Topic: Mac miner front-ends to Diablo and RPC - page 5. (Read 181588 times)

for some reason after a while the Diablo Miner for mac starts making rejected blocks.  Is this because i need to enable long poll support.  If so, how?  (btw, macbook pro 2010 13in, deepbit.net)

I'm trying to pool mine with http://mining.bitcoin.cz

I keep getting:

Can't connect to Bitcoin: Bitcoin returned unparsable JSON

But in the bottom left corner of the terminal it's displaying khash, and it's changing all the time. Am I mining or not?

Because the watts used by CPU mining exceeds that of the value of BTC produced by CPU mining. Also, the fastest mining CPU that isn't enterprise hardware is that $1000 i7 six core.... it does 25 mhash max. A 5850 outside of OSX does 285 at stock speeds. They both use, at maximum, similar watts (130 watt part vs 150).

Those of you experiencing problems with mining using your GPUs: why not consider a CPU miner?

I've run it on an iMac with a 4850 and I didn't see that, however, I have gotten that consistently on a Mac Pro with a 4870.  Unfortunately, while Apple included the temperature sensor on the iMac with the 4850, they didn't for the Mac Pro with the 4870! Therefore, I can't check the GPU temp on the machine that I need to.  I would check to see if yours has it by installing Hardware Monitor or iStat.

Edit: Scratch that, I just saw it happen two times on the iMac 4850, as well. The temperature on the GPU was between 80 and 82 degrees C at the time. I'm still not seeing it quite as much as on the Mac Pro, though.

Only time it says that specific error message is either the hardware is overheating, its insane, the drivers are insane, or the planets are aligned.

Make sure your GPU is under 85c.

New versions of both miners released. Get the downloads. Changes for the 2011-05-26 release:

• Fixed an issue were the user supplied port number would be ignored in Diablo.
• More readable start-up sequence as per request by users who have poked at the code.

First release to be checked for regressions/bugs automatically.

I downloaded the current version of your Diablo wrapper about 15 mins ago, and I am also/still seeing the issue where it defaults to 8332 even though I've specified a different port and confirmed that it's in the plist file ServerHostPort entry.

Try running Software Update to ensure you have the latest updates for your Mac. I don’t really have any suggestion other than searching the forum for this error message. DiabloD3, might know some troubleshooting steps.

Found two file hosting providers with better reputation and uptime. I hope they will be better for all users.

I switched pools thanks. 

Only problem now is that I keep randomly getting these and it seems my khash/sec is being affected by a lot.

[5/25/11 1:48:56 PM] Block 102 found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1)
[5/25/11 1:49:49 PM] Block 103 found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1)
[5/25/11 1:55:28 PM] Block 104 found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1)
[5/25/11 1:56:33 PM] Block 105 found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1)
[5/25/11 1:56:47 PM] Block 106 found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1)
[5/25/11 1:57:22 PM] Block 107 found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1)
[5/25/11 1:59:08 PM] ERROR: Invalid block found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1), possible driver or hardware issue
[5/25/11 1:59:29 PM] Block 108 found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1)
[5/25/11 2:04:22 PM] ERROR: Invalid block found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1), possible driver or hardware issue
[5/25/11 2:04:24 PM] Block 109 found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1)
[5/25/11 2:08:05 PM] ERROR: Invalid block found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1), possible driver or hardware issue
[5/25/11 2:08:05 PM] Block 110 found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1)
[5/25/11 2:08:40 PM] Block 111 found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1)
[5/25/11 2:11:08 PM] ERROR: Invalid block found on Radeon HD 4850 (#1), possible driver or hardware issue

From the log, I would say you would have to reboot the machine to reinitialize all kernel extensions. You exit the miner by pressing Command–q and confirming that you want it to halt. I have never had any problems like the one you have experienced, though.

I have noticed that the links are broken for up to 5 minutes at random. Researching this problem, I found that MegaUpload sometimes take links temporarily offline while they move files around on their internal servers. (Sounds like a super inefficient design.)  I will providing more download mirrors soon.

Update: I have added alternate links now. Will find another provider soon.

Are you sure your configuration is correct? Firewall? …details?

Update 2: I actually see this in my log also. Seems the pool I’m using is ‘temporarily down for maintenance.’ You can use another pool or simply wait to your preferred pool is back online.

I don't use OSX, but if that happens during normal execution, that looks a lot like a OSX bug, which doesn't surprise me at all.

Hi everyone,

DiabloMiner worked for me on OSX 10.6, but i'm getting the following message consistently now:


I believe i might have caused it by the way i tried to interrupt it (CTRL + C and CTRL + X).
Anyone know how to "reset" the queue? Or is there something else that might have been corrupted?

Also, can someone upload RPCMiner to a new location?
The existing MegaUpload link isn't working anymore.
Thanks!

Canphaz

I used the app but I keep getting:

49965/49455 khash/secERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[5/25/11 8:54:24 AM] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[5/25/11 8:54:26 AM] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[5/25/11 8:54:26 AM] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[5/25/11 8:54:30 AM] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[5/25/11 8:54:32 AM] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused
[5/25/11 8:54:32 AM] ERROR: Can't connect to Bitcoin: Connection refused

I'm not sure exactly what to do to fix this.

Awesome, thanks for the fast fix. Looks like we are up and running smoothly now.

For people interested in stats: Looks like I am getting around 2000 khash/sec from the GPU, and around 1300 khash/sec from the CPUs...
[EDIT: ...on a mid-2009 MacBook Pro with stock hardware, so not exactly a dinosaur but clearly not high-end either]

I’ve fixed the issue reported by MattTheGr8 that caused first time configuration to fail. Download the updated apps.

Sorry about this mistake.

How do you start the app? You just double-click on the icon, right? OS version?

What does the following two commands in the Terminal output?

(or .diablominer)

If they find something, copy the output here or in a message to me first; and then replace ‘read’ with ‘delete’ in the above commands to reset.

Update: Oh, damn. My bad. Will upload an update very very soon. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Update 2: New version now available. Downloads.

Having some trouble getting started with the RPCminer app (current version). Just downloaded and opened it, and I don't get a prompt for my configuration info. Instead, I just get:

Starting RPCminer (CPU)...
--------------------------
Client will start 2 miner threads
Work will be refreshed every 4000 ms
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 22
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 22
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 22
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 22
No blocks are being hashed right now.  This can happen if the application is
still starting up, you supplied incorrect parameters, or there is a
communications error connecting to the RPC server.
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 22
No blocks are being hashed right now.  This can happen if the application is
still starting up, you supplied incorrect parameters, or there is a
communications error connecting to the RPC server.
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 22

Etc., etc. Without being able to see the source code, I'm not quite sure how to proceed. Any thoughts?

Will try DiabloMiner in the meantime... the MegaUpload link was broken for a little while, but it looks like it just started working again.

Thanks in advance...

EDIT: Tried DiabloMiner, similar issues. Immediately exits upon first run without ever asking for configuration info. Getting the same usage/error message as endthefed got in the second post in this thread. Checked ~/.bitcoin and it isn't getting created, and similarly there are no miner-relevant plist files in ~/Library/Preferences. Thoughts? Thanks.

New versions of both miners released. Get the downloads. Changes for the 2011-05-23 release:

• Much more flexible re-configuration wizard.
• Displays improved menu on start-up (after first being configured.)
• Option for launching miner on system logins.
• Miner credentials limited to defaults domain on current host only.
• Fixed an issue with preferences being saved as read-only (OS 10.6.5 bug).
• Code clean-up, and bug fixes (means less screw-ups.)

I hope everyone—well, except for users on OS ‘Leopard’ who will still have to wait—is happy with what I’m done. Feedback is always welcome!

I will publish for this in less than one hour. Stay tuned. (Some preference files were created read-only.)
Your machine will not be able to run the DiabloMiner because the graphics card does not support OpenCL. Second generation MacBooks and newer, and you would have been fine.

You can use the RPCminer. Currently Mac OS 10.6 only. But I am working on getting a don't-crash-after-two-hours-use version for OS 10.5 ready soonish.