[POOL][Scrypt][Scrypt-N][X11] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com

[FlyForFun]

Sorry about that guys.  Was a display issue (one of our stats crons locked up on a misbehaving coindaemon), and since it wasn't a critical system (everything was still working, just not displaying propery), alerts didn't go off.  Everything should be back displaying correctly.

Nice, im glad no mining time has been lost.

[1715294250]

1715294250

[utahjohn]

Earnings Log
2014-06-27 02:10:03 (blank)    0.03162220    0.00000168

The Gorillacoins?

[suchmoon]

I looked through the FAQs to understand the different columns on the stats page but dint gather much. I understand the hashing power column, earned, unconverted and total columns.
What I am unclear about are: "Earnings" and "BTC" columns. Are the earnings in BTC or USD? And the BTC in the "BTC" column doesn't match with the bTC in earned, unconverted and total column on top.

Which stats page are you talking about? Individual miner/worker stats?

One thing is sure - there are no USD amounts anywhere on waffle. If you are referring to the "Earnings Log" table in miner's stats - it only shows the last hour of earnings a limited number of records (50?), whereas "Earned" and "Unconverted" are amounts accumulated since last payout.

Why do we have two columns? Earning and BTC is my query. Is it earning by pool or something?

It would really help if you posted a screenshot or at least which page/table you're looking at. I don't see "Earning" column anywhere. If you mean "Amount" and "BTC" columns in the "Earnings Log" table, then "Amount" is the number of coins, and "BTC" is the estimated value of those coins in BTC.

[m0narch]

Sorry about that guys.  Was a display issue (one of our stats crons locked up on a misbehaving coindaemon), and since it wasn't a critical system (everything was still working, just not displaying propery), alerts didn't go off.  Everything should be back displaying correctly.

Outstanding.

[forcefedvr6]

Hmm, glad that it worked for you guys. I tried that both with lasys and the "14.6fixed" miners,  didn't see an increase on my 7950s though.

I think that it might be a problem with win8.1 and the 14.4 drivers because I noticed that I actually lost about . 1Mh per card after "upgrading" from win8 to 8.1 and running 14.4 modded driver (I have six cards) and lazys miner like I had been.

I'm running Windows 7 with the 14.4 v3 mod drivers, lasybear's miner (sgminer_x11x13mod_03_06_2014.zip), and Pencha's BIN file.

I have 6 GPUs per machine and get 3.7 m/hash per card @ 1080/1500.

How much are you getting currently?

I'm seeing about 2.89 Mh/s per 7950 card (sapphire hd7950 non-reference) running win8.1, 14.4 modded driver,  and lasy x11 miner. (Was seeing ~2.99 with win8 before I "upgraded".) I put the .bin file in my miner folder and didn't really change anything though,  so I tried a different miner with the new .bin and still saw about 2.89per card.  I wonder if the lasy x11/x13 build is better than the x11 one. I might have to run it to see,  but I'm thinking that either one handles x11 the same.

What's your WSize and TC set at?  Per the name of the bin, you need to be set at 256 and 8192 respectively for it to work with that bin. 

Interesting,  I will give that a shot.  Worksize was set at 256 but TC was 23,xxx ,  and then I deleted TC because I didn't think that it was necessary with these x11 miners.  I'll try out what you are saying a little later though.

If you delete the bin, the kernel will just generate a new bin file from your own setup... it'll be named something like x11modTahitiglg2tc23000w256l4.bin based on the settings you just gave, but it won't be optimized like the dropbox linked one is.  The numbers in the name correspond to matched settings with your current config.

Try again with TC of 8192 and the dropbox provided bin file.

Update:  After about 2.5 hours of hashing at increased rates last night,  I shut down to plug in my amp meter and restarted the rig.  When I restarted it,  I noticed that I was only hashing at about 3.2 Mh/s per card instead of the 3.7 that I had just been seeing.  So I restarted the miner from within itself and it hashed for about 10 minutes back at 3.7 Mh/s per card, and then the screen started flickering and sgminer shut down and I lost video.
Rig would re-set if I hit reset,  miner would auto-start through my .bat file in startup and I would see 3.7Mh/s per card, but the flicker/black screen scenario would repeat itself after about 10 minutes and I would have to reset.  I tried and went back to not using the custom .bin file, and reloaded my old config,  but always the same scenario after about 10 minutes.  Tried a bunch of things such as removing and reloading 14.4 and modded .inf files,  same scenario. One time I got a message that I had unplugged an audio device,  which was not true,  but got me to thinking, so I deactivated the amd hdmi audio drivers after remembering that moving to win 8.1 caused me to reload amd 14.4 and I forgot to shut them off,  but still no joy.  Just did a system restore to right after loading 8.1, and I reloaded 14.4 + modded drivers,  and it just crashed again after about 15 minutes.

I did discover that even with the 20% increase in hashrate,  my power consumption only increased to 8.5A which is nice,  but I might be heading towards a F & R since 8.1 is already pissing me off on its own for numerous reasons,  but idk what the fuck I did to cause the miner (?) gpu driver (?) OS(?) instability.

[ingrown]

Hmm, glad that it worked for you guys. I tried that both with lasys and the "14.6fixed" miners,  didn't see an increase on my 7950s though.

I think that it might be a problem with win8.1 and the 14.4 drivers because I noticed that I actually lost about . 1Mh per card after "upgrading" from win8 to 8.1 and running 14.4 modded driver (I have six cards) and lazys miner like I had been.

I'm running Windows 7 with the 14.4 v3 mod drivers, lasybear's miner (sgminer_x11x13mod_03_06_2014.zip), and Pencha's BIN file.

I have 6 GPUs per machine and get 3.7 m/hash per card @ 1080/1500.

How much are you getting currently?

I'm seeing about 2.89 Mh/s per 7950 card (sapphire hd7950 non-reference) running win8.1, 14.4 modded driver,  and lasy x11 miner. (Was seeing ~2.99 with win8 before I "upgraded".) I put the .bin file in my miner folder and didn't really change anything though,  so I tried a different miner with the new .bin and still saw about 2.89per card.  I wonder if the lasy x11/x13 build is better than the x11 one. I might have to run it to see,  but I'm thinking that either one handles x11 the same.

What's your WSize and TC set at?  Per the name of the bin, you need to be set at 256 and 8192 respectively for it to work with that bin. 

Interesting,  I will give that a shot.  Worksize was set at 256 but TC was 23,xxx ,  and then I deleted TC because I didn't think that it was necessary with these x11 miners.  I'll try out what you are saying a little later though.

If you delete the bin, the kernel will just generate a new bin file from your own setup... it'll be named something like x11modTahitiglg2tc23000w256l4.bin based on the settings you just gave, but it won't be optimized like the dropbox linked one is.  The numbers in the name correspond to matched settings with your current config.

Try again with TC of 8192 and the dropbox provided bin file.

Update:  After about 2.5 hours of hashing at increased rates last night,  I shut down to plug in my amp meter and restarted the rig.  When I restarted it,  I noticed that I was only hashing at about 3.2 Mh/s per card instead of the 3.7 that I had just been seeing.  So I restarted the miner from within itself and it hashed for about 10 minutes back at 3.7 Mh/s per card, and then the screen started flickering and sgminer shut down and I lost video.
Rig would re-set if I hit reset,  miner would auto-start through my .bat file in startup and I would see 3.7Mh/s per card, but the flicker/black screen scenario would repeat itself after about 10 minutes and I would have to reset.  I tried and went back to not using the custom .bin file, and reloaded my old config,  but always the same scenario after about 10 minutes.  Tried a bunch of things such as removing and reloading 14.4 and modded .inf files,  same scenario. One time I got a message that I had unplugged an audio device,  which was not true,  but got me to thinking, so I deactivated the amd hdmi audio drivers after remembering that moving to win 8.1 caused me to reload amd 14.4 and I forgot to shut them off,  but still no joy.  Just did a system restore to right after loading 8.1, and I reloaded 14.4 + modded drivers,  and it just crashed again after about 15 minutes.

I did discover that even with the 20% increase in hashrate,  my power consumption only increased to 8.5A which is nice,  but I might be heading towards a F & R since 8.1 is already pissing me off on its own for numerous reasons,  but idk what the fuck I did to cause the miner (?) gpu driver (?) OS(?) instability.

You might want to try it without the amp meter inline.  I had a problem with one a few months ago that I believe fried a psu.

[utahjohn]

@poolwaffle your attention needed immediately
This from multipool:
Jun 27 3:06 PM SUPER has reached the end of its proof-of-work phase and will be removed on or about July 10th. Any coins left in active accounts as of that date will be auto converted to BTC at a 1.5% fee. SUPER mining ports have been redirected to DRK.

Warning if we continue to mine them Orphans ...
supercoin    14,221.27339146    1,535.99999573    1.26341818

Once again I have moved to multipool for now ... Looks like I have mined SUPER about 1.2 hour after PoW ended ... my bad for not catching this news earlier

EDIT:
This from http://www.super-coin.net/
- After PoW block 24000 the PoW block generation will be completely shut off. The coin will become pure PoS after it.

[tuanvie]

This seems like a very nice,
I've just been to the website,
there is no calculator for an approximate calculation of the results?
I need it because I often rent a rig, so it's nice if I could rent a rig and pointed wafflepool

[utahjohn]

I hope everyone knows that the first of July, cryptsy administered verification for their clients. Without  verification, daily amount can not exceed $ 1,000 per day. Many people will not agree to such an exchanger. This is the way a broken exchanges mtgox. Diamond will be needed a new large exchanger.

More disturbing news

[forcefedvr6]

You might want to try it without the amp meter inline.  I had a problem with one a few months ago that I believe fried a psu.
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I pulled it out after I started having issues, and I have used it before on this rig for much longer periods of time with no issues.  PSU could be bad,  but it looks/sounds/smells ok.

[prometheianz]

I pulled it out after I started having issues, and I have used it before on this rig for much longer periods of time with no issues.  PSU could be bad,  but it looks/sounds/smells ok.

Are you installing just the barebones driver? Best practice is to clean all drivers off the system, then run the AMD installer, wait for it to extract, then cancel the installer. Then go to your Device Manager and right click the card, manually install the driver, that way you get none of the AMD junkware.

I use AMD Cleanup 1.2.1.0 with Windows 7, but you must not use it with Windows 8 as it will corrupt the OS. This looks like it could work:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=379505

Anyway here are the instructions for installing barebones drivers:

Go to Start Menu > Control Panel > System > Device Manager > and expand 'Display adapters'.

Right click the display adapter that corresponds to a Radeon 280X and click 'Update Driver Software...'

Click 'Browse my computer for driver software'.

Click 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'.

Click 'Have Disk...'.

Paste the following path into the 'Copy manufacturer's files from:' box:

C:\AMD\Support\14-4-win7-win8-win8.1-64-dd-ccc-whql\Packages\Drivers\Display\WB6A_INF

Click 'OK'.

Select 'AMD Radeon HD 7800 [or 280] Series'.

Click 'Next'.

Your screen will flicker while the driver is installed. This may take a while.

Eventually you will see 'Windows has successfully updated your driver software'.

Click 'Close'.

[forcefedvr6]

I pulled it out after I started having issues, and I have used it before on this rig for much longer periods of time with no issues.  PSU could be bad,  but it looks/sounds/smells ok.

Are you installing just the barebones driver? Best practice is to clean all drivers off the system, then run the AMD installer, wait for it to extract, then cancel the installer. Then go to your Device Manager and right click the card, manually install the driver, that way you get none of the AMD junkware.

I use AMD Cleanup 1.2.1.0 with Windows 7, but you must not use it with Windows 8 as it will corrupt the OS. This looks like it could work:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=379505

Anyway here are the instructions for installing barebones drivers:

Go to Start Menu > Control Panel > System > Device Manager > and expand 'Display adapters'.

Right click the display adapter that corresponds to a Radeon 280X and click 'Update Driver Software...'

Click 'Browse my computer for driver software'.

Click 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'.

Click 'Have Disk...'.

Paste the following path into the 'Copy manufacturer's files from:' box:

C:\AMD\Support\14-4-win7-win8-win8.1-64-dd-ccc-whql\Packages\Drivers\Display\WB6A_INF

Click 'OK'.

Select 'AMD Radeon HD 7800 [or 280] Series'.

Click 'Next'.

Your screen will flicker while the driver is installed. This may take a while.

Eventually you will see 'Windows has successfully updated your driver software'.

Click 'Close'.

Pretty sure something got corrupted somewhere in my software....I have an old SSD with a copy of Win8 and amd 13.1x modded drivers on it,  and have been hashing Scrypt-N for the past hour to give the gpus and psu a workout, and it has not crashed or acted up yet.  Disc is small and has no space left on it,  so it is temporary but good for diag.

When I upgraded to 8.1 on my main drive,  that actually seemed to rip out my 14.4 modded driver and I had to reinstall it basically as described above.  You're forgetting a couple steps there, but yeah, it was running x11 fine until I started playing with the modded .bin file to gain some hash.  I also had loaded the sgminer"fixed" version for a minute around that time when I hadn't yet matched TC in my config to what was in the .bin, so maybe that screwed something up....trying to reset to zero at this time and re-load win8 from my purchased valid copy of win8 and 8.1 upgrade is fighting me all the way.  Invalid disc this, doesn't want to format that, etc. etc. I miss DOS.  I should be able to figure this out with google and my laptop though. Maybe.

[torontominer]

drk is missing from the x11 stats chart. wtf?

who cares as long as we stay at more than 150%

[poolwaffle]

drk is missing from the x11 stats chart. wtf?

who cares as long as we stay at more than 150%

We hadn't mined it for a while.  We auto-hide any coins that are all zeros (no unconfirmed, no unconverted).


On a different note, X13 is in private testing (just a few rented rigs).  Should be open to beta for you guys tomorrow/sunday ideally

[utahjohn]

I am ready for X13

[madian]

John, any idea what the hashing speed coefficient vs scrypt you get with the new 14.6 drivers and x13 kernel? Is it around 6x like x11?

[utahjohn]

John, any idea what the hashing speed coefficient vs scrypt you get with the new 14.6 drivers and x13 kernel? Is it around 6x like x11?

X11 around 4-4.2x
X11mod optimized gets 5.6-5.7X on a 280x
X11mod optimized gets 6.2-6.5x on a 7950

More like 3x for X13 (from what I have read various places) I have not tested optimized X13 kernel with waffle yet waiting for X13 beta testing.  Then I will have to do config tuning yet again

I would guess around 4.0-4.2x for X13mod optimized

Currently I am waiting on a X15 coin launch
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=667250.msg7535354#msg7535354
http://countingdownto.com/countdown/maiacoin-launch-countdown-clock

Currently testing X15 algo (bitblock), I'm getting around 2.2Mhs on a 7950 which is about 4x scrypt

[miningpoolhub]

Is client.reconnect issue still exists?

Do all miners have to disable client.reconnect feature?
Any detail info?

[utahjohn]

Is client.reconnect issue still exists?

Do all miners have to disable client.reconnect feature?
Any detail info?

That was an issue long ago here on waffle ... in short it doesn't hurt to enable it

"no-client-reconnect" : true,

Still a possible attack vector for any mining client that does not have it set.

[utahjohn]

ROFLMAO

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