Mac miner front-ends to Diablo and RPC - page 3.

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Quote from: batkiller on June 06, 2011, 02:33:04 AM

So my simplified question: what does rpcminer look like when it's running? Is it an invisible process, or should I be seeing some sort of feedback about its activity?

You should be looking at a Terminal window that displays information about the mining performance. Also, if something goes wrong; the Terminal window should remain open and display more information if something went wrong. Do you get a crash dialog or some other information when the application disappears?

Quote from: batkiller on June 06, 2011, 02:33:04 AM

Also, does the bitcoin.app have to be running simultaneously?

Only when doing solo-mining (not connecting to a third-party pool).

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Hello,

I'm using a (primitive) MacBook Core Duo, so I'm using rpcminer instead of diablo, but although the connection wizard saves all the pool mining information (site, port, worker, password, etc.) correctly, the terminal window disappears and there's no indication that it's actually running. Netstat shows nothing listening on port 8332, top doesn't show any process resembling rpcminer, so my question is: is it actually running? It looks like everyone's posts about diablo indicate an active terminal window that's constantly displaying/updating activity--should rpcminer do the same? Also, does the bitcoin.app have to be running simultaneously?

So my simplified question: what does rpcminer look like when it's running? Is it an invisible process, or should I be seeing some sort of feedback about its activity?

Thanks!

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Quote from: Tongpu on June 05, 2011, 12:25:40 PM

I've got a crappy Intel GMA X3100 on my MacBook.
Isn't it compatible with GPU miners?

No. Intel only very recently manufactured GPUs that do OpenCL, it is limited to the new GMA HD 2000/3000 series only. GMA 2000/3000/4000 and GMA HD (aka 5000 aka HD 1000) do not support it and do not even have the hardware to support it.

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I've got a crappy Intel GMA X3100 on my MacBook.
Isn't it compatible with GPU miners?

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Quote from: kitsura on June 05, 2011, 02:17:08 AM

Hi Diablo, I'm running the RPCminer on a quad-core Xeon 2.26GHz and only getting about 2MHash/s.
Even my ancient core2 duo PC is getting about 5MHash/s so what am I doing wrong?

Ahh, dunno. Your question would be better off towards the author of RPC Miner or the front end for it.

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Hi Diablo, I'm running the RPCminer on a quad-core Xeon 2.26GHz and only getting about 2MHash/s.
Even my ancient core2 duo PC is getting about 5MHash/s so what am I doing wrong?

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Quote from: DiabloD3 on June 03, 2011, 12:44:44 PM

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Quote from: stellan0r on June 03, 2011, 04:04:03 AM

Quote from: DiabloD3 on June 02, 2011, 02:46:22 AM

Quote from: stellan0r on June 02, 2011, 02:19:21 AM

Good morning,

can someone please explain me how do I setup the DiabloMiner.app for SOLO mining, if this is possible at all?

Like do I have to run the Bitcoin Client, what do I enter then in the DiabloMiner Setup for host, port, user and pw?

Thanks!

Set the user and pw you put in bitcoin.conf, and use localhost and 8332

Thanks Diablo! But can you please specify that?

like those:

#rpcuser=user
#rpcpassword=password

?

I know where to put the file, but I'm not sure what I have to put in it to make it work.

Try this:

rpcuser=(your account name)
rpcpassword=(your password)
rpcport=8332
gen=1
server=1

That's my bitcon.conf

rpcuser and rpcpassword means the account where your Bitcointclient is running at. Write it without "#" in the bitcoin.conf.

My diablo seems to be running now.

It just saying this:

Starting DiabloMiner (GPU)...
-----------------------------
[03.06.11 12:34:04] Started
[03.06.11 12:34:04] Connecting to: http://127.0.0.1:8332/
[03.06.11 12:34:05] Added GeForce 9600M GT (#1) (4 CU, local work size of 256)
[03.06.11 12:34:08] Added GeForce 9400M (#2) (2 CU, local work size of 256)
2411/2436 khash/sec

Is it right?

If you have one of the Macs with a hybrid GPU setup, OpenCL apps may not function correctly.

I think no. It's just a Macbook Pro (late 08) for testing. Something like Dual Core 2,4 with 9600 and/or 9400. The "big" test's starting on Monday.

Anyway, can you gife me/us an example of "you got a trophy" with Diablo miner.

*cough* Thats a dual nvidia hybrid. Only one chip is on at the same time, and it confuses the hell out of most apps because OSX is too stupid to not list chips that are powered off.

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Quote from: KRec on June 03, 2011, 02:54:04 PM

I cant seem to get windows to correctly run OpenCL i believe because of bootcamp driver issues. Should i look into running linux or would i have the same problems.

Should work properly in Linux.

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I cant seem to get windows to correctly run OpenCL i believe because of bootcamp driver issues. Should i look into running linux or would i have the same problems.

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Quote from: stellan0r on June 03, 2011, 04:04:03 AM

Quote from: DiabloD3 on June 02, 2011, 02:46:22 AM

Quote from: stellan0r on June 02, 2011, 02:19:21 AM

Good morning,

can someone please explain me how do I setup the DiabloMiner.app for SOLO mining, if this is possible at all?

Like do I have to run the Bitcoin Client, what do I enter then in the DiabloMiner Setup for host, port, user and pw?

Thanks!

Set the user and pw you put in bitcoin.conf, and use localhost and 8332

Thanks Diablo! But can you please specify that?

like those:

#rpcuser=user
#rpcpassword=password

?

I know where to put the file, but I'm not sure what I have to put in it to make it work.

Try this:

rpcuser=(your account name)
rpcpassword=(your password)
rpcport=8332
gen=1
server=1

That's my bitcon.conf

rpcuser and rpcpassword means the account where your Bitcointclient is running at. Write it without "#" in the bitcoin.conf.

My diablo seems to be running now.

It just saying this:

Starting DiabloMiner (GPU)...
-----------------------------
[03.06.11 12:34:04] Started
[03.06.11 12:34:04] Connecting to: http://127.0.0.1:8332/
[03.06.11 12:34:05] Added GeForce 9600M GT (#1) (4 CU, local work size of 256)
[03.06.11 12:34:08] Added GeForce 9400M (#2) (2 CU, local work size of 256)
2411/2436 khash/sec

Is it right?

If you have one of the Macs with a hybrid GPU setup, OpenCL apps may not function correctly.

DiabloD3

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Quote from: KRec on June 03, 2011, 10:04:53 AM

Hey guys,
Pretty new to mining so any help is very appreciated.

I seem to be having 2 issues. I have a 27" Imac with a Radeon HD 5750 it is currently mining between 70-72Mhash. According to hardware comparsion on the wiki with the right flags it should be running well over 120 and up to 170MHash/s. Is there a way to add the -v -f flags to increase my hash rate or am i doing something else wrong (everything is closed).

My other issue is my stale rate has been very high 12-15% on deepbit and the same or more other places. Any ideas what i'm doing wrong here. I get a few device hardware issue warnings and a few rejected blocks every 15 minutes or so. Thanks for any advice guys. Great app thanks for that hoping to donate once i start making some BTC.

You're on a Mac. OSX sucks about 40% of your hashing speed out because it has an inferior OpenCL implementation and can't do bfi_int on Radeons.

So yeah, that sounds about right.

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I am having a very similar problem with the exact same computer setup. (27" Imac with a Radeon HD 5750 it is currently mining between 70-72Mhash)

The odd thing is that ALL of mine are being rejected about 15 minutes after I get them. I am not sure if I set this up correctly or if I am starting it up right.

1) I open bitcoin-0.3.2.1
2) I start DiabloMiner
Server host name or IP address [mining.bitcoin.cz]:
Server port number [8332]:
Miner username [sbuXXX.workXX]:
Miner password [XXXXXX]:

Below is my bitcoin.conf file located in ~/.bitcoin
rpcuser=sbuXXX
rpcpassword=XXXXXX
gen=1
server=1

What am I doing incorrectly? Thanks for the help!

-VONNY

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Hey guys,
Pretty new to mining so any help is very appreciated.

I seem to be having 2 issues. I have a 27" Imac with a Radeon HD 5750 it is currently mining between 70-72Mhash. According to hardware comparsion on the wiki with the right flags it should be running well over 120 and up to 170MHash/s. Is there a way to add the -v -f flags to increase my hash rate or am i doing something else wrong (everything is closed).

My other issue is my stale rate has been very high 12-15% on deepbit and the same or more other places. Any ideas what i'm doing wrong here. I get a few device hardware issue warnings and a few rejected blocks every 15 minutes or so. Thanks for any advice guys. Great app thanks for that hoping to donate once i start making some BTC.

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Quote from: coel on May 31, 2011, 08:07:34 PM

I'm getting errors like this:

[01.06.11 01:49:04] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Unexpected end of file from server

The port was set to 8333 instead of 8332. I'm wondering why it partly seemed to work at all. :-)

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Quote from: DiabloD3 on June 02, 2011, 02:46:22 AM

Quote from: stellan0r on June 02, 2011, 02:19:21 AM

Good morning,

can someone please explain me how do I setup the DiabloMiner.app for SOLO mining, if this is possible at all?

Like do I have to run the Bitcoin Client, what do I enter then in the DiabloMiner Setup for host, port, user and pw?

Thanks!

Set the user and pw you put in bitcoin.conf, and use localhost and 8332

Thanks Diablo! But can you please specify that?

like those:

#rpcuser=user
#rpcpassword=password

?

I know where to put the file, but I'm not sure what I have to put in it to make it work.

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Totally new @ this and could use some help. On my main PC I am running GUIMiner and it's working fine. I tried to use DiabloMiner and connect to the main PC that way GUIMiner shows it as a separate Miner instance.

I know the Mac can get to the main PC, they can ping and telnet to port 8333.

Diablo states this error;

Starting DiabloMiner (GPU)...
-----------------------------
[6/2/11 8:50:02 PM] Started
[6/2/11 8:50:02 PM] Connecting to: http://192.168.88.5:8333/
[6/2/11 8:50:02 PM] Added GeForce 9400M (#1) (2 CU, local work size of 256)
[6/2/11 8:52:04 PM] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Unexpected end of file from server

Tongpu

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Diablo Miner gives me this:
ERROR: OpenCL platform Apple contains no devices.

RPCminer gives me no errors.

I'm sure I've got GPU, so it should be compatible with DiabloMiner.

What could be the problem?

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Hello,

I need some help to get the Diablo miner working on 10.6. (MBP late 08)

I'd like to try local/single mining or however it is called.

I'm new to Bitcoin. I started reading here for a while and just tried the Diablo but always getting the error message:

Starting DiabloMiner (GPU)...
-----------------------------
[02.06.11 19:09:53] Started
[02.06.11 19:09:53] Connecting to: http://localhost:8332/
[02.06.11 19:09:54] Added GeForce 9600M GT (#1) (4 CU, local work size of 256)
[02.06.11 19:09:54] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[02.06.11 19:09:54] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[02.06.11 19:09:54] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[02.06.11 19:09:55] Added GeForce 9400M (#2) (2 CU, local work size of 256)
[02.06.11 19:09:55] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
...

[02.06.11 19:10:33] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
1254/1863 khash/sec ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[02.06.11 19:10:33] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[02.06.11 19:10:33] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
...

I had just installed the Bitcoin client 03.21-beta from bitcoin.org. I mean the GUI application ^^

My bitcoin.conf:
rpcuser=borsti
rpcpassword=xxxxxxxx
rpctimeout=10
rpcport=8332
noirc=1
gen=1

rpcuser/-password means the user and password of my localhost?

Do I have to start the Bitcoin application as server and does the Bitcoin app need to run when the diablo is running?

I answered the Diablo wizard questions with localhost as IP, port 8332, username with borsti and the password of my borsti account.

THX

Its typically called solo mining.

Yes, you have to start bitcoin either as bitcoin -server or as bitcoind. I've made requests to have this functionality put into the GUI preferences, but apparently no one has listened.

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@DiabloD3:

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You want -f. It should be a multiple or divisor of 60, and some people just turn it the whole way to 1000 and don't care how many mhash they lose.

I think this could help. Where do I have to put this in DibloMiner to use the -f option? Could you explain in more detail what exactly it does?

@MacCompiler:

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Not currently. I could easily add functionality to reduce the process priority. It kind of defeats the purpose, as you want as much juice out of your system as possible. But if this is something others also want, I can add it in an update. Let me know.

I would like this option for two reasons:

1. during the day I would like to use my mac for daily work. With GPU on 100% workload all the time it is really hard to use the mac. Therefore currently I have only the option to work or to mine, but not doing both at the same time.
2. The GPU temperature is always about 85°C. That's high and not good for the GPU and the mac at all. I can lose some MHash to get the GPU coolness. I love my mac and I don't want to get it corrupted :-)

Thanks!

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Quote from: stellan0r on June 02, 2011, 02:19:21 AM

Good morning,

can someone please explain me how do I setup the DiabloMiner.app for SOLO mining, if this is possible at all?

Like do I have to run the Bitcoin Client, what do I enter then in the DiabloMiner Setup for host, port, user and pw?

Thanks!

Set the user and pw you put in bitcoin.conf, and use localhost and 8332

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