Quote from: BigOli on August 06, 2018, 01:05:48 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on August 06, 2018, 02:16:41 AM

Quote from: BigOli on August 06, 2018, 02:09:26 AM

Hello,
this is maybe slightly off subject, but I am wondering how to translate on cgminer the command line option "--suggest-diff 32" into an entry in the config file?
Thanks!

why such a small number?

Well, I am using a GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384, so this is a small miner. Should I be using a higher diff?

That's entirely up to you. Half the fun of Sidehack's GekkoScience sticks is finding out what works best for you, or more correctly perhaps, what works best for each miner. You get to set the pot, choose the hashing speed but the miner will let you know what works best in your circumstance. Almost nothing in crypto-mining is `linear', so things are changing constantly. Everything from pool difficulty to the ambient temperature of the room your mining in. I have 8 of these sticks, from three different sources. The only way to find what is best is to use them. I have run them as low as "--suggest-diff 64" and as high as "1024". What works best for me is various. For example, I might use somewhere between 176 and 256 when mining at 200MHz...
The Answer that I have for original question is that I use a .bat file that looks like:
cgminer.exe --gekko-2pac-freq 200 -o stratum+tcp://pool.ckpool.org:3333 -u yourwallet.worker -p x --suggest-diff 256 --usb :1 pause

The answers you are looking for are likely in the first pages of:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.0

or

On the cgminer setup pages and readme files.

Now we're really off topic and you have some reading and testing to do... it's gonna take some of YOUR time...