New feathercoin pool

[bigvern]

Hey guys,

I run a litecoin pool at litebonk.com.    I wanted to let you know that I've also setup a feathercoin pool if anybody wants to mine those while the difficulty is still low.  I should have stratum support running there later today.

fcpool.com


Thanks,

BigVern

[Becher-Karl]

Thanks, I will give it a shot!

[Becher-Karl]

I keep getting "access denied" errors when using the Stratum server, I suppose it's not fully set up. With http everything works fine!

[gladiatorcoin]

cool,
how do i set this up in cgminer?

[previse]

Is there anything backing this up?

[Becher-Karl]

cool,
how do i set this up in cgminer?

Like this:

Code:

-o http://fcpool.com:8377 -u your_username.1 -p x 

@previse: No idea, we will see I guess...

[gladiatorcoin]

Thanks for the info.

Do you envision FTC on btc-e?

[Becher-Karl]

I personally think that it will surely be on btc-e sooner or later, yes. Apparently people are willing to pay up to 40LTC for 1000FC:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=185604.msg1925092#msg1925092

So the demand is there, and I'm sure someone will cater to it.

[gladiatorcoin]

Thanks for replying.


Currently I get 7khs on this pool.

Radeon 4850
Intel q4400
8 gb ddr3

Chimney

Is this a good rate?

[pepHJ]

I will give it a try! 

[Becher-Karl]

Thanks for replying.


Currently I get 7khs on this pool.

Radeon 4850
Intel q4400
8 gb ddr3

Chimney

Is this a good rate?

That seems actually pretty low. You should be able to achieve at least 75kh/s:

https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Mining-hardware-comparison#ati-amd-gpus

I have a different card, but the settings from the comparison chart should get you started.

[gladiatorcoin]

How do I write this into check miner? Sorry I'm a noob!

[Becher-Karl]

Sorry man, but I can't walk you through setting up cgminer. I'm sure there are a lot of tutorials in this forum.
You can get the latest binary here:

http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/

Here are binaries with CPU support, apparently:
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/3.0.0

I don't use Windows though, so I can't say any more about the files.

If you use Linux, you should compile it yourself, make sure to read the README and README_SCRYPT in this case.
You can then run cgminer like this:

cgminer --scrypt -o http://fcpool.com:8377 -u worker_name.1 -p x --verbose --auto-fan --auto-gpu --intensity 14

Before running cgminer, you have to set two environment variables:

This is how you would do it with Linux:
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1

In Windows, you can use System Settings:
http://www.itechtalk.com/thread3595.html

Hope this helps, if you have specific questions open a separate thread, I'm sure someone will be able to help you out.
This stuff is overwhelming and I still only understand maybe 5%, but in the end I managed to get it running, you will as well!

[Crownz81]

Thanks, I will give it a shot!

Ditto!

[ZeroPAiN]

Goodness there are so many coins now a days - I feel like I'm running behind the bandwagon

[gladiatorcoin]

Sorry man, but I can't walk you through setting up cgminer. I'm sure there are a lot of tutorials in this forum.
You can get the latest binary here:

http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/

Here are binaries with CPU support, apparently:
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer-binaries/tree/master/3.0.0

I don't use Windows though, so I can't say any more about the files.

If you use Linux, you should compile it yourself, make sure to read the README and README_SCRYPT in this case.
You can then run cgminer like this:

cgminer --scrypt -o http://fcpool.com:8377 -u worker_name.1 -p x --verbose --auto-fan --auto-gpu --intensity 14

Before running cgminer, you have to set two environment variables:

This is how you would do it with Linux:
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1

In Windows, you can use System Settings:
http://www.itechtalk.com/thread3595.html

Hope this helps, if you have specific questions open a separate thread, I'm sure someone will be able to help you out.
This stuff is overwhelming and I still only understand maybe 5%, but in the end I managed to get it running, you will as well!

Thank you very much.

I did input that data.

Now are those environmental variables for system settings or user?


I still seem to be getting 28kh/s on the server but cgminer tells me about 95 khs.

What do you think?

[mechanikalk]

I will have to check this out. My connection is currently very intermittent with p2pool.org feathercoin pool!

[Becher-Karl]

YAY! The first block was found!

@gladiatorcoin

Now are those environmental variables for system settings or user?

I still seem to be getting 28kh/s on the server but cgminer tells me about 95 khs.

What do you think?

What cgminer tells you is more important. The rate on the server will go up, it's probably lower in the beginning because it's averaged.
95kh/s sounds good!
Setting the environment variables for the user is enough.

[stevenh512]

Currently I get 7khs on this pool.

Radeon 4850

You're getting 7khs on your GPU? I just started mining Feathercoin yesterday, CPU only with the miner running on a Windows 7 PC in the other room at below normal priority (it's always on anyway, might as well use those cpu cycles for something) and a local feathercoind and p2pool instance on my Ubuntu box. That's getting me 4-5khs without touching the GPU (both PCs have older GPUs that apparently aren't compatible with any miners I've found).

I have a surplus Dell PowerEdge server here with a small hard drive and it has a Radeon for some reason (don't remember the specs off the top of my head, but why such a nice GPU for a headless server?).. thinking about setting it up as a dedicated miner too.. even have a small rack to mount it in with my old Cisco routers.

[gladiatorcoin]

@becher
Thanks I guess my PC just had to "warm up"

@steven

becher and paul (fcpool admin) helped me resolve the issue so the server is reading 68 khs

and higher.


Yeah why not have an extra miner on the side? Hopefully you mine at a good rate