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Quote from: DarkMatter on October 14, 2013, 01:28:40 AM

Quote from: mdopro1 on October 14, 2013, 12:38:51 AM

I'm making progress here. Do I need two separate copies of BFGMiner on the hard drive to run 2 instances? What happens to config file if I run 2 instances from one copy?

You definitely need 2 separate copies in different folders.

In my case, I only use one copy since I don't run the instances off of a config file. I just input the parameters as a shortcut target of bfgminer.exe (i.e. one shortcut with BE options and another with BFL options...and so on and so forth).

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Quote from: mdopro1 on October 13, 2013, 12:42:53 AM

Yup! Feels like I need to find a smaller pool. My reward is shrinking by each round.

You have to take into accout the round frequency also.
Smaller pool will change nothing for you. You will have higher rewards, but less frequently.

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Quote from: mdopro1 on October 14, 2013, 12:38:51 AM

I'm making progress here. Do I need two separate copies of BFGMiner on the hard drive to run 2 instances? What happens to config file if I run 2 instances from one copy?

You definitely need 2 separate copies in different folders.

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I'm making progress here. Do I need two separate copies of BFGMiner on the hard drive to run 2 instances? What happens to config file if I run 2 instances from one copy?

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Quote from: chadtn on October 13, 2013, 08:46:55 PM

Quote from: mdopro1 on October 13, 2013, 08:24:18 PM

How do I do that? I use BFGMiner.

I've never used BFGMiner, but there are probably similar options available. Here is how I would do it with cgminer:

Run this command in the cgminer directory: cgminer -n

That will list all of the available devices. Edit your normal start up command line and add -d #,#,# to specify each video card you want to mine with. Replace the # with what ever number cgminer used when it listed your cards. An example might be -d 0,1 or -d 1,2,3. Start that instance mining just like you normally would without any BFL hardware.

Create a new worker on Slush's pool and make a new command line for that worker, but add -G. -G tells cgminer to ignore any video cards and only mine with other available hardware.

Again, I've never used BFGMiner, but I assume they operate in a relatively similar manner. You might need to read through the documentation if it uses different command line arguments than cgminer.

Good luck!

Chad

I use BFGMiner and run two instances of it; one for BE and one for BFL.

I usually start BE first with the "-G -S all" options with BFL off. Then I turn on BFL and run a second BFGMiner instance with the "-G" option only. Just change the optoins where necessary for different devices (i.e. GPU, etc.).

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Quote from: mdopro1 on October 13, 2013, 08:24:18 PM

How do I do that? I use BFGMiner.

I've never used BFGMiner, but there are probably similar options available. Here is how I would do it with cgminer:

Run this command in the cgminer directory: cgminer -n

That will list all of the available devices. Edit your normal start up command line and add -d #,#,# to specify each video card you want to mine with. Replace the # with what ever number cgminer used when it listed your cards. An example might be -d 0,1 or -d 1,2,3. Start that instance mining just like you normally would without any BFL hardware.

Create a new worker on Slush's pool and make a new command line for that worker, but add -G. -G tells cgminer to ignore any video cards and only mine with other available hardware.

Again, I've never used BFGMiner, but I assume they operate in a relatively similar manner. You might need to read through the documentation if it uses different command line arguments than cgminer.

Good luck!

Chad

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How do I do that? I use BFGMiner.

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Quote from: mdopro1 on October 13, 2013, 06:40:10 PM

Right but BFL gets connected to my existing rig running two 7970s so can't just run the BFL to gauge it separately.

It looks like variance is quite high, jumps are pretty big. Keeps climbing up to the expected reward, then drops, then slowly climbs again. If a round ends during the drop I lose out on nearly 0.01BTC... Variance?

You can run a second instance of cgminer just for the BFL hardware.

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Right but BFL gets connected to my existing rig running two 7970s so can't just run the BFL to gauge it separately.

It looks like variance is quite high, jumps are pretty big. Keeps climbing up to the expected reward, then drops, then slowly climbs again. If a round ends during the drop I lose out on nearly 0.01BTC... Variance?

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Quote from: mdopro1 on October 13, 2013, 05:48:13 PM

I get it. But another weird thing I see today is that I'm earning say 0.05 per round and today I added a 60GHs BFL SC to the network, my earnings go to 0.08 but 3 rounds later i'm back to 0.06 now - what gives? adding 60GHs to my network didn't make any difference? Yes, it's mining well.

I prefer to bring a new device online with a new miner, that way I can keep track of my average hashing rate, and also the share distribution between miners.
This gives me a guide to the activity on the new device.

Adding 60Gh I would be looking for 0.012 per round.(today)

edit:- and my existing miners stay online while I set the new one up.(no point in loosing time on the running devices)

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Quote from: mdopro1 on October 13, 2013, 05:48:13 PM

I get it. But another weird thing I see today is that I'm earning say 0.05 per round and today I added a 60GHs BFL SC to the network, my earnings go to 0.08 but 3 rounds later i'm back to 0.06 now - what gives? adding 60GHs to my network didn't make any difference? Yes, it's mining well.

Around 30+ terrahashes were added to the pool just over the last few days. Your per round earnings may go down, but the frequency with which the pool solves blocks should increase. Regardless of where you mine, in the long run it should all be a wash since hash rate is hash rate. The only factors that really change are difficulty and your percentage of the overall network.

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I get it. But another weird thing I see today is that I'm earning say 0.05 per round and today I added a 60GHs BFL SC to the network, my earnings go to 0.08 but 3 rounds later i'm back to 0.06 now - what gives? adding 60GHs to my network didn't make any difference? Yes, it's mining well.

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Quote from: mdopro1 on October 13, 2013, 04:15:39 PM

I see my estimated payout higher at beginning of a round and then gradually slips downwards every few minutes if I sit there and refresh. I end up quite a bit lower than beginning of the round. Is that just variance or something not registering right?

Your estimated payout is based on your previous average. The final figure will be from the earned shares.

BFL are shipping 300 devices a day, worldwide, others are also shipping in increasing numbers, so the race to a higher difficulty will be noticeable in almost every round from now on.

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I see my estimated payout higher at beginning of a round and then gradually slips downwards every few minutes if I sit there and refresh. I end up quite a bit lower than beginning of the round. Is that just variance or something not registering right?

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Quote from: cosurgi on October 13, 2013, 03:22:16 PM

Quote from: Trongersoll on October 13, 2013, 12:34:51 PM

Odd, for the last couple of days now i've been fighting with my Bitfury 25 Gh/s rig to get it to mine at the appropriate rate. The best i was able to get today was 18 Gh/s on this pool. it has been varying between 12 Gh/s and 16 Gh/s mostly. The miner itself reported 25 Gh/s. Today i pointed it at BTCguild and immediately saw 25Gh/s there.

I can't help but wonder where the extra hashing power disappeared to. eww... that sounds like i'm acusing Slush, I'm not. I think there might be a problem with the pool though. My USB Erupters are still doing fine here. Huh

your average speed is from last 10 rounds. If I had some problems with my miners (recently air conditioning), I know that my hashrate will be back to normal after 10 blocks found by the pool, and I don't freak out earlier.

This is true, except that this particular rig is it's own worker. the Worker's hashrate is, i believe, based on the shares found for the current round. If you start in the middle of the round, yes, the hashrate could appear low. But, in this case the hashrate remained low over several rounds and the the payout was correspondingly low.

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Quote from: Trongersoll on October 13, 2013, 12:34:51 PM

Odd, for the last couple of days now i've been fighting with my Bitfury 25 Gh/s rig to get it to mine at the appropriate rate. The best i was able to get today was 18 Gh/s on this pool. it has been varying between 12 Gh/s and 16 Gh/s mostly. The miner itself reported 25 Gh/s. Today i pointed it at BTCguild and immediately saw 25Gh/s there.

I can't help but wonder where the extra hashing power disappeared to. eww... that sounds like i'm acusing Slush, I'm not. I think there might be a problem with the pool though. My USB Erupters are still doing fine here. Huh

your average speed is from last 10 rounds. If I had some problems with my miners (recently air conditioning), I know that my hashrate will be back to normal after 10 blocks found by the pool, and I don't freak out earlier.

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Odd, for the last couple of days now i've been fighting with my Bitfury 25 Gh/s rig to get it to mine at the appropriate rate. The best i was able to get today was 18 Gh/s on this pool. it has been varying between 12 Gh/s and 16 Gh/s mostly. The miner itself reported 25 Gh/s. Today i pointed it at BTCguild and immediately saw 25Gh/s there.

I can't help but wonder where the extra hashing power disappeared to. eww... that sounds like i'm acusing Slush, I'm not. I think there might be a problem with the pool though. My USB Erupters are still doing fine here. Huh

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Quote from: desired_username on October 13, 2013, 03:07:46 AM

Just to make you all feel a little bit better:

Next Projected difficulty: 275,075,241

+45.3%

+85,793,992

Quite amazing.

I believe it will settle at about the recently common 30+ %.

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Quote from: desired_username on October 13, 2013, 03:07:46 AM

Just to make you all feel a little bit better:

Next Projected difficulty: 275,075,241

+45.3%

+85,793,992

Quite amazing.

I saw this one:
Estimated next difficulty: 241211308 (+27.4%) in 4 days and 5.6 hours

a little bit better but still Sad

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Quote from: desired_username on October 13, 2013, 03:07:46 AM

Just to make you all feel a little bit better:

Next Projected difficulty: 275,075,241

+45.3%

+85,793,992

Quite amazing.

Oh God, please...

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