BAMT - Easy persistent USB key based linux for dedicated miners/mining farms

[lodcrappo]

So I got a new 5850 today, and my load is staying at ~80%

I copied the config over and removed all overclocking besides memclock.  What am I doing wrong? o.o

Update on my situation:

Found out the 5850 is using 50% cpu (two cores)

My box is 100% updated.  Has anyone had this bug before?

100% cpu (or 100% of a core) often happens when GPU hangs.  normal cpu load is very low, maybe 1-2%.

reduce or turn off overclocking, coldreboot, see if its better.

[lodcrappo]

I've never used anything but windows on my dedicated miners. My mining rigs are all on wireless adapters, will I be able to install drivers to get them working? I know they support ubuntu.

I don't think BAMT would be a good choice for this situation.  There is some wireless support but it requires linux experience to make use of it.

On that note, if anyone knows of a way to make wireless stuff easier for non linux folks, I'd be happy to include it in the upcoming 0.5 image if it doesn't cause problems.

Just a note to say 0.5 will include a gui network manager that should allow noobs to get their wireless stuff working more easily.  "coming soon"

[lodcrappo]

Anyone getting BAMT to work on GA-990XA-UD3 bios version F8 version 1.1? I can't seem to boot from the USB, downloading linuxcoin but I would rather have BAMT working, there is a BIOS update that supports
Support Quick Boost function which is version F10G but I need a workable USB drive to update the BIOS? can anyone confirm that this will fix my issue to get BAMT to boot?

That motherboard does not work with BAMT.

https://github.com/aaronwolfe/Big-A-Miner-Thing/wiki/Hardware-compatibility-list

[cmg5461]

underclocked to 350mhz and got 88% :/

Do I have a bad GPU?

[lodcrappo]

underclocked to 350mhz and got 88% :/

Do I have a bad GPU?

I doubt it, maybe but probably something else. 

High CPU use is troubling.  That should not happen.  Try this:

mine stop

(stops all mining)

in one window or ssh session:

wrapper 2

(this starts mining only on gpu 2)

watch for any errors.  use second window to check cpu load.  verify gpu is getting the o/c you think it is using atitweak.  verify it is getting the kernel params you think it is using: ps -a | grep DEVICE

[cmg5461]

-Stopped all miners

-Started two ssh connections

-wrapper 2

-top

showing 25% cpu usage at 88% gpu usage underclocked to 350mhz

verify clocks now

[lodcrappo]

-Stopped all miners

-Started two ssh connections

-wrapper 2

-top

showing 25% cpu usage at 88% gpu usage underclocked to 350mhz

verify clocks now

dont forget to make sure kernel params in ps are same as what you think they should be

[cmg5461]

I'm not sure weather I'm doing this right, but I don't get any params.  I just get a bunch of sh, pheonix.py and bash returned

[lodcrappo]

I'm not sure weather I'm doing this right, but I don't get any params.  I just get a bunch of sh, pheonix.py and bash returned

type:

ps a | grep DEVICE

and paste what comes back here

[cmg5461]

removed thank you

[lodcrappo]

removed

You have a typo in your kernel parameters.  Aggression has 2 Gs.  

recommend to delete postings of image with your email addr in them, unless like me you have given up and post it everywhere.

[cmg5461]

Thank you very much!

That's what i get for typing it on SSH.  Is there an easy way to copy/paste with vi?

[lodcrappo]

Thank you very much!

That's what i get for typing it on SSH.  Is there an easy way to copy/paste with vi?

you'll probably find nano easier than vi.  copy paste is done with your ssh client, which looks like putty. 

[cmg5461]

Neat, thanks. I'll play around with it.  Learning more about linux every day   This is what makes BAMT so great; the awesome support behind it

[Splirow]

lodcrappo I got my web mgpumon to work.

However, the reason it worked was because I opened a mgpumon status monitor using only: mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf

Every time I close the mgpumon status monitor it stops showing up on the web.

why?

[BitMinerN8]

lodcrappo I got my web mgpumon to work.

However, the reason it worked was because I opened a mgpumon status monitor using only: mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf

Every time I close the mgpumon status monitor it stops showing up on the web.

why?

It needs to stay running. You can modify the /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf (nano /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf) and change the 0 to a 1 on the first variable "screen", that way you will have something to look at, kind of like gpumon.

[Splirow]

lodcrappo I got my web mgpumon to work.

However, the reason it worked was because I opened a mgpumon status monitor using only: mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf

Every time I close the mgpumon status monitor it stops showing up on the web.

why?

It needs to stay running. You can modify the /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf (nano /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf) and change the 0 to a 1 on the first variable "screen", that way you will have something to look at, kind of like gpumon.

I have screen set at 1 already.

If (mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf) needs to start and be running, then how can I have it run at boot up or reboot?

thanks

[BitMinerN8]

lodcrappo I got my web mgpumon to work.

However, the reason it worked was because I opened a mgpumon status monitor using only: mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf

Every time I close the mgpumon status monitor it stops showing up on the web.

why?

It needs to stay running. You can modify the /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf (nano /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf) and change the 0 to a 1 on the first variable "screen", that way you will have something to look at, kind of like gpumon.

I have screen set at 1 already.

If (mgpumon /etc/bamt/mgpumon.conf) needs to start and be running, then how can I have it run at boot up or reboot?

thanks

I believe you could put in in /etc/init.d/rc.local but then you have to hunt down the process to kill it if you should need to stop/start it. If you are going to run it all the time, I'd remove the option to display to the screen.

[TheHarbinger]

I've never used anything but windows on my dedicated miners. My mining rigs are all on wireless adapters, will I be able to install drivers to get them working? I know they support ubuntu.

I don't think BAMT would be a good choice for this situation.  There is some wireless support but it requires linux experience to make use of it.

On that note, if anyone knows of a way to make wireless stuff easier for non linux folks, I'd be happy to include it in the upcoming 0.5 image if it doesn't cause problems.

Just a note to say 0.5 will include a gui network manager that should allow noobs to get their wireless stuff working more easily.  "coming soon"

This "noob" thanks you.   

[cmg5461]

This has been going on for awhile now, and I've decided to try and fix it.  The graphs used to work until I updated BAMT.  The hashrate graphs don't show on the status.pl page either. I've searched for a few hours on google and can't seem to find anything relating to the error.  Anyone know what to do?