OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 727.

P4man

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Quote from: Turbor on December 26, 2011, 06:02:05 AM

I was wondering lately why my 6670 had a stale rate of nearly 10%. I switched the pool (nr 1 in poollist) and everything was fine for that card. Did the same on my other rig but out of nowhere i had stale rates up to 8% ! How was that possible ? I read then a post from p4man. It turned out that both times i had this, the pool i was mining to was not first in the poollist. Can someone else confirm this ?

Confirmed. Though not as dramatic as your results, for me stales go from ~0.15 % to 10x more when I am mining on a pool that is not #1 in the list.

Moreover, with failover enabled it seems cgminer sends ~5% of my hashing power to my failover pool, even though the primary pool is not ever down. Seems to be related to long polling, each time there is a new block I see cgminer submitting a few shares to the backup pool. Is there a reason for that?

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Hello fellow cgminers,

It looks like the ufasoft miner now includes support for the bitforce products from butterfly labs. Is there any hope of having bitforce compatibility for cgminer?

As with the rpc interface, I would be willing to throw in on a bounty to see this implemented.

Thoughts?

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I was wondering lately why my 6670 had a stale rate of nearly 10%. I switched the pool (nr 1 in poollist) and everything was fine for that card. Did the same on my other rig but out of nowhere i had stale rates up to 8% ! How was that possible ? I read then a post from p4man. It turned out that both times i had this, the pool i was mining to was not first in the poollist. Can someone else confirm this ?

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Link for OSX please as I can't see a .app or .dmg file.
Thanks

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Quote from: kano on December 26, 2011, 02:30:28 AM

Quote from: ancow on December 25, 2011, 12:49:33 AM

Somewhat offtopic, but the first driver version I had in debian was "11.6" (due to installing it at that time), so I assume it must have been unified before 11.7.

No what I meant was they actually unified the code and version numbers for both windows and linux some time later - certainly after 11.6
However, where did you get the 11.6 number from?

The debian package.
Anyway, I've since had a look at the wikipedia article, and they say 11.7 as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Catalyst#Linux), so I assume that is correct.

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Quote from: ancow on December 25, 2011, 12:49:33 AM

Quote from: kano on December 24, 2011, 07:24:56 PM

Edit: however, the version numbers were different due to different code before 11.7
(I think it was 11.7 where the unified it - though I'm not sure)

Somewhat offtopic, but the first driver version I had in debian was "11.6" (due to installing it at that time), so I assume it must have been unified before 11.7.

No what I meant was they actually unified the code and version numbers for both windows and linux some time later - certainly after 11.6
However, where did you get the 11.6 number from?

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Quote from: Proofer on December 26, 2011, 12:08:34 AM

Quote from: BkkCoins on December 21, 2011, 12:51:32 PM

...
/usr/local/bin/startcg (remember to chmod +x)

Code:

#!/bin/bash

export AMDAPPSDKROOT=/home/ubuntu/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx32/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${AMDAPPSDKROOT}lib/x86:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export DISPLAY=:0

cgminer 2>>/var/log/cgminer.log

...

Tardy on this reply, but... those first two exports puzzle me; I've not seen them before. How is the equivalent being achieved for those of us who are starting cgminer "manually" post-startup?

If you follow the installation instructions supplied with cgminer by ckolivas or my USB instructions, then they are not needed.
(though it seems it is rather unusual for them to be actually followed correctly and completely ... Tongue

)
They are only necessary if you haven't put the files where they belong.

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Quote from: BkkCoins on December 21, 2011, 12:51:32 PM

...
/usr/local/bin/startcg (remember to chmod +x)

Code:

#!/bin/bash

export AMDAPPSDKROOT=/home/ubuntu/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx32/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${AMDAPPSDKROOT}lib/x86:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export DISPLAY=:0

cgminer 2>>/var/log/cgminer.log

...

Tardy on this reply, but... those first two exports puzzle me; I've not seen them before. How is the equivalent being achieved for those of us who are starting cgminer "manually" post-startup?

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Quote from: kano on December 24, 2011, 07:24:56 PM

Edit: however, the version numbers were different due to different code before 11.7
(I think it was 11.7 where the unified it - though I'm not sure)

Somewhat offtopic, but the first driver version I had in debian was "11.6" (due to installing it at that time), so I assume it must have been unified before 11.7.

kano

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Well the driver is Mar 24 2011 - so I guess that means it could be 11.4 ...
Oh well I've never actually found anything to verify that I was told it was 11.6

So if that is correct, then 11.4 and 2.4 Cheesy

Edit: however, the version numbers were different due to different code before 11.7
(I think it was 11.7 where the unified it - though I'm not sure)
So 8.840 could still be the equivalent of 11.6 ...

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Quote from: kano on December 24, 2011, 06:34:09 PM

Quote from: Proofer on December 24, 2011, 04:34:35 PM

Is this advice OS-independent -- same for Windows and Linux?

Windows? What's that?

Windows is what I'm trying in order to get one of the two WiFi USB adapters I have working. Gave up on Ubuntu 11.04 for that, but I'm having problems with Win7 also. The only time one of them worked (with no driver having to be installed!) was with 10.04. But I digress...

Quote

That's for Linux - or to be Linux specific, xubuntu 11.04 default drivers (= 11.6) + SDK 2.4

Edit: the fglrx version number is 8.840 (2:8.840-0ubuntu4) which is 11.6

Looks to me like 8.840 is about 11.4--

Here's a list I put together last night, mostly from an AMD web site page:

Catalyst 11.11   8.911   11/15/2011

Catalyst 11.10   8.902   10/31/2011

Catalyst 11.9   8.892   9/28/2011

Catalyst 11.8   8.881   8/17/2011

Catalyst 11.7   8.872   7/27/2011

Catalyst 11.6   8.861   6/15/2011

Catalyst 11.5   8.85   5/9/2011

Catalyst 11.4   8.841   4/27/2011

fglrx packages with...
Natty         8.84
Oneiric      8.881

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Quote from: Proofer on December 24, 2011, 04:34:35 PM

Quote from: BkkCoins on December 24, 2011, 05:07:58 AM

Quote from: kano on December 24, 2011, 04:50:50 AM

11.6 + SDK 2.4 'nuf said.

Still the best combo.

Is this advice OS-independent -- same for Windows and Linux?

Windows? What's that?

That's for Linux - or to be Linux specific, xubuntu 11.04 default drivers (= 11.6) + SDK 2.4

Edit: the fglrx version number is 8.840 (2:8.840-0ubuntu4) which is 11.6

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Quote from: BkkCoins on December 24, 2011, 05:07:58 AM

Quote from: kano on December 24, 2011, 04:50:50 AM

11.6 + SDK 2.4 'nuf said.

Still the best combo.

Is this advice OS-independent -- same for Windows and Linux?

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Quote from: kano on December 24, 2011, 04:50:50 AM

11.6 + SDK 2.4 'nuf said.

Still the best combo.

kano

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11.6 + SDK 2.4 'nuf said.

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Quote from: Zenitur on December 24, 2011, 04:20:06 AM

Linux users! Don't use Catalyst 11.12! I have 360 MHzsh with this in all miners, and 412 with 11.10 and AMD APP SDK 2.5. ATi Radeon 5850.

Yeah, well, 11.10 has the 100% CPU bug, so I'll refrain from using that, thank you very much...

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Linux users! Don't use Catalyst 11.12! I have 360 MHzsh with this in all miners, and 412 with 11.10 and AMD APP SDK 2.5. ATi Radeon 5850.

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on December 23, 2011, 08:20:08 PM

Quote from: Proofer on December 23, 2011, 04:37:54 PM

Interesting! On all six I changed from dynamic, which was reporting I=3 or 4, mostly 4, to 7, which increased the hash rate by about 14% and power consumption by 7%. I wonder how much we are losing in order to avoid "freaking out" an OS that is designed to work with spreadsheets, video games, and email.

The only system I use dynamic on is my workstation. It has dual monitors hooked to one GPU set to dynamic. The other 7 GPU all run at I=9. Best of both worlds. The GPU used by OS for desktop is always responsive and the other 7 are maxed out. For the dedicated mining rigs I run nothing but I=9.

I run my dedicated miner at 8,7,8. The system wasn't as stable with the second GPU on 8 and going to 9 on the other cards didn't affect the hash rate.

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Quote from: Proofer on December 23, 2011, 04:37:54 PM

Interesting! On all six I changed from dynamic, which was reporting I=3 or 4, mostly 4, to 7, which increased the hash rate by about 14% and power consumption by 7%. I wonder how much we are losing in order to avoid "freaking out" an OS that is designed to work with spreadsheets, video games, and email.

The only system I use dynamic on is my workstation. It has dual monitors hooked to one GPU set to dynamic. The other 7 GPU all run at I=9. Best of both worlds. The GPU used by OS for desktop is always responsive and the other 7 are maxed out. For the dedicated mining rigs I run nothing but I=9.

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I got 2.0.9 installed from git. The api commands are great. I'll send the bounty soon.

Code:

[user@miner gist-1500780]$ python cgminer-rpc.py summary
summary
{u'STATUS': [{u'STATUS': u'S', u'Msg': u'Summary', u'Code': 11, u'Description': u'cgminer 2.0.9'}], u'id': 1, u'SUMMARY': [{u'Get Failures': 0, u'Getworks': 19, u'Network Blocks': 1, u'Algorithm': u'c', u'Found Blocks': 0, u'Rejected': 0, u'Elapsed': 55, u'Discarded': 0, u'Hardware Errors': 0, u'Stale': 0, u'Accepted': 15, u'Remote Failures': 0, u'MHS av': 1005.95, u'Local Work': 0, u'Utility': 16.460000000000001}]}

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