Trying to improve compatibility of my miner, I ended up stumbling on a rather odd situation. I cannot figure out if this is something I should figure out or signal to pool operator.
Using sgminer as pulled out from sgminer-5.1-2014-12-20-win32.zip, just downloaded from nicehash. My hardware gives 1141 khs with the following settings:
sgminer --no-extranonce -o uk.p2pool.geek.nz:5567 -k qubitcoin -u WALLET -p bleh -I 16
(P2P qubit uk node)
Resulting in:
sgminer 4.2.2-310-g8985f-dirty - Started: [2015-02-02 18:05:40] - [0 days 00:05:
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(5s):1.137M (avg):1.142Mh/s | A:19 R:0 HW:0 WU:4.000/m
ST: 1 SS: 0 NB: 8 LW: 474 GF: 0 RF: 0
Connected to uk.p2pool.geek.nz (stratum) diff 18 as user MCmR2QAnPeHbJWgRT23Rh45
Block: 412ac196... Diff:19.2K Started: [18:10:08] Best share: 39
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[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0: 48.0C 39% | 1.139M/1.142Mh/s | R: 0.0% HW:0 WU:4.000/m I:16
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[18:05:38] Startup GPU initialization... Using settings from pool uk.p2pool.geek
.nz.
[18:05:38] Startup Pool No = 0
[18:05:39] Initialising kernel qubitcoin.cl with bitalign, unpatched BFI, nfacto
r 10, n 1024
[18:05:40] uk.p2pool.geek.nz difficulty changed to 2.375
[18:05:40] Accepted 4b37fc99 Diff 3.403/2.343 GPU 0
[18:05:41] uk.p2pool.geek.nz difficulty changed to 2.382
[18:05:41] Accepted 0b74b9f3 Diff 22/2.375 GPU 0
[18:05:42] uk.p2pool.geek.nz difficulty changed to 4.709
[18:07:07] Accepted 314b179b Diff 5.193/4.709 GPU 0
[18:07:17] uk.p2pool.geek.nz difficulty changed to 9.408
[18:08:13] Accepted 06739e9b Diff 39/9.408 GPU 0
[18:08:30] uk.p2pool.geek.nz difficulty changed to 18.798
Diff 18 is already extreme for a 1MHs miner, staying at 4.5 would be more appropriate in my opinion but at least I got some initial accepts which confirm me this thing is working and after all, the pool is trying to guess against my luck.
Now, let's try again with noncepool:
sgminer --no-extranonce -o mine1.myr.nonce-pool.com:3360 -k qubitcoin -u login.worker -p bleh -I 16
sgminer 4.2.2-310-g8985f-dirty - Started: [2015-02-02 18:19:40] - [0 days 00:03:
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(5s):1.141M (avg):1.145Mh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:4.190/m
ST: 2 SS: 0 NB: 6 LW: 215 GF: 0 RF: 0
Connected to mine1.myr.nonce-pool.com (stratum) diff 512 as user MaxDZ8.wtf
Block: 29351c6b... Diff:18.4K Started: [18:21:58] Best share: 30
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[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0: 47.0C 39% | 1.142M/1.145Mh/s | R: 0.0% HW:0 WU:4.190/m I:16
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[18:19:33] Started sgminer 4.2.2-310-g8985f-dirty
[18:19:33] * using Jansson 2.6
[18:19:33] Probing for an alive pool
[18:19:38] mine1.myr.nonce-pool.com difficulty changed to 512
[18:19:38] Startup GPU initialization... Using settings from pool mine1.myr.nonc
e-pool.com.
[18:19:38] Startup Pool No = 0
[18:19:38] Initialising kernel qubitcoin.cl with bitalign, unpatched BFI, nfacto
r 10, n 1024
Diff 512, WTF.
This apparently relates to the "difficulty multiplier".
Please give this a go and provide results, I need to test a few pools to figure out what's going on.
