diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index 2e24da6..94ceffd 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Local builds will always have the best performance and compatibility. 3. Download cpuminer-opt ------------------------ -Download the source code for the latest realease from the official repository. +Download the source code for the latest release from the official repository. https://github.com/JayDDee/cpuminer-opt/releases @@ -428,26 +428,26 @@ Line 4: Extensions supported, to varying degrees, by the mining algorithm Line 5: Extensions to be used in the current session Hardware extensions are divided into 3 classes, SIMD, AES and SHA. There are multiple levels in each clash. -Each provides additional CPU instructions more complex operations. +Each provides additional CPU instructions and more complex operations. -* Simd vector support +* SIMD vector support SSE2: minimum for 128 bit integer vector support, first available on Intel core2. SSSE3: Some additional instructions for 128 bit integer vectors, not very significant. SSE4.2: More 128 bit vector instructions, also not very significant. - AVX: Initial support for 256 bit vectors but no interger support. - AVX2: minimum level for 256 bit integer vector support, first available on Intel Haswell. + AVX: Initial support for 256 bit vectors but no integer support. + AVX2: minimum level for 256 bit integer vector support, first available on Intel Haswell amd AMD Ryzen. AVX512: a suite of seperate extensions that provide 512 bit integer vector support, first available on Intel Cascade Lake X HEDT CPUs. * AES encryption and decryption, aka AES_NI AES: basic hardware AES support performs AES operations with a single instruction, also requires SSE2, first available on Intel Westmere. - VAES: vectored AES, supports 4 parallel AES operation with a single instruction, first available on Intel + VAES: Vectored AES, supports 4 parallel AES operations with a single instruction, first available on Intel Icelake. * SHA encryption and decryption, aka SHA_NI SHA supports basic SHA-256 operations with a single instruction, also requires SSE2. First available - on Intel Goldont but not widely avaiable until AMD Ryzen and Intel Icelake. + on Intel Goldmont but not widely avaiable until AMD Ryzen and Intel Icelake. ### New stratum, block job report @@ -481,12 +481,12 @@ server. Line 4: -* TTF, an abbeviation for Time To Find, an estimate of the average time required to find either a block or a share for the miner. +* TTF, an abbeviation for Time To Find, an estimate of the average time required to find either a block or a share for a given hash rate. * Reference hash rate of the miner, calculated by counting the number of hashes over time. * Block TTF estimate calculated from miner's reference hashrate and network difficulty. -* Share TTF estimate calculated from miner's refence hash rate and target difficulty. +* Share TTF estimate calculated from miner's reference hash rate and target difficulty. -Line 5, experimental, only displayed in single coin pools +Line 5, only displayed in single coin pools * network hashrate estimate calculated from network difficulty and the number of blocks found during the session. @@ -525,32 +525,45 @@ Line 1: * Share result count, simple counter independant of submit counter but they should match. a mismatch indicates submitted shares without replies. the result count should also equal the sum of accepted, stale and rejected -shares, collectivley know as replied or acknowledged shares. -* Accepted, Stale job, Rejected, BLOCK SOLVED counters. The currently incremented counter is coloured green -if accepted, yellow if stale, red if rejected, magenta if block solved. The other counters will be displayed -in their short form with no colouring. Solved blocks also count as accepted therefore the accepted count with -also be incremented and displayed in green in abbreviated form. The block count will be displayed in mmagenta -in long form. +shares, collectivley known as replied or acknowledged shares. +* "Accepted", "Stale", "Rejected", "BLOCK SOLVED" counters. The currently incremented counter is coloured green +if accepted, yellow if stale, red if rejected, magenta if it solved a block. The other counters will be +displayed in their short form with no colouring. Solved blocks also count as accepted therefore the accepted +count with also be incremented and displayed in green in abbreviated form. The block count will be displayed +in mmagenta in long form. * The time in seconds since the last share * (Latency ms) Time from submission to reply including transmission time and processing at either end. Line 2: * Share difficulty. The share difficulty does ot matter most of the time so is FYI. As long as the share -difficultty it is higher than or equal to the target difficulty as all shares are considered equal by the +difficulty it is higher than or equal to the target difficulty all shares are considered equal by the pool server based on the stratum difficulty. -* (share ratio %) the percentage of the difficulty required to find a block. +* (share ratio %) the percentage of the difficulty required to find a block, 100% or greater solves a block. * The current block height, coloured magenta when the block is found by the miner. * The id of the job used to submit the share, coloured yellow if the job was stale. - ### Periodic summary report +` +[2020-02-18 23:50:16] Periodic Report 5m35s 5m35s + Share rate 0.36/min 0.36/min + Hash rate 1600.25kh/s 1602.60kh/s (1654.96kh/s) + Submitted 2 2 + Accepted 2 2 +` + Generated aproximately every 5 minutes. The timing is not precise because it is an opportunistic report. It is produced when it is convenient in order to miminize the impact on mining. -The report contains data for the 5 minute interval as well as session statistics. +The report contains data for the 5 minute interval in the left column, and session statistics in the right. + +* Line 1: Sample time for current period and session +* Line 2: Number of shares submitted per minute +* Line 3: Hash rate calculated from share rate and stratum difficulty +* Line 4: Numner of shares submitted. +* Lines 5+: Optional number of stale or rejected shares or solved blocks, only displayed if not zero. ### CPU temperature and frequency report @@ -563,5 +576,5 @@ frequently at higher temperatures and colour coded. In addition the report will in a shorter interval if the new temperature exceeds the previous maximum. -The sampling is approximately every 30 seconds. The reported maximum it the highest sample and does -not represent the actual instantaneous maximum temperature. \ No newline at end of file +The sampling is approximately every 30 seconds. The reported maximum it the previous maximum temperature +prirt to the current sample and does not represent the actual instantaneous maximum temperature. \ No newline at end of file