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Works fine here with 2.9.1 Yes, I just mean that wxWidgets 2.9.1 won't work with the makefile that comes with bitcoin 0.3.15. Ah, I wouldn't know about that. I had to upgrade bitcoin to SVN trunk version before the getwork patch (from git) could be applied at all.
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November 18, 2010, 12:13:53 AM Last edit: November 18, 2010, 12:32:02 AM by Remote |
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it's actually all said in this thread, you just have to read it. 1. download (getwork patched client) bitcoin-getwork-* and the miner poclbm_py2exe_*. 2. make sure, you got a bitcoin.conf file at C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf (or on xp) C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf containing rpcuser=someone rpcpassword=secret
3.a start bitcoin -server and wait for connections to get the last block 3.b start poclbm --user=someone --pass=secretif you only have one GPU, this is it, if there's more, you'd need to specify the device to use for the miner, but it will tell you. if you don't know how to handle your commandline, just create a bitcoin.bat containing start /DC:\Users\[username]\Desktop\bitcoin bitcoin.exe -server
and a poclbm.bat containing start /DC:\Users\[username]\Desktop\poclbm poclbm.exe --user=someone --pass=secret
to feed your clicking-needs. 4. wait and/or pray ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) Thanks for the guide, although it looks like you left something out. When I start the miner I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "poclbm.py", line 5, in <module> File "pyopencl\__init__.pyc", line 3, in <module> File "pyopencl\_cl.pyc", line 12, in <module> File "pyopencl\_cl.pyc", line 10, in __load ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. Edit: Please post links if something needs to be downloaded. I'm on Windows 7 64bit and have a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (with "OpenCL 1.0 CUDA 3.1.1 - CU: 12 @ 1188MHz (GPU)").
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November 18, 2010, 05:51:24 PM Last edit: November 18, 2010, 07:31:55 PM by witchspace |
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Wow, I just went from 2000 khash/s to almost 5000 by playing with the -f option ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Edit : this variance changed when going to NV driver 260.19.21, now it's about 5500 and the -f has a lot less influence. Also, CPU usage of the GPU miner went down with this driver. It was 100% with the old driver, now 2% ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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November 19, 2010, 03:02:39 AM |
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I made a bit of a discovery when testing m0m's latest binaries in -testnet, look at the times when blocks are generated in the miners, and note that they don't all show up in bitcoin's UI: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F2RLbM.png&t=665&c=Gmb-fM1Cv9XqoA) There seems to be a delay of 1 or more minutes between when they show up in the miner and when bitcoin picks up the transaction, if it picks it up at all. Is this something to worry about, or just a peculiarity of testnet?
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November 19, 2010, 07:37:22 AM |
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it's actually all said in this thread, you just have to read it. 1. download (getwork patched client) bitcoin-getwork-* and the miner poclbm_py2exe_*. 2. make sure, you got a bitcoin.conf file at C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf (or on xp) C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf containing rpcuser=someone rpcpassword=secret
3.a start bitcoin -server and wait for connections to get the last block 3.b start poclbm --user=someone --pass=secretif you only have one GPU, this is it, if there's more, you'd need to specify the device to use for the miner, but it will tell you. if you don't know how to handle your commandline, just create a bitcoin.bat containing start /DC:\Users\[username]\Desktop\bitcoin bitcoin.exe -server
and a poclbm.bat containing start /DC:\Users\[username]\Desktop\poclbm poclbm.exe --user=someone --pass=secret
to feed your clicking-needs. 4. wait and/or pray ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) Thanks for the guide, although it looks like you left something out. When I start the miner I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "poclbm.py", line 5, in <module> File "pyopencl\__init__.pyc", line 3, in <module> File "pyopencl\_cl.pyc", line 12, in <module> File "pyopencl\_cl.pyc", line 10, in __load ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. Edit: Please post links if something needs to be downloaded. I'm on Windows 7 64bit and have a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (with "OpenCL 1.0 CUDA 3.1.1 - CU: 12 @ 1188MHz (GPU)"). Nobody that can help me? I'm about to give up on running Bitcoins since I could use my CPU for other things, but I would like to use my GPU while I'm doing those other things. Please take a moment and explain how to fix this error.
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November 19, 2010, 08:39:18 PM |
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I made a bit of a discovery when testing m0m's latest binaries in -testnet, look at the times when blocks are generated in the miners, and note that they don't all show up in bitcoin's UI: ... There seems to be a delay of 1 or more minutes between when they show up in the miner and when bitcoin picks up the transaction, if it picks it up at all. Is this something to worry about, or just a peculiarity of testnet?
I had 2 such events with bitcoin-getwork-svn173-win32 in a real network the miner had the event, but bitcoin did not catch it at all. I still do not know what happened there and how to to trace it ![Sad](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/sad.gif)
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November 19, 2010, 08:50:47 PM |
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that's just one of those ~10% "lost blocks", your miner finds one, your client checks the network, network tells your client it's to late.
within the last weeks i'v been able to "find" 50hashes, only 45 of them have been accepted/shown up in the client-gui/generating coins. get used to it.
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November 19, 2010, 09:34:09 PM |
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I made a bit of a discovery when testing m0m's latest binaries in -testnet, look at the times when blocks are generated in the miners, and note that they don't all show up in bitcoin's UI:
There seems to be a delay of 1 or more minutes between when they show up in the miner and when bitcoin picks up the transaction, if it picks it up at all. Is this something to worry about, or just a peculiarity of testnet?
When they show up in the command window, they have zero confirmations. They do not show in the bitcoin UI until they have one confirmation. That delay can be a minute or 10. It is not a bug. I don't think that is true...some of my blocks have shown up immediately with "0 confirmations" as soon as the miner locates them. that's just one of those ~10% "lost blocks", your miner finds one, your client checks the network, network tells your client it's to late.
within the last weeks i'v been able to "find" 50hashes, only 45 of them have been accepted/shown up in the client-gui/generating coins. get used to it.
That's....not cool ![Angry](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/angry.gif)
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November 19, 2010, 10:02:22 PM |
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That's....not cool but that's how it is, you can't always win the race. if your CPU/regular-miner does this, you wouldn't even notice/care, except when checking your debug.log.
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November 20, 2010, 10:16:19 AM |
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updated to SVN 186
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November 20, 2010, 03:03:00 PM |
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updated to SVN 186
Applies cleanly, thanks ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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November 20, 2010, 05:24:20 PM Last edit: November 20, 2010, 05:39:18 PM by satoshi |
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updated to SVN 186
Thanks m0mchil for keeping up on the updates! GPU miners, please upgrade as soon as possible to shut down the free transaction abuse! This version has the new priority-based limit on free transaction spam. Just updated to SVN 181 and fixed getwork patch to wait 60 seconds between rebuilding the block with new transactions. This is actually the behavior of the original client, was forgotten in the patch by mistake. Fixes heavy CPU usage on every getwork request (this became obvious with recent heavy transaction spam). Please upgrade.
Before SVN 184, compiling transactions into a block used an n^2 algorithm. The new efficient single-pass algorithm is orders of magnitude quicker. (O(n) vs O(n^2)/2 algorithm, n=200 maybe 10 to 100 times quicker)
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November 23, 2010, 06:28:53 PM |
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Hi m0mchil, firstly thank you for your work. Is there any way to include getwork patch into official client? I'm using bitcoin on old centos server and compiling is pain here!
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November 24, 2010, 05:53:09 PM |
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A revised version of getwork is now in the official client, but the miners need to be updated a little to use it.
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November 24, 2010, 07:15:49 PM |
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Thank you satoshi, it is a small fix, I hope it will be ready tomorrow.
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November 25, 2010, 10:33:06 AM |
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Updated the miner to work with official bitcoin SVN 189.
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November 25, 2010, 10:14:06 PM |
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poclbm_py2exe_20101125 doesnt work for me (Bitcoin 0.3.17 official @ win7 64)
sharound(..........) errors
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November 25, 2010, 10:55:06 PM |
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works fine for me with 0.3.17 on both, winXP&7 64.
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November 26, 2010, 12:45:31 AM |
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poclbm_py2exe_20101125 doesnt work for me (Bitcoin 0.3.17 official @ win7 64)
sharound(..........) errors
Same here. Got an ATI card and latest (10.11) drivers. Also Win7 64. error: function "amd_bitalign" declared implicitly sharound(D,E,F,G,H,A,B,C,R(37),0x766A0ABB); ^
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