Bitcoin Producing Problem

[heavensflower]

I don't know if this is right. I have the regular bitcoin client running while poclbm.exe is running. The poclbm.exe is saying its running at about 25000 khash/s while the bitcoin client is generating also but on that I have it generating, using the cpu at about 2000 khash/s, and I don't know if the poclbm is actually contributing with my gpu to the bitcoin client or what I should do. Please help. I'm new to this and so I'm not the most intuitive on it as some may be.

[BitterTea]

You're probably better off not generating in the Bitcoin client, but only poclbm. Using the CPU at 100% can starve the GPU of work, in my experience.

With poclbm, are you mining in a pool? If so, you don't need Bitcoin running at all to mine. If you are mining solo...

1) I would join a pool
2) You'll need to run bitcoind or add the -server argument to bitcoin when you start it.

[heavensflower]

No, I'm not in a pool, at least not yet and I have been running the Bitcoin client with the -server argument. Sorry I didn't say that earlier. When I start the client it's with the -server argument and then I start poclbm with it. But I have both of them generating and I don't know if that's correct or if I'm doing something wrong.

[BitterTea]

What you are doing should work, but as I said the use of your CPU may slow down your GPU generation.

My recommendation is to turn off generation in the Bitcoin software and see if the poclbm's rate increases. If not, you can leave them both on if you want.

Bitcoin will not report the hashing that is done by external sources, but you can be assured that it is working if poclbm's not giving you an error.