Feature Request: MM shouldn't suggest coins less that are less profitable than the coin configured in the "Don't mine coins less profitable than:" field. It keeps recommending that I mine coins as bad as .4%.
Bug: I keep getting odd displays, such as this one, showing that I'm mining Tigercoins to the ghash.io pool (which only does bitcoins). Based off the speed, it also looks like it's actually doing Tigercoins.
Both of these are already on my to-do list, thanks. Thanks. Really appreciate the work you're doing.  |
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Feature Request: MM shouldn't suggest coins less that are less profitable than the coin configured in the "Don't mine coins less profitable than:" field. It keeps recommending that I mine coins as bad as .4%. Bug: I keep getting odd displays, such as this one, showing that I'm mining Tigercoins to the ghash.io pool (which only does bitcoins). Based off the speed, it also looks like it's actually doing Tigercoins. 
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Digging deeper for you: Go into Settings, then Advanced miner settings. Make sure that you do not have either of these options checked: - Restart miners every X minutes
- Set Dynamic Intensity based on computer use
Both of these will also restart mining periodically and only state "Starting Mining". I suppose it could be a COM port issue but, from what I am seeing in the code, all of the "Restart Suspect Miners" entries should have specific entries, e.g. "Process crashed", "Subpar hashrate", etc. Yup, that did it. Thanks! I didn't expect that dynamic intensity would affect anything aside from GPU mining. Should it? |
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It just says, "Started mining". Happens only when "restart suspected miners" is turned on.
I can't speak to the cleanup portion but this sounds odd. The "Restart Suspect Miners" option shouldn't be restarting anything by stating "Started Mining". Are you sure you don't have automatic mining enabled in the Strategies dialog? That's the only thing I can think of off-hand that restarts miners and only states "Started Mining". Edit: checked through the code and verified. The only things that will start mining by stating "Starting Mining" are clicking Start, clicking Restart, and having Auto-mining enabled.I do, but it's set to check every 15 min, and when this is triggered, it's usually halfway through the cycle. It just did it again while I was typing this. I had 26 min until the next strategy check and it restarted all my miners. Update: It's restarting even with automining off. I'm inclined to think it's something wrong with the COM ports, as was previously suggested. |
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Current version seems very aggressive about restarting. I'm running 10 block erupters. It seems to want to restart even when there shouldn't be a reason.
No changes to the program there at all. What does it give for the reason for restarting on the Process Log window? I had this same problem. Happened right after a windows update. I manually removed the cp210x drivers and edited the traces out of the registry, then restarted. i then had to re-install the drivers and the problem was fixed. the problem is that the com ports bottleneck. The software doesnt know how to handle this ( because it cannot as no software can ) so it restarts as a means of trying to handle the error. Nothing can be done to the software to fix this, i tried running BFGminer stand alone when i had the problem and it had the same issue. Just fully wipe, and re-install your cp210x. all will be well. If you need help, let me know, i can use team viewer to help you manually edit them out for you so you just have to re-install them. It just says, "Started mining". Happens only when "restart suspected miners" is turned on. I should be able to clean it myself in a day or two, just tell me what to clean from the registry. |
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Current version seems very aggressive about restarting. I'm running 10 block erupters. It seems to want to restart even when there shouldn't be a reason.
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Thanks for the new version!
12-18 increased my 650 TI SSC's performance from ~102 to ~162
Using -H 1 -i 0 -l K8x16 -C 2
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Unfortunately, this appears to be wrong. While the port speed settings did improve things slightly, the timings only affect the reported speed, not the actual.
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Unfortunately, it looks like Trillian was right. The pool is giving me credit for only 1Gh/s. I guess it's time to do some modding. I just need to decide between 14mhz and 16mhz crystals.
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I took one of mine and changed the timing to --icarus-options 115200:2:2 --icarus-timing 2.0=75 Now it's averaging about 520Mh/s Stock hardware. Edit: Five of them are running at 500-550 Mh/s. Hardware errors are still in acceptable ranges. Is that according to the pool you're using or the mining software? That's an interesting question. I'm only able to see reporting from one of them (mining for other ppl right now too). Miner shows 500-550 Mh Pool live stats show .5 Gh but exactly 2x the submits the software is reporting Pool history shows payouts for .3 Pool used: BitminterTried another pool, and it's showing 100-250 Mh/s, so I don't think it's accurate. Pool used: miningpool.coI'm going to wait a couple days and try more of them in a larger batch. |
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I tried settings like that for a week or two to get plenty of stable data. Not only did the submitted work from the miner not increase (shares/min), but the pool's speed reports were exactly the same. The speed data reported in cgminer was erroneous. Just started testing this. In 15 min, cgminer reports that it has submitted 39 and 1 hardware error. My pool is showing that I'm doing almost exactly 2x more submits than cgminer shows (80). I may need to test it with more than 1 miner... |
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I've got a wrench to throw at you guys. Is it necessary to do any mods whatsoever? I've got 3 STOCK BEs running at 500-550 Mh/s by just altering the timings: --icarus-options 115200:2:2 --icarus-timing 2.0=25 The idea was inspired by this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=357684.0Makes me wonder what would happen if you just messed with some settings on your already OCed BEs. Your software has mislead you. The number of operations (SHA256 operations) that are completed per cycle are known. The frequency of the chip is also known and it is a fixed value too (based on the oscillators in the circuit). As a result, changing timing options does not result in a real improvement. I suspect your mining software is giving you a false measurement of their performance. My pool reports .5 Gh/s for one of them. The others are on pools I can't see live stats for. It's real enough. |
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I've got a wrench to throw at you guys. Is it necessary to do any mods whatsoever? I've got 3 STOCK BEs running at 500-550 Mh/s by just altering the timings: --icarus-options 115200:2:2 --icarus-timing 2.0=25 The idea was inspired by this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=357684.0Makes me wonder what would happen if you just messed with some settings on your already OCed BEs. |
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I took one of mine and changed the timing to --icarus-options 115200:2:2 --icarus-timing 2.0=75 Now it's averaging about 520Mh/s Stock hardware. Edit: Five of them are running at 500-550 Mh/s. Hardware errors are still in acceptable ranges. |
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How long do you think it will be until we get to try out your modded software?
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Are you running with: --icarus-options 115200:2:2 --icarus-timing short=90 on those ?
Has your WU value increased ? Are you getting more hardware errors than stock settings ?
Thanks.
I am running with those values. Before this, I was using bitminter's stock software, as I found it gave be better results than BFGminer, so I wasn't tracking my WU. It looks like I am getting more hardware errors than stock, but tracking shows that my overall stats have gone up by about .1-.2 GH/s. I'm interested in seeing what it will look like with a modded cgminer. |
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How many eruptors are you talking about? Just so you know, you will never reach ROI if you just start mining.
I'm running 5 right now in a mining pool. Getting ~0.0015/day. Work your butt off for a month or two and then buy some real mining equipment.
Exactly - though it's hard to know where's a good place to get them. So many scammers out there. |
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I don't know about OP, but I've found that one of these makes them cool enough to touch without any difficulty. From what I've seen from others, its a pretty standard fan to use on these setups. Newegg is currently out of stock, but they're also available on amazon - for about twice as much. Mine are using the OP's configuration (minus the custom cgminer) and are holding steady at about 397MH/s.   Most setups look more like this:  Mine will too - eventually. |
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Granted, I'm new, but I think I've worked out a strategy. I ran the math, and the erupters will pay for themselves in about a year - I know this. I'm re-investing the BTC into GHS at cex.io and back into themselves. I realize that there's a lot of people ahead of me right now, but that's how it is when you jump in like this.
I've also yet to find an exchange that I'm willing to trust enough to actually buy bitcoins.
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As I understand it, that error means that it miscalculated the hash, rendering it's work invalid. I messed with Cudaminer a bit myself and gave up because I could never get anything decent out of it - kept getting lots of "does not validate on CPU" errors too. I kinda stopped caring once I got my ASIC BlockErupters.
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