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

[jondecker76]

Update r633e now available:
- New installer uses the new AutoDetection routine (the same one that runs on remote machines). It also uses the new settings code.
- When adding a new machine, default settings are now filled out
- The status screen now only grabs settings information for the current machine





All that is left to do now for full multi-machine support is figure out how to get the miner screen instance to launch on a remote host.  I may play with that a bit today, but I expect to have it figured out in a day or two

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Hey johndecker

Ive recently started to try out poclbm and with smartcoin it doesnt seem to read at all on the "dashboard"

The processes do load in screen but on the dashboard it simply shows that the gpu's run at 99% and on the gpu shares monitoring they just remain as <FAIL>

[plantucha]

Update r633e now available:
- New installer uses the new AutoDetection routine (the same one that runs on remote machines). It also uses the new settings code.
- When adding a new machine, default settings are now filled out
- The status screen now only grabs settings information for the current machine





All that is left to do now for full multi-machine support is figure out how to get the miner screen instance to launch on a remote host.  I may play with that a bit today, but I expect to have it figured out in a day or two

Something new with failover?
As you see profile 1 CPU fail. And same time in profile 2 is CPU happily hashing with full hashpower.

Code:

Smartcoin r633e 23:39:46
----------------------------------------
Host: localhost
GPU[0]: Temp: 71.00 load: 99%
GPU[1]: Temp: 73.00 load: 99%
GPU[2]: Temp: 77.00 load: 99%
GPU[3]: Temp: 70.00 load: 99%
CPU Load Avgs: 6.59 6.63 6.60

Profile: Failover
--------BTCGuild--------
GPU[0]: [103.79 MHash/s] [194 OK] [1 Bad] [.515% Bad]
GPU[1]: [103.74 MHash/s] [199 OK] [4 Bad] [2.010% Bad]
GPU[2]: [103.78 MHash/s] [171 OK] [1 Bad] [.584% Bad]
GPU[3]: [103.79 MHash/s] [215 OK] [1 Bad] [.465% Bad]
CPU:    <<<FAIL>>
Total : [415.10 MHash/s] [779 OK] [7 Bad] [.898% Bad]

Failover to: Mt.Red
--------MtRed--------
GPU[0]: [105.89 MHash/s] [185 OK] [3 Bad] [1.621% Bad]
GPU[1]: [103.74 MHash/s] [248 OK] [4 Bad] [1.612% Bad]
GPU[2]: [103.79 MHash/s] [197 OK] [1 Bad] [.507% Bad]
GPU[3]: [103.78 MHash/s] [211 OK] [1 Bad] [.473% Bad]
CPU:    [17.6 MHash/s] [33 OK] [0 Bad] [0% Bad]
Total : [434.80 MHash/s] [874 OK] [9 Bad] [1.029% Bad]

Grand Total : [849.90 MHash/s] [1653 OK] [16 Bad] [.967% Bad]
{/code]

[jondecker76]

Hey johndecker

Ive recently started to try out poclbm and with smartcoin it doesnt seem to read at all on the "dashboard"

The processes do load in screen but on the dashboard it simply shows that the gpu's run at 99% and on the gpu shares monitoring they just remain as <FAIL>

can you detach from smartcoin and run

Code:

screen -r miner

and post the output of one of the miners?

[jondecker76]

Update r633e now available:
- New installer uses the new AutoDetection routine (the same one that runs on remote machines). It also uses the new settings code.
- When adding a new machine, default settings are now filled out
- The status screen now only grabs settings information for the current machine





All that is left to do now for full multi-machine support is figure out how to get the miner screen instance to launch on a remote host.  I may play with that a bit today, but I expect to have it figured out in a day or two

Something new with failover?
As you see profile 1 CPU fail. And same time in profile 2 is CPU happily hashing with full hashpower.

Code:

Smartcoin r633e 23:39:46
----------------------------------------
Host: localhost
GPU[0]: Temp: 71.00 load: 99%
GPU[1]: Temp: 73.00 load: 99%
GPU[2]: Temp: 77.00 load: 99%
GPU[3]: Temp: 70.00 load: 99%
CPU Load Avgs: 6.59 6.63 6.60

Profile: Failover
--------BTCGuild--------
GPU[0]: [103.79 MHash/s] [194 OK] [1 Bad] [.515% Bad]
GPU[1]: [103.74 MHash/s] [199 OK] [4 Bad] [2.010% Bad]
GPU[2]: [103.78 MHash/s] [171 OK] [1 Bad] [.584% Bad]
GPU[3]: [103.79 MHash/s] [215 OK] [1 Bad] [.465% Bad]
CPU:    <<<FAIL>>
Total : [415.10 MHash/s] [779 OK] [7 Bad] [.898% Bad]

Failover to: Mt.Red
--------MtRed--------
GPU[0]: [105.89 MHash/s] [185 OK] [3 Bad] [1.621% Bad]
GPU[1]: [103.74 MHash/s] [248 OK] [4 Bad] [1.612% Bad]
GPU[2]: [103.79 MHash/s] [197 OK] [1 Bad] [.507% Bad]
GPU[3]: [103.78 MHash/s] [211 OK] [1 Bad] [.473% Bad]
CPU:    [17.6 MHash/s] [33 OK] [0 Bad] [0% Bad]
Total : [434.80 MHash/s] [874 OK] [9 Bad] [1.029% Bad]

Grand Total : [849.90 MHash/s] [1653 OK] [16 Bad] [.967% Bad]
{/code]

I just took a peek at your box and everything is running fine now - did you do anything that solves the  problem?

The "<<<FAIL>>>" status means that either the miner failed to launch, or crashes sometime after launch. If it happens again, can you post the output of the miner instance here?

[Clipse]

Hey johndecker

Ive recently started to try out poclbm and with smartcoin it doesnt seem to read at all on the "dashboard"

The processes do load in screen but on the dashboard it simply shows that the gpu's run at 99% and on the gpu shares monitoring they just remain as <FAIL>

can you detach from smartcoin and run

Code:

screen -r miner

and post the output of one of the miners?

Hi John

The output of the miner screen session (all instances of gpus start correctly) is that of running poclbm instance.

There is no error, just poclbm running as it should on each gpu instance behind miner screen.

The problem is of course that these screen instances do not reflect as running on the dashboard since it only shows <FAIL> for each gpu.

[jondecker76]

Hey johndecker

Ive recently started to try out poclbm and with smartcoin it doesnt seem to read at all on the "dashboard"

The processes do load in screen but on the dashboard it simply shows that the gpu's run at 99% and on the gpu shares monitoring they just remain as <FAIL>

can you detach from smartcoin and run

Code:

screen -r miner

and post the output of one of the miners?

Hi John

The output of the miner screen session (all instances of gpus start correctly) is that of running poclbm instance.

There is no error, just poclbm running as it should on each gpu instance behind miner screen.

The problem is of course that these screen instances do not reflect as running on the dashboard since it only shows <FAIL> for each gpu.

I understand that, but I need to see the output for myself so that I can determine what is causing <<<FAIL>>> do be displayed - a grep is done for a certain string in the miner instance  for the <<<FAIL>>> message to be displayed

[jondecker76]

Just posting some progress..

Did my first true multi-machine tests today.  It went "partially" ok so far.
A new status screen did open for the remote machine correctly.  It also showed GPU and CPU stats correctly from the remote machine.  The miner instances failed to launch, but I didn't expect that to work on the first try.  I'm going to take  a break for the rest of the day, but we're getting very close!

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Hey johndecker

Ive recently started to try out poclbm and with smartcoin it doesnt seem to read at all on the "dashboard"

The processes do load in screen but on the dashboard it simply shows that the gpu's run at 99% and on the gpu shares monitoring they just remain as <FAIL>

can you detach from smartcoin and run

Code:

screen -r miner

and post the output of one of the miners?

Hi John

The output of the miner screen session (all instances of gpus start correctly) is that of running poclbm instance.

There is no error, just poclbm running as it should on each gpu instance behind miner screen.

The problem is of course that these screen instances do not reflect as running on the dashboard since it only shows <FAIL> for each gpu.

I understand that, but I need to see the output for myself so that I can determine what is causing <<<FAIL>>> do be displayed - a grep is done for a certain string in the miner instance  for the <<<FAIL>>> message to be displayed

Hehe ok, for some reason thought you had poclbm tested my bad.

Here is the output form the screen session launched:

Code:

LAUNCH: python poclbm.py --phatk2 -d1 -v -w 128 -f1 none:none@192.168.0.204:8337
Launching miner with launch string: python poclbm.py --phatk2 -d1 -v -w 128 -f1 none:none@192.168.0.204:8337
01/08/2011 18:09:36, Setting server (none @ 192.168.0.204:8337)
192.168.0.204:8337 01/08/2011 18:09:36, Kernel: phatk2
192.168.0.204:8337 01/08/2011 18:09:37, LP connected to 192.168.0.204:8337
192.168.0.204:8337 [397.155 MH/s (~330 MH/s)] [Rej: 0/1 (0.00%)]

[jondecker76]

Hey johndecker

Ive recently started to try out poclbm and with smartcoin it doesnt seem to read at all on the "dashboard"

The processes do load in screen but on the dashboard it simply shows that the gpu's run at 99% and on the gpu shares monitoring they just remain as <FAIL>

can you detach from smartcoin and run

Code:

screen -r miner

and post the output of one of the miners?

Hi John

The output of the miner screen session (all instances of gpus start correctly) is that of running poclbm instance.

There is no error, just poclbm running as it should on each gpu instance behind miner screen.

The problem is of course that these screen instances do not reflect as running on the dashboard since it only shows <FAIL> for each gpu.

I understand that, but I need to see the output for myself so that I can determine what is causing <<<FAIL>>> do be displayed - a grep is done for a certain string in the miner instance  for the <<<FAIL>>> message to be displayed

Hehe ok, for some reason thought you had poclbm tested my bad.

Here is the output form the screen session launched:

Code:

LAUNCH: python poclbm.py --phatk2 -d1 -v -w 128 -f1 none:none@192.168.0.204:8337
Launching miner with launch string: python poclbm.py --phatk2 -d1 -v -w 128 -f1 none:none@192.168.0.204:8337
01/08/2011 18:09:36, Setting server (none @ 192.168.0.204:8337)
192.168.0.204:8337 01/08/2011 18:09:36, Kernel: phatk2
192.168.0.204:8337 01/08/2011 18:09:37, LP connected to 192.168.0.204:8337
192.168.0.204:8337 [397.155 MH/s (~330 MH/s)] [Rej: 0/1 (0.00%)]

Thanks - I'll definitely look into poclbm support as soon as I get this multi-machine stuff committed (in a few days???)
It did work with poclbm, but looking at your output, it looks like the poclbm output has changed since I've last seen it.

[jondecker76]

Does anyone have a machine that they could donate to me for a few days to test multi-machine support?  All I need is ssh access.  I'm kind of stuck at the moment as I only have 1 machine myself, so testing multi-machine support is kind of hard for me to do.  Nothing on your machine will be changed, and I can restart your local mining stuff in between bouts of experimenting.  PM me if you can help!

thanks

[EnzoMatrix]

Does anyone have a machine that they could donate to me for a few days to test multi-machine support?  All I need is ssh access.  I'm kind of stuck at the moment as I only have 1 machine myself, so testing multi-machine support is kind of hard for me to do.  Nothing on your machine will be changed, and I can restart your local mining stuff in between bouts of experimenting.  PM me if you can help!

thanks

Just sent you a PM would love to help you in the Multi-machine cause

[jondecker76]

A big thanks to Enzomatrix for the use of his machine.

I just had my first "fully successful" test of multi-machine support (over the internet even! -- its really designed for use over a local LAN)


There is a lot to do though, as I had to manually edit a lot of the stuff the remote autodetect entered into the database, and I have some issues with output redirection over a remote connection - but still it was a 100% success!  This has turned out way more complex than I had ever imagined, I can't wait to get this to work "easily" so I can stop bashing my head against the wall every night


[EDIT]


Here is a screenshot showing smartcoin running on my machine. As you can see, I have the normal 'localhost' tab, but also an 'enzomatrix' tab!  You can also see that pretty much everything is working (minus the error bleeding through at the top of the screen).
Just thought I would share the screenshot, so users have an idea of what it will look like with multiple machines running

[Jen4538]

 doubt i ever be able to figure out much more than i have .  its just overwhelming to me what little bit i do with smartcoin.   finding i need to restart it dailey else i earn less not sure as to why it is .   i am gratefull to have used it even if i have to later abandon it


Jen

[jondecker76]

I haven't committed any of the new code yet, but just giving an update.

The multi-machine stuff is going very well!  I just finished implementing the Edit Machines part (complete with re-syncing connection keys if login information changes).  As of now, multi-machine support is working 100% as expected - tested on one machine.  I'm still looking for another machine or two to test it on if anyone can spare about half an hour or so of downtime.

As of right now, there is only one more feature to implement.  Currently, you can only "reload" all miners on all machines (after you make a settings change for example, or you use the --reload cli option). I need to extend this so that a specific machine can be specified. This way, when you edit settings for Machine #2 for example, only the machine #2 miner instances will reload instead of wasting cycles and time reloading all machines.  I expect to release the new changes tomorrow!

[Reuef]

Any idea if it would work (Remote Machine) using a SSH into a Windows Box running Cygwin? 

I am loathe to do it but it looks like I will need to install Windows on a couple of miners in order to overvolt my 5850's via Trixx.  If it wasn't a  difference of 500-700 mh/s over what I could get in linux I wouldn't even contemplate it.

Theoretically it is just starting the miner via a string command over ssh, so it should work....in theory.

Also will be posting an update to the PHP scripts I have now hopefully tonight.  Now I can monitor hashrates, accepts, rejects, per pool and profile via the smartcoin.xml in the /tmp folders via the web as well as changing profiles on the fly.

[jondecker76]

Any idea if it would work (Remote Machine) using a SSH into a Windows Box running Cygwin? 

I am loathe to do it but it looks like I will need to install Windows on a couple of miners in order to overvolt my 5850's via Trixx.  If it wasn't a  difference of 500-700 mh/s over what I could get in linux I wouldn't even contemplate it.

Theoretically it is just starting the miner via a string command over ssh, so it should work....in theory.

Also will be posting an update to the PHP scripts I have now hopefu
lly tonight.  Now I can monitor hashrates, accepts, rejects, per pool and profile via the smartcoin.xml in the /tmp folders via the web as well as changing profiles on the fly.

it has a good chance of working on cygwin,  you will need gnu screen working under cygwin though (I've read there is a patch).

what's your hashrate on your windows boxes?   I get a 100% stable 385 out of my 5850s under linux with no overvolt using 3 instances per card

[Reuef]

Any idea if it would work (Remote Machine) using a SSH into a Windows Box running Cygwin? 

I am loathe to do it but it looks like I will need to install Windows on a couple of miners in order to overvolt my 5850's via Trixx.  If it wasn't a  difference of 500-700 mh/s over what I could get in linux I wouldn't even contemplate it.

Theoretically it is just starting the miner via a string command over ssh, so it should work....in theory.

Also will be posting an update to the PHP scripts I have now hopefu
lly tonight.  Now I can monitor hashrates, accepts, rejects, per pool and profile via the smartcoin.xml in the /tmp folders via the web as well as changing profiles on the fly.

it has a good chance of working on cygwin,  you will need gnu screen working under cygwin though (I've read there is a patch).

what's your hashrate on your windows boxes?   I get a 100% stable 385 out of my 5850s under linux with no overvolt using 3 instances per card

I have not built it yet, (3 Cards are shipping today from NCIXUS, and 4 more from amazon later in the week) but I have seen reports of it being stable at 1.168v running over 400-440 mh/s.

YMMV so I want to test it.   

[Clipse]

Any idea if it would work (Remote Machine) using a SSH into a Windows Box running Cygwin? 

I am loathe to do it but it looks like I will need to install Windows on a couple of miners in order to overvolt my 5850's via Trixx.  If it wasn't a  difference of 500-700 mh/s over what I could get in linux I wouldn't even contemplate it.

Theoretically it is just starting the miner via a string command over ssh, so it should work....in theory.

Also will be posting an update to the PHP scripts I have now hopefu
lly tonight.  Now I can monitor hashrates, accepts, rejects, per pool and profile via the smartcoin.xml in the /tmp folders via the web as well as changing profiles on the fly.

it has a good chance of working on cygwin,  you will need gnu screen working under cygwin though (I've read there is a patch).

what's your hashrate on your windows boxes?   I get a 100% stable 385 out of my 5850s under linux with no overvolt using 3 instances per card

I have not built it yet, (3 Cards are shipping today from NCIXUS, and 4 more from amazon later in the week) but I have seen reports of it being stable at 1.168v running over 400-440 mh/s.

YMMV so I want to test it.   

If you are limited by software overclocks and want to do the same on linux, look at Radeon Bios edito (RBE) , Ive solved somewhat similar issues on linux by simply modding the bios of the cards directly.

[Reuef]

Any idea if it would work (Remote Machine) using a SSH into a Windows Box running Cygwin? 

I am loathe to do it but it looks like I will need to install Windows on a couple of miners in order to overvolt my 5850's via Trixx.  If it wasn't a  difference of 500-700 mh/s over what I could get in linux I wouldn't even contemplate it.

Theoretically it is just starting the miner via a string command over ssh, so it should work....in theory.

Also will be posting an update to the PHP scripts I have now hopefu
lly tonight.  Now I can monitor hashrates, accepts, rejects, per pool and profile via the smartcoin.xml in the /tmp folders via the web as well as changing profiles on the fly.

it has a good chance of working on cygwin,  you will need gnu screen working under cygwin though (I've read there is a patch).

what's your hashrate on your windows boxes?   I get a 100% stable 385 out of my 5850s under linux with no overvolt using 3 instances per card

I have not built it yet, (3 Cards are shipping today from NCIXUS, and 4 more from amazon later in the week) but I have seen reports of it being stable at 1.168v running over 400-440 mh/s.

YMMV so I want to test it.   

If you are limited by software overclocks and want to do the same on linux, look at Radeon Bios edito (RBE) , Ive solved somewhat similar issues on linux by simply modding the bios of the cards directly.

As far as I have read, the Sapphire Xtreme 5850's do not allow you to Bios overvolt via RBE..  Trixx is the only reliable method.  I could be wrong.