OpenCL GPU miner
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# cgminer
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**WARNING**: this experimental version of cgminer is only meant to
support Scrypt. It will be renamed appropriately to reflect the fact if
ever ready for general use.
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## Introduction
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This is a multi-threaded multi-pool GPU miner with ATI GPU monitoring,
(over)clocking and fanspeed support for scrypt-based coins. It is based on
cgminer by Con Kolivas (ckolivas), which is in turn based on cpuminer by
Jeff Garzik (jgarzik).
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GIT TREE: https://github.com/veox/cgminer
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License: GPLv3. See `COPYING` for details.
See also `API-README`, `GPU-README` and `SCRYPT-README` for more
information on each.
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## Building
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### Dependencies
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Mandatory:
curl dev library http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
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(libcurl4-openssl-dev)
pkg-config http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config
libtool hhttp://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/
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AMD APP SDK http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK
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Optional:
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curses dev library
(libncurses5-dev or libpdcurses on WIN32 for text user interface)
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AMD ADL SDK http://developer.amd.com/sdks/ADLSDK
(Required for ATI GPU monitoring & clocking)
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If building from git:
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autoconf
automake
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CGMiner specific configuration options:
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--disable-adl Override detection and disable building with adl
--without-curses Compile support for curses TUI (default enabled)
### *nix build instructions
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# Optionally place the contents of ADL_SDK_4.0.zip in cgminer/ADL_SDK.
autoreconf -i
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CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure <options>
Systemwide installation is optional. You may run cgminer from the build
directory directly, or `make install` if you wish to install
cgminer to a system location or location you specified with `--prefix`.
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### Windows build instructions
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See `windows-build.txt` (might be outdated).
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## Basic Usage
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**WARNING**: documentation below this point has not been updated since the
fork.
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After saving configuration from the menu, you do not need to give cgminer
any arguments and it will load your configuration.
Any configuration file may also contain a single
"include" : "filename"
to recursively include another configuration file.
Writing the configuration will save all settings from all files in the
output.
Single pool:
cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password
Multiple pools:
cgminer -o http://pool1:port -u pool1username -p pool1password -o http://pool2:port -u pool2usernmae -p pool2password
Single pool with a standard http proxy, regular desktop:
cgminer -o "http:proxy:port|http://pool:port" -u username -p password
Single pool with a socks5 proxy, regular desktop:
cgminer -o "socks5:proxy:port|http://pool:port" -u username -p password
Single pool with stratum protocol support:
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://pool:port -u username -p password
The list of proxy types are:
http: standard http 1.1 proxy
http0: http 1.0 proxy
socks4: socks4 proxy
socks5: socks5 proxy
socks4a: socks4a proxy
socks5h: socks5 proxy using a hostname
If you compile cgminer with a version of CURL before 7.19.4 then some of
the above will not be available. All are available since CURL version
7.19.4.
If you specify the --socks-proxy option to cgminer, it will only be
applied to all pools that don't specify their own proxy setting like
above.
For more advanced usage , run `cgminer --help`.
See GPU-README for more information regarding GPU mining and
SCRYPT-README for more information regarding litecoin mining.
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## Runtime usage
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The following options are available while running with a single keypress:
[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
P gives you:
Current pool management strategy: Failover
[F]ailover only disabled
[A]dd pool [R]emove pool [D]isable pool [E]nable pool
[C]hange management strategy [S]witch pool [I]nformation
S gives you:
[Q]ueue: 1
[S]cantime: 60
[E]xpiry: 120
[W]rite config file
[C]gminer restart
D gives you:
[N]ormal [C]lear [S]ilent mode (disable all output)
[D]ebug:off
[P]er-device:off
[Q]uiet:off
[V]erbose:off
[R]PC debug:off
[W]orkTime details:off
co[M]pact: off
[L]og interval:5
Q quits the application.
G gives you something like:
GPU 0: [124.2 / 191.3 Mh/s] [A:77 R:33 HW:0 U:1.73/m WU 1.73/m]
Temp: 67.0 C
Fan Speed: 35% (2500 RPM)
Engine Clock: 960 MHz
Memory Clock: 480 Mhz
Vddc: 1.200 V
Activity: 93%
Powertune: 0%
Last initialised: [2011-09-06 12:03:56]
Thread 0: 62.4 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
Thread 1: 60.2 Mh/s Enabled ALIVE
[E]nable [D]isable [R]estart GPU [C]hange settings
Or press any other key to continue
The running log shows output like this:
[2012-10-12 18:02:20] Accepted f0c05469 Diff 1/1 GPU 0 pool 1
[2012-10-12 18:02:22] Accepted 218ac982 Diff 7/1 GPU 1 pool 1
[2012-10-12 18:02:23] Accepted d8300795 Diff 1/1 GPU 3 pool 1
[2012-10-12 18:02:24] Accepted 122c1ff1 Diff 14/1 GPU 1 pool 1
The 8 byte hex value are the 2nd 8 bytes of the share being submitted to the
pool. The 2 diff values are the actual difficulty target that share reached
followed by the difficulty target the pool is currently asking for.
The output line shows the following:
(5s):1713.6 (avg):1707.8 Mh/s | A:729 R:8 HW:0 WU:22.53/m
Each column is as follows:
5s: A 5 second exponentially decaying average hash rate
avg: An all time average hash rate
A: The total difficulty of Accepted shares
R: The total difficulty of Rejected shares
HW: The number of HardWare errors
WU: The Work Utility defined as the number of diff1 shares work / minute
(accepted or rejected).
GPU 1: 73.5C 2551RPM | 427.3/443.0Mh/s | A:8 R:0 HW:0 WU:4.39/m
Each column is as follows:
Temperature (if supported)
Fanspeed (if supported)
A 5 second exponentially decaying average hash rate
An all time average hash rate
The total difficulty of accepted shares
The total difficulty of rejected shares
The number of hardware erorrs
The work utility defined as the number of diff1 shares work / minute
The cgminer status line shows:
ST: 1 SS: 0 NB: 1 LW: 8 GF: 1 RF: 1
ST is STaged work items (ready to use).
SS is Stale Shares discarded (detected and not submitted so don't count as rejects)
NB is New Blocks detected on the network
LW is Locally generated Work items
GF is Getwork Fail Occasions (server slow to provide work)
RF is Remote Fail occasions (server slow to accept work)
The block display shows:
Block: 0074c5e482e34a506d2a051a... Started: [17:17:22] Best share: 2.71K
This shows a short stretch of the current block, when the new block started,
and the all time best difficulty share you've found since starting cgminer
this time.
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## Multipool
### Failover strategies
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A number of different strategies for dealing with multipool setups are
available. Each has their advantages and disadvantages so multiple strategies
are available by user choice, as per the following list:
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#### Failover
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The default strategy is failover. This means that if you input a number of
pools, it will try to use them as a priority list, moving away from the 1st
to the 2nd, 2nd to 3rd and so on. If any of the earlier pools recover, it will
move back to the higher priority ones.
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#### Round robin
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This strategy only moves from one pool to the next when the current one falls
idle and makes no attempt to move otherwise.
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#### Rotate
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This strategy moves at user-defined intervals from one active pool to the next,
skipping pools that are idle.
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#### Load balance
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This strategy sends work to all the pools on a quota basis. By default, all
pools are allocated equal quotas unless specified with --quota. This
apportioning of work is based on work handed out, not shares returned so is
independent of difficulty targets or rejected shares. While a pool is disabled
or dead, its quota is dropped until it is re-enabled. Quotas are forward
looking, so if the quota is changed on the fly, it only affects future work.
If all pools are set to zero quota or all pools with quota are dead, it will
fall back to a failover mode. See quota below for more information.
The failover-only flag has special meaning in combination with load-balance
mode and it will distribute quota back to priority pool 0 from any pools that
are unable to provide work for any reason so as to maintain quota ratios
between the rest of the pools.
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#### Balance
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This strategy monitors the amount of difficulty 1 shares solved for each pool
and uses it to try to end up doing the same amount of work for all pools.
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### Quotas
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The load-balance multipool strategy works off a quota based scheduler. The
quotas handed out by default are equal, but the user is allowed to specify any
arbitrary ratio of quotas. For example, if all the quota values add up to 100,
each quota value will be a percentage, but if 2 pools are specified and pool0
is given a quota of 1 and pool1 is given a quota of 9, pool0 will get 10% of
the work and pool1 will get 90%. Quotas can be changed on the fly by the API,
and do not act retrospectively. Setting a quota to zero will effectively
disable that pool unless all other pools are disabled or dead. In that
scenario, load-balance falls back to regular failover priority-based strategy.
While a pool is dead, it loses its quota and no attempt is made to catch up
when it comes back to life.
To specify quotas on the command line, pools should be specified with a
semicolon separated --quota(or -U) entry instead of --url. Pools specified with
--url are given a nominal quota value of 1 and entries can be mixed.
For example:
--url poola:porta -u usernamea -p passa --quota "2;poolb:portb" -u usernameb -p passb
Will give poola 1/3 of the work and poolb 2/3 of the work.
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Writing configuration files with quotas is likewise supported. To use
the above quotas in a configuration file they would be specified thus:
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"pools" : [
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{
"url" : "poola:porta",
"user" : "usernamea",
"pass" : "passa"
},
{
"quota" : "2;poolb:portb",
"user" : "usernameb",
"pass" : "passb"
}
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]
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## Logging
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cgminer will log to stderr if it detects stderr is being redirected to a
file. To enable logging simply append `2>logfile.txt` to your command line
and `logfile.txt` will contain the logged output at the log level you
specify (normal, verbose, debug etc.)
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There is also the -m option on Linux which will spawn a command of your choice
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and pipe the output directly to that command.
The WorkTime details 'debug' option adds details on the end of each line
displayed for Accepted or Rejected work done. An example would be:
<-00000059.ed4834a3 M:X D:1.0 G:17:02:38:0.405 C:1.855 (2.995) W:3.440 (0.000) S:0.461 R:17:02:47
The first 2 hex codes are the previous block hash, the rest are reported in
seconds unless stated otherwise:
The previous hash is followed by the getwork mode used M:X where X is one of
P:Pool, T:Test Pool, L:LP or B:Benchmark,
then D:d.ddd is the difficulty required to get a share from the work,
then G:hh:mm:ss:n.nnn, which is when the getwork or LP was sent to the pool and
the n.nnn is how long it took to reply,
followed by 'O' on it's own if it is an original getwork, or 'C:n.nnn' if it was
a clone with n.nnn stating how long after the work was recieved that it was cloned,
(m.mmm) is how long from when the original work was received until work started,
W:n.nnn is how long the work took to process until it was ready to submit,
(m.mmm) is how long from ready to submit to actually doing the submit, this is
usually 0.000 unless there was a problem with submitting the work,
S:n.nnn is how long it took to submit the completed work and await the reply,
R:hh:mm:ss is the actual time the work submit reply was received
If you start cgminer with the --sharelog option, you can get detailed
information for each share found. The argument to the option may be "-" for
standard output (not advisable with the ncurses UI), any valid positive number
for that file descriptor, or a filename.
To log share data to a file named "share.log", you can use either:
./cgminer --sharelog 50 -o xxx -u yyy -p zzz 50>share.log
./cgminer --sharelog share.log -o xxx -u yyy -p zzz
For every share found, data will be logged in a CSV (Comma Separated Value)
format:
timestamp,disposition,target,pool,dev,thr,sharehash,sharedata
For example (this is wrapped, but it's all on one line for real):
1335313090,reject,
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff00000000,
http://localhost:8337,GPU0,0,
6f983c918f3299b58febf95ec4d0c7094ed634bc13754553ec34fc3800000000,
00000001a0980aff4ce4a96d53f4b89a2d5f0e765c978640fe24372a000001c5
000000004a4366808f81d44f26df3d69d7dc4b3473385930462d9ab707b50498
f681634a4f1f63d01a0cd43fb338000000000080000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000080020000
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## RPC API
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See `API-README`.