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    • ketetefid
      ketetefid Regular Member last edited by

      Hello,

      I came to upload the howto and saw that one of the staff has kindly provided the nvidia-smi outputs. Anyway, as I already promised, I am going to upload the howto now.

      Table of Contents

      1. Prerequisites

      2. GPU mining

      2.1. Using an AMD card

      2.2. Using an NVIDIA card

      2.3. Installing necessary tools for compiling the miner

      2.4. Compiling the latest Neo-gpuminer from source

      2.5. Compiling and building a Feathercoin wallet

      2.6. Using Neo-gpuminer

      2.7. Tuning Neo-gpuminer

      2.7.1. Parameters related to GPU health

      2.7.2. Parameters related to performance

      2.7.3. A complete, concrete Neo-gpuminer example

      2.8. sgminer: an alternative mining program for AMD systems

      3. CPU mining

      3.1. Installing required packages to build cpuminer-neoscrypt

      3.2. Compiling and installing the latest cpuminer-neoscrypt

      3.3. Using cpuminer-neoscrypt

      4. Monitoring

      5. Task management

      I should mention that two subjects are outstanding. The first is providing information for Fedora, Opensuse and Arch (information is already provided for Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo). Since I myself test the commands, I am going to install the OS-es in virtualbox and update the howto for them as well. The second is updating the main script for Nvidia users. I would definitely do this as well and because of this I asked for nvidia-smi output. However, it seems that the information I was interested in is not shown in the default output and one should specify “nvidia-smi -d UTILIZATION” to get the GPU utilization. Anyway, I sincerely thank Wellenreiter for taking the time to provide the information. I would be grateful if he or anybody else gives me the output of the new command since the howto script is based on the utilization of the GPU. The script is not complicated at all and according to the GPU usage it determines whether the program should start or not.

      Please read the howto and give me your opinion about it. It might be a good idea to start a new thread where newbies can comment on it whenever they cannot understand a part.

      And do not worry; because I will definitely update the howto.

      The Libreoffice word file:

      https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2InGNl3AdHFZDYyNjRLQkhOWGs/view?usp=sharing

      The pdf:

      https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2InGNl3AdHFYmdkczhhbnB3Mzg/view?usp=sharing

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      • Wellenreiter
        Wellenreiter Moderators last edited by

        Regarding the wallets, there are pre-compiled wallets for a number of linux distribution available ind .rpm or .deb format, which can be installed using the corresponding packet managers so there is no need to compile the wallet.

        http://software.opensuse.org/package/feathercoin

        as the packages are not tested by Suse, they are under ‘unstable packages’

        The ones with the correct version numbers are created by me, the ones with a 10 digit number are nightly shots.

        the smi output will follow soon

        Feathercoin development donation address: 6p8u3wtct7uxRGmvWr2xvPxqRzbpbcd82A
        Openpgp key: 0x385C34E77F0D74D7 (at keyserver.ubuntu.com)/fingerprint: C7B4 E9EA 17E1 3D12 07AB 1FDB 385C 34E7 7F0D 74D7

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        • Wellenreiter
          Wellenreiter Moderators last edited by

          The output seems to be useless :(

          cgminer not running:

           
          nvidia-smi -d UTILIZATION -q
          
          ==============NVSMI LOG==============
          
          Timestamp : Thu Dec 4 10:25:38 2014
          Driver Version : 340.24
          
          Attached GPUs : 1
          GPU 0000:01:00.0
          Utilization
          Gpu : N/A
          Memory : N/A
          Encoder : N/A
          Decoder : N/A
          GPU Utilization Samples
          Duration : N/A
          Number of Samples : N/A
          Max : N/A
          Min : N/A
          Avg : N/A
          Memory Utilization Samples
          Duration : N/A
          Number of Samples : N/A
          Max : N/A
          Min : N/A
          Avg : N/A
          ENC Utilization Samples
          Duration : N/A
          Number of Samples : N/A
          Max : N/A
          Min : N/A
          Avg : N/A
          DEC Utilization Samples
          Duration : N/A
          Number of Samples : N/A
          Max : N/A
          Min : N/A
          Avg : N/A
          

          Feathercoin development donation address: 6p8u3wtct7uxRGmvWr2xvPxqRzbpbcd82A
          Openpgp key: 0x385C34E77F0D74D7 (at keyserver.ubuntu.com)/fingerprint: C7B4 E9EA 17E1 3D12 07AB 1FDB 385C 34E7 7F0D 74D7

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          • ketetefid
            ketetefid Regular Member last edited by

            Thank you very much for your information on the availability of the pre-compiled wallets. I will change the corresponding part and will point to the website.

            About nvidia-smi, it is strange. nvidia-smi is supposed to show the correct info as even shown here:

            https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Method_2_-_nvidia-smi

            Thank you again.

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            • Wellenreiter
              Wellenreiter Moderators last edited by

              moved the technical discussion around Nvidia cards to a new thread:

              https://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?/topic/8166-reading-gpu-data/

              Feathercoin development donation address: 6p8u3wtct7uxRGmvWr2xvPxqRzbpbcd82A
              Openpgp key: 0x385C34E77F0D74D7 (at keyserver.ubuntu.com)/fingerprint: C7B4 E9EA 17E1 3D12 07AB 1FDB 385C 34E7 7F0D 74D7

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              • M
                mirrax last edited by

                Hello,

                I came to upload the howto and saw that one of the staff has kindly provided the nvidia-smi outputs. Anyway, as I already promised, I am going to upload the howto now.

                Table of Contents

                1. Prerequisites

                2. GPU mining

                2.1. Using an AMD card

                2.2. Using an NVIDIA card

                2.3. Installing necessary tools for compiling the miner

                2.4. Compiling the latest Neo-gpuminer from source

                2.5. Compiling and building a Feathercoin wallet

                2.6. Using Neo-gpuminer

                2.7. Tuning Neo-gpuminer

                2.7.1. Parameters related to GPU health

                2.7.2. Parameters related to performance

                2.7.3. A complete, concrete Neo-gpuminer example

                2.8. sgminer: an alternative mining program for AMD systems

                3. CPU mining

                3.1. Installing required packages to build cpuminer-neoscrypt

                3.2. Compiling and installing the latest cpuminer-neoscrypt

                3.3. Using cpuminer-neoscrypt

                4. Monitoring

                5. Task management

                I should mention that two subjects are outstanding. The first is providing information for Fedora, Opensuse and Arch (information is already provided for Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo). Since I myself test the commands, I am going to install the OS-es in virtualbox and update the howto for them as well. The second is updating the main script for Nvidia users. I would definitely do this as well and because of this I asked for nvidia-smi output. However, it seems that the information I was interested in is not shown in the default output and one should specify “nvidia-smi -d UTILIZATION” to get the GPU utilization. Anyway, I sincerely thank Wellenreiter for taking the time to provide the information. I would be grateful if he or anybody else gives me the output of the new command since the howto script is based on the utilization of the GPU. The script is not complicated at all and according to the GPU usage it determines whether the program should start or not.

                Please read the howto and give me your opinion about it. It might be a good idea to start a new thread where newbies can comment on it whenever they cannot understand a part.

                And do not worry; because I will definitely update the howto.

                The Libreoffice word file:

                https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2InGNl3AdHFZDYyNjRLQkhOWGs/view?usp=sharing

                The pdf:

                https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2InGNl3AdHFYmdkczhhbnB3Mzg/view?usp=sharing

                Well, that is pretty much 1000% above what I expected.

                Those 500 will be yours!

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                • M
                  mirrax last edited by

                  money sent

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                  • ?
                    A Former User last edited by

                    Hello,

                    I came to upload the howto and saw that one of the staff has kindly provided the nvidia-smi outputs. Anyway, as I already promised, I am going to upload the howto now.

                    Table of Contents

                    1. Prerequisites

                    2. GPU mining

                    2.1. Using an AMD card

                    2.2. Using an NVIDIA card

                    2.3. Installing necessary tools for compiling the miner

                    2.4. Compiling the latest Neo-gpuminer from source

                    2.5. Compiling and building a Feathercoin wallet

                    2.6. Using Neo-gpuminer

                    2.7. Tuning Neo-gpuminer

                    2.7.1. Parameters related to GPU health

                    2.7.2. Parameters related to performance

                    2.7.3. A complete, concrete Neo-gpuminer example

                    2.8. sgminer: an alternative mining program for AMD systems

                    3. CPU mining

                    3.1. Installing required packages to build cpuminer-neoscrypt

                    3.2. Compiling and installing the latest cpuminer-neoscrypt

                    3.3. Using cpuminer-neoscrypt

                    4. Monitoring

                    5. Task management

                    I should mention that two subjects are outstanding. The first is providing information for Fedora, Opensuse and Arch (information is already provided for Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo). Since I myself test the commands, I am going to install the OS-es in virtualbox and update the howto for them as well. The second is updating the main script for Nvidia users. I would definitely do this as well and because of this I asked for nvidia-smi output. However, it seems that the information I was interested in is not shown in the default output and one should specify “nvidia-smi -d UTILIZATION” to get the GPU utilization. Anyway, I sincerely thank Wellenreiter for taking the time to provide the information. I would be grateful if he or anybody else gives me the output of the new command since the howto script is based on the utilization of the GPU. The script is not complicated at all and according to the GPU usage it determines whether the program should start or not.

                    Please read the howto and give me your opinion about it. It might be a good idea to start a new thread where newbies can comment on it whenever they cannot understand a part.

                    And do not worry; because I will definitely update the howto.

                    The Libreoffice word file:

                    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2InGNl3AdHFZDYyNjRLQkhOWGs/view?usp=sharing

                    The pdf:

                    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2InGNl3AdHFYmdkczhhbnB3Mzg/view?usp=sharing

                    Thank you for you work!

                    This is awesome. Cheers ahy.

                    +1

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                    • ?
                      A Former User last edited by

                      Can we get this pdf hosted on the website somewhere and linked?

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                      • kris_davison
                        kris_davison last edited by

                        17 pages that’s awesome and its so in depth thanks for all the hard work :)

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                        • ketetefid
                          ketetefid Regular Member last edited by

                          Thank you mirrax, Calem and kris_davison for your kind words! Thank you mirrax again for the money.

                          About hosting the files, I completely agree with that. Actually, I myself was going to suggest it, but I thought it might not be possible. Anyway, by hosting it and making it more visible and accessible, I hope it can attract more users to our community.

                          You can host it and even have a link to a new thread where newbies can talk and resolve their problems.

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                          • ?
                            A Former User last edited by

                            Excellent stuff! I’ll be in contact.

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