Re: If you mine with CGMiner, try CGWatcher, a GUI/monitor to help minimize downtime
Hi,
Really nice program. Works great! Sent a small doantion (LTC)
Would like to request a new feature -- Mining Profiles. I use multiple config files to start cgminer mining with different options (i.e. one config for starting with scrypt mining, another for sha256 mining). So if you could add the option to save mining profiles that restart cgminer to use different config files (obviously cgminer will have to be killed and restarted with new config file if we want to switch from sha256 to scrypt mining), then that would be great.
Also, please add an option to automatically switch abovementioned mining profile based on the most profitable mining option. For example, right now LTC mining is about 50% more profitable than BTC mining, but that might not be the case in the future, and the higher profitability may switch back and forth, (like TRC). So if we can have an option to (restart cgminer and) switch automatically to the most profitable profile upon regular checking, that would be great. There needs to be an option to wait minimum xx seconds before switching profile so that the miner does not switch too frequently.
thanks again for the great effort
Edit: Here's another strong case for Mining Profiles. I have been using cgwatcher while BTC mining. It has worked REALLY well, restarting my sick card flawlessly (which cgminer didn't/couldn't). But... today i switched to LTC mining while cgwatcher was running and monitoring as usual... well and good. But I was surprised to see the miner being restarted after a while without any reason or apparent problem. When I looked at the log I saw that it was restarted due to low hash rate, which I had set to 10% of my usual BTC hash rate. Well... duh! LTC hash rate is 1000-th of BTC hash rate. So if there was an option to set up different profiles, where I could set different target hash rates to montior, then this problem would disappear. So please consider this seriously along with the request for switching to most profitable chain...
Edit 2: another suggestion: checking the card's temperature is, in my opinion, the fastest way to realize that the card has stopped mining. Rapid temperature drop will notify the card crash much faster than both 'total hash rate checking' and 'total shares stop increasing'. There should be an option to restart the miner based on target lowest temperature since cgminer does a pretty decent job of maintaining a target temperature when auto-fan and auto-gpu options are set.
Really nice program. Works great! Sent a small doantion (LTC)
Would like to request a new feature -- Mining Profiles. I use multiple config files to start cgminer mining with different options (i.e. one config for starting with scrypt mining, another for sha256 mining). So if you could add the option to save mining profiles that restart cgminer to use different config files (obviously cgminer will have to be killed and restarted with new config file if we want to switch from sha256 to scrypt mining), then that would be great.
Also, please add an option to automatically switch abovementioned mining profile based on the most profitable mining option. For example, right now LTC mining is about 50% more profitable than BTC mining, but that might not be the case in the future, and the higher profitability may switch back and forth, (like TRC). So if we can have an option to (restart cgminer and) switch automatically to the most profitable profile upon regular checking, that would be great. There needs to be an option to wait minimum xx seconds before switching profile so that the miner does not switch too frequently.
thanks again for the great effort
Edit: Here's another strong case for Mining Profiles. I have been using cgwatcher while BTC mining. It has worked REALLY well, restarting my sick card flawlessly (which cgminer didn't/couldn't). But... today i switched to LTC mining while cgwatcher was running and monitoring as usual... well and good. But I was surprised to see the miner being restarted after a while without any reason or apparent problem. When I looked at the log I saw that it was restarted due to low hash rate, which I had set to 10% of my usual BTC hash rate. Well... duh! LTC hash rate is 1000-th of BTC hash rate. So if there was an option to set up different profiles, where I could set different target hash rates to montior, then this problem would disappear. So please consider this seriously along with the request for switching to most profitable chain...
Edit 2: another suggestion: checking the card's temperature is, in my opinion, the fastest way to realize that the card has stopped mining. Rapid temperature drop will notify the card crash much faster than both 'total hash rate checking' and 'total shares stop increasing'. There should be an option to restart the miner based on target lowest temperature since cgminer does a pretty decent job of maintaining a target temperature when auto-fan and auto-gpu options are set.