Quote from: twobitlolz on April 16, 2014, 03:14:45 PM

Quote from: phzi on April 16, 2014, 04:30:42 AM

cgminer 3.7.2 has many many bugs that have since been patched in newer versions and branches such as sgminer. There's really no good reason to be using an old version of cgminer anymore - switch to sgminer.

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sgminer lacks GridSeed support, i'm more familiar with the cgminer codebase, sgminer dropped SHA suppport and baked in lots of code that makes it difficult to patch in new algorithms, i get better performance from cgminer 3.7.2 with Kalroth's tweaks, ~~sgminer was susceptible to the client.reconnect exploit last time i checked~~ (fixed by this commit in the latest build), R. M. Davidson's patches don't apply to sgminer out of the box, and my build would be a headache to break into pieces to migrate to sgminer + latest cgminer + misc cgminer forks for other algos. "switch to sgminer" may be a fine solution for many, but not for me today. Wink

Quote from: kenshirothefist on April 16, 2014, 06:14:29 AM

The bug we're talking about it related to correct handling of extra nonce 2 (extranonce2, xnonce2) size. In cgminer 2.7.2 xnonce is fixed to 4 ... however by stratum protocol this should be "dynamic/resizable". Well, actually you should ask ckolivas for details regarding that ... I'm not sure in which exact version this was patched but if you can find out I'll be very glad if you'd share the info here.

thanks! i'll drop a patch here when i track down the issue and get around to testing fixes.

Quote from: kenshirothefist on April 16, 2014, 06:20:57 AM

Well, what we're seeing here with this cgminer-3.7.2 is similar to WinXP story ... to many users of too old software, and when support ends it's "Houston, we've got problems" Wink

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similar in the sense that a large part of the userbase didn't like the new direction and chose to rebel against it, but this is free software. cgminer 3.7.2 is still actively improved upon, though unfortunately there's a distinct lack of collaboration among devs, (myself included. Roll Eyes

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So you are updating CGminer to work with this pool? That would be awesome. I tried SGminer but I don't think it supports both gpu(s) 1/2 at the same time: i.e. my 5870 that runs on GPU threads 1 couldn't run at the same time as my 280x that runs using 2 gpu threads.

I ended up going with bfgminer but I had to scale back the overclock to make it stable and it still isn't stable on one of my rigs so I have to tweak it more.

Yeah... would be awesome if you are making an update to cgminer. Anyway I can follow updates/know status? thx