Cgminer Hardware Performance

Np ;-)

 

A mind-blowing new unit called Gigahashz! Per nothing.

 

Sorry to ask again but can somebody please tell me what's the CPU utilization/% usage of cgminer.exe while mining on Windows?

On my FX 8350 and Windows 10 x64 Pro, cgminer.exe uses 28% of the CPU while mining on testnet. Is this normal?

While just benchmarking it was only using 15% of the CPU.

Latest v0.0.3 cgminer for Decred - VGA R9 380.

 

I'm surprised it's not higher.

 

So 28% of all CPU 8 cores isn't high? I am mining using the GPU.

So I guess if I only had a dual core CPU the PC would be unusable for anything more than mining?

 

that wouldn't be a problem with ccminer but alas we don't have one

 

Yeah but ccminer is for NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs would stay with cgminer anyway I think.

 

yup it is so.

 

Ah, of all 8. But yeah, it's similar on my FX-8370 using the official Decred cgminer fork.

 

do I need a new cgminer specific build for decred mainnet or will I be able to mine using the cgminer that worked with testnet?

 

In Windows with an R9 380 I have the same issue. But auto for fan speed works fine for me, only change I make is intensity with no problem. A fixed number for gpu fan causes BSOD after quiting. Seems like the only workaround is to change back to auto before quitting or restarting cgminer.

 

I don't know if there is going to be an update https://github.com/decred/cgminer/releases/ after mainnet launch but you will be able to mine with the same cgminer. But of course you'll have to get a mainnet address from wallet first and run dcrd for mainnet with miningaddr=the new decred address.

 

OK good to now. FX-8350 and FX-8370 are almost identical.

 

I've had no luck getting OpenCL work on my 4870 in Linux. Are you on Windows?

 

win7!

 

I think I'm mining mainnet right now, what is the block count? I can't verify whether i am actually mining on mainnet

 

anyone hitting 90 degrees on their gpus?

 

no I'm at 66

 

Block height about 23 right now.

 

Hey I am getting found share for pool 0! message but no accept or reject message after it! Have I done anything wrong?