Smartcoin Linux mining administration. [MULTI-MACHINE SUPPORT NOW IN!]

[jondecker76]

padrino:
see my previous post, you have the exact same issue. You only need to identify unique workers to the database.

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[jondecker76]

Alan,

Can you send me a screenshot?


Gives me something to think about,  marking a pool as down on unusually high rejection rates...

[padrino]

Kennel:
This is correct behavior.  The auto profile launches 1 instance of each worker that is set to allow auto profiling on each GPU.  Really, what you want, it to only define unique workers.  To properly assign workers to cards, use the profile system.

For example, lets say you have a worker, named "My Worker"
The auto profile would start an instance of phoenix on each GPU, against "My Worker"
If you want to create your own profile (instead of the auto profile), then you have full control over which workers receive their own instance on each specified GPU.

Thanks, this was the same issue I had, moved to my own profile and it starts one worker per instance. Now I have an issue where it will not create or start the miners, file not found in /tmp/smartcoin..... How can I kick logging up to see what might be failing?

[Fletch]

Kennel:
This is correct behavior.  The auto profile launches 1 instance of each worker that is set to allow auto profiling on each GPU.  Really, what you want, it to only define unique workers.  To properly assign workers to cards, use the profile system.

For example, lets say you have a worker, named "My Worker"
The auto profile would start an instance of phoenix on each GPU, against "My Worker"
If you want to create your own profile (instead of the auto profile), then you have full control over which workers receive their own instance on each specified GPU.

Thanks. That did the trick.

How do I set things up so that I can have a fallback pool if my primary pool is down? I only want to mine to the fallback pool if the primary pool is down.

[jondecker76]

Padrino- what revision or smartcoin are you on?
depending on revision,  you should find a log in either ~/smartcoin.log or ~/smartcoin/smartcoin.log

Almost every time i've seen miners not launching correctly, I have found that the launch string in the database is incorrect.
Can you go to Configure Devices -> Edit -> Localhost -> Phoenix and tell me what is entered for the launch string? (also, make sure its listed as the default miner)


Also, I would still suggest deleting all of your duplicate worker entries, and using the auto profile - it will have the same effect as your manual profile, without having to have 8 workers set up!

[jondecker76]

Kennel -  failover pools are one of the next features coming, but not implement yet. Until then, I would recommend mining to a couple of pools at the same time.  If your very paticular on the issue, then you can also A) Create a new miner (Configure Miners->Add),  and set it up identical to the default phoenix miner, but with a extremely low agression.  Then create a manual profile that assigns an instance of your preferred pool per GPU using the stock phoenix miner entry, and an instance of your failover pool using the alternate phoenix miner you defined (the one with the low agression).  This way, almost all of your hashes will go to your preferred pool, since it is using the phoenix instance with the higher agression.. If it fails, then the phoenix instance with the lower aggression will take over.

ETA to failovers is about 2 weeks

[padrino]

Padrino- what revision or smartcoin are you on?
depending on revision,  you should find a log in either ~/smartcoin.log or ~/smartcoin/smartcoin.log

Almost every time i've seen miners not launching correctly, I have found that the launch string in the database is incorrect.
Can you go to Configure Devices -> Edit -> Localhost -> Phoenix and tell me what is entered for the launch string? (also, make sure its listed as the default miner)


Also, I would still suggest deleting all of your duplicate worker entries, and using the auto profile - it will have the same effect as your manual profile, without having to have 8 workers set up!

The latest r290

python <#path#>phoenix.py -v -u http://<#user#>:<#pass#>@<#server#>:<#port#>/ -k phatk device=<#device#> worksize=256 vectors aggression=11 bfi_int fastloop=false

I used separate workers because bitcoin.lc has issues with a single worked (username and password) handling all of my GPUs. This is actually the reason I decided to move from Diablo to smartcoin, I needed something to setup a separate worker per GPU and smartcoin is really slick.

[jondecker76]

Ok, the launch strung looks correct

What does your status screen show?  Is it making all workers as down?

[sojolly]

Switching one of my machines to Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit .. will let you know in a couple of hours....

Ok .. loaded a machine and smartcoin is working.

A few questions.

How do i associate the workers with the GPU's?  

for example i want:
deepbit 1A and btcguild 1A to be assigned to GPU0
deepbit 1B and btcguild 1B to be assigned to GPU1

My local GUI screen is very laggy while smartcoin is running.  The ssh screen is very responsive.

Top doesn't show anything more than 2% CPU.  Anyone else seen this?

Just wondering, will mostly be using ssh to monitor and control the machines.

Thanks for the great program.  will be loading my other machines in the next couple of hours.

[padrino]

Ok, the launch strung looks correct

What does your status screen show?  Is it making all workers as down?

Yes, every few seconds it refreshes with some file not found errors, looks like it's trying to hit the screen sessions. I can manually run the miner with the same string copied and pasted without issues (tokens replaced with test values) but it doesn't want to run them with smartcoin, Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit.

Added a bit of logging to try and get a feel for what's happening, only first miner attempts to even launch, and it doesn't look to make it..

Code:

07/02/11 15:24:58       Starting main smartcoin screen session...

07/02/11 15:24:58       Creating tab for each machine...

07/02/11 15:24:58               localhost

07/02/11 15:24:58       Starting status monitor for machine 1

07/02/11 15:24:58       NEW PROFILE DETECTED!

07/02/11 15:24:58               Switching from profile:  to profile: 2

07/02/11 15:24:58       Killing Miners....

07/02/11 15:25:00       Starting miner Miner.9!

07/02/11 15:25:00       Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 1 1 1

07/02/11 15:25:00       Miner Path: /home/braymond/mining/phoenix/

07/02/11 15:25:00       Launching miner with launch string: python /home/braymon
d/mining/phoenix/phoenix.py -v -u http://vUUHwB:PxtQKk@bitcoins.lc:8080/ -k phat
k device=0 worksize=256 vectors aggression=11 bfi_int fastloop=false

07/02/11 15:25:02       Starting miner Miner.10!

07/02/11 15:25:02       Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 2 1 2

07/02/11 15:25:02       Starting miner Miner.11!

07/02/11 15:25:02       Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 3 1 3

07/02/11 15:25:02       Starting miner Miner.12!

07/02/11 15:25:02       Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 4 1 4

07/02/11 15:25:02       Starting miner Miner.13!

07/02/11 15:25:02       Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 5 1 5

07/02/11 15:25:02       Starting miner Miner.14!

07/02/11 15:25:02       Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 6 1 6

07/02/11 15:25:02       Starting miner Miner.15!

07/02/11 15:25:02       Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 8 1 8

07/02/11 15:25:16       Exit option selected

07/02/11 15:25:16       Killing Miners....

[jondecker76]

On the control screen, go to option 4) Edit Settings
Double check the settings for:
AMD/ATI SDK installation location
Phoenix installation location

for example, my AMD/ATI SDK location looks like:
/home/jondecker76/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx32/lib/x86

and my phoenix installation location looks like:
/home/jondecker76/phoenix/


Make sure yours look correct

Also, if you could get me the exact error message that keeps flashing, that would be helpful!

[padrino]

On the control screen, go to option 4) Edit Settings
Double check the settings for:
AMD/ATI SDK installation location
Phoenix installation location

for example, my AMD/ATI SDK location looks like:
/home/jondecker76/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx32/lib/x86

and my phoenix installation location looks like:
/home/jondecker76/phoenix/


Make sure yours look correct

Also, if you could get me the exact error message that keeps flashing, that would be helpful!

Thanks, this prompted me to jump from SDK 2.1 to 2.4 just in case and it seems to have cleared everything up.. I can't say exactly what caused it at this point but it's good now.

[jondecker76]

glad to hear!

I'm out for the rest of the day - taking the family to "Yankee Lake" - a weekly truck mudding event. Should be fun

[Alan Lupton]

I used separate workers because bitcoin.lc has issues with a single worked (username and password) handling all of my GPUs. This is actually the reason I decided to move from Diablo to smartcoin, I needed something to setup a separate worker per GPU and smartcoin is really slick.

Really? I just set up one worker for bitcoins.lc and it runs like a charm. Equally split with the first worker.

[Alan Lupton]

Good, enjoy your time off, this program develops fast and gets better every day due to your ongoing effort! Thus I encourage anybody here to donate a portion of mining time for jondecker76 (option within smartcoin) or to directly donate to his address.

Have a good weekend,
Alan

[padrino]

I used separate workers because bitcoin.lc has issues with a single worked (username and password) handling all of my GPUs. This is actually the reason I decided to move from Diablo to smartcoin, I needed something to setup a separate worker per GPU and smartcoin is really slick.

Really? I just set up one worker for bitcoins.lc and it runs like a charm. Equally split with the first worker.

I haven't dug in real deep on it yet but with 8 GPUs it's a mess with about 15% rejects, with 4 GPUs I manage 10-12% rejects. One worker per and I'm down to 1.19% rejects, I haven't tried to narrow down exactly what the split is at this point.

[dishwara]

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16548.msg292426#msg292426
Until i did a update today everything was running smooth from my last post. 3 days +.

Now i cant able to make smart coin mine. It just says "DOWN".
Uninstall option is scattered all over this thread, which took me to read every post to uninstall & re install, still i am not whether i did correctly or not.
Now when i try to configure miner it asks for python <path>
I searched python in Ubuntu 11.04 & found more than 10 folders with name python. I don't know which python to give as path.

Pleas can you make a complete uninstall & reinstall guide in 1st post itself, so that newbies like me don't have to scratch head until bleeds.
Also, is there any way for me to run again smartcoin in Ubuntu?

[irishmick]

Thanks for Smartcoin Jon it's awesome.

For any linux gurus reading this I need a little quick help if possible. I did a new install of ubuntu 11.04 with smartcoin. Smartcoin is up and running, but when I go to the status page it shows gpu temp/load correctly but shows gpu0 as << down >> and gpu1/gpu2 as 0 khash/sec. Checking my stats at my pool though I'm submitting shares correctly. When the screen tries to update the stats it flashes at the bottom             cannot open "/tmp/smartcoin-status"

I'm logged in with the same user that installed the program.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

EDIT: I did a chmod 777 smartcoin-status which has stopped the "cannot open" message, but still no hash or share values are showing up.
EDIT2: Reboot of course solved it.... lol thanks though ;o)

[Alan Lupton]

One idea: At the status screen you sort by mining pools. What about a statistic showing the uptime of the pool. Perhaps after the green line "-------BTCGUILD-------   uptime: 98,9% since smartcoin start @ 07/03/11 01:11"

I had some connection issues with pools and I'm not able to analyze unless I babysit the rig 24/7.

[Alan Lupton]

Kennel -  failover pools are one of the next features coming, but not implement yet. Until then, I would recommend mining to a couple of pools at the same time.  If your very paticular on the issue, then you can also A) Create a new miner (Configure Miners->Add),  and set it up identical to the default phoenix miner, but with a extremely low agression.  Then create a manual profile that assigns an instance of your preferred pool per GPU using the stock phoenix miner entry, and an instance of your failover pool using the alternate phoenix miner you defined (the one with the low agression).  This way, almost all of your hashes will go to your preferred pool, since it is using the phoenix instance with the higher agression.. If it fails, then the phoenix instance with the lower aggression will take over.

ETA to failovers is about 2 weeks

This way doesn't seem to be possible, because you don't allow for profile edits yet. Once you specified a worker (1st one with high aggression) it's impossible to get back to specify another worker (low aggression one) and assign GPU's again.

Am I right or did I misunderstood something?