lately.  They flagged OzCoin and apparently my pool as well (though I think it's since been corrected) ... WTH is up over there at Avast, are they just stupid?

Same here. I reported as a false positive, and I am trying to get it on my excluded list, when I can can figure out where its at!