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

[Meatball]

Being Dense here I guess as I don't follow how to set this up. I have GUiminer setup for a half dozen pools but due to recent DOS attacks I assume my primary is down a lot more than I like so I would like to backup to Deep.

I used to do the same thing.  Juggle multiple miners for each card with different -f values and have them running.  Was a pain in arse and spun up a ton of extra processes that just bogged down the machine.  I've been using the new --backup setup has been working like a champ.

Just add that --backup with the correct settings to your extra flags section of your main miner.  So for deepbit just add this onto the list of the current flags you are using:

--backup=YourWorkerName:YourWorkerNamePassword@deepbit.net:8332

Leave the rest of your flags the same and by default, if the miner can't talk to the main pool for 2 consecutive cycles, it'll redirect that miner to the pool you have listed in the --backup flag.  Additionally, it'll attempt to reconnect to the primary pool every 2 getwork cycles.  You can tweak those values with those --failback and --tolerance flags.

You'll see the failover/failback attempts in your Console log.

Of course, if both your primary and secondary pools are down, you're out of luck without doing the old multiple miner -f setup.

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[Chimel]

Seems it's upset with the Ufasoft executable

Eventually all antivirus will report and delete Ufasoft bitcoin-miner.exe, I hope it's removed or replaced by another CPU miner in the next version of guiminer, since nobody uses CPUs for mining any more.
I don't know if it's linked, but I haven't been able to get rid of this unwanted 50% CPU usage since the new version and since my antivirus BitDefender has removed this executable. Together with the GPU usage, it has been killing my machine right and left, with shutdowns caused by high temperature and even a couple of blue screens (never had any for the past 5 years.)

So I'm probably looking at mining using phoenix directly or some other GUI miner. I have stopped mining altogether because of the 50% CPU usage on one core thing. I do NOT want guiminer to use my CPU for mining.

[ffwd]

small request,
could you make a "default pool" setting so one can easily switch pools for several configured miners?

[bob777fred]

Thanks for the updated build! Using July's build, I went from about 251/251 to just around 270/270 on my 5830s!

[Milkshanks]

Hi guys, a guy from the portuguese  board asked me to post this here as he is having trouble getting guiminer to work again. According to him this problem started out of nowhere and getting a fresh "install" of guiminer doesn't help either. So I'm making this guy a favor and I'm posting the error here. Any help is appreciated.

Code:

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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado
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 2] O sistema não pode encontrar o arquivo especificado

[Chimel]

@Milkshanks It says a file is missing, so guiminer might have been installed into a folder with strict permissions, such as Program Files. He should try installing into a normal data folder, not a system folder.

On a side note, I'd appreciate if guiminer could be made to install in Program Files and the 'Programs and Features' Control Panel with a normal setup program, this is the only application I am running that does not conform to Windows requirements or guidelines.

[simonk83]

So the --backup flag doesn't work with Phoenix right now, is that right?   Is that something that can be added through guiminer, or should I be pestering the Phoenix guy?

[Stupidpal]

No option for Eligius?

[JBDive]

No option for Eligius?

Just add a new miner or edit the servers.ini file if you want your favorite servers in the drop down (make a backup). Once you create a new miner and save your settings that miner is always there for you so editing the ini is a bit overkill unless your setting up multiple instances or machines.

[Xephan]

Is it possible to extend the status to indicate which pool is the last submission to when using -backup options?

It's hard to tell what exactly is happening when guiminer is reporting a healthy hash rate and shares are submitted. But the pool stats are off enough to indicate that the backup's being switched to.

[Meatball]

Kiv - Anywhere we can RSS new versions of GUIMiner other than check post 1 in this thread?  That or an auto-update feature in the miner   Be awesome to jump on new versions as soon as they come out.

Thanks for the awesome miner!

[AtlasONo]

Think an update is in order

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1334.msg380407#msg380407

[BitMofo]

Hi,

wondering if somebody can help...
I'm attempting to mine for the first time, using Kiv's miner and am using CUDA on the slush pool.
I've set up an account etc, but when I press "start" it never stops "starting" so basically it doesn't actually start mining...
Am I forgetting something? I can't seem to get it to start...

Here's the screenshot:

[deepceleron]

Hi,

wondering if somebody can help...
I'm attempting to mine for the first time, using Kiv's miner and am using CUDA on the slush pool.
I've set up an account etc, but when I press "start" it never stops "starting" so basically it doesn't actually start mining...
Am I forgetting something? I can't seem to get it to start...

You should post in a rpcminer-cuda or guiminer thread, your question has nothing to do with this thread's topic.

[Meatball]

You should post in a rpcminer-cuda or guiminer thread, your question has nothing to do with this thread's topic.

Maybe I'm retarded, but isn't this the GUIMiner thread?

[Tx2000]

You should post in a rpcminer-cuda or guiminer thread, your question has nothing to do with this thread's topic.

Maybe I'm retarded, but isn't this the GUIMiner thread?

It's a celeron.  It doesn't process information as fast as today's CPUs, despite being deep.

[Meatball]

anyone know why guiminer start and crashes ?

Can you be a bit more specific?

[godofal]

anyone know why guiminer start and crashes ?

Can you be a bit more specific?

well a restart solved the problem .....

same problem here, restarting only fixes it temporarily

the problem is this:
in my rig i have a HD5870(PCIEx4) and a HD5830(PCIEx16), both mining pretty well (total 710Mhash)
but for some reason, after X hour (say once or twice a day normally) the HD5870 stops mining saying "connection problems"
its really random and anoying, becouse so far only a manual restart works
backup flags won't work either for some reason
also, someone i help with his rigs has the same problem
he has 2 machines with 4x HD5830, and one card just randomly stops mining in the same way

myself's problem sounds alot like what we're experiencing

[Meatball]

I know there's been a bunch of posts with tweaks and fixes for a few percentage increase in hashing for Phoenix, phatk, etc over the last few weeks.  Anyone rolled anything new or tweaked anything with Kiv's 07-01 GuiMiner client to get improvements over the last release?

[iopq]

I know there's been a bunch of posts with tweaks and fixes for a few percentage increase in hashing for Phoenix, phatk, etc over the last few weeks.  Anyone rolled anything new or tweaked anything with Kiv's 07-01 GuiMiner client to get improvements over the last release?

you can just replace the kernel files manually in gui miner afaik
I didn't bother, just running from command line