GUI mining - updated Dec 3 with 7970 bugfix, also supports Stratum!

[hennessy]

The summary tab is showing me "connecting..." for every worker, but in fact is already mining. The accepted shares go up and GPU usage is at 99% as well. If I stop the worker and restart it, the mh/s rate is show for about two seconds, then switches again to "Connecting...". Any way to fix this?

Another question, does GUIMiner have a fail detection to restart the miner automatically if it locks up (or can the backup option somehow be abused for this)?

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[erek]

BTCguild no longer has The Netherlands server (NL1/NL2 have been consolidated into DE/DE2)

[deepceleron]

2011-07-01 is 25% slower on nvidia in OpenCL.

[becoin]

2011-07-01 is 25% slower on nvidia in OpenCL.

Same here.

[dinzy]

So difficulty is going to increase faster.  great

[haydent]

i upgraded to the latest version from a few back (may) and use opencl miner. now my hashrate is much faster ! im getting 20mhs more. thanks. donation made.

[goozman96]

2011-07-01 is 25% slower on nvidia in OpenCL.

Same here.

Same here.

I'll make these two requests again for a future version:

1. The ability to remember previously used flags. There could just be a drop down menu button next to the text input field.
2. The ability to minimize to the task bar instead of only just the tray. (and when you press the X button, for it to actually close, not minimize to the tray) Options, please!

Also, regarding my request for keeping the window the same size and position when restarting the program - the same position is kept, however, the size still reverts to default. I have the window stretched a little more than default, horizontally, however, when I restart the program, it still goes back to the same default size. But the positioning of the window is fixed.

[ricksta]

oh my god I gotta say the new fallback pool option is just so sick. BTC Guild had been so unreliable lately and this feature is awesome!

[anodyne]

Came to think of something, when it comes to new pools and old ones changing things around...

Why not give each pool its own config file, and collect them all in a folder? That would make it a bit like a plug-in system, so that pools can supply their own configuration files when they change addresses and add servers, as well as letting new pools get their details into the GUI without waiting for the next update.

[Dacm4n]

For some reason Cuda doesn't work well with my nvidia GTS250 card it always freezes the pc when I stop it. So I use poclbm but it uses 25% of the cpu and cuda only uses 3%. Is there a way to get the cpu usage down, even selecting just one cpu cores doesn't work.

[bsphil]

Very happy with the performance on my HD 5870 with the latest update.  I can get identical speeds on poclbm (~450 mhash/s) as I can on phoenix's phatk, except poclbm is drastically lighter on the CPU than Phoenix is.  Great work, definitely worth a tip.

[goozman96]

I'd like to request one more thing:

When I press refresh balance for the first time and it asks me for my token, please make it so that the "(paste token here)" is pre-highlighed or allow it to become fully highlighted by triple clicking on it.

Thank you!

[Dadio]

I want to use guiminer for a local pool.  By that I mean that I have more than one computer to mine with and I would like to have them all working as one local miner.  I expect that I need to run guiminer on all boxes and the bitcoin server on one of them.  The ones without the server should connect to the one with it as if that box was a pool.  That is my guess but I am not sure if it can be done that way or how to it do if it can be done.  From everything I have read I should be able to get 3.5 giga hashes per second combined from my computers.

This question was touched on by one poster about in the middle of this tread but not as directly as I just did.  It was not answered unless, I missed the answer somehow.

Or would I be better off connecting each computer to a pool?

Kiv, I appreciate your work and will donate to your efforts each time I earn bitcoins with guiminer.

[Tx2000]

Not sure if this is the right place but I am running off what GUIMiner is giving me in the console.

Anyway, I was running on BTCGuild last night with failover setup to go to bitcoins.lc (since I knew BTCGuild was having some instability) and I wake up this morning to see my miner chugging away at 390Mhash.  Awesome, I thought, it's working.  Obviously, though, the BTCGuild site was in minimal mode explaining it was effectively shutdown due to DDoS so I figured failover properly switched over to bitcoins.lc.  So I went to check my activity at bitcoins.lc and was surprised to find it had -zero- activity.  So where the heck is my Mhash going to, with it neither contributing to one or the other?


Here is some excerpts from the console tab:

Code:

2011-07-05 08:17:33: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
2011-07-05 08:17:33: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": Traceback (most recent call last):
2011-07-05 08:17:33: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "BitcoinMiner.pyo", line 305/07/2011 08:17:33, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 3 2
2011-07-05 08:17:33: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:33, Setting pool ********* @ http://bitcoins.lc:8080
2011-07-05 08:17:34: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:34, Using new LP URL /LP
2011-07-05 08:17:34: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:34, LP connected to http://bitcoins.lc:8080
2011-07-05 08:17:34: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:34, long poll exception:
2011-07-05 08:17:34: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:34, Setting pool ******** @ uscentral.btcguild.com:8332
2011-07-05 08:17:34: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:34, Attempting to fail back to primary pool
2011-07-05 08:17:35: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:35, Using new LP URL /LP
2011-07-05 08:17:35: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:35, LP connected to uscentral.btcguild.com:8332
2011-07-05 08:17:35: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:35, Setting pool ********** @ http://bitcoins.lc:8080
2011-07-05 08:17:35: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:35, Still unable to reconnect to primary pool (attempt 1812), failing over
2011-07-05 08:17:36: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:36, long poll exception:
2011-07-05 08:17:36: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:36, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 0 2
2011-07-05 08:17:37: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:37, Using new LP URL /LP
2011-07-05 08:17:37: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:37, LP connected to http://bitcoins.lc:8080
2011-07-05 08:17:37: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:37, long poll exception:
2011-07-05 08:17:37: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:37, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 1 2
2011-07-05 08:17:38: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:38, Using new LP URL /LP
2011-07-05 08:17:38: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:38, LP connected to http://bitcoins.lc:8080
2011-07-05 08:17:38: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:38, long poll exception:
2011-07-05 08:17:38: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:38, Setting pool ******** @ uscentral.btcguild.com:8332
2011-07-05 08:17:38: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:38, Attempting to fail back to primary pool
2011-07-05 08:17:39: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:39, Using new LP URL /LP
2011-07-05 08:17:39: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:39, LP connected to uscentral.btcguild.com:8332
2011-07-05 08:17:39: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:39, Setting pool ******** @ http://bitcoins.lc:8080
2011-07-05 08:17:39: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:39, Still unable to reconnect to primary pool (attempt 1813), failing over
2011-07-05 08:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:40, long poll exception:
2011-07-05 08:17:40: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:40, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 2 2
2011-07-05 08:17:41: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:41, Using new LP URL /LP
2011-07-05 08:17:41: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:41, LP connected to http://bitcoins.lc:8080
2011-07-05 08:17:41: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:41, long poll exception:
2011-07-05 08:17:41: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:41, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 3 2
2011-07-05 08:17:41: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:41, No more backup pools left. Using primary and starting over.
2011-07-05 08:17:41: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:41, Setting pool ********* @ uscentral.btcguild.com:8332
2011-07-05 08:17:42: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:42, Using new LP URL /LP
2011-07-05 08:17:42: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:42, LP connected to uscentral.btcguild.com:8332
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 05/07/2011 08:17:43, long poll exception:
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": 26, in longPollThread
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "BitcoinMiner.pyo", line 283, in request
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 898, in request
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 935, in _send_request
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 892, in endheaders
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 764, in _send_output
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 723, in send
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 704, in connect
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "socket.pyo", line 514, in create_connection
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": Traceback (most recent call last):
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "BitcoinMiner.pyo", line 326, in longPollThread
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "BitcoinMiner.pyo", line 283, in request
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 898, in request
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 935, in _send_request
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 892, in endheaders
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 764, in _send_output
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 723, in send
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 704, in connect
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "socket.pyo", line 500, in create_connection
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": Traceback (most recent call last):
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "BitcoinMiner.pyo", line 326, in longPollThread
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "BitcoinMiner.pyo", line 283, in request
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 898, in request
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 935, in _send_request
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 892, in endheaders
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 764, in _send_output
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 723, in send
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "httplib.pyo", line 704, in connect
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": File "socket.pyo", line 514, in create_connection
2011-07-05 08:17:43: Listener for "BTCGuild.com OpenCL": error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

That appears to repeat itself in no real discernible order throughout the night. Here are the settings I used:

-v -w 256 -f 1 -a 2 --backup=login:password@http://bitcoins.lc:8080


Is there any reason why failover was not working under these conditions?

[malevolent]

Prevoius guiminer, apart from phoenix connection problems, ran fine for me.

I downloaded the newest one today (and deleted all files from previous versions), and when I wanted to run it I got the message 'Errors occured: see the logfiel xxx for details'

This is the log file, anyone know what's wrong?

Code:

  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2221, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 2212, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1696, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1915, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 938, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid
ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2212, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1696, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1915, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 938, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2221, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 2212, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1696, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1915, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 938, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid
ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2212, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1696, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1915, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 938, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2221, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 2212, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1696, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1915, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 938, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid

EDIT: just tried back the previous version.... and it doesnt work either!
I'm running a HD 5850 and HD 6850 atm, going back to stock settings doesn't help.
OS: Win 7 Pro 64-bit SP1
mobo: Asus P5Q-E

EDIT_2: all right, managed to run it if I don't click 'ok' on the error message, and after I switch from Phoenix to poclbm
Anyone can help? I'd really like to be able to run phoenix againa, because poclbm is too heavy for my CPU (Q9300@3.25) - 25% load.

[Transisto]

I'd like a feature to deal with the following problem. ;

Say I have 4 gpu, and one of them is not available on boot,  For example when I forgot to have a dummy plug of one of them.

The cpu take the place of the 4th minner and all 3 GPU left get slowed to near zero.
I would also like to have a way of refreshing the available gpu list without having to restart the exe.

Thanks, Your work is awesome !

[hawks5999]

I'd like a feature to deal with the following problem. ;

Say I have 4 gpu, and one of them is not available on boot,  For example when I forgot to have a dummy plug of one of them.

The cpu take the place of the 4th minner and all 3 GPU left get slowed to near zero.
I would also like to have a way of refreshing the available gpu list without having to restart the exe.

Thanks, Your work is awesome !

+1
some option to "never use CPU" would be good.
If $name has (sempron | athlon | etc) autostart=off
Or some logic like that.

[ricksta]

My GUI miner sometimes would stop receiving shares, but it still shows it's running.

eg. it's 1pm and my last share received was 12:30pm, but my hash rate had always been going at 330Mhash

I have to constantly check on my miners to see if i'm receiving shares and if the shares are stuck I have to click stop mining, then start mining to fix it.

Whats the problem this?

[mike85123]

nm fixed

[Kiv]

Did you install the new GUIMiner in the same place as the old one? "The directory name is invalid" probably means it's looking for phoenix.exe in a folder that doesn't exist. Check the "Ext Path" on the miner and see if it's still correct. If that doesn't work you can also try deleting your Phoenix miner info and creating a new one pointing to the right place.

Prevoius guiminer, apart from phoenix connection problems, ran fine for me.

I downloaded the newest one today (and deleted all files from previous versions), and when I wanted to run it I got the message 'Errors occured: see the logfiel xxx for details'

This is the log file, anyone know what's wrong?

Code:

  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2221, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 2212, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1696, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1915, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 938, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid
ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2212, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1696, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1915, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 938, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2221, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 2212, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1696, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1915, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 938, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid
ERROR:root:Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2212, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1696, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1915, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 938, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "guiminer.py", line 2221, in <module>
  File "guiminer.py", line 2212, in run
  File "guiminer.py", line 1696, in __init__
  File "guiminer.py", line 1915, in load_config
  File "guiminer.py", line 938, in start_mining
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 621, in __init__
  File "subprocess.pyo", line 830, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid

EDIT: just tried back the previous version.... and it doesnt work either!
I'm running a HD 5850 and HD 6850 atm, going back to stock settings doesn't help.
OS: Win 7 Pro 64-bit SP1
mobo: Asus P5Q-E

EDIT_2: all right, managed to run it if I don't click 'ok' on the error message, and after I switch from Phoenix to poclbm
Anyone can help? I'd really like to be able to run phoenix againa, because poclbm is too heavy for my CPU (Q9300@3.25) - 25% load.