Linux gives a better hashrate, also because of you can run it straight from the commandline so you can go ridiculously low with your memory clock. Huh?, what's the linux command line option to dial down the memory clock? AFAIK the lowest memory clock speed (and the total range) is set in the graphic card BIOS, which can only be altered by reflashing. |
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Actually it will not just be the "curious" losing interest. There is an economic incentive now to stop mining and wait until the difficulty drops as it appears it will.
Simply put, it'll be cheaper to mine next week. It is an interesting test of the network stability to disruptive forces like the "mystery miner".
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What's the new message all about ...
16/03/2011 11:53:09, 68b26a98, accepted
16/03/2011 11:53:19, a7c9af8b, accepted
16/03/2011 11:54:54, a59d5bc1, accepted
16/03/2011 11:56:08, 06783321, accepted m0mchil's python miner
16/03/2011 11:56:51, 14d00ef9, accepted
16/03/2011 11:57:57, 676f7efb, accepted
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Someone should be trying to get Charlie Sheen to buy coke on silk road using bitcoins and tell the story on Letterman ...
slashdot effect x10
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Thanks, just trying to make sense of the data. If things remain as they are it means that it is better to switch off your miner and start it again next week sometime (after difficulty drops) .... unless mystery miner come backs to stick the knife in again just before the next jump. |
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Hi Tycho,
my timezone is not supported, my machines are operating in Timezone GMT+13
would you mind adding that one?
cheers.
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There is an omission in this tutorial that will send linux noobs astray on the driver install ... at this point here Open terminal and write the following command
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-amdcccle
$ sudo apt-get install fglrx-modaliases
This should install Proprietary ATI Catalyst drivers. Assuming a starting position as new clean ubuntu install, between setting your repository to ppa:ubuntu-x-swat and getting the drivers you'll need to issue a command to update the repository list in the machine else you will just go ahead and install the current fglrx drivers referred to in the default repository. (10.10) which is exactly what Mahkul got. So it should read $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates $ sudo apt-get update ### or alternately here you can open Synaptic and hit the "Reload" button, check ppa:ubuntu-x-swat is ticked as a repository in Settings->Repositories->Other Software ... also beware an "apt-get update will update your whole system which may take a while depending .... and now it will get the drivers from ubuntu-xswat (if that is what you really want, I didn't use them) $ sudo apt-get install fglrx $ sudo apt-get install fglrx-amdcccle $ sudo apt-get install fglrx-modaliases Also here at the repository it recommends you completely uninstall all traces of any installed fglrx before trying to put another on the system ... and you can install a tool to do that (sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates), so I guess they really mean it. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates?field.series_filter=maverickhttp://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Maverick_Installation_Guide#Removing_Catalyst.2Ffglrx |
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Yeah, better watch out, homicidal maniacs are more common than drug dealers these days, (I heard it on TV).
And all cocaine could be anthrax, MJ is laced with toxic insecticide, crossing the street is more dangerous than flying, sex makes yer dick fall off and tomorrow you'll possibly be wiped out by a tsunami ... in fact stay at home with your mom and you'll be just fine.
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(also I'm a bit biased because I seem to have a speedy core that likes to run hot, fast and not stop ... it hangs when it ramps up after a getwork 1 in 1000 times??)
I have a fairly crappy net connection, so to deal with it I run one copy of poclbm with a -f of 30-60 connected to the pool and a second copy with a -f of 200+ solo mining. The second copy gets about 5% of the gpu power when both are running but it picks up the slack immediately if there is a delay in the get work. Edit: I have a satellite internet connection plus I use a VPN to avoid the 250MB a day download cap, but that puts me last in line for getting any bandwidth. About the only way my connection could get worse is if i used Tor as well. Hey Dude, thnx for your idea. I launched two processes on the problem GPU and it is now stable for over 6 hours (at best it was 1 hour before). If anyone is interested here is my convoluted launch process to get this thing crunching ... in one terminal $export DISPLAY=:0.(speedy GPU adapter number) $fgl_glxgears wait for some output to indicate fps are being crunched in gears then in another terminal (should have these commands ready to go with terminals and shells prepped) $nice -20 ./poclbm.py -u miner0_username --pass=miner0_passwd -o mining.bitcoin.cz -p 8332 -v -w128 -f10 -d(speedy GPU) and in yet another terminal $nice -20 ./poclbm.py -u miner1_username --pass=miner1_passwd -o mining.bitcoin.cz -p 8332 -v -w128 -f10 -d(speedy GPU) and as soon as processes report back hashing numbers kill (CTRL+C) fgl_glxgears. Dirty hack I know but it works and is now stable, I can do a little script to launch this with a timer included. It was worth it because this core actually hashes 1-2MH/s quicker than other cores and wasn't worth sending back 5970 card for protracted warranty claim as it passed all the graphics tests anyway. I think it is a problem with Xserver, (Xorg) fglrx kernel module and poclbm and a hardware weirdness whereby GPU doesn't like stopping and ramping up after a getwork pause but is fine if it is kept crunching maxed out .... maybe multiple processes can optimise GPUs in other ways ... -w 32 x 4? |
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Yeah, more centralisation, that'll work ... idjits.
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I am wondering if you had considered increasing the difficulty for your pool shares?, i.e. making it >1
It would reduce getwork calls across the internet, for the higher hash rate cards it seems to make more sense to be working on a harder problem, maybe a separate pool for bigger cards? They spend quite a bit of time waiting for the new work, taken in clock cycles versus wall-clock ...
Well, with well written miner, there is no reason why cores should wait on submitting shares; it can be done fully in asynchronous way (just send, don't wait - at least in blocking state - to response). Maybe the feature request to the miner developers?  Blocking getworks are another issue, but I'm working on it - its long polling and next stuff comming soon. The higher difficulty for fast cards are good idea, it is already on my list for some time. It will definitely come, I have some algorithms to find 'idea' difficulty for given worker in my head; will see how it will work in real life  . Keep in mind that higher difficulty does not mean only lower network overhead, but also higher variance in round rewards and maybe also some new kind of pool attacks, so it need some care to don't break anything. Anybody know if the poclbm.py miner is asynchronous? (I'll ask m0mchill also I guess) It is apparent on screen that hash rate drops after a block is accepted and new one is begun but is that what is happening on the core? I wasn't going to bother with overhead of solo-mining set-up just yet but maybe it is way to work around buggy fast hot core ... or maybe put two processes on same core so it is always doing something regardless of getwork calls ....hmmm, thnx for the ideas. |
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Hi slush,
I am wondering if you had considered increasing the difficulty for your pool shares?, i.e. making it >1
It would reduce getwork calls across the internet, for the higher hash rate cards it seems to make more sense to be working on a harder problem, maybe a separate pool for bigger cards? They spend quite a bit of time waiting for the new work, taken in clock cycles versus wall-clock ...
(also I'm a bit biased because I seem to have a speedy core that likes to run hot, fast and not stop ... it hangs when it ramps up after a getwork 1 in 1000 times??)
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Is Satoshi based on the North-eastern Japanese coastline?
Should we be concerned?
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fiat money seems to be a problem for them ... http://www.zerohedge.com/article/hacker-group-anonymous-brings-peaceful-revolution-america-will-engage-civil-disobedience-untThe Anonymous manifesto: * We are a decentralized non-violent resistance movement, which seeks to restore the rule of law and fight back against the organized criminal class. * One-tenth of one percent of the population has consolidated wealth in unprecedented fashion and launched an all-out economic war against 99.9% of the population. * We are not affiliated with either wing of the two-party oligarchy. We seek an end to the corrupted two-party system by ending the campaign finance and lobbying racket. * Above all, we aim to break up the global banking cartel centered at the Federal Reserve, International Monetary Fund, Bank of International Settlement and World Bank. * We demand that the primary dealers within the Federal Reserve banking system be broken up and held accountable for rigging markets and destroying the global economy, effective immediately. * As a first sign of good faith we demand Ben Bernanke step down as Federal Reserve chairman. * Until our demands are met and a rule of law is restored, we will engage in a relentless campaign of non-violent, peaceful, civil disobedience. * In our next communication we will announce Operation Empire State Rebellion. Glorious Chairman Ben - our free advice to you: change your e-mail password stat... |
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People sure like debt to be paid, violently if needed. This is why we got stuck in the fiat dollars regime. Paying in Federal Reserve notes is not in fact paying the debt, it is swapping one debt for another since the federal Reserve note itself is a promise from the ruling oligarchic banksters to eventually pay the USA ... it is a gigantic debt-go-round and has been ever since Roosevelt screwed the gold pooch. The end game is approaching fast now though and as the man, eventually all debts get paid, either by the debtor or the creditor. What's in your wallet, debt or credit? |
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Debt backed money requires continual inflation for the system to operate, and encourages ever increasing consumption because the longer you hold onto this kind of currency the less it is worth. In this way consumption is rewarded, but efficiency is not.
Couldn't have said better or more succinctly. BTC could easily be a net benefit for the "environment" (an ill-defined nebulous concept anyway) over the current dysfunctional monetary system. |
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spikes beyond the natural rate of system growth will be mercilessly corrected. Ouch, doomed to trudge to the tune of the law of numbers? where's the bubbly fun we've become addicted to? Interesting to see if it plays out ... |
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... and of course once a majority of market participants become aware of this correlation, then the feedback of price expectations based on knowledge of the difficulty trend becomes inseparable from the open-loop correlation signal itself ...
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