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@@ -280,6 +280,18 @@ dedicated to this program,
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http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=28402.0
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The output line shows the following:
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+(5s):1713.6 (avg):1707.8 Mh/s | Q:301 A:729 R:8 HW:0 E:242% U:22.53/m
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+
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+Each column is as folloss:
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+A 5 second exponentially decaying average hash rate
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+An all time average hash rate
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+The number of requested (Queued) work items from the pools
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+The number of Accepted shares
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+The number of Rejected shares
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+The number of HardWare erorrs
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+The Efficiency defined as number of shares returned / work item
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+The Utility defines as the number of shares / minute
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GPU 1: 73.5C 2551RPM | 427.3/443.0Mh/s | A:8 R:0 HW:0 U:4.39/m
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Each column is as follows:
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@@ -644,7 +656,11 @@ and you will find you may need to overclock your GPU less aggressively. The
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software cannot be responsible and make your GPU hang directly. If you simply
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cannot get it to ever stop hanging, try decreasing the intensity, and if even
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that fails, try changing to the poclbm kernel with -k poclbm, though you will
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-sacrifice performance.
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+sacrifice performance. cgminer is designed to try and safely restart GPUs as
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+much as possible, but NOT if that restart might actually crash the rest of the
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+GPUs mining, or even the machine. It tries to restart them with a separate
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+thread and if that separate thread dies, it gives up trying to restart any more
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+GPUs.
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Q: Work keeps going to my backup pool even though my primary pool hasn't
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failed?
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@@ -678,10 +694,19 @@ any further.
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Q: Can you change the autofan/autogpu to change speeds in a different manner?
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A: The defaults are sane and safe. I'm not interested in changing them
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-further.
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+further. The starting fan speed is set to 85% in auto-fan mode as a safety
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+precaution, but if a specific fan speed has been set, it will use that first
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+before adjusting automatically.
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+Q: Why is my efficiency above/below 100%?
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+A: Efficiency simply means how many shares you return for the amount of work
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+you request. It does not correlate with efficient use of your hardware, and is
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+a measure of a combination of hardware speed, block luck, pool design and other
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+factors.
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Q: GUI version?
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-A: No.
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+A: No. The RPC interface makes it possible for someone else to write one
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+though.
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Con Kolivas