Sweet geesus, are we going to hit $2500 by the weekend?  Yes. Yes we are. (crosses fingers)  |
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 All 3 of my shipments show this. I was also emailed an exception notification saying "this notice alerts you delivery of the following shipment has been rescheduled." and "Exception Reason: THE PACKAGE WAS LEFT IN A UPS FACILITY" Same here, FWIW. |
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15? The range seems to indicate a max val of 10, no?
 you're totally right. just looked up what the mentioned value was and then I though let's add the line from the documentation should have read my own post before sending it  So I tried messing with the queue setting in cgminer. Set my miner to solo mine btc. What happens is all the other backup pools kick in and get some of the work. I get quite a few "pool is not providing work fast enough" errors. I tried difficulty of 10, 15, 40, 75, 90. Higher numbers seemed to get less "fast enough" errors, but it's seems to farm out more work to failover pools. Probably would need to run everything a lot longer to see how the values settle over time, but don't want to waste good hashing time experimenting  But the fact it was balancing the work with all the backup pools means it isn't strictly solo mining and it doesn't seem to be able to keep up. No matter how big you make your queue, it will always overrun it eventually if you are using getwork with an ASIC miner. Getwork is simply not fast enough to keep up, and that is one of the main reasons why stratum was invented. If you are mining with ASICs, you have to use either GBT or stratum. If you want to use stratum, you will have to set up a stratum pool with yourself as the only miner, which is a major pain. BFGMiner is the only simple solution I know of, since it explicitly solves the problem by using GBT directly to bitcoind/bitcoin-qt. Read the 'Solo Mining' section in the BFGMiner readme to learn more. I actually tried today setting up solo mining on my Saturn with BFGMiner, as I suggest above - and it turns out that the BBB does not have enough horsepower to run GBT as it is now. It just pegs out the CPU. So it looks like my advice above is accurate if you are running the miner on your PC, but not if you are trying to run it on your KnC miner  It seems that the most workable solution for solo mining with KnC miners is, at least until GBT is optimized, still going to require setting up a private stratum pool. |
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I am using the version 3.4.0 BFGMiner that is distributed as part of Bertmod 0.3 on my KnCMiner Saturn. I added the lines: "coinbase-addr": <my payout address>,
"coinbase-sig": <My block sig>
to the end of the config file, because I wanted to solo mine on my local bitcoin-qt. It doesn't generate any errors, but the hashrate goes down from ~285 GH/s to more like 10 GH/s  If I remove the above two lines, it goes back to normal. Anybody have any idea what is going wrong here? Is it using 100% CPU, or less? I wonder if the BBB can't keep up with generating work via GBT... Yeah, looks like that's it - always over 95% CPU when GBT is enabled, ~22% otherwise. Bummer. GBT is entirely unoptimised right now, so there's a possibility of improving it. In theory, I should be able to reduce its CPU load to approximately the same as stratum's. Just need to find the time... Yeah, I imagine your plate is pretty full. I like the idea of GBT in general- it enforces some honesty on pool operators (not that any of them are dishonest, to my knowledge ), and it is currently the ONLY real way to solo mine with ASIC h/w without all the complexity of installing and configuring stratum pool software - but it does seem to be pretty heavy-weight at the moment. I notice that even Eligius will auto-switch you to stratum if you try to use GBT, unless you explicitly disable stratum. I hope you find some time to look into it soon. |
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I am using the version 3.4.0 BFGMiner that is distributed as part of Bertmod 0.3 on my KnCMiner Saturn. I added the lines: "coinbase-addr": <my payout address>,
"coinbase-sig": <My block sig>
to the end of the config file, because I wanted to solo mine on my local bitcoin-qt. It doesn't generate any errors, but the hashrate goes down from ~285 GH/s to more like 10 GH/s If I remove the above two lines, it goes back to normal. Anybody have any idea what is going wrong here? Is it using 100% CPU, or less? I wonder if the BBB can't keep up with generating work via GBT... Yeah, looks like that's it - always over 95% CPU when GBT is enabled, ~22% otherwise. Bummer. |
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I am using the version 3.4.0 BFGMiner that is distributed as part of Bertmod 0.3 on my KnCMiner Saturn. I added the lines: "coinbase-addr": <my payout address>,
"coinbase-sig": <My block sig>
to the end of the config file, because I wanted to solo mine on my local bitcoin-qt. It doesn't generate any errors, but the hashrate goes down from ~285 GH/s to more like 10 GH/s If I remove the above two lines, it goes back to normal. Anybody have any idea what is going wrong here? |
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I've been using bfgminer for quite a while now and I love it. One thing I've never been able to find is a current interface guide. I understand most of the 3.6 interface, but could someone break down this line for me?
ST:28 F:2 NB:98 AS:0 BW:[137/90 B/s] E:26.81 I: 441uBTC/hr BS:65k
Thanks in advance: Curtis
From the BFGMiner README: The BFGMiner status line shows:
ST:1 F:0 NB:1 AS:0 BW:[ 75/241 B/s] E:2.42 I:12.99mBTC/hr BS:2.71k
ST is STaged work items (ready to use).
F is network Failure occasions (server down or slow to provide work)
NB is New Blocks detected on the network
AS is Active Submissions (shares in the process of submitting)
BW is BandWidth usage on the network (received/sent)
E is Efficiency defined as number of shares accepted (multiplied by their
difficulty) per 2 KB of bandwidth
I is expected Income, calculated by actual shares submitted in 100% PPS value
(assumes Bitcoin, does not account for altcoin conversions!)
BS is the all time Best Share difficulty you've found |
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15? The range seems to indicate a max val of 10, no?
you're totally right. just looked up what the mentioned value was and then I though let's add the line from the documentation should have read my own post before sending it So I tried messing with the queue setting in cgminer. Set my miner to solo mine btc. What happens is all the other backup pools kick in and get some of the work. I get quite a few "pool is not providing work fast enough" errors. I tried difficulty of 10, 15, 40, 75, 90. Higher numbers seemed to get less "fast enough" errors, but it's seems to farm out more work to failover pools. Probably would need to run everything a lot longer to see how the values settle over time, but don't want to waste good hashing time experimenting But the fact it was balancing the work with all the backup pools means it isn't strictly solo mining and it doesn't seem to be able to keep up. No matter how big you make your queue, it will always overrun it eventually if you are using getwork with an ASIC miner. Getwork is simply not fast enough to keep up, and that is one of the main reasons why stratum was invented. If you are mining with ASICs, you have to use either GBT or stratum. If you want to use stratum, you will have to set up a stratum pool with yourself as the only miner, which is a major pain. BFGMiner is the only simple solution I know of, since it explicitly solves the problem by using GBT directly to bitcoind/bitcoin-qt. Read the 'Solo Mining' section in the BFGMiner readme to learn more. |
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I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.
I solo mined alts for 10 minutes one day as an experiment and kept getting "pool is not providing work fast enough" error. No idea if the same goes for btc solo mining. Would be interested if anyone has set up stratum proxy for solo mining and how they did it. I'm pretty sure you need a stratum pool, not a proxy for solo mining: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162788.0Damn that's a complex post  You could be right about needing a stratum pool, or how else will you be able to set the difficulty? It's not something you can set in cgminer, so it has to be somewhere further down the food chain Again, just use BFGMiner and your problems will be solved. It uses GBT for solo mining, so you don't need stratum. How do you tell it what difficulty to use? In solo mining, the difficulty is the network difficulty. The only accepted share you will see is when you solve a block. |
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I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.
I solo mined alts for 10 minutes one day as an experiment and kept getting "pool is not providing work fast enough" error. No idea if the same goes for btc solo mining. Would be interested if anyone has set up stratum proxy for solo mining and how they did it. I'm pretty sure you need a stratum pool, not a proxy for solo mining: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=162788.0Damn that's a complex post You could be right about needing a stratum pool, or how else will you be able to set the difficulty? It's not something you can set in cgminer, so it has to be somewhere further down the food chain Again, just use BFGMiner and your problems will be solved. It uses GBT for solo mining, so you don't need stratum. EDIT: I should add that BFGMiner is already installed on your KnC miner if you are using Bertmod 0.3. |
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I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.
I solo mined alts for 10 minutes one day as an experiment and kept getting "pool is not providing work fast enough" error. No idea if the same goes for btc solo mining. Would be interested if anyone has set up stratum proxy for solo mining and how they did it. Getwork is not fast enough for ASIC h/w - but BFGMiner will use GBT for solo mining, and you will not get those 'pool 0 is not providing work fast enough' messages. |
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I thought getwork-based solo mining didn't work well or at all anymore, and that you needed a stratum proxy of some kind to achieve reasonable efficiency, especially with a large amount of hashpower.
BFGMiner will use GBT for solo mining, not getwork. |
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I just noticed that my module order has gone from 'paid' to 'in progess' That's gotta be a good sign... |
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Brack Friday Bunduru?
A timely South Park reference, nice |
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And the confusion begins... I'll just quote myself: This is experimental, has no real effect on miners or earnings, etc
Wow. You make a confusing announcement almost devoid of real information, and then respond condescendingly when people unsurprisingly have questions. Wow. That is just not necessary dude. A better response would be to just explain the change in more detail. Its not confusing. The announcement was quite clear. And I'm not being condescending. The specific questions posed were answered in the announcement already in the one line I reiterated. There is also a link to the thread containing more detail in my initial post... -wk I get that the announcement stated that there were no changes that affected miners, but people read these things quickly and it is certainly not surprising or unexpected that you would get such questions - and even those of us who were not confused would still like to know more detail about this change. I don't know how you can say you were not being condescending. Reread your response and think about how it reads to the people you were responding to. |
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And the confusion begins... I'll just quote myself: This is experimental, has no real effect on miners or earnings, etc
Wow. You make a confusing announcement almost devoid of real information, and then respond condescendingly when people unsurprisingly have questions. Wow. That is just not necessary dude. A better response would be to just explain the change in more detail. |
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Hello, everyone! Random lurker here. I went ahead and signed up for the board to let the rest of the lurkers know that if anyone who has paid has not yet received notice that their rig was shipped, you may want to contact MBP sales. I grabbed one of the last rigs, order #10xx and was told that it should have shipped already.
Beyond that, anyone know how to sign up for ghash.io? The old link to cex.io seems to have disappeared and regular signup page there looks like it is for investors, not bitfury miners.
Edit: Scratch that ghash.io question, it looks like something fishy is going on. I'll look into some of the other pools mentioned earlier that play nice with the difficulty.
if you have a share on cex.io, you get access to the ghash.io pool..... You don't have to have any shares on cex.io. If you make an account on cex.io, you can log into the pool with the same credentials. |
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Mr. Luke-jr, I have a (possibly very ignorant) question for you.
BFGMiner obviously understands GBT. Bitcoind/bitcoin-qt also understands GBT.
This being the case, why is it necessary to have pool software that understands GBT between my miner and my bitcoind if I want to solo mine using GBT ? Why can't that functionality be built into the miner? It is, hence the solo mining section of README. Well, that's a welcome answer Sorry to waste your time. |
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Mr. Luke-jr, I have a (possibly very ignorant) question for you.
BFGMiner obviously understands GBT. Bitcoind/bitcoin-qt also understands GBT.
This being the case, why is it necessary to have pool software that understands GBT between my miner and my bitcoind if I want to solo mine using GBT ? Why can't that functionality be built into the miner?
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what should I check next?
How to upgrade to a recent version? Good one Helldiver But I just when back to 3.1.4 because that was the only one that worked I have 3.5.1 installed Now they all just hang when I start them. Have you tried clearing out your .conf file? Any time BFG craps out like that on me, it's something broken in the bfgminer.conf... me too... back up and remove that .conf I removed it yesterday, deleted everything on this computer and restalled everything about 2 hours ago and it still doing the same thing. I did everything that I could think of also read through most of the thread bitcointalk. Where is bfgminer? If it's somewhere in your user folder, it may be a permissions issue. Copy the bfgminer folder to the root of c: and see if that helps. That did not work either! Any other conflict you can think on that I can try would be greatly appreaciated Maybe the problem now is that you don't have a conf file, and are not completely specifying the url:port and user/pass for your pool on the command line? |
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