Hello all,

I have recently started mining and finding pools very unstable. I have been switching between 3-4 different pools but one of them inevitably gets DDOS'd and that kills my miner. Now this is ok I guess but the biggest problem is now this kills my phoneix miner and won't let it start up again on that pc. I can't kill -9 the process (with or without root) can't use top to kill it, nothing works. It's gone zombie. Now even bigger problem is that it locks the system up so badly that even a remote reboot does not actually reboot and it just locks be out completely. Can't ssh in yet i can still ping my PC. Only way to fix is a hard reboot. This is very annoying as I am not near the machine most of the day and now hours and power has been wasted which could have been spent on mining. Does anyone else have this issue and have a simple work around for it?

I would preferably stick to phoenix miner and would like to solve the problem with IT.

I am running on ubuntu 11.04 with the latest phoenix miner and ATI drivers

Also how long does it take till I can post in the proper forum groups?

Thanks

Hello all. This is my first post. Started mining 2 days ago

Got a problem with the gpu-watch script which controls fan speed. I have a 6990 and I noticed that despite my one gpu temp sitting at 84deg the other was at 54deg. I noticed that my pheonix miner (pooling with bitcoinpool) was dead on the one core, miner idle. So it seems that gpu-watch thinks it should decrease the fan speed as the temp is not in general that high. But i think that 84deg is way too high to let that one core run even if the other one is idle. Since I am a newbie I cannot post on that thread. I am not a python dev so not sure how to fix it. As a temporary measure and for a way to keep miners connected if they die, I want to restart my miner every hour with cron. I find the miners go idle often. Is this how other people get around that problem? Is it okay to be restarting your miner every hour?

Thanks