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February 01, 2013, 05:54:14 PM |
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Here is a general thread for owners of Avalon ASICs. This is the review I posted: http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/01/avalon-asic-miner-review.htmlThe restart issues mentioned appear to be have subsided (knock on wood) since I laid the unit down, and adjusted some air flow issues in my office.
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February 01, 2013, 06:04:54 PM |
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users thread! ha! rub it in will you? waiting on my unit...
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February 01, 2013, 06:33:03 PM |
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Paging Jgarzik. Party of one. Jgarzik, party of 1! Your seat at the ASIC table is ready. JGarzik, party of 1! I think this is one dinner you'll be happy to eat alone.
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If you're searching these lines for a point, you've probably missed it. There was never anything there in the first place.
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February 01, 2013, 06:35:45 PM |
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Paging Jgarzik. Party of one. Jgarzik, party of 1! Your seat at the ASIC table is ready. JGarzik, party of 1!
ITYM party of 2 Bitcoin Foundation has theirs too. With so many in transit, it won't be along though, I'm guessing. And in the meantime, folks who have purchased Avalons can ask questions here.
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February 01, 2013, 06:42:11 PM Last edit: February 01, 2013, 08:53:14 PM by loshia |
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Nevertheless, the unit has seen several cgminer restarts, and a few full machine restarts. Machine restarts seem to happen every 4-6 hours. Even ignoring more obvious means of restart detection (login and look at uptime, or ping-monitoring etc), a restart is a clearly audible event: At startup, the fans race at full speed for a few seconds, before "calming down" to a more moderate pace. jgarzik , I am running my lancelot cluster on similar tp-link platform with 64M of ram. I am noticing the restart of my system because cgminer 2.10.4 slowly and steadily eats all of the available RAM about 45M. Can you just run now and then free and post the results. Probably some tweaks/patches are needed to cgminer.
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February 01, 2013, 06:54:51 PM |
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Can you just run now and then free and post the results.
Request not understood. I can watch the process size over time, if that's what you're asking.
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February 01, 2013, 06:59:17 PM |
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Can you just run now and then free and post the results.
Request not understood. I can watch the process size over time, if that's what you're asking. Exactly.. pls do excuse my English sucks:) root@cgminer:~# free total used free shared buffers Mem: 61752 28748 33004 0 2928 -/+ buffers: 25820 35932 Swap: 0 0 0 root@cgminer:~# top Mem: 28772K used, 32980K free, 0K shrd, 2928K buff, 8432K cached CPU: 23% usr 0% sys 0% nic 76% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq Load average: 0.39 0.22 0.11 2/79 14414 PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ %CPU COMMAND 14414 14397 root R 1536 2% 15% top 6062 6056 root R 69864 113% 8% /usr/bin/cgminer And when cgminer eats all memory folowing happens Feb 1 14:36:53 cgminer kern.warn kernel: [281314.280000] miner 11 invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201da, order=0, oom_score_adj=0
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February 01, 2013, 09:07:41 PM |
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I ordered several units ( on my birthday ), patiently waiting their arrival. Did you ever try it in p2pool or with a high diff share?
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February 01, 2013, 09:22:22 PM |
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Did you ever try it in p2pool
Yes, see the review linked in OP. or with a high diff share?
Yes, "vardiff" works on BTC Guild with this miner.
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February 01, 2013, 11:06:43 PM |
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Any idea what temps the modules and heatsinks are hitting? Curious if those heatsinks were overkill or necessary.
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February 02, 2013, 02:29:25 AM |
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Power numbers snapshot: 620 Watts, 5.6 Amps thanks to Kill-A-Watt. [Elapsed] => 2186 [MHS av] => 66320.47 [Found Blocks] => 0 [Getworks] => 73 [Accepted] => 2060 ... [miner_count] => 24 [asic_count] => 10 [fan1] => 0 [fan2] => 1920 [fan3] => 1920 [temp1] => 27 [temp2] => -1 [temp3] => 48 [temp_max] => 49
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February 02, 2013, 02:32:50 AM |
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620 Watts, 5.6 Amps
That is not 400W :\ I think I might be reconsidering my purchases from batch 2 now. Thanks for taking the time to write the review and take the readings Jeff
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February 02, 2013, 02:33:54 AM Last edit: February 02, 2013, 02:56:05 AM by organofcorti |
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Power numbers snapshot:
620 Watts, 5.6 Amps
thanks to Kill-A-Watt.
Thanks Jeff. That makes a big difference to the earnings potential in the long run - but probably not for the next batch, unless BFL manage to deliver. 620 Watts, 5.6 Amps
That is not 400W :\ I think I might be reconsidering my purchases from batch 2 now. Thanks for taking the time to write the review and take the readings Jeff Even at the US$0.25/kWh, $20 USD/btc and difficulty = 6 million (after 300 Avalon units have been added) you'll still clear US$108 per day. If BFL ships another 40Ghps and diificulty = 12 million, you'll still clear US$52 per day. You should still be able to make an ROI if the exchange rates hold. I'll try to post something quick about the limits of profitability later.
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February 02, 2013, 02:35:05 AM |
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Power numbers snapshot:
620 Watts, 5.6 Amps
thanks to Kill-A-Watt.
200+W per unit? Holy balls. That's a hell of a lot more than 400W.
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February 02, 2013, 02:44:23 AM |
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Ouch. I sure hope they deliver to Australia quickly... because I have a feeling I won't be running my Avalon for long. I'll probably find a use for the case and sell off the modules to someone who has cheap elec :/
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February 02, 2013, 02:56:32 AM |
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My questions are mainly of shipping: - Did you have to sign for the shipment (was it registrered/insured)? - Did the machine clear off to customs, or was it taxed?
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February 02, 2013, 02:57:36 AM |
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My questions are mainly of shipping: - Did you have to sign for the shipment (was it registrered/insured)? - Did the machine clear off to customs, or was it taxed?
And do you remember how much shipping was when you ordered it last year?
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February 02, 2013, 02:59:16 AM |
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My questions are mainly of shipping: - Did you have to sign for the shipment (was it registrered/insured)? - Did the machine clear off to customs, or was it taxed?
And do you remember how much shipping was when you ordered it last year? 60,- USD if I recall correct.
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February 02, 2013, 03:02:47 AM |
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My questions are mainly of shipping: - Did you have to sign for the shipment (was it registrered/insured)? - Did the machine clear off to customs, or was it taxed?
And do you remember how much shipping was when you ordered it last year? Jeff's machine got special shipping because it was intended to arrive on a specific day. Avalon said towards the end of January that shipping the units was going to cost more than they thought so it may well be more than they charged for batch 1. This may be another reason why they're so keen on resellers entering the game.
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All I can say is that this is Bitcoin. I don't believe it until I see six confirmations.
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