[1000FTC BOUTNY] - Create step by step Windows and Linux mining tutorial
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It won’t be made that late!
I am currently almost close to finishing it but I will not upload it until I have finished all of it. The most challenging part is that I am trying to make it multi-distribution and noob friendly as much as I can. Unlike Windows, the commands for different distributions might be different (especially for the preparation part). It has been so time-consuming for me to figure out the names of the needed packages in different distributions.
Furthermore, It would include simple mining monitoring howtos and task management through Cron for a crash-resistant, idle-resistant complete mining machine in Linux; something that will be autonomous as much as possible.
Sounds good…500FTC waiting for you?
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Sounds good…500FTC waiting for you?
Some other people might have already put the howto together! Time will tell us. Anyway, even if somebody else got it, I would upload mine so the good/needed/extra parts can be added to the official how to.
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The howto is almost done and will be uploaded in 1 or 2 days. It is a 13-page detailed howto comprising:
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
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
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Sounds awesome :)
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Furthermore, could somebody who owns an Nvidia card please post the output of “nvidia-smi” as a normal user when no cgminer is running and again when the gpu is under full load? I do not have an Nvidia card, but I need the outputs to update the scripts for Nvidia users as well. Please kindly attach the outputs exactly as they are in two separate files.
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System: OpensSuSE 12.3 Linux
cgminer running:
it looks like cgminer is using a fraction of the available memory
nvidia-smi Wed Dec 3 12:34:16 2014 +------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 340.24 Driver Version: 340.24 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce GTX 750 Ti Off | 0000:01:00.0 N/A | N/A | | 32% 44C P0 N/A / N/A | 331MiB / 2047MiB | N/A Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Compute processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0 Not Supported | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -
sgminer not runing (stopped just before the commmand)
+------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 340.24 Driver Version: 340.24 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce GTX 750 Ti Off | 0000:01:00.0 N/A | N/A | | 31% 39C P0 N/A / N/A | 27MiB / 2047MiB | N/A Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Compute processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0 Not Supported | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -
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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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
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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 -
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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moved the technical discussion around Nvidia cards to a new thread:
https://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?/topic/8166-reading-gpu-data/
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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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money sent
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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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Can we get this pdf hosted on the website somewhere and linked?
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17 pages that’s awesome and its so in depth thanks for all the hard work :)
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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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Excellent stuff! I’ll be in contact.
