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Topic: An (even more) optimized version of cpuminer (pooler's cpuminer, CPU-only) - page 48. (Read 1958608 times)

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what exactly is this (booo) thing ?
is the shares accepted or ...?

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[2012-12-03 19:59:26] thread 1: 33288 hashes, 10.21 khash/s
[2012-12-03 19:59:28] thread 2: 12 hashes, 9.92 khash/s
[2012-12-03 19:59:28] thread 0: 12 hashes, 10.06 khash/s
[2012-12-03 19:59:28] thread 3: 55092 hashes, 10.27 khash/s
[2012-12-03 19:59:28] accepted: 133/134 (99.25%), 40.45 khash/s (booooo)
[2012-12-03 19:59:28] accepted: 133/135 (98.52%), 40.45 khash/s (booooo)
[2012-12-03 19:59:28] accepted: 133/136 (97.79%), 40.45 khash/s (booooo)
[2012-12-03 19:59:28] thread 1: 6636 hashes, 9.89 khash/s
[2012-12-03 19:59:28] accepted: 134/137 (97.81%), 40.13 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2012-12-03 19:59:28] thread 0: 8172 hashes, 9.88 khash/s
[2012-12-03 19:59:28] accepted: 135/138 (97.83%), 39.96 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2012-12-03 19:59:30] thread 0: 12096 hashes, 10.07 khash/s
[2012-12-03 19:59:30] accepted: 136/139 (97.84%), 40.14 khash/s (yay!!!)

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Scattering my bits around the net since 1980
is anybody else haveing a problem with avast tagging cpuminers as a trojan? ufasoft is also being tagged
Some malware people have been including the miners (including cgminer) as a payload in their trojans to get their botnets mining for them.

I keep sending false positive reports in, explaining that they are just payload, and if they are going to keep flagging them, at least flag them as a low threat so we can just click 'ignore'.

Yer just going to have to add them to the exclusion lists. You'll have to put it in at least two places. One is the shield settings, and in the scan settings. I couldn't tell you exactly where right now, I am not at that computer.

I just put the entire folders for them as exceptions, and also excepted all of the blockchain files too, or avast will be constantly scanning them whenever they change.

-- Smoov

ps: only download the miners from the official sources/threads!

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is anybody else haveing a problem with avast tagging cpuminers as a trojan? ufasoft is also being tagged
dosnt matter.
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hi i was wondering if it can take advantage of the intel avx extension? or be compiled with it thx
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is anybody else haveing a problem with avast tagging cpuminers as a trojan? ufasoft is also being tagged
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Scattering my bits around the net since 1980
What stops me/someone from only joining the pool when it's near the end of a block then?
Nothing... you can't predict the 'end' of a block in the first place...

When you're mining, you're brute-forcing a hash which solves the block at a certain difficulty. It could take 1 second for you to find a hash that meets the criteria, it could take you months.

You're just trying as many hashes as you can until one of them is good (measured in hashes-per-second, which is how you're judging your speed)

-- Smoov
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What stops me/someone from only joining the pool when it's near the end of a block then?
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But surely that means I was doing wasted calculations? Can't we start more 'fresh' blocks so it's less like for pool members to calculate on the same blocks - and hence we have a 'collision'?
You are starting more fresh blocks... that's why the fresh longpoll messages to start new, fresh work...

Every block has to build on top of the previous one, so when a block is found elsewhere on the network, and is distributed to the network, everyone mining starts new work for a new block to place on top of it... and when yours gets sent that new block, then your miner is told of the new block's existence, and then your miner discards the rest of the work it was trying to solve the block that was just found, and begins work on the new yet-to-be-found block. This is what the longpoll message is telling you.

Fresh block, fresh work...

-- Smoov
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But surely that means I was doing wasted calculations? Can't we start more 'fresh' blocks so it's less like for pool members to calculate on the same blocks - and hence we have a 'collision'?
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FINALLY!!! Jesus this 4 hour thing is ridiculous...

Anyway... Heres my thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1310767 (I was un-whitelisted..)

To quote:"I joined a pool and mined one proof of work (I think) but then it shows this in the syslog "Long-polling activated for http://ltc.kattare.com:9332/LP""

Any ideas? Smiley

Right it seems to be working... Though I have 2 concerns.
1. I'm mining incredibly slow (6.5kh/s) but like I only got 0.05 litecoin after like 10h of mining.
2. It keeps showing up with "LONGPOLL detected new block".. It would go through allot of these before I get a "accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 6.82 khash/s (yay!!!)" message. Is this normal? Surely it's inefficient?
More efficient than not notifying you of a new block, and the new work to go along with it, so you don't waste cycles working on now-invalid work...

and yes, very normal...

-- Smoov
newbie
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FINALLY!!! Jesus this 4 hour thing is ridiculous...

Anyway... Heres my thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1310767 (I was un-whitelisted..)

To quote:"I joined a pool and mined one proof of work (I think) but then it shows this in the syslog "Long-polling activated for http://ltc.kattare.com:9332/LP""

Any ideas? Smiley

Right it seems to be working... Though I have 2 concerns.
1. I'm mining incredibly slow (6.5kh/s) but like I only got 0.05 litecoin after like 10h of mining.
2. It keeps showing up with "LONGPOLL detected new block".. It would go through allot of these before I get a "accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 6.82 khash/s (yay!!!)" message. Is this normal? Surely it's inefficient?
newbie
Activity: 11
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FINALLY!!! Jesus this 4 hour thing is ridiculous...

Anyway... Heres my thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1310767 (I was un-whitelisted..)

To quote:"I joined a pool and mined one proof of work (I think) but then it shows this in the syslog "Long-polling activated for http://ltc.kattare.com:9332/LP""

Any ideas? Smiley
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Ok yes I understand that. However I downloaded that from the first post located here in this thread. Is that acceptable by everyone here?
Yep... yer fine... this is an official thread for it. The one who started the thread is part of the project.

-- Smoov
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gaise pls, it's just botnets.

Anyways I deleted it. Everyone do as you please....
As long as you downloaded it through the link at the top of the thread, yer fine...

It has been included with malware so the botnet operator can use other people's computers to mine. That's why cgminer and minerd got tagged by the virus scanners.

It isn't a virus itself, it was just the payload, but the scanner companies don't really care about that.

They aren't as thorough as they used to be. >shrugs<

-- Smoov


Ok I'm confused here. I am to allow someone access to my computer's hashing power?

Am I missing something here? is this how this pool works? *scratching head
Yes, you're missing something...

All the program is, is the mining program... there is nothing virus-like about it.

You install it, and point it at your own daemon, or at the pool you're using, to do your mining with.

What the malware peddlers were doing, was using their trojans, to install that program on other people's computers, with their own credentials, in effect, stealing other people's electricity to mine for themselves using the victim's computers.

The mining programs themselves, are not malware. You are not allowing access to your computer through them.

The malware peddlers, were using their own malware, to install the miner programs on other people's computers, turning their computers into miners without their permission. That's all.

The alerts are just false positives by lazy people at the scanner companies who can't be bothered to honestly investigate the miner program. They just find the trojan programs, and flag everything they find inside as a virus, even if it isn't. This isn't anything new, I've had other programs I use end up as collateral damage like that too.

As long as you download your copy of the miner directly from the official source, you're fine.

-- Smoov


Ok yes I understand that. However I downloaded that from the first post located here in this thread. Is that acceptable by everyone here?

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Scattering my bits around the net since 1980
What I was confused about was how accepted this practice was on this forum. I thought something like this would be frowned down upon or at-least warning others not suspecting this welcomed or praised.

But hey no problem as newbies we pickup quickly and learn the rules.
We're just giving you the facts without (much) judgement.

With tech projects like these, particularly revolving around crypto, you have to expect a mix of white-/grey-/black-hat programmers.

Value-judgements you can make for yourself, don't need us to do that for ya.

-- Smoov
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gaise pls, it's just botnets.

Anyways I deleted it. Everyone do as you please....
As long as you downloaded it through the link at the top of the thread, yer fine...

It has been included with malware so the botnet operator can use other people's computers to mine. That's why cgminer and minerd got tagged by the virus scanners.

It isn't a virus itself, it was just the payload, but the scanner companies don't really care about that.

They aren't as thorough as they used to be. >shrugs<

-- Smoov


Ok I'm confused here. I am to allow someone access to my computer's hashing power?

Am I missing something here? is this how this pool works? *scratching head
no you do miss understand him. Botnet Operators are deploying this binary among their victims/zombies to mine BTC for them, therefore the companys to flag it as "virus".

What I was confused about was how accepted this practice was on this forum. I thought something like this would be frowned down upon or at-least warning others not suspecting this welcomed or praised.

But hey no problem as newbies we pickup quickly and learn the rules.  
hero member
Activity: 504
Merit: 500
Scattering my bits around the net since 1980
gaise pls, it's just botnets.

Anyways I deleted it. Everyone do as you please....
As long as you downloaded it through the link at the top of the thread, yer fine...

It has been included with malware so the botnet operator can use other people's computers to mine. That's why cgminer and minerd got tagged by the virus scanners.

It isn't a virus itself, it was just the payload, but the scanner companies don't really care about that.

They aren't as thorough as they used to be. >shrugs<

-- Smoov


Ok I'm confused here. I am to allow someone access to my computer's hashing power?

Am I missing something here? is this how this pool works? *scratching head
Yes, you're missing something...

All the program is, is the mining program... there is nothing virus-like about it.

You install it, and point it at your own daemon, or at the pool you're using, to do your mining with.

What the malware peddlers were doing, was using their trojans, to install that program on other people's computers, with their own credentials, in effect, stealing other people's electricity to mine for themselves using the victim's computers.

The mining programs themselves, are not malware. You are not allowing access to your computer through them.

The malware peddlers, were using their own malware, to install the miner programs on other people's computers, turning their computers into miners without their permission. That's all.

The alerts are just false positives by lazy people at the scanner companies who can't be bothered to honestly investigate the miner program. They just find the trojan programs, and flag everything they find inside as a virus, even if it isn't. This isn't anything new, I've had other programs I use end up as collateral damage like that too.

As long as you download your copy of the miner directly from the official source, you're fine.

-- Smoov
legendary
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/dev/null
gaise pls, it's just botnets.

Anyways I deleted it. Everyone do as you please....
As long as you downloaded it through the link at the top of the thread, yer fine...

It has been included with malware so the botnet operator can use other people's computers to mine. That's why cgminer and minerd got tagged by the virus scanners.

It isn't a virus itself, it was just the payload, but the scanner companies don't really care about that.

They aren't as thorough as they used to be. >shrugs<

-- Smoov


Ok I'm confused here. I am to allow someone access to my computer's hashing power?

Am I missing something here? is this how this pool works? *scratching head
no you do miss understand him. Botnet Operators are deploying this binary among their victims/zombies to mine BTC for them, therefore the companys to flag it as "virus".
hero member
Activity: 644
Merit: 500
gaise pls, it's just botnets.

Anyways I deleted it. Everyone do as you please....
As long as you downloaded it through the link at the top of the thread, yer fine...

It has been included with malware so the botnet operator can use other people's computers to mine. That's why cgminer and minerd got tagged by the virus scanners.

It isn't a virus itself, it was just the payload, but the scanner companies don't really care about that.

They aren't as thorough as they used to be. >shrugs<

-- Smoov


Ok I'm confused here. I am to allow someone access to my computer's hashing power?

Am I missing something here? is this how this pool works? *scratching head
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