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Topic: Bitminter client (Windows/Linux/Mac) - page 47. (Read 654946 times)

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September 06, 2011, 02:23:05 PM
#23
Wow. Your client (and hence, pool) is definitely the sexiest, least irritatingly/needlessly-complex client I've seen yet. Mucho kudos! And for that, here, have my miner, for what it's worth; the 211MH/s on my dandy 6770 oughtta do some good Smiley

Couple things I've noticed since I started using it:
  • The Java launcher sucks ass. For the unfamiliar, or those without Java installed, the "jnlp" format is just an "unknown file", and without a hint on the page saying "this is a Java web application link file", or providing an alternate launcher, it prevents it from presenting a truly "polished" appearance.
  • Setting the GPU "relax period" too high, say 500ms, on my miner box, works OK but silently shoots CPU usage through the roof. CPU usage translates directly to excess wasted power/heat, so perhaps a slider could be put here instead. The client, being as robust as it is, could probably auto-detect the interval where CPU usage begins to rise - likely caused by trying to update the display quicker than the GPU comes back from its loop(s). Personally, I'd rather have an unresponsive desktop and a fast miner using 0% CPU, than a zippy desktop without a monitor attached!
  • The graphics are awesome.
  • The UI design is awesome.
  • Unlike other miners, it properly detected the 128-bit memory bus in my 6770, and accordingly set the work size to 128. Other miners have defaulted to 256. This will certainly result in amazing performance boosts if this auto-detection continues to work properly for other new users, many of whom - not active users here - don't know the difference.
  • Speaking of which, if there is a known issue with the driver/OpenCL setup on the miner PC (like running Catalyst 11.8 or something), and it's getting poor performance/high CPU, bring it to the user's attention and I can guarantee you'll have the most efficient pool and most popular client around in no time Wink

Just my "kinda putting on a black turtleneck and jeans while I say this" sort of friendly tips Smiley The thing looks incredible, and as long as nothing terrible goes wrong (like "hey, why the hell is my balance still 0?" or the like - haven't run it long enough to see, of course), I hope to run this for a while Smiley
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September 05, 2011, 03:04:51 PM
#22
BitMinter client v1.0.0 released.

Changes:
  • Faster on Radeon GPUs, especially 5xxx series (still working on improving this further)
  • Minimize to systray option (under the "settings" pulldown menu)
  • Remember settings for systray and verbose logging between sessions
  • 10 minute timeout on longpoll connections. Should hopefully fix the problems for those few who get a very high number of stales. I suspect it is because you have a router that kills idle connections after only a few minutes.
  • Get rid of Java login window if you mistyped name or password. A failed login should now re-display the BitMinter login window.
  • Mining speed shown is now an exponential moving average. Should give more stable speed measurements, but may need more tweaking.

All changes have been tested a while as beta, so should be stable. Regular and beta on the server are now the same (v1.0.0) until a new beta is ready.

Edit: To get the latest version, simply restart the miner.
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August 30, 2011, 03:31:36 PM
#21
so I guess it's averaged in some kind of way?

Probably. I haven't been able to get stable values when measuring OpenCL performance over short timespans.

I updated the beta of the miner just now:
  • 10 minute timeout on longpoll connections. Should hopefully fix the problems for those few who get a very high number of stales. I suspect it is because you have a router that kills idle connections after only a few minutes.
  • Get rid of Java login window if you mistyped name or password. A failed login should now re-display the BitMinter login window.
  • Mining speed shown is now an exponential moving average. Should give more stable speed measurements, but may need more tweaking.

If you had problems with many rejected proofs of work or speed measurements varying a lot, please let me know if this helps.
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August 30, 2011, 07:27:21 AM
#20
Nice! Good to hear the speed improvements are working out.

I know, the two second average shown by BitMinter sometimes fluctuates a lot. I was thinking of putting in some sort of exponential moving average.

I ran your bfi kernel in fpgaminer's poclbm and it was giving me 144.828 to 145.259 and it updates once a second in a very stable way
but your software bounces between 141 and 148 not even after submitting a share, it's just never giving readings as consistent

so I guess it's averaged in some kind of way?
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August 28, 2011, 03:44:05 AM
#19
Just tried the Bitminter software the other day, on windows 7 and linux..

with my 6970's im getting 426-437 under linux and 391-400 under windows 7

had 5 cards running on the linux machine using bitminter with no problems.

Nice speeds Smiley Did you try starting all the GPUs at once? I've had reports of crashes resulting from doing that on Linux. I can't reproduce it on Windows, and my Linux machines only have 1 GPU.

any chance of adding a option to auto-start certain miners, ie; have a check box for each one or something? im running a few different systems headless would be nice to have it just start up and go.

Let me see what I can do...

Does the red flashing light on the speedo just mean you are hitting 400+ or is that indicating something else?

It just flashes when you go into the red zone. The red zone should be 10% above what your GPU would normally deliver. The speedometer is adjusted for the specific GPU that is detected. But the "normal speed" for each GPU may be a little off - there are many GPUs and I probably don't have the right values for each one. Please report any GPUs that are not in the green zone even when running on stock frequenzy and voltage.

But yeah, if you are overclocking, then it is normal. I thought it was cool when I added it. But if it's annoying, I can remove it or make it optional.
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August 27, 2011, 04:26:50 PM
#18
Just tried the Bitminter software the other day, on windows 7 and linux..

with my 6970's im getting 426-437 under linux and 391-400 under windows 7

had 5 cards running on the linux machine using bitminter with no problems.

any chance of adding a option to auto-start certain miners, ie; have a check box for each one or something? im running a few different systems headless would be nice to have it just start up and go.

Does the red flashing light on the speedo just mean you are hitting 400+ or is that indicating something else?


Great Job!
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August 27, 2011, 08:20:29 AM
#17
Nice! Good to hear the speed improvements are working out.

I know, the two second average shown by BitMinter sometimes fluctuates a lot. I was thinking of putting in some sort of exponential moving average.
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August 26, 2011, 08:10:52 PM
#16
bitminter beta is the fastest miner for 5xxx cards right now, although it's kind of hard to compare because there is no 5 second average to look at, but it's about the same as cgminer for my card (which uses a modified phatk 2.2)

since the speeds update every second or something I have to mentally average them they go between 141 and 148
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August 26, 2011, 02:19:58 PM
#15
In the future I will release new changes as a beta release first before they go into the regular miner version. When you log into your account on the website there is a button to start the beta version of the miner. You can also start it from here:



Changes in the current beta:
  • Faster on Radeon GPUs, especially 5xxx series (still working on improving this further)
  • Minimize to systray option (under the "settings" pulldown menu)
  • Remember settings for systray and verbose logging between sessions

Let me know if there are any problems.
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August 23, 2011, 11:33:42 AM
#14
Yes, the problem was only there for a few hours and produced just a few bombs. If you have 25% bombs there's probably something wrong.

Is the GPU overclocked? Getting hot?
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August 19, 2011, 11:34:46 AM
#13
Quick fix on the pool backend a few minutes ago. It would sometimes send out work that the new miner version did not like, which would result in miscalculations ("bombs" in the GUI). This is now fixed. Sorry if this caused you to think you had a hardware problem.
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August 18, 2011, 07:37:22 PM
#12
Some updates for the software today:

  • The status bar (the only thing visible in performance mode) now has a start/stop button and shows some information about proofs of work. Much requested features - sorry it took so long!
  • Upgraded to latest version of Steel Series. The power meter tick marks looked weird for some CPU models in the old version - this looks better now.
  • Better error handling when reading settings (currently names+password to log in). Some users got a blank login window with nowhere to enter name and password. I'm not sure what causes this, but at least now the login window should be usable. Please let me know if your saved name+pass disappears and/or you get error messages.
  • Bug fix: when stopping a device, it would burn through a bunch of work units (you could see the "work units started on" counting up). This has been fixed.

You will get the new version the next time you restart the miner.

The program doesn't detect my gpu. I'm getting this when I start it.

2011.07.31 [06:49] No OpenCL-compatible GPUs detected

I can't reproduce this. Could you try starting it from the command line with the exact same environment you run other miners, and as the same user? To start the miner use this command: javaws http://bitminter.com/client/bitminter.jnlp
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August 05, 2011, 11:00:12 PM
#11
Thanks for joining, ManOfKnight. We are growing steadily and hopefully payouts will be more regular soon.
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August 02, 2011, 07:52:51 PM
#10
I love this program...wish there were more miners in your pool so the returns are almost guaranteed.  I am now on it with my 420MH/s...I will be adding some video cards soon when I get a deal on some 6870's...so I should end up around 1GH/s within the next few weeks.
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August 01, 2011, 01:14:15 AM
#9
Anyone else having problems with the BitMinter miner under Catalyst 11.7/Ubuntu? I'm currently at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, far away from my own 6990, so I can't test this at the moment.

A few days ago I was running on 6990 with 64-bit Windows 7 and Catalyst 11.7 preview drivers. I also run some other GPUs on Ubuntu 10.04 and Red Hat 5.7. Maybe it's a problem with the final version of Catalyst 11.7. Odd that it works with Phoenix and not with BitMinter, though.
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July 31, 2011, 12:08:21 AM
#8
Haven't seen anyone mention this so I guess I'm the first with this problem.

The program doesn't detect my gpu. I'm getting this when I start it.

2011.07.31 [06:49] No OpenCL-compatible GPUs detected
2011.07.31 [06:49]  Unfamiliar CPU Core2 Quad Q8200 - using default power meter

My GPU is a HD 6990. I have catalyst 11.7 and amd app (ati stream) SDK 2.4 installed and I'm on ubuntu 11.04 if that helps. Phoenix miner works fine so there shouldn't be anything wrong with my opencl.
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July 26, 2011, 05:04:06 PM
#7
I'm watching the numbers, seeing you and another miner fighting to be the fastest in the pool  Grin
Hopefully will be able to put up a better fight once I can figure out why my fastest rig keeps throwing up the BSOD.  Might need to swap out motherboards...

Yeah, that's no fun. With luck it's the motherboard and not an expensive GPU gone bad.
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July 26, 2011, 01:36:28 PM
#6
Put about 3.5gh/s on your pool over the last few days.  Hoping it works out!  (Had given up on pools...)

Cool Smiley I'm watching the numbers, seeing you and another miner fighting to be the fastest in the pool  Grin

I will add some more statistics soon so everyone can see this.
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July 26, 2011, 06:56:35 AM
#5
For those who had problems getting the miner to run on Mac OS X; this was fixed in an update yesterday. This update also takes care of the errors that occurred when stopping and restarting GPUs on recent Catalyst versions.

Just quit and restart the miner to get the latest version.
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July 23, 2011, 12:27:05 PM
#4
Great Smiley

Well, it wouldn't prevent DDOS attacks. It might make it a little more difficult for DDOS attackers to overload the server with getwork-requests. But it would also shut out honest miners who just prefer different software.
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