Problem Feathercoin QT and Solomining
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Hello,
I am mining with CG Miner my feathercoin QT is up to date and has the following feathercoin.conf:
server=1
rpcuser=Username
rpcpassword=Password
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=9337
daemon=1
server=1
gen=0in
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\feathercoin.After statrting Feathercoin QT I run CG Miner like that:
cgminer --scrypt --shaders 1408,1536 --intensity 12,17 --auto-gpu -o 127.0.0.1:9337 -u Username -p PasswordCG Miner starts and receives information from the network (e.g. Network diff sett to…, New Block detected…)
Problem:
In the Feathercoin QT GUI Mininig icon in the bottom right corner says [b]“Not Mining any Feathercoins”[/b]
According to program code it could say:
[i]void BitcoinGUI::setMining(bool mining, int hashrate)
{
if (mining)
{
labelMiningIcon->setPixmap(QIcon(“:/icons/mining_active”).pixmap(STATUSBAR_ICONSIZE,STATUSBAR_ICONSIZE));
labelMiningIcon->setToolTip(tr(“[b]Mining Feathercoins at %1 hashes per second[/b]”).arg(hashrate));
}
else
{
labelMiningIcon->setPixmap(QIcon(“:/icons/mining_inactive”).pixmap(STATUSBAR_ICONSIZE,STATUSBAR_ICONSIZE));
labelMiningIcon->setToolTip(tr(“Not mining Feathercoins”));
}
}[/i]Can anyone tell me if I am actually solo mining and if it is this normal like this?
Thanks
Kingralph -
Hi kingralph,
Welcome to Feathercoin. This is the introduction section of the forum. In order to get response to your support question you should post in mining. If there is a problem with the wallet you post in support.
Feathercoin is a community project. There is a lot of information available to answer most questions, particularly with mining, each set up is different and the miner needs to learn to solve a lot of their own problems.
You may wish to check out the site rules, to help us make the site clearer and more useful.
Because the difficulty is too high to make CPU mining economical for Bitcoin, Feathercoin or Litecoin, the fact that external CPU mining solutions were superior (eg. CPUminer) plus mining in a wallet was confusing to normal users and additional code nobody wanted to support.
CPU mining has been removed from the wallet software in the current beta release - Feathercoin 0.8.5-Beta.
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So it’s just a relict from old versions with mining option…
Thank you for your help! -
hi, i setup solo mining for feathercoin too and been running it for few days. Anyway, the screen keep showing “New block detected on network” and “Network diff set to …”.
was wondering whether i setup it correctly and do it actually mining?
below is my screenshot:
[img]http://www.ideals-net.com/download/Untitled-1.jpg[/img]can anyone pls advise?
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At least the ‘new block’ message seems to be correct, as about every 2.5 minutes a new block is generated in the network.
BUT!!!
At the end of the last line of your header it says: ‘A:0 R:0 HW 2994’
This means you have 100% hw errors and calculate no hash at all!
It look to me as you have set your config too aggressive.
I’suggest to start with Intensity something like 10 or 12 and no other parameter supplied to cgminer, except the login info.
If you see the accept rate increasing (A:xxx in the display) and no Hw errors, things are ok, and you can start to tune for higher hashrates
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omg!! really?!
lucky i post up there to seek advise else will be waste the electricity for nothing.
if everything work fine, the HW should show 0?
i hv set the intensity to 13 and so far the HW showing 0 but it only running average of 300kh/s on my Asus HD7950 DC2T. it not fully utilise my graphic card.
i hv a pentium dual core and 4gb DDR2 RAM setup for this rig. is it because of my processor and RAM too low to fully utilise my graphic car?
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HW = 0 is, what is expected for a well running rigg.
Does the Accepted count increase?
If yes, you have a stable basis and can start tuning, so you get better hash rates.
I suggest, that you follow this:
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/blob/bfgminer/README.scryptstep by step. It explains very well what the differnt parameter mean and what’s worth to modify.
Don’t worry, that it is from bfgminer, as the parameter identical to the cgminer settings.
What I suggest to get a first improvement of yout hash rates is:
- At current intensity set your GPU clock to 50% of Memory clock
The hashrate may decrease, but that’s ok for the moment - Increase the GPU clock at 5 Mhz steps and measure the hashrate for at least 2 minutes
The hashrate probalby will increase a bit - Continue 2) until the hashrate starts decreasing again
- Decrease the GPU clock in steps of 1 Mhz until you find the best hashrate.
Always measure for at least 2 minutes - Increase Intensity until
a) HW errors show up or
b) card starts to overheat /Fans running at full speed - Decide what intensity to use in order to keep your card alive for a longer time.
This means you decide what risk you want to take here.
For further fine tuning see the link I mentioned above
- At current intensity set your GPU clock to 50% of Memory clock
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Thanks Wellenreiter for your guidance.
I found the best cgminer version for my Asus HD7950DU2T, it has to use cgminer 3.3.1 to optimize the card and it running at average of 558kh/s with 65C. i have a big fan blowing my rig.
Below are my cgminer 3.3.1 cgminer.conf settings:
[quote]“intensity” : “18”,
“vectors” : “1”,
“worksize” : “256”,
“lookup-gap” : “2”,
“thread-concurrency” : “22400”,
“shaders” : “1792”,“gpu-engine” : “1000”,
“gpu-fan” : “40-70”,
“gpu-memclock” : “1500”,
“gpu-powertune” : “15”,
“gpu-vddc” : “1.100”,
“temp-cutoff” : “80”,
“temp-overheat” : “85”,
“temp-target” : “80”,“api-port” : “4028”,
“expiry” : “120”,
“failover-only” : true,
“gpu-threads” : “1”,“log” : “5”,
“queue” : “1”,
“scan-time” : “60”,
“temp-hysteresis” : “3”,“scrypt” : true,
“kernel” : “scrypt”,
“kernel-path” : “/usr/local/bin”[/quote]after i have make the changes and using the correct cgminer version, i hit a block last night and it pending 77 confirmations before i can get my 200FTC. I’m so lucky!!!
will continue to explore the settings guidance given by bro Wellenreiter to fully optimize my card.
Thanks again for help!!
