python OpenCL bitcoin miner - page 22.

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Quote from: Grinder on March 16, 2011, 05:15:58 PM

Quote from: fatcom4 on March 16, 2011, 05:00:32 PM

You mean there's a Shortcut tab on the right click menu and in the Shortcut tab there's a line called Target? Because when I right clicked, the only thing involving shortcuts was Create Shortcut.

- Right click on the new desktop icon and click properties

Or perhaps you haven't made the shortcut yet? Hold the right button down on the .exe and drag it to your desktop, select create shortcut when you let go.

Oh dang, hold the right button. K thanks, I'll try that. Okay I did that, and now what should I put in the Target part?

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Quote from: fatcom4 on March 16, 2011, 05:00:32 PM

You mean there's a Shortcut tab on the right click menu and in the Shortcut tab there's a line called Target? Because when I right clicked, the only thing involving shortcuts was Create Shortcut.

- Right click on the new desktop icon and click properties

Or perhaps you haven't made the shortcut yet? Hold the right button down on the .exe and drag it to your desktop, select create shortcut when you let go.

fatcom4

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Quote from: urizane on March 16, 2011, 04:51:20 PM

Seeing as somebody just did this a moment ago (oddly enough)...
They posted the output from 'poclbm --help' here.

Right click your new shortcut and add it to the line labeled Target in the Shortcut tab.

You mean there's a Shortcut tab on the right click menu and in the Shortcut tab there's a line called Target? Because when I right clicked, the only thing involving shortcuts was Create Shortcut. Sorry if this is frustrating, I'm only 10 so I don't know a lot on this.

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Seeing as somebody just did this a moment ago (oddly enough)...
They posted the output from 'poclbm --help' here.

Right click your new shortcut and add it to the line labeled Target in the Shortcut tab.

fatcom4

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Quote from: Grinder on March 16, 2011, 07:18:27 AM

- Add the parameters you need to the exe file

Uh, what parameters are those?

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Quote from: OVerLoRDI on March 16, 2011, 01:44:20 PM

Has anyone found a fix for the full CPU usage of poclbm with sdk 2.3 and 6xxx cards?

Note: you HAVE to use sdk 2.3 with the 6xxx cards.

check this.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ati-catalyst-driver-114-app-sdk-24-beta-4493

Before, i got 20% usage, now zero, but others differ.
It may work for u. 11.4 & 2.4 BETA

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Has anyone found a fix for the full CPU usage of poclbm with sdk 2.3 and 6xxx cards?

Note: you HAVE to use sdk 2.3 with the 6xxx cards.

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- Open the C:\bitcoin\poclbm_py2exe_20110222 directory in explorer
- Create a short cut to poclbm.exe on your desktop by right clicking on it and dragging it
- Right click on the new desktop icon and click properties
- Add the parameters you need to the exe file
- Save.

I think this method is much easier. The GUI version makes it even easier, though.

fatcom4

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Ummm, now I'm on step 5 of this, and I made the notepad file with the .bat extension in the C:\bitcoin\poclbm_py2exe_20110222 file and saved it with the stuff it told me to put in it. However, when I did the next part, double clicking it, which should show my hash rate, it just made a command prompt window pop up for about half a second and then close. I was supposed to save this in C:\bitcoin\poclbm_py2exe_20110222, right?

fatcom4

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K thanks! I just downloaded 7zip(this comp didn't have it before), so I'll try using it.

urizane

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It's a 7zip file. Open it with any good archiver like 7zip/WinRAR/etc....

fatcom4

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When I download it on Windows 7 it says "What should Firefox do with this file?" then you can tick a "Open with" box that has a "Browse..." button after it, or a "Save File" box. I tried both but I didn't know what program to open it with. Also, I followed the first three steps of these instructions. Only the first three because the rest was for after downloading the miner.

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win 7 64 with 2 6970's and I'm getting 50% usage. 25% for each gpu instance. Was on 2.3 11.2 and was having this prob. Now on 11.4 and 2.4 and still having the same usage prob. Doesn't fix anything.

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Eadem mutata resurgo

What's the new message all about ...

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DarkMatter

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Stop trying to steal my account, thanks.

Quote from: qed on March 14, 2011, 08:48:17 AM

Quote from: Grinder on March 14, 2011, 07:01:17 AM

Quote from: qed on March 14, 2011, 06:19:46 AM

It half the cpu time, as well as Watt and cpu usage %.

No, it just looks that way because Windows will say that 100% of one core on a dual core CPU is 25% instead of 50%. You still only have two cores, and a single process will 100% of it even if you enable HT. Enabling HT will not give you twice as many cores or twice as high performance. If two process use the same core with HT, it will only be a few percent more efficient than using a single core at best. Setting affinity is much better.

Too bad my Watt meter do not agree with you.

It's not that hard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

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Windows has probably put two process on the same core, then.

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Quote from: Grinder on March 14, 2011, 07:01:17 AM

Quote from: qed on March 14, 2011, 06:19:46 AM

It half the cpu time, as well as Watt and cpu usage %.

No, it just looks that way because Windows will say that 100% of one core on a dual core CPU is 25% instead of 50%. You still only have two cores, and a single process will 100% of it even if you enable HT. Enabling HT will not give you twice as many cores or twice as high performance. If two process use the same core with HT, it will only be a few percent more efficient than using a single core at best. Setting affinity is much better.

Too bad my Watt meter do not agree with you.

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Quote from: qed on March 14, 2011, 06:19:46 AM

It half the cpu time, as well as Watt and cpu usage %.

No, it just looks that way because Windows will say that 100% of one core on a dual core CPU is 25% instead of 50%. You still only have two cores, and a single process will 100% of it even if you enable HT. Enabling HT will not give you twice as many cores or twice as high performance. If two process use the same core with HT, it will only be a few percent more efficient than using a single core at best. Setting affinity is much better.

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Quote from: DarkMatter on March 14, 2011, 05:20:28 AM

Quote from: qed on March 14, 2011, 01:20:36 AM

Quote from: snedie on March 13, 2011, 05:47:05 PM

poclbm: each miner appears to use exactly 25% of your CPU. Open task manager and start/stop a miner.

Each miner is using 1/N_Core of your CPU, where n_Core is the number of Cores detected by windows. If you have HyperThreading, enable it to half the CPU usage.

This won't half the cpu usage, just apparently.

It half the cpu time, as well as Watt and cpu usage %. Another "solution" is to stack all the process in 1 core, changing the Cpu Affinity under the system monitor (CTRL+ALT+CANC).

DarkMatter

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Stop trying to steal my account, thanks.

Quote from: qed on March 14, 2011, 01:20:36 AM

Quote from: snedie on March 13, 2011, 05:47:05 PM

poclbm: each miner appears to use exactly 25% of your CPU. Open task manager and start/stop a miner.

Each miner is using 1/N_Core of your CPU, where n_Core is the number of Cores detected by windows. If you have HyperThreading, enable it to half the CPU usage.

This won't half the cpu usage, just apparently.

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