[XPM] BFGMiner Prime Branch

[shinkicker]

Great news, but surey we need SK to first expose the Getblocktemplate API?

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[96redformula]

So, I got BFG miner built successfully.

I am on windows 8 BTW.  Any help as to get bfg miner up and running.

I tried to setup primecoin.conf file with

rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcallowip=*
daemon=1
server=1

Running Primecoin using

primecoin-qt -server

Then I tried running bfgminer with the switches in cmd prompt, but it will not run with the switches.

bfgminer -o http://localhost:8332 -u username -p password --expiry 1 --scantime 3

Running bfgminer by itself it will ask for pool address (http://localhost:8332), username and password, but it will not start up, Pool setup failed.

Any help or ideas?

[swordfish6975]

did you build with ./confgure  --enable-cpumining ?


the command to run it on windows would be this but it just crashes for me on win 8 here

bfgminer.exe -a prime -S noauto -S cpu:auto -o localhost:9912 -u username -p password --coinbase-addr {primecoin wallet addr} --debuglog 2>prime.log

[96redformula]

did you build with ./confgure  --enable-cpumining ?


the command to run it on windows would be this but it just crashes for me on win 8 here

bfgminer.exe -a prime -S noauto -S cpu:auto -o localhost:9912 -u username -p password --coinbase-addr {primecoin wallet addr} --debuglog 2>prime.log

Yes, I built it with ./configure --enable-cpumining.
Made some progress with your command line though, I was trying port 8332.

Now I am getting invalid coinbase address though, it doesn't seem to like mine .  The wallet address is the receiving address, right?

[swordfish6975]

did you make the edit linked to pastebin in the first post?

make this change >> http://pastebin.com/XSTTRNF9 << src/libblkmaker/base58.c around line 120

This allows you to use your primecoin wallet address instead of having to convert that to a btc wallet address.

need to run autogen.sh before that file will show up

[96redformula]

need to run autogen.sh before that file will show up

Hm...

Making progress but still crashed, here is the log.  Error said no suitable long poll found though.

[2013-07-13 04:10:14] setrlimit: Not supported by platform
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Started bfgminer 3.1.2
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] GeneratePrimeTable() : prime table [1, 1000000] generated with 78498 primes
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] CPU 0 : Set temperature config: target=89 cutoff=95
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] CPU 1 : Set temperature config: target=89 cutoff=95
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] CPU 2 : Set temperature config: target=89 cutoff=95
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] CPU 3 : Set temperature config: target=89 cutoff=95
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Probing for an alive pool
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Popping work to stage thread
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Testing pool http://localhost:9912
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Calculating midstate locally
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Learned that block id 9de445a1 is height 27819
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Successfully retrieved and deciphered work from pool 0 http://localhost:9912
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Pushing pooltest work to base pool
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Selected getblocktemplate protocol for pool 0
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Network difficulty changed to 0 (  inf?h/s)
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Pool 0 http://localhost:9912 alive
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] New block: ...9de445a1 # 27819 diff 0 (  inf?h/s)
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] No suitable long-poll found for http://localhost:9912
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Pushing work to getwork queue (queued=N)
 [2013-07-13 04:10:14] Popping work to stage thread
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Waking up thread 0
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Waking up thread 1
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Waking up thread 2
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Waking up thread 3
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Popping ping in miner thread
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] 0 gpu miner threads started
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Popping ping in miner thread
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15]  [2013-CPU 007-13 04:10:15]: Popping work Po fropping ping in miner thread
 [2m get queu01e3-07-1 to get work [20133-07-13 04 04:1:10:150:
 [215] 01Popping]  piCPU 2: Po3-07-13 0pping work from get q4:10:15] ngCPU 1: P in  [miner thread
2opping wor013-07-13 04:10:15] ueue k from get queue to get work
Sto geuccessfully rolled t work
 [2013-07-1 [2013-03ext 04:10:15] 7-4 1ranonce to 3 04:10:15]cpu  dataminer threads starteCPU 3: Popping d, using SHA256 'prwork frid 1ime' algorithm.
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 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Successfully rolled extranonce to dataid 2
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Pushing cloned available work to stage thread
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] CPU 0: Got work from get queue to get work for thread 0
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Successfully rolled extranonce to dataid 3
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Successfully rolled extranonce to dataid 4
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Pushing cloned available work to stage thread
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] CPU 1: Got work from get queue to get work for thread 1
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Successfully rolled extranonce to dataid 5
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Generated work from latest GBT job in get_work_thread with 32766 seconds left
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Creating extra submit work thread
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] CPU 3: Got work from get queue to get work for thread 3
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Successfully rolled extranonce to dataid 6
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Generated work from latest GBT job in get_work_thread with 32766 seconds left
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] CPU 2: Got work from get queue to get work for thread 2
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Successfully rolled extranonce to dataid 7
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Generated work from latest GBT job in get_work_thread with 32766 seconds left
 [2013-07-13 04:10:15] Pushing work from pool 0 to hash queue

[eule]

Let it run overnight on an old i7 on linux, got one rejected block.

[96redformula]

Oh and for those of you struggling with the error gmp.h not found on windows minGW, install it with this line of code:

mingw-get install mingw32-gmp

[swordfish6975]

yep looks like my windows 8 log ->>http://pastebin.com/8X17SkFD

garbled bit looks a bit strange

[eCoinomist]

bookmarking

[n4ru]

Any confirmations of mined blocks yet?

Working sources/compiles?

Going to keep looking out for this.

[svirus]

I now trying ... 8x300 pps (Intel Xeon E3 1245v2 3.8GHz)
one hour and nothing :/

[oroqen]

Any confirmations of mined blocks yet?

Working sources/compiles?

Going to keep looking out for this.

It did return blocks on testnet when I tried it, but out of the 20 odd accepted and 50 odd rejected only 8 blocks showed up as immature and 3 orphans.

[super3]

Any confirmations of mined blocks yet?

Working sources/compiles?

Going to keep looking out for this.

It did return blocks on testnet when I tried it, but out of the 20 odd accepted and 50 odd rejected only 8 blocks showed up as immature and 3 orphans.

Well that is promising at least.

[Lauda]

Hopefully you can get this to work, I'd help but too busy at the time.
Keep up the great work 

[blastbob]

Can --coinbase-addr be any address you own (like in a main wallet) or does it have to be from the local primecoind accounts?

It can be any address. You don't have to own it either. Feel free to use AWoLFSojTZoPwqbCwwNqryQdmedD14NGYy

I am pretty sure you have to use an address that is in the daemon wallet your are solo mining to.. Atleast on current available code.

Else it will not show up in transaction logs.

[K1773R]

Any confirmations of mined blocks yet?

Working sources/compiles?

Going to keep looking out for this.

It did return blocks on testnet when I tried it, but out of the 20 odd accepted and 50 odd rejected only 8 blocks showed up as immature and 3 orphans.

set --expiry 1 should fix this problem!

[swordfish6975]

would love to hear from anyone who has it working on win 8 x64

[torbank]

Is anyone else finding that the block number in bfgminer is consistently lagging behind the current primecoind block?

[Mirenaut]

Is anyone else finding that the block number in bfgminer is consistently lagging behind the current primecoind block?

Maybe it updates less often. I see it halted at some point, then it updates and it's in sync again. Just now it actually jumped one block "in front" of the daemon so it seems as if primecoind lagged 1 block.