Eligius + phoenix: miner is idle

[tanascius]

Unfortunately I can't post to the "mining" forum, "eligius" thread. Maybe someone can forward this message to it?

I am having problems with eligius - every few minutes (really very often!) I get the following messages:

[22/06/2011 00:31:32] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[22/06/2011 00:31:40] Disconnected from server
[22/06/2011 00:32:08] Failed to connect, retrying...
[22/06/2011 00:32:17] Connected to server

I am running on linux, have to graphic cards installed. One is mining with eligius, one with deepbit (just to compare the pools). And I run only into troubles with eligius, no matter which card I use. Phoenix says something like 0.9% stale, while eligius shows me ~4% stales. Probably because of the disconnects.

Is there any parameter I can use to improve my askrate? Right now, I use:

Code:

./phoenix.py -u http://x:x@mining.eligius.st:8337 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=9

Thanks for your help!

[Bloodys]

For trying out askrate, put ;askrate=10 for example after the url for the pool like this:

Code:

./phoenix.py -u http://x:x@mining.eligius.st:8337;askrate=10 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=9

But the problem you have could also be related to the server being overloaded at the moment from too many users trying to connect.

[Wuked]

You shouldn't need ASKRATE if long polling is supported.

Come try out mineco instead: https://mineco.in

[tanascius]

Come try out mineco instead: https://mineco.in

I tried mineco.in right away. But I get a little bit nervous: after about 160 shares my stats are still showing that I didn't submit any shares at all (and still mining @0Mhash/s).

Are the stats so slowly refreshing? After all the page tells me that the hashrate should be calculated over the last 10 minutes.

Oh and Wuked: the contact link on your page points to a thread in a forum that is locked for newbies :/

[tanascius]

For trying out askrate, put ;askrate=10 for example after the url for the pool like this:

Code:

./phoenix.py -u http://x:x@mining.eligius.st:8337;askrate=10 -k phatk DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=9

Sorry, this command line does not work:
No device specified or device not found, use DEVICE=ID to specify one of the following

But putting the arguments -u to the end works:

Code:

./phoenix.py DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=9 -k phatk -u http://x:x@mining.eligius.st:8337;askrate=10

Let's see what happens the next few hours. Thanks!

[Wuked]

Come try out mineco instead: https://mineco.in

I tried mineco.in right away. But I get a little bit nervous: after about 160 shares my stats are still showing that I didn't submit any shares at all (and still mining @0Mhash/s).

Are the stats so slowly refreshing? After all the page tells me that the hashrate should be calculated over the last 10 minutes.

Oh and Wuked: the contact link on your page points to a thread in a forum that is locked for newbies :/

Yep the stats will take a little while to update. Leave it running for 30 minutes or so. If your miner is happy then the server will catch up soon!