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you should explain it a little more details
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Hi guys, I've created little PHP script that will walk through GPU / MEM freq. combinations and log
hashrate to text file.
It will use aticonfig for GPU/MEM freq. modification and cgminer's API to chech hash rate.

Usage
php ./findOptimalFreq.php gpu_id gpu_from gpu_to memory_from memory_to freq_increment delay_sec

GPU_ID - it's ID under which aticonfig sees the card  [ you can list cards with aticonfig --lsa ]
[ cgminer must see it under same number ]
gpu_from - testing freq. from [ example 900 ]
gpu_to - testing to
memory_from - testing memory from
memory_to - testing memory to
freq_increment - step size [ example 2 ]
delay_sec - delay between changing freq. and measuring hash rate [ 10-15 seems to be good ]

Output goes to ./testGPU'datetime'.txt

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save it as findOptimalFreq.php
------

#
# Sample Socket I/O to CGMiner API
#
function getsock($addr, $port)
{
 $socket = null;
 $socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
 if ($socket === false || $socket === null)
 {
   $error = socket_strerror(socket_last_error());
   $msg = "socket create(TCP) failed";
   echo "ERR: $msg '$error'\n";
   return null;
 }

 $res = socket_connect($socket, $addr, $port);
 if ($res === false)
 {
   $error = socket_strerror(socket_last_error());
   $msg = "socket connect($addr,$port) failed";
   echo "ERR: $msg '$error'\n";
   socket_close($socket);
   return null;
 }
 return $socket;
}
#
# Slow ...
function readsockline($socket)
{
 $line = '';
 while (true)
 {
   $byte = socket_read($socket, 1);
   if ($byte === false || $byte === '')
      break;
   if ($byte === "\0")
      break;
   $line .= $byte;
 }
 return $line;
}
#
function request($cmd)
{
 $socket = getsock('127.0.0.1', 4028);
 if ($socket != null)
 {
   socket_write($socket, $cmd, strlen($cmd));
   $line = readsockline($socket);
   socket_close($socket);

   if (strlen($line) == 0)
   {
      echo "WARN: '$cmd' returned nothing\n";
      return $line;
   }

   print "$cmd returned '$line'\n";

   if (substr($line,0,1) == '{')
      return json_decode($line, true);

   $data = array();

   $objs = explode('|', $line);
   foreach ($objs as $obj)
   {
      if (strlen($obj) > 0)
      {
         $items = explode(',', $obj);
         $item = $items[0];
         $id = explode('=', $items[0], 2);
         if (count($id) == 1 or !ctype_digit($id[1]))
            $name = $id[0];
         else
            $name = $id[0].$id[1];

         if (strlen($name) == 0)
            $name = 'null';

         if (isset($data[$name]))
         {
            $num = 1;
            while (isset($data[$name.$num]))
               $num++;
            $name .= $num;
         }

         $counter = 0;
         foreach ($items as $item)
         {
            $id = explode('=', $item, 2);
            if (count($id) == 2)
               $data[$name][$id[0]] = $id[1];
            else
               $data[$name][$counter] = $id[0];

            $counter++;
         }
      }
   }

   return $data;
 }

 return null;
}
#

if (isset($argv) and count($argv) > 1)
{
// $r = request($argv[1]);
$gpu_id = $argv[1];
$engine_from = $argv[2];
$engine_to = $argv[3];
$memory_from = $argv[4];
$memory_to = $argv[5];
$increment = $argv[6];
$delay_sec = $argv[7];

}
else
{
// $r = request('summary');
#
//echo print_r($r, true)."\n";
echo "Usage: php ./findOptimalFreq.php gpu_id gpu_from gpu_to memory_from memory_to freq_increment delay_sec\n";
return 0;
}

#
$myFile = "./testGPU".date("Y-m-d H:i:s").".txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w');
$output = "";
for ($engine = $engine_from ; $engine <= $engine_to ; $engine += $increment )
{
for ( $memory = $memory_from ; $memory <= $memory_to ; $memory += $increment )
{
  echo "ENGINE: $engine , MEMORY: $memory\n";
  $output =  "$engine,$memory,";

  system("aticonfig --adapter=$gpu_id --od-setclocks=$engine,$memory");
  sleep($delay_sec);

   $r = request("{\"command\":\"gpu\",\"parameter\":\"$gpu_id\"}");
   echo $r['GPU'][0]['MHS 5s'];
   $output .= $r['GPU'][0]['MHS 5s'];
   $output .= "\n";
   fwrite($fh, $output);
}

}
fclose($fh);

?>
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