Re: If you mine with CGMiner, try CGWatcher, a GUI/monitor to help minimize downtime
I've disabled --gpu-platform 1 and it seems to work fine now, I can't tell when and where the problem was since I've been using it through mostly all versions of cgminer ever since I first had the problem with CPU showing up. Only GPUs are visible now.
I've moved all my settings into .conf as it's much easier to manage. Why didn't I do this in day one... xD
I thought about logging any info I can get, just in case, and it seems cgminer (with or without cgwatcher) will instantly crash if any of these are used:
"debug" : true,
"per-device-stats" : true,
"verbose" : true,
Weird. Ehh, no biggie.
Lastly, I was thinking about that time a few posts above when my miner was running with one working GPU and a dead one for ~12 hours and cgwatcher didn't reboot the system (or log anything), which got me thinking a bit. Does cgwatcher read everything directly from cgminer? I'm not a programmer whatsoever, but wouldn't this cause issues in unforeseen circumstances where it just waits for an answer from cgminer and that one's not providing/responding or other unpredictable behaviour? Perhaps copying said values from cgminer to ram, and then have the whole thing read only from ram to provide some redundancy? This way, no matter what happens as long as the watcher is alive and responsive, reboots should always execute. Just a misplaced thought though.
I've moved all my settings into .conf as it's much easier to manage. Why didn't I do this in day one... xD
I thought about logging any info I can get, just in case, and it seems cgminer (with or without cgwatcher) will instantly crash if any of these are used:
"debug" : true,
"per-device-stats" : true,
"verbose" : true,
Weird. Ehh, no biggie.
Lastly, I was thinking about that time a few posts above when my miner was running with one working GPU and a dead one for ~12 hours and cgwatcher didn't reboot the system (or log anything), which got me thinking a bit. Does cgwatcher read everything directly from cgminer? I'm not a programmer whatsoever, but wouldn't this cause issues in unforeseen circumstances where it just waits for an answer from cgminer and that one's not providing/responding or other unpredictable behaviour? Perhaps copying said values from cgminer to ram, and then have the whole thing read only from ram to provide some redundancy? This way, no matter what happens as long as the watcher is alive and responsive, reboots should always execute. Just a misplaced thought though.