Ethminer: Stop console at error instead continue print 0.00 Mh/s

Created on 8 Sep 2017 · 8Comments · Source: ethereum-mining/ethminer

I'm using AMD Radeon R9 M370X, yes maybe the memory in my GPU is low and may not work, but instead to continue mining at 0.00 Mh/s, the console stop at OpenGL error.

C:\Users\Chinafreak> ethminer -G -S eu2.ethermine.org:4444 -O 0xB7b670C69411a809356Ea29EaEB15B2432d3bDc8.Test
  i  14:28:29|main      Found suitable OpenCL device [ Capeverde ] with 2147483648  bytes of GPU memory
  i  14:28:29|main      Connecting to stratum server eu2.ethermine.org:4444
  i  14:28:30|stratum   Connected to stratum server eu2.ethermine.org : 4444
  i  14:28:30|stratum   Starting farm
 cl  14:28:30|cl-0      No work. Pause for 3 s.
  i  14:28:30|stratum   Subscribed to stratum server
  i  14:28:30|stratum   Authorized worker 0xB7b670C69411a809356Ea29EaEB15B2432d3bDc8.Test
  i  14:28:30|stratum   Received new job #db65ff4f
  m  14:28:31|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
 cl  14:28:33|cl-0      New work: header #db65ff4fÔÇª target 0000000112e0be826d694b2e62d01511f12a6061fbaec8bc02357593e70e52ba
 cl  14:28:33|cl-0      New seed #89ec0600ÔÇª
  m  14:28:33|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  i  14:28:35|stratum   Received new job #f470d0cc
  m  14:28:35|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:28:37|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:28:39|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:28:42|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
 cl  14:28:42|cl-0      Platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
 cl  14:28:42|cl-0      Device:   Capeverde  / OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1912.5)
  m  14:28:44|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
 cl  14:28:44|cl-0      Build info:
 cl  14:28:44|cl-0      Creating light cache buffer, size 35258176
 cl  14:28:44|cl-0      Creating DAG buffer, size 2256527744
  X  14:28:44|cl-0      Creating DAG buffer failed: clCreateBuffer -61
  X  14:28:44|cl-0      OpenCL Error: clEnqueueWriteBuffer -38
  m  14:28:46|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:28:48|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:28:50|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:28:52|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:28:54|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:28:56|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:28:58|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:00|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:02|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:04|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:06|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:08|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:10|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:12|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:14|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:16|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:18|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:20|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:22|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:24|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:26|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:28|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:30|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:32|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:34|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]
  m  14:29:36|main      Speed   0.00 Mh/s    gpu/0  0.00  [A0+0:R0+0:F0]

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YanDevDe

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the errors are:

cl  14:28:44|cl-0      Creating light cache buffer, size 35258176
cl  14:28:44|cl-0      Creating DAG buffer, size 2256527744
X  14:28:44|cl-0      Creating DAG buffer failed: clCreateBuffer -61
X  14:28:44|cl-0      OpenCL Error: clEnqueueWriteBuffer -38

So it looks like it fails to generate the DAG.
How much memory does your card has?

smurfy on 8 Sep 2017

I bet less than 2GB, I know this won't work (because DAG file is huge). And this is not a bug of ethminer.
But I didn't mean this issue because of my gpu, I meant that console should stop print hashrate-speed after OpenCL Error.

YanDevDe on 8 Sep 2017

You can't mine with 2GB ethereum anymore, the DAG size has passed 2GB a while ago. Better try ubiq/exp/music.

ddobreff on 8 Sep 2017

👍1

Again: This issue isn't about my GPU, it's about that console should stop print hashrate speed after the OpenCL Error (or other errors) appeard.

I already know that I can't mine with my notebook's gpu due less than 2GB memory. This GPU was just a experiment.

YanDevDe on 8 Sep 2017

We already know that, a proper watchdog class is being considered currently.

ddobreff on 8 Sep 2017

👍1

Please see the following issues:

issue #97 (Command to quit miner on error )
issue #249 (Handle crashing better)
issue #274 (Please add a WATCHDOG function so miner can alert when error occurs.).

(Maybe some of them should be closed as duplicates?)