OFFICIAL CGMINER mining software thread for linux/win/osx/mips/arm/r-pi 4.11.0 - page 820.

Diapolo

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Quote from: -ck on July 28, 2011, 05:15:35 AM

Quote from: KJaneway on July 28, 2011, 05:14:04 AM

is there a solutiion for the problem other than downgrading the driver back to 11-6

I haven't been able to find one. It appears to really be a driver bug.

11.7 on Windows has a new OpenCL APP 2.5 runtime, compared to the earlier 2.4 runtime ... could be the source of the problem.

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Quote from: Diapolo on July 28, 2011, 07:28:35 AM

Same here, if I press Q the program displays something and then just hangs.

It says "Satan <3 U", but it's too fast for the human eye to perceive...

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Quote from: freakfantom on July 28, 2011, 04:16:24 AM

I can't see the summary either on windows 7. It is an excellent idea to save it to a text file. Thx in advance, great program

Same here, if I press Q the program displays something and then just hangs.

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Quote from: KJaneway on July 28, 2011, 05:14:04 AM

is there a solutiion for the problem other than downgrading the driver back to 11-6

I haven't been able to find one. It appears to really be a driver bug.

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is there a solutiion for the problem other than downgrading the driver back to 11-6

-ck

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Quote from: KJaneway on July 28, 2011, 05:11:00 AM

i have updated my ATI Driver on Ubuntu to the newest Version 11.7. Now I am encountering the Problem, that the miner generates 100% of CPU Usage and is significiantly slower than before the update. Anybody here with experience on that?

Yep, that's one dodgy driver. I've reproduced it.

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i have updated my ATI Driver on Ubuntu to the newest Version 11.7. Now I am encountering the Problem, that the miner generates 100% of CPU Usage and is significiantly slower than before the update. Anybody here with experience on that?

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Quote from: -ck on July 28, 2011, 05:04:03 AM

Make sure you're redirecting STDERR, not stdout. You need to use 2>filename.txt
Also you can enable/disable verbose mode on the fly once it's running.

Which is a little bit of a pain to do when used in combination with screen.
Being able to specify an actual log file on the command line would be neat.

I'm trying to tell you it will work... just redirect 2>filename.txt instead of >filename.txt

eg: no log
./cgminer -o blah -u blah -p blah

with log
./cgminer -o blah -u blah -p blah 2>filename.txt

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Quote from: -ck on July 28, 2011, 05:04:03 AM

Make sure you're redirecting STDERR, not stdout. You need to use 2>filename.txt
Also you can enable/disable verbose mode on the fly once it's running.

And your birthday helps pay for my hundreds of hours of coding how exactly? Tongue

I'm sure the year to hour ratio equals out somehow. lol

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Out of curiosity, would the SSE4 only using SSE2 instructions be considered a bug or feature? Because having two things that do exactly the same thing is sort of a problem.

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Make sure you're redirecting STDERR, not stdout. You need to use 2>filename.txt
Also you can enable/disable verbose mode on the fly once it's running.

And your birthday helps pay for my hundreds of hours of coding how exactly? Tongue

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I did gave a try to

Code:

> 001.txt

and

Code:

>> 001.txt

with and without --verbose, the result are that the program exits with the error msg:

Code:

COLS value must be >= 2 and <= 4840: got -8251
initscr(): Unable to create SP

Quote from: -ck on July 28, 2011, 04:58:22 AM

No more features for now. Just bug fixes till I return in 2 weeks' time. Plus features take time to implement, and I'll be giving priority to features requested by donors.

And what about those who have birthday? Grin

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No more features for now. Just bug fixes till I return in 2 weeks' time. Plus features take time to implement, and I'll be giving priority to features requested by donors.

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*Yawn* Here's the list of things I found through the forum. Let's not try to depend on one person fixing them all, okay? Grin

Some issues with certain pools: "No pools active. Exiting" Most likely due to redirects.
Verbosity levels
JSON-config file format correction
Correction of the C code, intrinsics (*mmintrin.h and add in x86intrin.h/ia32intrin.h) and configuration for SSE4 or simply enable optimizations based upon CPU detected (cpuid.h).
Funky libcurl (cached) version check in configure. Detects lower version but finds higher version next.
Dramatic slow-down of hashing after a while.
GPU 0 gets enabled or disabled automatically when only wanting to enable or disable GPU 1 or else.
Different work sized for different GPUs. Alternatively, separate settings in general for each GPU as GPUs can often be different.
Perhaps adding prefetching to the C code.

-ck

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Quote from: DBordello on July 28, 2011, 12:02:16 AM

Quote from: -ck on July 27, 2011, 06:38:50 PM

Quote from: DBordello on July 27, 2011, 06:06:42 PM

I am giving cgminer a shot (from phoenix + smartcoin). My initial impression is positive. However, I am hesitant because I had modified phoenix to record in a sql database every time a share was submitted.

So now I am thinking how I can do this with cgminer. Coding in C to connect to a database is over my head, so I am going with a simpler solution.

My first thought was to use the -T option and pipe it to python for processing. This seems like it would work great. However, I am greedy and would also like the curses interface. Do you think you can add an option to direct status updates ([2011-07-27 18:05:05 Accepted xxxxxx GPU 1 thread 1 pool 0) to another stderr? That way I could direct share submissions for sql processing, and still maintaining the stdout interface.

That is, unless you have a more elegant solution.

Excellent work so far.

Dan

It already works. Just pipe output from stderr and you get the curses interface _and_ the piped output.

This doesn't appear to be working for me. I am redirecting (2> file.txt) but nothing is getting passed to that file.

Enable verbose mode. I'll modify the next version to log even when verbose mode is off.

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I can't see the summary either on windows 7. It is an excellent idea to save it to a text file. Thx in advance, great program

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Anyone want to compile together a list of requests? It seems that we have quite a few. Actually...I've got time! I'll read through here and put a list together. Perhaps if we all work together, we can also knock the list out with our combined programming efforts. I'll tell you all now, I suck at programming, but I know a few things about settings.

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Great work, great miner program, but on MicroSux's Windows I can't see the whole "on exit" summary, because the fixed terminal size....
It is possible to implement, that the "on exit" summary would be saved to a text file, whit the date as filename? Like: 2011-07-28-09-41-25.txt

Plz, it's my birthday! Grin

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Quote from: -ck on July 27, 2011, 06:38:50 PM

Quote from: DBordello on July 27, 2011, 06:06:42 PM

I am giving cgminer a shot (from phoenix + smartcoin). My initial impression is positive. However, I am hesitant because I had modified phoenix to record in a sql database every time a share was submitted.

So now I am thinking how I can do this with cgminer. Coding in C to connect to a database is over my head, so I am going with a simpler solution.

My first thought was to use the -T option and pipe it to python for processing. This seems like it would work great. However, I am greedy and would also like the curses interface. Do you think you can add an option to direct status updates ([2011-07-27 18:05:05 Accepted xxxxxx GPU 1 thread 1 pool 0) to another stderr? That way I could direct share submissions for sql processing, and still maintaining the stdout interface.

That is, unless you have a more elegant solution.

Excellent work so far.

Dan

It already works. Just pipe output from stderr and you get the curses interface _and_ the piped output.

This doesn't appear to be working for me. I am redirecting (2> file.txt) but nothing is getting passed to that file.

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Quote from: xcooling on July 27, 2011, 05:53:47 PM

for amd X6.. for X4 set -ftree-parallelize-loops=4

Code:

#//** AMD Family 10h, x86_64 (Phenom X6)
#//**-ffast-math : might cause issues
CFLAGS="-O3 -Wall -march=amdfam10 -msse4a -mtune=amdfam10 -mabm -combine -funroll-all-loops -ffast-math -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftree-parallelize-loops=6  -I/extras/AMDAPP/include" LDFLAGS="-L/extras/AMDAPP/lib/ -g" ./configure

http://developer.amd.com/assets/AMDGCCQuickRef.pdf

Interestingly enough, most of those options you had enabled were already enabled via the -O3 flag. You could leave out the -mtune and simply use -march=native to automatically utilize the best available setting for your processor. As a matter of fact, -ffast-math is already in use if I remember correctly. But would you do me a BIG favor? I was wondering if you could disassemble the cgminer-sha256_sse4_64.o file created and see if it is actually taking advantage of the enabled optimizations or if it's still only at the SSE2 level? You can simply use objconv with the -fyasm option (which oddly enough isn't YASM compatible) and it should tell you in the new asm file created. It hasn't been enabling SSE4 optimizations for me even with them enabled in the CFLAGS. I'm going to try including the x86intrin.h intrinsic into the c code to see if there's any change at all. Wish me luck!

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