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Topic: [1500 TH] p2pool: Decentralized, DoS-resistant, Hop-Proof pool - page 125. (Read 2591920 times)

legendary
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pool.sexy
ty but fan go to 100%....normal?

Only on startup, then it calms down  Wink otherwise re-do it.

solved with this
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a3qqhgh3awcrw1i/SD-S5-20150107_cgm_4_9_0-queue_1_submit.tar.gz?dl=0

thank you, and thank you -ck for this version
legendary
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Mine at Jonny's Pool
Runs fine yes, but the bitmain driver throws away what could be potential block solves on p2pool...

the problem is only for s7? or even s5 - s3....?

There is a discussion that contains all modified antminer drivers for p2pool?
Except for Kano's firmware and my drivers for S1-3, all antminer S* cgminer forks from bitmain have the same driver design flaw. We mention it at regular intervals but it keeps getting forgotten or lost in the discussion by p2pool miners...

Maybe does not make sense to do firmware forks for S *, so we are constantly catching up and more and more losing hashrate.
Now it is so small that it can be said that p2pool is dead.
And many of those who get ASICs, can never replace firmware and getting out on p2pool they switch to a another type of pools.

Maybe it's time  for develpers to join and modify and adapt it for the new ASICs? Perhaps it's needed to rewrite it on C, as in Python it loads only one core and often on 100%
We need creative solutions, or this topic can be closed and we should stop our nodes and move to antpool, f2pool and similar.
We should absolutely not, in any way, shape or form, EVER move to AntPool or f2pool.  Not only are those pools way too big as it is, but they are also poorly written and take shortcuts that are bad for Bitcoin.  In case you don't remember, they caused a fork in BTC earlier this year precisely because of their shoddy software and mining practices.

As to your other points, we've discussed numerous times rewriting p2pool in a language that can handle multiple threads.  Thus far, nobody's stepped up to take on that challenge.  Even so, rewriting the pool code in C or some other language will not handle the underlying problem of crappy cgminer forks not submitting shares which could be solving blocks.
legendary
Activity: 1344
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Mine at Jonny's Pool
Runs fine yes, but the bitmain driver throws away what could be potential block solves on p2pool...

the problem is only for s7? or even s5 - s3....?

There is a discussion that contains all modified antminer drivers for p2pool?

.. but it certainly isn't the only one Smiley.

Do you think it's just bad luck or other?
The problem is for ALL Antminers unless you have installed the proper binaries from -ck and kano.  If you are using any other binaries (Bitmain's, some other forks for extranonce, etc) then you do not have the updated code that submits stale shares.  In other words, you are potentially throwing away possible block solutions.

As to your other question regarding luck... yes, I believe it is just poor luck.  We are experiencing normal swings in variance.  As I initially mentioned, S7s are certainly a potential influencing factor since there are no (to my knowledge, -ck/kano can correct me) updated cgminer binaries for it.  However, I don't know how many people currently mining on p2pool are using S7s, so I don't have any reference for how much of an impact it might have Smiley.
legendary
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Runs fine yes, but the bitmain driver throws away what could be potential block solves on p2pool...

the problem is only for s7? or even s5 - s3....?

There is a discussion that contains all modified antminer drivers for p2pool?
Except for Kano's firmware and my drivers for S1-3, all antminer S* cgminer forks from bitmain have the same driver design flaw. We mention it at regular intervals but it keeps getting forgotten or lost in the discussion by p2pool miners...

Maybe does not make sense to do firmware forks for S *, so we are constantly catching up and more and more losing hashrate.
Now it is so small that it can be said that p2pool is dead.
And many of those who get ASICs, can never replace firmware and failing on p2pool they switch to a another type of pools.

Maybe it's time  for develpers to join and modify and adapt it for the new ASICs? Perhaps it's needed to rewrite it on C, as in Python it loads only one core and often on 100%
We need creative solutions, or this topic can be closed and we should stop our nodes and move to antpool, f2pool and etc.
sr. member
Activity: 266
Merit: 250
ty but fan go to 100%....normal?

Only on startup, then it calms down  Wink otherwise re-do it.
legendary
Activity: 1257
Merit: 1004
pool.sexy
ty but fan go to 100%....normal?
sr. member
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thank you

I have 3 s5 ... you can write me the command ssh for install?

ty


S5 binary install:

Code:
cd /tmp
wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s5/4.9.0-150105/cgminer
chmod +x cgminer
mv /usr/bin/cgminer /usr/bin/cgminer.bak
cp cgminer /usr/bin
/etc/init.d/cgminer.sh restart

This is NOT persistent - re-do after reboot.

Or you can use this firmware version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a3qqhgh3awcrw1i/SD-S5-20150107_cgm_4_9_0-queue_1_submit.tar.gz?dl=0

Which is persistent through reboots.
legendary
Activity: 1257
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pool.sexy

thank you

I have 3 s5 ... you can write me the command ssh for install?

ty

What Forrest thinks about this situation? His help here is very needed!
All want hear him here.
I think that need rewriting of p2pool sources whith multicore computing support.
+1
sr. member
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Runs fine yes, but the bitmain driver throws away what could be potential block solves on p2pool...

the problem is only for s7? or even s5 - s3....?

There is a discussion that contains all modified antminer drivers for p2pool?

.. but it certainly isn't the only one Smiley.

Do you think it's just bad luck or other?

Antminer binaries:   http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/

Bad luck, rising diff, crap firmware, lack of hash power - all of these are contributory factors I'm afraid, although bad luck & high diff affects all pools, not just p2pool.
-ck
legendary
Activity: 4088
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Ruu \o/
Runs fine yes, but the bitmain driver throws away what could be potential block solves on p2pool...

the problem is only for s7? or even s5 - s3....?

There is a discussion that contains all modified antminer drivers for p2pool?
Except for Kano's firmware and my drivers for S1-3, all antminer S* cgminer forks from bitmain have the same driver design flaw. We mention it at regular intervals but it keeps getting forgotten or lost in the discussion by p2pool miners...
member
Activity: 88
Merit: 10
What Forrest thinks about this situation? His help here is very needed!
All want hear him here.
I think that need rewriting of p2pool sources whith multicore computing support.
legendary
Activity: 1257
Merit: 1004
pool.sexy
Runs fine yes, but the bitmain driver throws away what could be potential block solves on p2pool...

the problem is only for s7? or even s5 - s3....?

There is a discussion that contains all modified antminer drivers for p2pool?

.. but it certainly isn't the only one Smiley.

Do you think it's just bad luck or other?
legendary
Activity: 1344
Merit: 1024
Mine at Jonny's Pool
That everyone updated their gear to S7s, but because they did now p2pool doesn't find any blocks because those same S7s throw away potential solutions?

Sure... I suppose that could be one of the reasons... but it certainly isn't the only one Smiley.
legendary
Activity: 1257
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pool.sexy
could this be the cause of the recent bad luck?
-ck
legendary
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Ruu \o/
I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

My S7 runs fine on p2pool...
Runs fine yes, but the bitmain driver throws away what could be potential block solves on p2pool...
donator
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I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

My S7 runs fine on p2pool...
legendary
Activity: 4592
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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
With all these S7's flying out the door, p2pool is missing out due to the usual bitmain firmware that broke cgminer.

I'd like to suggest starting a bounty for kano to do his magic on the S7 as he did with previous bitmain firmwares - I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

We need moar powa!
No point sending me any BTC Tongue

Until I get the S7 that was supposedly gonna be sent to me ... ages ago ... I'm just gonna wait on that.

Though maybe Bitmain didn't like the idea of me getting one before they pushed the network above where I wouldn't lose money mining with it more than 9hrs a day Tongue
I was thinking if I got it in the first batch I'd be able to mine 18hrs a day, but now it's already approaching a loss for me to use it anything more than the 9hrs each night when my elec is cheap

... but they don't really care either way anyway, my fixes have been in master cgminer for more than a year and a half now and they aren't in the S7 either ...

How about if you had access to an S7 via ssh? Or I could volunteer one of mine for testing purposes?......

EDIT: Or could I install the mainline cgminer into an S7?
Nope. I don't support hardware I don't have - for the rather obvious reason.
... yes I do actually still have every old miner I got since I started mining Smiley
(though not sure if they all still work ...)
I've sold 2 miners over the years, that I had more that one of each of the 2 I sold.
sr. member
Activity: 266
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With all these S7's flying out the door, p2pool is missing out due to the usual bitmain firmware that broke cgminer.

I'd like to suggest starting a bounty for kano to do his magic on the S7 as he did with previous bitmain firmwares - I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

We need moar powa!
No point sending me any BTC Tongue

Until I get the S7 that was supposedly gonna be sent to me ... ages ago ... I'm just gonna wait on that.

Though maybe Bitmain didn't like the idea of me getting one before they pushed the network above where I wouldn't lose money mining with it more than 9hrs a day Tongue
I was thinking if I got it in the first batch I'd be able to mine 18hrs a day, but now it's already approaching a loss for me to use it anything more than the 9hrs each night when my elec is cheap

... but they don't really care either way anyway, my fixes have been in master cgminer for more than a year and a half now and they aren't in the S7 either ...

How about if you had access to an S7 via ssh? Or I could volunteer one of mine for testing purposes?......

EDIT: Or could I install the mainline cgminer into an S7?
legendary
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Finds blocks very rarely. Why is that?

because global hashrate on P2Pool don't evolve ... but Bitcoin hashrate skyrocket  Grin



Global warming?  Huh  Cry
legendary
Activity: 4592
Merit: 1851
Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
With all these S7's flying out the door, p2pool is missing out due to the usual bitmain firmware that broke cgminer.

I'd like to suggest starting a bounty for kano to do his magic on the S7 as he did with previous bitmain firmwares - I think it would encourage more miners to p2pool if they knew their S7's worked properly here.

We need moar powa!
No point sending me any BTC Tongue

Until I get the S7 that was supposedly gonna be sent to me ... ages ago ... I'm just gonna wait on that.

Though maybe Bitmain didn't like the idea of me getting one before they pushed the network above where I wouldn't lose money mining with it more than 9hrs a day Tongue
I was thinking if I got it in the first batch I'd be able to mine 18hrs a day, but now it's already approaching a loss for me to use it anything more than the 9hrs each night when my elec is cheap

... but they don't really care either way anyway, my fixes have been in master cgminer for more than a year and a half now and they aren't in the S7 either ...
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