From 0f6cf16f37d3e5904d3017ac47807ba339032057 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Con Kolivas Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:33:53 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Update news. --- NEWS | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e86389ef..eaf283c9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,33 @@ +Version 1.5.0 - July 26, 2011 + +- Increase efficiency of slow mining threads such as CPU miners dramatically. Do +this by detecting which threads cannot complete searching a work item within the +scantime and then divide up a work item into multiple smaller work items. +Detect the age of the work items and if they've been cloned before to prevent +doing the same work over. If the work is too old to be divided, then see if it +can be time rolled and do that to generate work. This dramatically decreases the +number of queued work items from a pool leading to higher overall efficiency +(but the same hashrate and share submission rate). +- Don't request work too early for CPUs as CPUs will scan for the full +opt_scantime anyway. +- Simplify gpu management enable/disable/restart code. +- Implement much more accurate rolling statistics per thread and per gpu and +improve accuracy of rolling displayed values. +- Make the rolling log-second average more accurate. +- Add a menu to manage GPUs on the fly allowing you to enable/disable GPUs or +try restarting them. +- Keep track of which GPUs are alive versus enabled. +- Start threads for devices that are even disabled, but don't allow them to +start working. +- The last pool is when we are low in total_pools, not active_pools. +- Make the thread restart do a pthread_join after disabling the device, only +re-enabling it if we succeed in restarting the thread. Do this from a separate +thread so as to not block any other code.This will allow cgminer to continue +even if one GPU hangs. +- Try to do every curses manipulation under the curses lock. +- Only use the sockoptfunction if the version of curl is recent enough. + + Version 1.4.1 - July 24, 2011 - Do away with GET for dealing with longpoll forever. POST is the one that works