But MORE importantly it is the ONLY payout method that does not cause a pool to accept unnecessary risk and that is why I have always preferred proportional. That and it is easy to verify.
PPLNS doesn't have any risk for the pool either. It's also easy to verify once you understand the process your shares go through (which varies slightly by pool but keeps the same principals). SMPPS as well, though that system has other bits the cause backlog payment issues. Proportional is the "simplest", but by no means the only one that is easy to verify or doesn't involve operator risking bankruptcy. Thank you for the correction and explanation. I had thought there was a risk with that method as well. Pools are businesses and I want to use a service provider that I know is planning on being around for the long haul and has a sustainable business model. Ozco I know is planning on being around for the long haul as are the other two pools that I use. Sam |
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How to auto-fan and auto-gpu interract? I'd rather run up the fan than drop the clock speed so I have been using only auto-fan but I'm wondering if that's the best way or not.
--auto-fan and --auto-gpu are the commands that tell CGMiner to control you clocks and temps to maintain your target temp. After these command you can then set your desired thresholds that CGMiner then attempts to maintain. Rarely does CGMiner need to drop the clocks. My target temp for one card is 75c and the other is 60c and they never have had the engine clock dropped. Read the top post of this thread paying close attention to the executive summary examples. I hear, unsubstantiated rumors that there is a readme file, or several, that are actually included with the software. I have been too lazy to verify this for you but it may be worthwhile to look. Good Luck, Sam |
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Just sent email to Ozcoin miners Hi Ozcoin miners,
It is with great regret that I inform miners PPS payout system will be disabled at end of current round until pool finances recover.The recent run of bad luck has streched pool resourses to the limit.The payout on block-overview page shows this.
We are aware display issues affectting some user hashrates and will be fixing asap
Graeme Tee
Managing Director
Ozcoin Pooled Mining Pty Ltd
Not pleased but for pool to be able to continue this is necessary. Well PPS could be disabled indefinitely as far as I'm concerned. I have always been VERY irritated by certain elements of the Bitcoin community demanding that Pools risk bankruptcy by using payout methods and low/no fee that force a pool to risk huge losses. I like DGM but I would gladly accept proportional payout too which would guarantee that the pool would never risk bankruptcy. Sam Sam, you know better than to suggest prop. If Ozcoin went prop I guarantee the bitHopper project would be resurrected. Well as I have said before I see nothing wrong with hopping. But I know many do and I understand the reason and I respect that. But MORE importantly it is the ONLY payout method that does not cause a pool to accept unnecessary risk and that is why I have always preferred proportional. That and it is easy to verify. I know pools will never go back to proportional payout. I am just using that in an attempt to make the point that many miners are very unfair to pools. Sam |
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And the moral of the thread is use p2pool? What about slush's?
The moral of this thread should be to use the link below and other tools and research to pick several pools that suit your needs/wants the best. Those wants and needs are different for each of us. You should always have more than one pool in your failover list. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104664.msg1146108#msg1146108And remember, there ain't nuthin free! Sam |
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Just sent email to Ozcoin miners Hi Ozcoin miners,
It is with great regret that I inform miners PPS payout system will be disabled at end of current round until pool finances recover.The recent run of bad luck has streched pool resourses to the limit.The payout on block-overview page shows this.
We are aware display issues affectting some user hashrates and will be fixing asap
Graeme Tee
Managing Director
Ozcoin Pooled Mining Pty Ltd
Not pleased but for pool to be able to continue this is necessary. Well PPS could be disabled indefinitely as far as I'm concerned. I have always been VERY irritated by certain elements of the Bitcoin community demanding that Pools risk bankruptcy by using payout methods and low/no fee that force a pool to risk huge losses. I like DGM but I would gladly accept proportional payout too which would guarantee that the pool would never risk bankruptcy. Sam |
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Sounds good.
So, are you still getting this error?
>> ADL found less devices than opencl
>> There is possibly more than one display attached to a gpu
Have you tried the dummy plug(s) yet? If so please post some feedback to let us know one way or the other.
Sam
Yeah I'm still getting the error :/ I'm definitely gonna try dummy plugs because I think this error is stopping me from using afterburner as well. It just doesn't seem to detect the gpu's. Not really sure how to make one. Do I just need 1 75 ohm resistor for each card? You need 3 for each one. Here is a tutorial http://www.overclock.net/t/384733/the-30-second-dummy-plugSam |
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I mined using CGMiner on a GTX 680 and it worked fine though the hashrate was abysmal (110Mhash/s). Ultimately I was doing more damage to my graphic card and spending more in electricity than I would ever hope to recover and then I stopped.  Yeah, my card is only getting like 50-60 MH/s on GUIMiner. Hoping to build a legit rig soon though... I just figured that CGMiner is better (since everyone says so) You need to install OpenCL for CGMiner. |
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Trying to use RDP to monitor a rig causes problems. On my machines it crash's the GPU's altogether. Your lucky that it only stops ADL.
I have heard Teamviewer, VNC and TinyVNC are all good alternatives. I'm a fan of dummy plugs too.
Sam
Sorry I should have clarified, I'm not really using RDP anymore, since teamviewer is more user friendly. I'm also using something called CoRD for when I want to connect to it from my mac. No problems with it so far. Sounds good. So, are you still getting this error? >> ADL found less devices than opencl >> There is possibly more than one display attached to a gpu Have you tried the dummy plug(s) yet? If so please post some feedback to let us know one way or the other. Sam |
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My settings: -o http://btcguild.com:8332 -u <my username> -p <my password> --gpu-memclock 1000-1300 -I 9 --gpu-engine 1100-1200 --temp-overheat 85 --temp-target 80 I think you need --auto-gpu before your engine speeds so that it will adjust them. Also I've never seen a range for memclock. I would set it to the lower clock speed. At least that is the way I interpret this statement --gpu-memclock <arg> Set the GPU memory (over)clock in Mhz - one value for all or separate by commas for per card. Edit: I would throw --auto-fan in there too |
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Trying to use RDP to monitor a rig causes problems. On my machines it crash's the GPU's altogether. Your lucky that it only stops ADL.
I have heard Teamviewer, VNC and TinyVNC are all good alternatives. I'm a fan of dummy plugs too.
Sam
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additionally: cgminer "freezes" (cannot even quit it with Q, have to close the windows clicking on the X) once I switch users on windows 8  Don't switch users. Or if you do stop CGMiner and then reopen it in the other user account. ouch, can't do this at all no way around this? I've never used Win8. But in WinXP/7 when you switch users the background user looses access to the GPU since the foreground desktop has it. Search through this thread and you'll see it talked about several times. |
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If, and that is a big if,
What he said |
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Think i got it licked upnp-port mapping is on by default --- Turn it OFF that limits connections to 8 bitcoin-Qt is using all my upload bw WHY?
Make sure you turn off UPnP on your firewalls and routers!! Many consumer routers allow UPnP configuration on the WAN interface, sometimes with it even disabled. This is a serious vulnerability. You can test for the UPnP vulnerability with the "Shields Up" at grc.com https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2Sam |
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bitcoin-Qt is using all my upload bw WHY?
Probably your relaying transactions. My upload bandwidth was peaking around 1.7Mb. I had over 60 connections so I limited my connections to 20 and the transactions I relayed went down from over 15 a day to 1 to 6 every few days. So what is your connection count? Do you have TCP Port 8333 open and forwarded to your IP that the client is on? If you don't like the upload traffic then you can stop the port forwarding. Sam |
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additionally: cgminer "freezes" (cannot even quit it with Q, have to close the windows clicking on the X) once I switch users on windows 8 Don't switch users. Or if you do stop CGMiner and then reopen it in the other user account. |
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Hi,
i installed the AMD catalyst and the rig is running OK.
Now i read several times that the AMD ADL SDK should be installed and i am wondering what functionality/performance gain it adds?
Greets
ImI
Uh, well if your mining then you have the SDK installed as it is a prerequisite for mining. It often comes with the Catalyst package. |
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Am I incorrect in thinking that 5 GH/s is 5000 MH/s?
At $274 (assuming BFL ever gets their shit together) isn't that an excellent deal
It was a better deal at $150 when I preordered mine. I'm just ticked off with my self for using Bitcoin for the payment. 13.4 bitcoin is worth allot more than $150 now. Sam |
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Like C8 said your not supposed to. But when I don't use one on my 2nd GPU weird things happen, hashrate drops, card instability and such. When I put a dummy plug on one card and the monitor or the other and extend the desktop everything is stable. I'm using Win7 32bit.
Sam
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organofcorti,
Thanks for your work on this Pool List. It really does help.
Sam
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So, thank the US Government for giving us the tools to destroy thier own currency system someday   Our currency was destroyed when we went off the Gold Standard. Bitcoin won't destroy, but replace a dying system, hopefully. Well, that is true enough. The graph of total US debt started going straight up in the 70's when that occured. Maybe the better way to say it is they gave us the tools to fix it ourselves since obviously they cannot. I agree wholeheartedly with that sentiment! |
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