Exactly.  I can point my Blades to any other pool, be it one with a getwork interface, or any stratum pool via a stratum proxy, and guess what?  It works.  ONLY p2pool shit's it's lips when presented an ASICMiner (or KnC it seems).

As usual, ck, you're skirting round an issue and making excuses, rather than fixing the issue - amazing as it isn't even YOUR issue this time...

A Raspberry Pi would run ALL your stuff - load has got nothing to do with it, as there isn't any on an i7.

Shit, I have 30GH/s gong through a TPLink 703N (a £10 router powered off USB with a Dorito for a CPU and 8MB RAM). 

 

There's a difference? 

Surely:
stratum proxy is for allowing getwork clients to mine on a stratum pool? 
getwork proxy is for allowing getwork clients to mine on a stratum pool?

Confused. 

OK, cool.  I didn't see anything specific in the READMEs about it being added, so assumed it was still not on OpenWRT, like it's still not on Win64 version.

I'll give it a spin sometime on OpenWRT...

What?!?  This is the most retarded post I've ever seen on this board.  

BFGMiner is far simpler to get going - install VCP drivers, job done.  No messing with WinUSB, zdiag and all that shite. 


The original post I was replying to was saying "If you don't want to restart your miner all the time use an old version of cgminer" - which is crap.  

Doesn't help the thousands of miners using the currently available ASICs, though.  There's a LOT of folks out there with ASICMiner Blades...

Yeah, p2pool sucks for ASICs.  Doesn't work with anything that's got a semi-decent hashrate.  Doesn't work with ASICMiner Blades, doesn't works terribly well with Avalon, and seems to not work with KnC now either...

I loved the idea of p2pool, but it's problems with ASIC means I'm out of there and mining on a 'real' pool.  I would, and probably a lot of others, would return if those issues were fixed (or even acknowledged and being worked on).

Looks fine to me, the only thing I'd suggest is trying a different pool.  Your config on your Blade and BFGMiner looks perfect.

Two Weeks (tm). 

Ah, polarhei, still talking like a spam bot. 

Yeah, that's great advice.  Shame it's bollocks.   

BFGMiner is WAY better for running the Block Erupters than an ancient version of CGMiner. 

BFG has been running just shy of 9 days on Windows, and that was when I upgraded to the latest version.  Previous version was running for weeks.  This is on a Windows 8 machine that's regularly used, too.

If you're running a pool for just yourself, you're wasting your time, you should just be solo mining.  ecoinpool is ancient and outdated, and needs an old version of bitcoin-qt which is a total deal breaker.

Seriously, just run a p2pool node if you want to have friends helping, or use one of the bigger pools that have teaming.  Or assign each friend a worker name on Eligius, with payout address to your wallet - you can then split up the proceeds later.

1GB is barely enough to run a toaster...

Move to civilisation. 

Luke-Jr, have you any idea if/when you'll be adding the stratum proxy module to the OpenWRT version of BFGMiner?

I've tried all the big pools - BTCGuild, EMC, Slush's, and P2Pool.  I always end up back with Eligius, though.  They're the most reliable for me.

P2Pool was OK, but variance is high due to a low hashrate, and you really need a decent machine to run it on.  Running P2Pool needed an i3 3.3GHz running 24/7, where just mining with Eligius means I can get away with running a tiny TPLink 703N micro-router running OpenWRT which uses less than 2W.

I think Batshit is correct, and you're wrong, Rannasha.  My mining equipment has paid for itself - every BTC I've mined in the last year has paid for it's replacement.  My HD5870 paid for my HD6970, which paid for the first HD7950, and the 6970 and 7950 together paid for the second 7950.  The three GPUs paid for my 11 Block Erupters.  I then sold the GPUs for either what I paid for them, or more than I paid for them, and that paid for my two Blades.  They're just about to ROI on the power used since I started mining (helped by my PV array).

During the summer my mining rig will be making BTC and costing absolutely nothing to run, thanks to the solar panels.  During the winter the heat from the mining rig is heating two rooms in my house, saving heating oil, and using less than 500W from the wall.

So, I'm pretty happy to continue mining for as long as I can, and will probably invest more of my mined BTC in to new hardware in the future.  I'm keeping my eye out for used Jalapenos and Blades all the time...

But today's diesel family hatchback is faster, safer and more comfortable than the supercar of the 80s.

Less than a year ago I was excited about hitting 500MH/s.  Now I've got 30GH/s, with another 10GH/s on it's way (some soon, some BFL slow).  I'm only a hobbyist, and only buy mining hardware paid for by mining.

I run mine off a Corsair CX750 PSU. It'll run at least 5 of them, I'm only running 2 Blades and two 10 port USB hubs.  The PSU is drawing between 250-300W from the wall.

My 1st Gen Blades are sitting at 2.6% and 3.4% HW errors.  It's pretty normal for them.  The Block Erupters are all sitting between 0.5-0.7% HW errors.  Again, normal.