I've set up a private pool solution for a reasonably large miner using a combination of p2pool and ckpool technology. You should all see a decent increase in the overall pool size over the next 24-48 hours.
How does ckpool and p2pool work together? Ckpool is essentially a centralized service offering solo mining, correct? How does that interact with the p2pool network? Thanks. You're thinking of solo.ckpool.org . ckpool is the software, it is not a pool, but there are numerous ckpool based pools. It can also run as ckproxy which when it sits in front of p2pool it can take the load off the p2pool software allowing far more high speed clients to connect to the one p2pool node without adversely affecting its latency or efficiency. Yes that does make it yet another layer you need running which makes it even more awkward and I wasn't recommending that for anyone else, but it happens to be quite a good solution for very large miners as it ends up acting like a mini private pool for them while still being part of the distributed p2pool and avoid joining a regular pool. As the author of the ckpool software, I'm offering various mining solutions. You'll note that I'm personally not running a regular pool of my own, only the solo pool which is filling a different niche. Managed to run proxy with -p but With -P it fails and have no clue what this means.. This is from a gentoo box so there should be those build essentials without any change - might be wrong though.. boxi src # ./ckpool -A -P [2014-10-02 13:10:04] ckproxy generator starting [2014-10-02 13:10:04] ckproxy generator ready [2014-10-02 13:10:04] ckproxy stratifier starting [2014-10-02 13:10:04] ckproxy connector starting [2014-10-02 13:10:04] Failed to get a json result in passthrough_stratum, got: {"error": {"message": "Method not found", "code": -32601, "data": null}, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": null, "result": null} [2014-10-02 13:10:04] ckproxy connector ready [2014-10-02 13:10:04] ckproxy stratifier ready |
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Last one shut off the lights.
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Ive got 3 batch 8 s3:s, hw error rate with those are 10X versus batch 5 or 6. Is it the firmware, any ideas? It isnt still too high but i wonder whats causing this..
Batch 8 18h 14m 22s hwerrors 1534
Batch 6 1day 07h 14m 22s hwerrors 133
I was getting a ridiculous amount of HW errors last 24 hours on one blade, at one pool I was mucking with (what a dud pool, 3 days and still no confirmed payouts for BTC) anyway, i had the miner do 2 different pools balanced setting, 1 blade each, when I switched it to just a single pool and used the failover method my errors went to 0.00% that is with S3+ B8 What's important if that hwerrors x 100%/DiffA is less than 1%. Make sure you have the latest firmware installed and use the Miner Configuration/Advanced Settings tab to change the frequency. Could it be the thermal stuff, because if i set the clocks to 237,5 i get ooxooo ? How long does it take to clean everything and put new thermal grease to test if it helps? Batch 5 or was it 6 s3 with clocks 250 hw errors 0.00% Firmware is downgraded to antMiner_S320140721.bin |
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I'm having some questions about P2Pool mining, I'm mining on http://elizium.name node with 2 Antminer S3+'s, at about 920GH/s. But I've been mining for 12+ hours now, and I still have nothing. I added after my payout address "+518" but still nothing. Is this normal or...? Because P2pool is PPLNS so it takes around 3 days to build up enough shares to start seeing payment. conversely when you stop mining you'll still receive payments for a few days. have a little patience, it'll come and when it does it'll be sweet. p2pool has been finding quite a few blocks lately. I don't think the 3 day thing is true anymore. I've watched my 1 share roll off in 36 hours or less. Also, at 920 GH/s, your variance is going to be bad. Be patient, and expect lots of time without shares. M This is covered in the "READ THIS FIRST" article here: http://p2pool.org/#learn-p2poolBut want to put it to bed once and for all... The variable for determining how many shares to pay can be found here in the p2pool source code: https://github.com/forrestv/p2pool/blob/master/p2pool/networks/bitcoin.pyThis is an excerpt: # CHAIN_LENGTH = number of shares back client keeps
# REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH = maximum number of shares back client uses to compute payout
# REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH must always be <= CHAIN_LENGTH
# REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH must be changed in sync with all other clients
# changes can be done by changing one, then the other
PARENT = networks.nets['bitcoin']
SHARE_PERIOD = 30 # seconds
CHAIN_LENGTH = 24*60*60//10 # shares
REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH = 24*60*60//10 # shares
REAL_CHAIN_LENGTH sets the total number of previously found shares to include in the payout when a block is found. It is a fixed number, it is constant and does not change without the consensus of the p2pool network (i.e. the majority of miners on p2pool all change it on their nodes at the same time). It has not been changed since I have been around. Currently it is 24*60*60//10... (24*60*60)/10 = 8,640 shares are paid when a block is found, this is a mathematical fact and not subject to interpretation. SHARE_PERIOD is the length in seconds expected before a share is found. Unlike Bitcoin which adjusts difficulty about every 2 weeks, p2pool adjusts difficulty dynamically so a share is expected to be found about every SHARE_PERIOD seconds, currently set to 30 seconds. The SHARE_PERIOD is a target that p2pool attempts to hit for every share by dynamically adjusting the difficulty. Actual SHARE_PERIOD is subject to variance/luck, so it is possible a share could be found in 1 second, or in 120 seconds, however the difficulty is constantly adjusted so the expected time is always 30 seconds based on the current pool hashrate. So if we know 8,640 shares will be paid, and that a share is expected to be found every 30 seconds... 8,640 * 30 = 259,200 seconds 259,200 / 60 = 4,320 minutes 4,320 / 60 = 72 hours 72 / 24 = 3 days So.... An easy way to explain it so anyone can understand is:A share is valid, and paid if a block is found, for about 3 days. The accurate way to explain it is:The last 8,640 shares are paid when a block is found, the expected time to share is 30 seconds. Hope this helps... Maybe you can try a miner, let it find one share then stop it. I can guarantee its not valid not much more than 24 hours!!! Or if thats too difficult see with your eyes - http://p2pool.servebeer.com:9332/static/sharetime.jpg the last share in graps wasnt valid for a single block.... |
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Ive got 3 batch 8 s3:s, hw error rate with those are 10X versus batch 5 or 6. Is it the firmware, any ideas? It isnt still too high but i wonder whats causing this..
Batch 8 18h 14m 22s hwerrors 1534
Batch 6 1day 07h 14m 22s hwerrors 133
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I'm having some questions about P2Pool mining, I'm mining on http://elizium.name node with 2 Antminer S3+'s, at about 920GH/s. But I've been mining for 12+ hours now, and I still have nothing. I added after my payout address "+518" but still nothing. Is this normal or...? Because P2pool is PPLNS so it takes around 3 days to build up enough shares to start seeing payment. conversely when you stop mining you'll still receive payments for a few days. have a little patience, it'll come and when it does it'll be sweet. p2pool has been finding quite a few blocks lately. Im not sure what you mean by 3 days, a share is nowdays valid ~24 hours.... |
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Lifetime. Actually about .3 btc
at 15% difficulty rise every adjustment period and .16 cents electricity kw/hr
Yes they are a huge loss as they came out at the wrong time just before the s3, I feel sorry for people asking for $1000 on ebay
That # doesn't quite seem right to me. I'm seeing 0.54 BTC over 31 days at current difficulty. M There only 9 days left in the current difficulty and then we're looking at a +15% difficulty increase. Samsonn25 is using 16 cents per kilowatt in his calculation and the alloscomp calculator you appear to be using doesn't calculate electricity cost. So there's that.  I suspect its going to be 25-30% increase in a week. Time Between Blocks 7.38 (minutes) |
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There should be an option with miner order to have one AntMiner Jumper Switch with ant... Or even put one in package for free...
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Hi CrazyRabbi,
We have no comments before looking into your case, it is better you PM us your order ID and tracking number to double check.
It is no possible that we didn't process refund if we agree to a reasonable request.
Miners must be shipped out if we didn't accept the request of refund.
Just to confirm: Are you already shipping S3 - Batch 8? Thanks. Ive got my batch 8 in customs, in my hands tomorrow |
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And this, seeing as it's "gripe time" for Bitmain today........ I don't have the build environment to create a full binary image, and the code will need a LOT of work to actually become part of mainline cgminer it seems, but for the time being here is a link to a bugfixed binary of cgminer 4.6.0 for the S3 based on the bitmain code. Copy the file into /usr/bin/ on the S3 overwriting the existing one: http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.0-140908/cgminer@ ckolivas: You my good man, are a LEGEND! I'll be sending a small donation shortly - excellent work & many, many thanks  It's amazing to think that it took you less than 5 hours to produce something that Bitmain failed to do after promising to do so over 3 weeks ago......  Anyone who uses this, please consider giving ckolivas a small donation for helping secure your S3's from security risks, improving their performance & ensuring your hash power goes where it's supposed to go.@ Bitmain: Please upload updated firmware releases for both S2 & S3 units that incorporate the latest cgminer as you said you would. Not everyone of your users has the technical know-how to install ckolivas's latest work, a firmware update image is much more user friendly and will enable everyone to benefit from the latest cgminer security fixes & performance improvements.Thanks, in anticipation...... Thanks for posting this! command to copy this and replace goes like this in case you have a linux box where you downloaded this cgminer: ssh yourant.ip -l root scp username@192.168.x.x:/home/username/Downloads/cgminer /usr/bin/ /etc/init.d/cgminer restart you may have to do this twice or simply write reboot and hit enter |
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Theres many cloudmining services, is this the best?
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So it has changed, the time a share is valid. It used to be 3 blocks or three days If i remeber right. Now its like 24 hours, it doesnt matter if a block is found or not. theres graps of my 30mb shares on saturday and sunday, didnt get payment todays (monday) block http://p2pool.servebeer.com:9332/static/sharetime.jpg |
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It was a really big scam from cryptx to ask about moving to p2pool.
And its maybe the biggest lie in the market to tell shareholders that every single hardware they have is not compatible with p2pool.
They could have splitted harvare to use 2 pools if they were honest with us. But no.
They tell us lies about variance is something we want to avoid - variance has nothing to do with high or low income in case shareholder does live longer than few weeks.
Its just wonderfull to see days that im getting 4 times more than my hashrate on p2pool, finding a block gives a small bonus - dont have to share altcoins with everyone... That doesnt matter to team cryptx because fees are safe...
Incase peta had done as they said, they could have saved all altcoins - we would have got much more of those for sure - and sold those in high times....or maybe even leave it for shareholder to decide if they want to withdraw those someday, that way it could add some value to each and every peta...
50btc, mtgox, cryptx
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Im taking actions, contacting Finnish police because they misslead me to think they are going to use p2pool - got me investment in what turns out to be ghash bullshit and me loosing all I invested in their false lays
It doesnt matter to me if some eqipment does underperform in p2pool - in p2pool its shares you get that counts. newer seen any harware that cant be used on p2pool. So im very angry with yhose fuggots that got me in - because telling that they use p2pool.
It cant be so difficult to edit sscantime and queue options if they got some people that can edit those options?
If i had a gun, i would use it.
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Smaller shares are no good, this is mining industry. Theres nothing more stupid than dust payment. And if some people loose their beauty sleep because not donating and thinking a solutiont to that, i give you a hint - dont mine here go ahead mine with Eligius or Ghash. Its the makers wish to have some income for the work he has done - if it doesnt suit you move on.
Stupid people talking about taking this software because lack of devel. If something works why would you fix it?
Its not a dev prob if someone cant use his software as its supposed. Hey this is a free world.
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Had to modify with NANO because ive got no time to learn vi the config file /etc/init.d/cgminer PARAMS="$AOPTIONS $POOL1 $POOL2 $POOL3 $_pb $_ow $_bec --api-listen --api-network --queue 0" Now it works as expected  |
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Even the uptime doesnt reset when powered of and on again. Is it because of firmware or hardware? Bought 2 of these and both have same faults. If mining with wifi the mining speed display is a mess...
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Theres some probs with s3:s - the best share doesnt update it stays 0. Ive got it working once when undercloked, but now even that doesnt help - I need it because mining in p2pool. My two units runs fine with 250mhz - no shares found though in two days? Do these work at all? Software sources doesnt work as it should, had to modify src/gz barrier_breaker http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/packages/ to be able to opkg update to install libncurses had to repalce packages/ with base and then back. all this to be able to install nano.. all mine show best share. not sure why you would need to install additional packages, maybe try to cross compile your own version of openwrt and cgminer To be able to use nano as editor...for one. Thank you for your help! |
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Theres some probs with s3:s - the best share doesnt update it stays 0. Ive got it working once when undercloked, but now even that doesnt help - I need it because mining in p2pool. My two units runs fine with 250mhz - no shares found though in two days? Do these work at all? Software sources doesnt work as it should, had to modify src/gz barrier_breaker http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/packages/packages/ to be able to opkg update to install libncurses had to repalce packages/ with base and then back. all this to be able to install nano.. |
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Anybody notice a drop in shares? With no changes in setup or machines.... My shares stopped late last night... So today, I rebooted my computer and reset the system and started everything fresh even the bitcore.... Now running 4 hours at 4 TH and 0.0 shares... Thats very unusual as I usually get about 2 an hour on average... Just wondering if its only me? Thanks That's variance for you. Now... that's some pretty crappy luck, but, it happens. Sometimes when that happens to me, I give my miners a little pep talk. Positive words of encouragement like, "I'm going to trade you in" and "Do you want to end up on eBay, too?". Then, a lot of times if that doesn't do the trick, I'll threaten them with unplugging them and not plugging them back in or forcing them to work on the same block over and over until they get it right. In extreme cases I'll reboot everything repeatedly, just so they know who is in control.  |
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