CGWatcher: A watchdog for cgminer

CGWatcherEver wish that you could keep an eye on your miners 24/7? Maybe you’ve had cgminer inexplicably stop mining in the past, or you’re currently testing out settings that you’re not sure are stable—whatever the reason, it’d be nice if you immediately knew about issues that required a cgminer restart.

Enter CGWatcher, a tool that will keep an eye on cgminer for you. CGWatcher monitors several cgminer outputs, and will automatically restart cgminer whenever an issue is detected (e.g.: a dead/sick GPU, no submitted shares for the past x minutes, hashrate below a set threshold, etc).

It’s a great little tool, and I highly recommend it—especially if you don’t have your miners at a point where they’re completely stable yet. You can read more about CGWatcher (and download it) at the author’s website.

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2 Responses to “CGWatcher: A watchdog for cgminer”

  1. jojo says:

    Great blog! I have learned so much from you in the last few weeks. I would like to make a request if I may. Could you do a piece on (U:)”Utility” and (WU:)”Worker Utility”

    I think a lot including myself don’t understand it… Utility is the amount of shares accepted per minute and WU: is the weighted shares in regards to difficulty, I dunno? Should this be taken into consideration during card tuning?

    I currently get for the last few weeks and only running one card 24hrs a day. 666.4k at 74deg fans at 2950rpm. (U:) is 6.3m and (WU:)608.3m. Im little above the optimal rate of .9 (WU:) per hash. Should I try for .9 or just max hash in regards to power consumption?

    Confused…

  2. fred says:

    Thanks you save my life !!! Awesome blog by the way

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