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

[Cebrek]

Just noticed that Scrypt efficiency is way down below LTC. 

Is this because of the influx of new, cheaper, more efficient Scrypt ASICs?

Not complaining, I know it's a hard job to run this pool, and I accept the risk of underperformance. 

Honestly, I just love that you've made it really easy for me to mine without having to worry about the details of exchanging for BTC.

So thanks for all of your hard work, it is much appreciated.

[warrenbeatty]

Are you planning on adding more coins to the x11 side of mining?

It seems like TradeMyBit has more coins that they are mining but still have a lower hashrate. Or is just not profitable or too much hassle to add that many coins so early on?

[Angela8488]

I like your X11 pool, will mining for a while

[woytas]

Hey guys, I made a post in the sgminer thread about a crazy frustrating problem I am having with setting up x11 on my rig. I'd figure I'd post it here also as I'm offering a 0.015 BTC bounty for anyone who fixes problem! Here it is:

Hey guys, here is a pic of sgminer when it freezes. In this instance it froze @ around 14 minutes into mining. It will do this randomly from 10 minutes in to 2 1/2 hours in.

https://i.imgur.com/D3j98Zu.jpg

I get those two messages when sgminer crashes everytime! "Stratum connection to Pool 0 interrupted" and the last one "Pool 0 difficultly changed to 0.160". Windows does not crash and I can easily restart sgminer. This is definitely not an internet problem. As I said before I ran scrypt mining on this same machine for months without problem. Longest uptime was 2 months straight without rebooting or crashing cgminer! To double check I ran cgminer with scrypt when I was @ work and all was well when I got home. Booted up x11 and the pic above happened. Boot with a config file or just a .bat... doesn't make a difference, both crash.

More information on my setup for those looking to help: 2 R9 290s (Gigabyte and ASUS), 2 R9 270s (ASUS), and 1 MSI R9 270x -- 4 GB of ram. I am running windows 8.1 currently with the 13.12 AMD drivers. I am literally pulling my hair out cause I have no solution to this problem! I don't know what I could change in the config to help this... lowered intensity, fiddled with the clocks -- all which did not help. I have a 2nd small rig with a 5850 and 270x upstairs thats hashes x11 fine and hasn't crashed since I started it... I'm going nuts!

Big fat 0.015 BTC to anyone that can get me running stable!

lower gpu-engine on all card (just a 100Mhz lower than the normal) and start mining, if it's stable just add 10Mhz to one card and wait, when it will crash lower it and go with the next card. That what solved my problem with crashing X11.

[richmke]

smalltimer50: Post the config file you are using.

Threadconcurrency can also cause problems. 8192 works on my 280x.

[suchmoon]

There is an X11 whale out there... pool total was 60+ GH/s, now 30 GH/s. The question is where did the whale go (or swim or whatever it is that whales do).

[torontominer]

There an X11 whale out there... pool total was 60+ GH/s, now 30 GH/s. The question is where did the whale go (or swim or whatever it is that whales do).

rig crashed 

[chadwickx16]

There an X11 whale out there... pool total was 60+ GH/s, now 30 GH/s. The question is where did the whale go (or swim or whatever it is that whales do).

rig crashed 

LOL! That would be terrible to reset a 30GHs/ farm.

[suchmoon]

There an X11 whale out there... pool total was 60+ GH/s, now 30 GH/s. The question is where did the whale go (or swim or whatever it is that whales do).

rig crashed 

LOL! That would be terrible to reset a 30GHs/ farm.

A sick ASIC perhaps

[chadwickx16]

There an X11 whale out there... pool total was 60+ GH/s, now 30 GH/s. The question is where did the whale go (or swim or whatever it is that whales do).

rig crashed 

LOL! That would be terrible to reset a 30GHs/ farm.

A sick ASIC perhaps

Perhaps, I've heard rumors, but generally rumors aren't true here as facts get sniffed out pretty quick; if there was one out there you can make a killing selling the FPGA's rather than mining with them. The richest people in the gold rush were the ones selling the shovels, not the ones digging for gold.

[suchmoon]

Perhaps, I've heard rumors, but generally rumors aren't true here as facts get sniffed out pretty quick; if there was one out there you can make a killing selling the FPGA's rather than mining with them. The richest people in the gold rush were the ones selling the shovels, not the ones digging for gold.

My understanding - which is completely based on hearsay of course - is that an FPGA is far less complicated/expensive to make than ASIC so it stands to reason that someone might be capable of creating it and not necessarily possess the resources required to mass produce/market/deliver/support it. Quietly mining for a few months is not such a bad alternative. It's like owning an excavator while everybody else is busy digging with their bare hands.

[chadwickx16]

My understanding - which is completely based on hearsay of course - is that an FPGA is far less complicated/expensive to make than ASIC so it stands to reason that someone might be capable of creating it and not necessarily possess the resources required to mass produce/market/deliver/support it. Quietly mining for a few months is not such a bad alternative. It's like owning an excavator while everybody else is busy digging with their bare hands.

I'm sure that a bunch of people are sitting on some leftover FPGA's but what kind of hash are we talking about, theoretically??

[alienesb]

My understanding - which is completely based on hearsay of course - is that an FPGA is far less complicated/expensive to make than ASIC so it stands to reason that someone might be capable of creating it and not necessarily possess the resources required to mass produce/market/deliver/support it. Quietly mining for a few months is not such a bad alternative. It's like owning an excavator while everybody else is busy digging with their bare hands.

I'm sure that a bunch of people are sitting on some leftover FPGA's but what kind of hash are we talking about, theoretically??

FPGA's do much less than ASICs do, that much I know.

[Spacewide]

I found this table to set x11 difficulty, but is that regular mh/s or x11 mh/s?

Miner Speed    Scrypt Password    Scrypt-N Password    X11 Password
0MHs - 1MHs    d=256    d=128    d=0.01
1MHs - 2MHs    d=512    d=256    d=0.02
2MHs - 4MHs    d=1024    d=512    d=0.04
4MHs - 8MHs    d=2048    d=1024    d=0.08
8MHs - 16MHs    d=4096    d=2048    d=0.16
16MHs - 32MHs    d=8192    d=4096    d=0.32
32MHs - 64MHs    d=16384    d=8192    d=0.64
64MHs - 128MHs    d=32768    d=16384    d=1.28


So my rig runs like 3.6mh/s on scrypt and 16mh/s on x11.

Should I set diff on 0.04 or 0.16?

Thanks

[richmke]

spacewide: .16, maybe .25

[chadwickx16]

spacewide: .16, maybe .25

It should be in powers of 2, recommend 0.16.

[utahjohn]

@PW
How is work on X13 going?
Marucoin, Mammothcoin, Korecoin?

X13 CPU mineable?  Still looking for decent mining clients

[smalltimer50]

For people that were helping me troubleshoot my problem before, here is the current config file that I am using. Let me know any suggestions or if you see anything fishy that might be contributing to the random crashes.

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://useast.wafflepool.com:3331",
      "user" : "my address",
      "pass" : "d=0.008"
   },
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://useast.wafflepool.com:3331",
      "user" : "my address",
      "pass" : "d=0.008"
   },
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://useast.wafflepool.com:3331",
      "user" : "my address",
      "pass" : "d=0.008"
   },
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://useast.wafflepool.com:3331",
      "user" : "my address",
      "pass" : "d=0.008"
   }
]
,
"device" : "0,1,2,3,4",
"intensity" : "18,16,16,16,18",
"worksize" : "256,256,256,256,256",
"kernel" : "x11mod",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192,8192,8192,8192,8192",
"shaders" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-engine" : "947,975,975,975,947",
"gpu-fan" : "50,50,50,50,50",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250,1400,1400,1400,1250",
"gpu-powertune" : "20,20,20,20,20",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"expiry" : "28",
"failover-switch-delay" : "60",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "7",
"tcp-keepalive" : "30",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

[poolwaffle]

@PW
How is work on X13 going?
Marucoin, Mammothcoin, Korecoin?

X13 CPU mineable?  Still looking for decent mining clients

Ideally in beta by the end of the weekend.  Been stupid busy, and got a bit left to do...

[radeon2k8]

hey guys,

i'm new to wafflepool, i've already setup my workers to the EU pool.
i really like the pool, i have been mining for ~1 hours but there is something:

so far there has been 25765 sahres total and 334 rejected total

but where are my coins? is the site has delay or something wrong?
i should have way more than 0.006 BTC with this Mh/s rate after an hour of mining

https://i.imgur.com/B7KmX8I.png

thanks