Avalon ASIC users thread - page 193.

luffy

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Merit: 500

my results:

=> SUMMARY

[Elapsed] => 83792
[MHS av] => 71481.37
[Found Blocks] => 0
[Getworks] => 1493
[Accepted] => 1382251
[Rejected] => 7422
[Hardware Errors] => 2172
[Utility] => 989.77
[Discarded] => 2887
[Stale] => 190
[Get Failures] => 1
[Local Work] => 1462331
[Remote Failures] => 96
[Network Blocks] => 166
[Total MH] => 5989585917.9822
[Work Utility] => 1002.88
[Difficulty Accepted] => 1390275.00000000
[Difficulty Rejected] => 7422.00000000
[Difficulty Stale] => 0.00000000
[Best Share] => 931191

kano

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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4

Quote from: Tinua on March 19, 2013, 12:47:14 PM

Quote from: luffy on March 19, 2013, 12:09:16 PM

Quote from: johnyj on March 18, 2013, 11:02:48 AM

Anyone have such high HW errors? What does this indicate?

   [Getworks] => 1963
   [Accepted] => 27062
   [Rejected] => 963
   [Hardware Errors] => 866
   [Utility] => 30.57
   [Discarded] => 3649

your utility is very low!
assuming that you are in a stratum pool try to set variable difficulty at 64 to 66, i am not sure about the exact number though :p

Hi luffy
how big should it be (Utility)?
I have also about 30.5. (vardiff 32)
Edit: With vardiff 64 i get 15.5 Utility

Utility doesn't mean much on variable difficulty ...
To check your diff1 utility, obviously, 60*Difficulty Accepted/Elapsed

e.g. for SolarSilver above me:

60 * 1160672 / 69956 = 995.49 1diff shares a minute

To verify that: 995.49 * 2^32 / 60 = 71.26GH/s

P.S. don't read this, I'm evil

Edit: N.B. of course utility doesn't map exactly to MH/s - that mathematical relationship is random and converges over a long period of time
So really I should have written above
To verify that: 995.49 * 2^32 / 60 ~= 71.26GH/s

01BTC10

vip

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Quote from: SZD on March 18, 2013, 08:34:55 PM

How loud are these things? Also looks like if you have 20amp circuits you can only have 3 units per circuit assuming you don't have a ton of other stuff already plugged in! Then maybe just 2. So much power use...

Avalon unit use 620W @ 120V so it draw 5.17amp/unit. It's not recommended to load a circuit over 80% capacity. So 80% of 20amp = 16amp. 3 units @ 5.17amp = 15.51amp. No problem with 3 units.

At 220V and 600W (I don't have the exact spec but the unit should be a little more efficient) it draw 2.73amp/unit so it's possible to connect 5-6 units (13.9-16.38amp) using the same wire gauge.

It might be a good idea for some user to hire an electrician to install a custom circuit.

Disclaimer : I'm not an electrician so double check these numbers with a professional.

SolarSilver

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Quote from: johnyj on March 19, 2013, 12:55:30 PM

Quote from: luffy on March 19, 2013, 12:09:16 PM

your utility is very low!
assuming that you are in a stratum pool try to set variable difficulty at 64 to 66, i am not sure about the exact number though :p

Where do I set that?

it's usually in the registration of your worker at the pool you use that you can set the initial value, but as far as I understand the pool will adjust according to your work results. So it should only have an impact on the first activities

By the way, these are the numbers I'm getting from btcguild:

Code:

[SUMMARY] =>
(
   [0] => SUMMARY
   [Elapsed] => 69956
   [MHS av] => 71381.83
   [Found Blocks] => 0
   [Getworks] => 2573
   [Accepted] => 36271
   [Rejected] => 150
   [Hardware Errors] => 815
   [Utility] => 31.11
   [Discarded] => 4786
   [Stale] => 0
   [Get Failures] => 0
   [Local Work] => 1223915
   [Remote Failures] => 0
   [Network Blocks] => 144
   [Total MH] => 4993602159.0807
   [Work Utility] => 1001.57
   [Difficulty Accepted] => 1160672.00000000
   [Difficulty Rejected] => 4800.00000000
   [Difficulty Stale] => 0.00000000
   [Best Share] => 1430374
)

johnyj

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Beyond Imagination

Quote from: luffy on March 19, 2013, 12:09:16 PM

Quote from: johnyj on March 18, 2013, 11:02:48 AM

Anyone have such high HW errors? What does this indicate?

   [Getworks] => 1963
   [Accepted] => 27062
   [Rejected] => 963
   [Hardware Errors] => 866
   [Utility] => 30.57
   [Discarded] => 3649

your utility is very low!
assuming that you are in a stratum pool try to set variable difficulty at 64 to 66, i am not sure about the exact number though :p

Where do I set that?

Tinua

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Quote from: luffy on March 19, 2013, 12:09:16 PM

Quote from: johnyj on March 18, 2013, 11:02:48 AM

Anyone have such high HW errors? What does this indicate?

   [Getworks] => 1963
   [Accepted] => 27062
   [Rejected] => 963
   [Hardware Errors] => 866
   [Utility] => 30.57
   [Discarded] => 3649

your utility is very low!
assuming that you are in a stratum pool try to set variable difficulty at 64 to 66, i am not sure about the exact number though :p

Hi luffy
how big should it be (Utility)?
I have also about 30.5. (vardiff 32)
Edit: With vardiff 64 i get 15.5 Utility

luffy

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Quote from: johnyj on March 18, 2013, 11:02:48 AM

Anyone have such high HW errors? What does this indicate?

   [Getworks] => 1963
   [Accepted] => 27062
   [Rejected] => 963
   [Hardware Errors] => 866
   [Utility] => 30.57
   [Discarded] => 3649

your utility is very low!
assuming that you are in a stratum pool try to set variable difficulty at 64 to 66, i am not sure about the exact number though :p

ProfMac

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Quote from: johnyj on March 19, 2013, 10:06:11 AM

PSU cold air intake is a little bit insufficient, I'm planning to add a fan out side of PSU exhaust to help cool the PSU. Currently at -1c degree there is no problem, but when summer arrives, ambient temperature could reach 25+, it will become an issue

Summer ambient for me can reach 43°C.

johnyj

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Beyond Imagination

PSU cold air intake is a little bit insufficient, I'm planning to add a fan out side of PSU exhaust to help cool the PSU. Currently at -1c degree there is no problem, but when summer arrives, ambient temperature could reach 25+, it will become an issue

jddebug

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Quote from: opentoe on March 18, 2013, 11:07:06 PM

I'm in the US. Will one of these work on my 15-20amp circuit? I have all 110V lines of course, regular house. Do I need to install a 240 or something?

It only uses 600 watts. Should be fine on any 110 outlet unless you have a coffee maker and a microwave on it too.

opentoe

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Personal text my ass....

I'm in the US. Will one of these work on my 15-20amp circuit? I have all 110V lines of course, regular house. Do I need to install a 240 or something?

SZD

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How loud are these things? Also looks like if you have 20amp circuits you can only have 3 units per circuit assuming you don't have a ton of other stuff already plugged in! Then maybe just 2. So much power use...

johnyj

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Beyond Imagination

Quote from: Bogart on March 18, 2013, 11:37:35 AM

Quote from: johnyj on March 18, 2013, 11:02:48 AM

Anyone have such high HW errors? What does this indicate?

   [Getworks] => 1963
   [Accepted] => 27062
   [Rejected] => 963
   [Hardware Errors] => 866
   [Utility] => 30.57
   [Discarded] => 3649

I did when I was overclocking with --avalon-options 115200:24:10:45:300

Changing to --avalon-options 115200:24:10:42:300 cleared it up for me (thanks to luffy for suggesting it).

Supposedly the fourth parameter is a "controller timeout". I'm not sure why reducing it helps.

I tried different parameters, including the default 45/282 value, the result is almost the same, hardware error rate about 3% of accepted, and my ambient temp is -3 degree now
   [fan1] => 0
   [fan2] => 720
   [fan3] => 720
   [temp1] => -3
   [temp2] => -1
   [temp3] => 28
   [temp_max] => 28

Bogart

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Quote from: kano on March 18, 2013, 11:57:04 AM

Quote from: Bogart on March 18, 2013, 11:49:48 AM

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Probably. I imagine the restart will be the easy part. Detecting the failure condition programmatically will be the harder part.

Of course not ... my API has all sorts of information that will show the condition ... and if the API isn't working, you take that to mean the condition exists also.
Of course there are updates to the API but ...

Cool. I'm not too familiar with it. Is it JSONRPC just like bitcoind? Care to give a cookbook query string to get the current hashrate?

invader

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Someone asked if i moved all modules, or just one - the answer is
MOVE ALL THE MODULES Grin

kano

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Quote from: Bogart on March 18, 2013, 11:49:48 AM

...
Probably. I imagine the restart will be the easy part. Detecting the failure condition programmatically will be the harder part.

Of course not ... my API has all sorts of information that will show the condition ... and if the API isn't working, you take that to mean the condition exists also.
Of course there are updates to the API but ...

Bogart

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Quote from: cypherdoc on March 18, 2013, 11:41:16 AM

Quote from: Bogart on March 18, 2013, 10:23:53 AM

I encountered the fan/temp bug again this morning. I noticed it cycled the fans on maximum speed for about 200ms, and when I checked the cgminer status page again the temp and fanspeed readings showed non-sane values that varied rapidly and were sometimes negative.

It also stopped hashing. I presume as a safety measure.

I let it go like this for about 3 minutes this time to see if it would recover. It cycled the fans onto maximum for 200ms a few more times, but never did.

When I restarted cgminer via System --> Startup in the web UI, it then mined normally again and showed normal sensor values.

is there a way to automate the cgminer restart?

Probably. I imagine the restart will be the easy part. Detecting the failure condition programmatically will be the harder part.

cypherdoc

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Quote from: Bogart on March 18, 2013, 10:23:53 AM

I encountered the fan/temp bug again this morning. I noticed it cycled the fans on maximum speed for about 200ms, and when I checked the cgminer status page again the temp and fanspeed readings showed non-sane values that varied rapidly and were sometimes negative.

It also stopped hashing. I presume as a safety measure.

I let it go like this for about 3 minutes this time to see if it would recover. It cycled the fans onto maximum for 200ms a few more times, but never did.

When I restarted cgminer via System --> Startup in the web UI, it then mined normally again and showed normal sensor values.

is there a way to automate the cgminer restart?

Bogart

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Quote from: johnyj on March 18, 2013, 11:02:48 AM

Anyone have such high HW errors? What does this indicate?

   [Getworks] => 1963
   [Accepted] => 27062
   [Rejected] => 963
   [Hardware Errors] => 866
   [Utility] => 30.57
   [Discarded] => 3649

I did when I was overclocking with --avalon-options 115200:24:10:45:300

Changing to --avalon-options 115200:24:10:42:300 cleared it up for me (thanks to luffy for suggesting it).

Supposedly the fourth parameter is a "controller timeout". I'm not sure why reducing it helps.

johnyj

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Activity: 1988

Merit: 1012

Beyond Imagination

Anyone have such high HW errors? What does this indicate?

   [Getworks] => 1963
   [Accepted] => 27062
   [Rejected] => 963
   [Hardware Errors] => 866
   [Utility] => 30.57
   [Discarded] => 3649

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