[1050 TH] BitMinter.com [1% PPLNS,Pays TxFees +MergedMining,Stratum,GBT,vardiff]

[Digigami]

The problem with doing it through task manager, is that it won't save the setting.

Next time you shut down the miner and restart you will have to remember to do it again, or add the ability to save settings in task manager with this Prio Priority Saver

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[Turbor]

I was playing around with the overclocking settings of my ASRock 970 Extreme 3, changed CPU frequency (FSB?) and CPU ratio to decrease power consumption from the CPU. Out of nowhere my hashrate goes up from 675 MH/s to 760 MH/s  wtf ? Nothing changed on GPU side. Same temps, 840 MHz gpu, 560 ram. Has someone an explanation for that ?

While i wrote the above, the computer crashed without warning. Strange 

[Turbor]

Perhaps HE was the saboteur... 



Happy minting !

[bronan]

OH noes a gremlin
me runs being scared as a chicken

[P4man]

LOL, is that a wooden case? I hope it has more ventilation than those tiny holes you drilled on top.

As for CPU clocks or FSB influencing hashrate, that seems unlikely. I suspect it was something else, like your gpu overclock not been set.

[Turbor]

Yes, it's a wooden case. One 140mm fan. GPU temp 72 degree @ 675 MH/s. Only 1 to 2 degree difference to an open setup. It's well designed by myself with lots of openings

[Tartarus]

Hey all, two quick (I hope questions):

First, what's the equivalent of intensity=9 in cgminer, etc?  Setting breaktime to 90ms?

Second, I see merged mining is coming soon.  Just how soon?  I'm hoping before the current bonus runs out

And as an observation, at least in my rig (Ubuntu, I'm currently only as fast as cgminer was, but in cgminer I saw a LOT of pool not responding, caching results, pool back, submitting msgs).

[Turbor]

I use 275ms break interval on my 24h rig. Just play around with the settings to see what works best for you. The higher the number, the less responsive is your desktop.

[P4man]

And as an observation, at least in my rig (Ubuntu, I'm currently only as fast as cgminer was, but in cgminer I saw a LOT of pool not responding, caching results, pool back, submitting msgs).

Im seeing something similar, I think. Ive gone back to using cgminer because its easier to manage remotely without gui (set speeds, fans etc over ssh); I have slush configured as failback pool and I keep getting tiny amounts of BTC from slush. Im not logging, so Im not entirely sure whats happening, can someone make sense of this:

[Turbor]

Second 80+ block in a row... At least we have a good hash rate.

[P4man]

I like the new difficulty though. Just a shame I lost 2 motherboards in 2 days (!). Will take a bit before I can finally get to fire up all my GPU's.

[Turbor]

What happened to the boards ?

[P4man]

one a corrupt bios. it asked for usb or floppy with the bios, I tried feeding it that with the correct bios, and now I only get a black screen; cmos resetting etc does nothing, seems dead.

The other one, I dont know. It still works, but I noticed a resistor burnt out and there is black stuff like it exploded all the way to a nearby chip (I think raid controller, but not sure). Funny thing, havent noticed anything not working yet (didnt test raid), but Im reluctant to put expensive cards in it.

[DrHaribo]

First, what's the equivalent of intensity=9 in cgminer, etc?  Setting breaktime to 90ms?

I don't think there's a direct equivalent. If I'm not mistaken, the miner programs that use "insensity" put a certain amount of load on the GPU and how laggy things get depend on how fast the GPU is. Intensity 9 could be very choppy on one computer, and smooth on another. I wanted something that works independent of how fast the GPU is. So 90ms work intervals just say "try to create work loads that take 90ms on my hardware."

Second, I see merged mining is coming soon.  Just how soon?  I'm hoping before the current bonus runs out

I think it will be done before block 60 is completed. But I don't want to give any specific dates, as I just don't know. But here's a quick update on the progress.

This is done:

• Modify database to support merged mining and other cool features that will be revealed at a later date
• Rewrite existing code to work with the new database schema (running on server now)
• Support for pool backend to watch multiple block chains for new blocks, maturity of our created blocks, etc.
• Pay in correct currency when blocks mature
• Create block headers ("work units") for miners built on the necessary merged mining data

This is what remains:

• Create blocks when miners find a good enough proof of work
• Auto cash out for non-BTC currency
• Testing, so I don't deploy something completely broken

Maybe I should get merged mining running before cash out of NMC is working. Better to get some NMC today and get cash out feature tomorrow, than to get nothing today and cash out feature tomorrow. But after I get block creation working I will need to do at least a little testing. The server is running nicely now creating BTC - I don't want it to stop working because of bugs.

can someone make sense of this:

Not sure what the problem is there? But I have never used cgminer.

[P4man]

Not sure what the problem is there? But I have never used cgminer.

Looked it up:
GF is Getwork Fail Occasions (server slow to provide work)
RF is Remote Fail occasions (server slow to accept work)

I have 5 GFs in that screenshot, apparently slow enough to make cgminer revert to my alternate pool for a short while. Probably network glitch or something? In the last 24 hr I had 8 more of those. Doesnt seem very serious tho.

[P4man]

update, if it helps, here are two timestamps of when the server was slow to respond:



Times are brussels time (UTC +1), I think the same as yours.

[Turbor]

one a corrupt bios. it asked for usb or floppy with the bios, I tried feeding it that with the correct bios, and now I only get a black screen; cmos resetting etc does nothing, seems dead.

The other one, I dont know. It still works, but I noticed a resistor burnt out and there is black stuff like it exploded all the way to a nearby chip (I think raid controller, but not sure). Funny thing, havent noticed anything not working yet (didnt test raid), but Im reluctant to put expensive cards in it.

Sucks to hear. Still working on my rig. I'm finally down to 300 MHz memory. At 400 MHz i had some bad artifacts which made me belive that a lower setting may not be possible with my cards. Tomorrow i'm going to add some more fans to the housing. Did some tests with my old amateur radio equipment and some fans was fun to overdrive them at 15V up 

[bronan]

P4man does your provider gives on certain time periods sync on the network
I had that when i used tele2 network back in the belgium days, so daily 4 times had some short disconnects which made my software report it was not connected.
They did that to prevent users running real servers on that network.
 
The only solution for replacing the bios is probably let someone with a external bios flasher thingy do it or another option is to find a similar broken down one and use its bios to replace yours

[P4man]

P4man does your provider gives on certain time periods sync on the network
I had that when i used tele2 network back in the belgium days, so daily 4 times had some short disconnects which made my software report it was not connected.

Not that I know. Im on cable, the DHCP lease is for 24h and seems to get renewed instantly and seamlessly at midnight. (and servers are "blocked" by blocking all incoming ports below 1024). Anyway, Im not sure how short or long cgminers timeout is, it might just be a little too tight, like I said, not a big thing. I just get 0.001BTC from slush once in a while .

The only solution for replacing the bios is probably let someone with a external bios flasher thingy do it or another option is to find a similar broken down one and use its bios to replace yours

Yeah.. Apparently if you can find an identical board, you can even boot the board and hotswap bios chip while its powered on, booted from the good bios chip, then reflash the corrupt one. But hey, I can buy S775 boards for 30 euro, no need to bother. It is food for thought though; while the problems are not directly related to bitcoin mining, fact is Ive lost a 5850 and 2 motherboards now, while Ive mined like 15 BTC so far. Thats rather funny because yesterday I turned 1 BTC in to almost 14 BTC playing poker in 3 hours. Makes me wonder if Im concentrating on the right approach LOL.

[Turbor]

DAT is back !