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Re: [ANN][POOL] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com
by
Thirtybird
on 28/03/2014, 22:59:55 UTC
To interpret this for cgminer, you'll need to change a few things - probably something like this...

cgminer --scrypt --worksize 128 -g 1 --lookup-gap 2 -I 12 --thread-concurrency 58624
A TC as high as 58624 won't work on any of my cards.  Right now, I primarily use either 20479 or 28672 , although different values seem to be optimal for different algorithms/clockrates/BIOS versions.  My experience suggests that lower thread concurrency actually yields better results a good portion of the time, and I find the lowest (shaders*n)+1 or -1 value that doesn't produces HW errors often yields the most completed work.

I will pull and build YACMiner on one of my rigs setup later and see what happens when I try your posted settings.


This is why you were having success then.  To mine YACoin, YBCoin, ZcCoin OneCoin, or anything that's currently at N=14, you NEED as much memory allocated as you can.  That thread-concurrency (58624) is the equivalent of the value I'm able to allocate on my cards.  I could NOT allocate that amount when I only had 4GB on system memory - I was limited to somewhere around a TC of 28000.  I could get the equivalent hash rate by allocating half of what I needed and running half the shaders, but when I added a third card, I couldn't even allocate half on the third card. 

In my experience, I advise anyone who asks to put in 8 GB of system memory for mining scrypt-chacha coins that will be running cards with 4 GB of memory on the card.  My other machine with 4 2GB cards works just fine with 4 GB system memory - it is at the limit though as I'm allocating 1753 MB per card - much more than that and I was having problems.