Phoenix - Efficient, fast, modular miner

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I find that even aggression 1 is driving temperature too high (80C) for my card (ATI 6770), how do I set the speed even lower? I currently get 130 Mhash/s but I'm ok with lower speed if I could get my GPU temperature down to 70 level.

Aggression 1 is as fast as possible; you need to raise the number to lower the GPU load.

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[5tr1k3r]

Hi im new to bit mining and i am running dual MSI 6990s and they run at 333.33 mhash/sec per GPU which gives me the total of 1332 MHASH/SEC. Is this normal?? I want to try an overclock it as well, can anyone give me tips on how to do that and what rate should i be going at per card or per GPU??

oh btw im also running my SAPPHIRE 5770 1GB on another computer and it only gives me 125.66 mhash/sec. On the wiki it saids i should be going at 156.83 at core of 850. what am i doing wrong?

C:\Users\Username\Desktop\phoenix\phoenix.exe -u username:password@deepbit.net:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=0 VECTORS BFI_INT AGGRESSION=8 WORKSIZE=128

666 Mhash/s is normal for 6990. You can see it in the "Mining hardware comparison" page of the wiki. About overclocking — I'm not sure you should try it if you ask such questions... 1.3 Ghash/s is a good speed afterall. But if you really want to overclock your cards, go ahead, download msi afterburner and give it a try (e.g. set 850 mhz for core)... And try to use the forum search next time.

About 5770:
— What SDK do you have? If it's 2.4, use -k phatk, not -k poclbm.
— Why didn't you stick to the recommended miner settings written in the first post? Remove "WORKSIZE=128".

[kokojie]

I find that even aggression 1 is driving temperature too high (80C) for my card (ATI 6770), how do I set the speed even lower? I currently get 130 Mhash/s but I'm ok with lower speed if I could get my GPU temperature down to 70 level.

Aggression 1 is as fast as possible; you need to raise the number to lower the GPU load.

That's not true, 1 is slowest, 130 Mhash/s for my gpu, if I set to 5, I get 160 Mhash/s and temperate goes even higher

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I find that even aggression 1 is driving temperature too high (80C) for my card (ATI 6770), how do I set the speed even lower? I currently get 130 Mhash/s but I'm ok with lower speed if I could get my GPU temperature down to 70 level.

Aggression 1 is as fast as possible; you need to raise the number to lower the GPU load.

That's not true, 1 is slowest, 130 Mhash/s for my gpu, if I set to 5, I get 160 Mhash/s and temperate goes even higher

Oops, yes you're right. I need more coffee.

[5tr1k3r]

I find that even aggression 1 is driving temperature too high (80C) for my card (ATI 6770), how do I set the speed even lower? I currently get 130 Mhash/s but I'm ok with lower speed if I could get my GPU temperature down to 70 level.

Try to lower the memory speed.

[kokojie]

I find that even aggression 1 is driving temperature too high (80C) for my card (ATI 6770), how do I set the speed even lower? I currently get 130 Mhash/s but I'm ok with lower speed if I could get my GPU temperature down to 70 level.

Try to lower the memory speed.

you mean get a gpu utility and manually down-clock the gpu?

[jolijar]

I am new to using phoenix and I get this error when I start the program.

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I am using a AMD 64 x2 5000+ 2.6 Ghz
GeForce 9400 GT
and 3gb ram

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

[shackleford]

I have been using Phoenix solo for a few days now with a decent hasrate. I finaly got 1 accepted and I thought that would mean that I finaly solved a block. However nothing ever showed up in the bitcoin client and there is still zero in the rejected.

 Is there some other possibility I am missing?

The Bitcoin client doesn't show generated blocks at all until after 2 confirmations. I don't know why this is. You've probably already seen it appear by now.

Thanks for the suggestion but it is definitely not this.  I was hoping it was some kind of configuration I was missing but now it seems like I somehow had a block that got lost in the works with no information on what happened. If it were stale or invalid fine but it is just a mystery.. very discouraging for my first solo attempt.

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I have been using Phoenix solo for a few days now with a decent hasrate. I finaly got 1 accepted and I thought that would mean that I finaly solved a block. However nothing ever showed up in the bitcoin client and there is still zero in the rejected.

 Is there some other possibility I am missing?

The Bitcoin client doesn't show generated blocks at all until after 2 confirmations. I don't know why this is. You've probably already seen it appear by now.

Thanks for the suggestion but it is definitely not this.  I was hoping it was some kind of configuration I was missing but now it seems like I somehow had a block that got lost in the works with no information on what happened. If it were stale or invalid fine but it is just a mystery.. very discouraging for my first solo attempt.

Might have been an invalid block, then. (Which, now that I think of it, is probably why Bitcoin doesn't display these until 2 confirmations.)

If you're doing any serious solo mining, you should consider setting up a private pool.

[shackleford]

I have been using Phoenix solo for a few days now with a decent hasrate. I finaly got 1 accepted and I thought that would mean that I finaly solved a block. However nothing ever showed up in the bitcoin client and there is still zero in the rejected.

 Is there some other possibility I am missing?

The Bitcoin client doesn't show generated blocks at all until after 2 confirmations. I don't know why this is. You've probably already seen it appear by now.

Thanks for the suggestion but it is definitely not this.  I was hoping it was some kind of configuration I was missing but now it seems like I somehow had a block that got lost in the works with no information on what happened. If it were stale or invalid fine but it is just a mystery.. very discouraging for my first solo attempt.

Might have been an invalid block, then. (Which, now that I think of it, is probably why Bitcoin doesn't display these until 2 confirmations.)

If you're doing any serious solo mining, you should consider setting up a private pool.

Thanks much, I can live with that explanation. I am not doing any serious solo mining I just want to get a few blocks or even one while it is still possible and thought I would devote like a month to it but it has me concerned that it may not be working correctly and I possibly could be wasting a few weeks.

[5tr1k3r]

you mean get a gpu utility and manually down-clock the gpu?

I mean get a gpu utility (like msi afterburner), set unofficial overclocking on (search for "EnableUnofficialOverclocking") and manually clock the memory (not gpu) down to 300-320

[Neutral[Point]]

Right now I'm doing 360Mhash/s with 5850 (890/1290/default V) on settings from first post.
I'm gonna play with it a little more later. I'm thinking about rising voltage a little bit so I could try 950 on core.
Great tool indeed.

[phelix]

another idle stop:

[07/06/2011 03:28:19] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:28:28] Result 000000007f14d7ab... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:29:38] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:30:58] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:32:06] Result 000000000d6b2652... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:32:17] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:33:15] Result 00000000da134dd0... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:33:18] Result 000000006f8cfd20... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:33:31] Result 00000000e5e44240... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:33:36] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:34:56] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:35:48] Result 00000000bad9dcb6... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:36:02] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:37:20] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:37:31] Result 00000000b8083712... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:38:25] Result 00000000fa7f0a12... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:38:32] Result 000000008fc523e9... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:38:39] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:39:33] Result 00000000d3a5b849... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:39:58] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:41:08] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:41:08] New block (WorkQueue)
[07/06/2011 03:41:08] Currently on block: 129123
[07/06/2011 03:41:09] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:42:07] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:43:03] Result 00000000e2e41fd2... rejected
[07/06/2011 03:43:21] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:43:22] New block (WorkQueue)
[07/06/2011 03:43:22] Currently on block: 129124
[07/06/2011 03:43:23] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:44:20] Result 00000000047efef7... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:44:42] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:44:49] Result 0000000077c476c0... accepted
[07/06/2011 03:46:02] Server gave new work; passing to WorkQueue
[07/06/2011 03:48:33] Warning: work queue empty, miner is idle
[0 Khash/sec] [246 Accepted] [20 Rejected] [RPC]

hmm

[bradstrom]

I'm trying to run Phoenix on my 5830, and I'm getting an error. I received the same error when running a GTX 260. OS is Windows 7 x64.

Here's my command line input for the 5830:

phoenix.exe -u http://bradstrom:********@bitcoinpool.com:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=0

Here is the error:

FATAL kernel error: Failed to load OpenCL kernel!

I installed ATI drivers fresh today, and I am able to run poclbm on GUIMiner. Any suggestions?

[mattpker]

Sounds like you are missing the poclbm kernel in the kernels directory located where your phoenix.exe file is.

[Freakin]

Is there any way to record a logfile at the same time it is displayed on screen?

I want to monitor my miners with nagios but be able to see my usual data on screen.

[TurdHurdur]

Is there any way to record a logfile at the same time it is displayed on screen?

I want to monitor my miners with nagios but be able to see my usual data on screen.

Use tee.

[Freakin]

Is there any way to record a logfile at the same time it is displayed on screen?

I want to monitor my miners with nagios but be able to see my usual data on screen.

Use tee.

awesome!  Thanks for the tip.  Never used tee before.

Found that a windows port was part of UnxUtils
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/files/

now i gotta remember how to add a service to nagios

[dingen]

Is there any significant performance difference between running Phoenix on Windows or Linux? I'm building a dedicated mining rig and I'd like to know if there's a particular advantage to one or the other operating system.

[CubedRoot]

I am using phoenix and phatk kernel, and when I get a LP push of new work, it freezes my GPU completely.  Is there an easy solution to this?