Re: CGWatcher, a GUI/monitor for CGMiner and BFGMiner to help prevent miner downtime
Quick feedback after a few days testing on Win7 64bit:
Works great
Small issues:
- When restarting the system, the message "do you really want to close CGwatcher..." prevents successful restart. You have to click it away, else it won't restart.
- Once a miner was out of action for a few hours. I have to look at the logs to see what exactly happened, but basically CGWatcher was trying to restart CGMIner again and again because the total shares didn't increase. But it kept restarting, and the restarted CGMiner would just hand. Reason was that in the background a CGMiner window was still open, but stuck/hung.
- HW errors seemingly were not reported in CGWatcher, even CGMiner showed a lot (I can try to duplicate this if it helps)
And one idea:
- restart card and/or cgminer if temperature suddenly drop significantly. I am not sure if this is maybe already covered by the "total shares not increasing", but I had a situation right now where everything looked fine, just the temperatures n all cards in a miner rig dropped - as if the cards suddenly were not really working much any more.
Works great
Small issues:
- When restarting the system, the message "do you really want to close CGwatcher..." prevents successful restart. You have to click it away, else it won't restart.
- Once a miner was out of action for a few hours. I have to look at the logs to see what exactly happened, but basically CGWatcher was trying to restart CGMIner again and again because the total shares didn't increase. But it kept restarting, and the restarted CGMiner would just hand. Reason was that in the background a CGMiner window was still open, but stuck/hung.
- HW errors seemingly were not reported in CGWatcher, even CGMiner showed a lot (I can try to duplicate this if it helps)
And one idea:
- restart card and/or cgminer if temperature suddenly drop significantly. I am not sure if this is maybe already covered by the "total shares not increasing", but I had a situation right now where everything looked fine, just the temperatures n all cards in a miner rig dropped - as if the cards suddenly were not really working much any more.