Topic: [POOL][Scrypt][Scrypt-N][X11] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com - page 65. (Read 465674 times)

You seem to be using "sgminer 5.0", which I couldn't get to work either. Seems a bit rushed and not production quality to say the least. I'd suggest to try this: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annx11x13-x11-darkcoinx13-marucoin-miner-based-on-sph-sgminer-623409

You'll need to use kernel "x11mod", and "pool-" options are not available in this version. Otherwise it worked fine as a drop-in replacement for all sorts of old miners on BAMT and Windows.

20M of x11 point your way. Looking forward to see how this turns out.

What is wrong with my conf for X11 using sgminer

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "quota" : "100;stratum+tcp://uswest.wafflepool.com:3331",
      "user" : "1HANJQygp3jHuzutceBgMT7wfCgEug6h4L_gpu1",
      "pass" : "d=0.008",
      "pool-algorithm" : "darkcoin-mod"
   },
   {
      "quota" : "0;stratum+tcp://useast.wafflepool.com:3331",
      "user" : "1HANJQygp3jHuzutceBgMT7wfCgEug6h4L_gpu1",
      "pass" : "d=0.008",
      "pool-algorithm" : "darkcoin-mod"
   }
]
,
"kernel" : "darkcoin-mod",
"intensity" : "13",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"shaders" : "2048",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"gpu-engine" : "1070",
"gpu-fan" : "100",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.162",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"auto-fan" : true,
"expiry" : "10",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "7",
"tcp-keepalive" : "30",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin",
"no-client-reconnect" : true,
"failover-only" : true,
"failover-switch-delay" : "30",
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1/24",
"api-listen" : true
}


Here's what I get:

sgminer 4.2.1 - Started: [2014-06-05 16:55:07]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0  R:0  HW:0  WU:0.0/m
ST: 1  SS: 0  NB: 4  LW: 34  GF: 0  RF: 0
Connected to uswest.wafflepool.com (stratum) diff 0 as user 1HANJQygp3jHuzutceBg
Block: a5a55e68...  Diff:21.6M  Started: [16:55:26]  Best share: 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[P]ool management [G]PU management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0:  46.0C 3647RPM | OFF   / 0.000h/s | R:  0.0% HW:0 WU:0.0/m I:13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[16:55:06] WARNING: GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS is not specified!
[16:55:06] Initialising kernel darkcoin-mod.cl with bitalign, unpatched BFI, nfa
ctor 10, n 1024
[16:55:06] Initialising kernel darkcoin-mod.cl with bitalign, unpatched BFI, nfa
ctor 10, n 1024
[16:55:06] Probing for an alive pool
[16:55:07] uswest.wafflepool.com difficulty changed to 0.2
[16:55:07] Network diff set to 12.2M
[16:55:08] Initialising kernel darkcoin-mod.cl with bitalign, unpatched BFI, nfa
ctor 10, n 1024
[16:55:08] Initialising kernel darkcoin-mod.cl with bitalign, unpatched BFI, nfa
ctor 10, n 1024
[16:55:08] Error: clSetKernelArg of all params failed.
[16:55:08] Error: clSetKernelArg of all params failed.
[16:55:08] GPU 0 failure, disabling!
[16:55:08] GPU 0 failure, disabling!
[16:55:12] API running in IP access mode on port 4028 (19524)
[16:55:26] uswest.wafflepool.com difficulty changed to 0.0
[16:55:26] Stratum from uswest.wafflepool.com requested work restart
[16:55:26] Network diff set to 12.9M
[16:55:26] Stratum from uswest.wafflepool.com detected new block
[16:55:26] Network diff set to 12.1M
[16:55:26] Stratum from useast.wafflepool.com detected new block
[16:55:26] Network diff set to 21.6M
[16:55:26] Stratum from useast.wafflepool.com detected new block
[16:55:26] Stratum from uswest.wafflepool.com requested work restart

pw, thanks for new algorithms. I return on a pool)

Or you "could of" read a few posts above and avoided the facepalm...

Instead of adding ScryptN you guys should of added either X11/X13.

There are basically no coins to mine with ScryptN.

VTC goes down and down everyday and the other 2 coins have no liquidity.

Plus its summer and VTC uses too much heat.

setting miner difficulty with d=0.032 works, I guess i didnt had it set power of 2 before.

Again, just like on Scrypt-N, its going to vary a ton depending on device.  Some devices are going to get 6x, some at 2x, but I think the norm is around 4x.  If memory serves me, I think X11 does better with higher clock speeds and less/lower mem speeds (CPU bound), compared to something like Scrypt-N which is heavily memory bound.

4x is typical for AMD 7xxx/R9 running sgminer/x11mod. Ratio is higher for NVIDIA+ccminer. What are you using?

Depend with what you mine
For me:
R9 270: 2.0Mh/s ( 4.4x scrypt)
750ti: 2.1Mh/s ( 6.8x Scrypt) ^^

Well I guess my calculations were off and instead of 20MH/s I'm getting 44MH/s. I'm getting about 9.5X the hashrate (isn't 4X the average?)on X11 over scrypt. Thanks again PW

I don't know what you mean?  Those are actual values, they're not assumptions.  They're [BTC earned] / hashrate, normalized to 24hrs of mining.

There isn't such a thing as network difficulty, at least not in a way that you can set.  Network difficulty is set by the coin that is being mined (the difficulty to solve a block).  Pool difficulty (miner difficulty really, since it is set per-miner), is what you're controlling (the difficulty to solve a share).

X11 is a very difficult POW algorithm than Scrypt/Scrypt-N, and thus uses a very different difficulty base.  Difficulty 256 (d=256) makes sense on Scrypt/N, but on X11, base difficulty is 0.16.  If you check the startup guide on the newalgos page (where you hit "Enable", you can see that difficulty is allowed to be from 0.008, to 2.048.  You need to change the d=XXX value



It changes on the first block change (normally around 30 seconds).  You should see it change after a bit, assuming you have a valid value.

from http://wafflepool.com/newalgos help:
Password: Any. "d=XXX" accepted to set difficulty (0.008 up to 2.048, powers of 2 only).

I also tried to set difficulty but it still at 0.160

Hello pool waflfe..

mining for x11 now.

May i ask, is that setting -p d=256 for example set for pool difficulty or network difficulty?  Because when my miner connects to your eu pool, it says connected to eu.wafflepool...  difficulty 0.160 as user xxxxxxxxxxxx  difficulty 193

Then when miner starts it says pool difficulty set to 0.160. network difficulty set to 193.
 So my question is that setting sets pool or network difficulty?

Thanks

edit: it seems like it is for pool difficulty, so may i ask what am i doing wrong that my set difficulty is not recognized ?

sgminer.exe  --kernel x11mod -u xxxx -p d=256 -o stratum+tcp://eu.wafflepool.com:3331 ...

Thanks for help

Well done, but are you sure the X11 vsLTC is higher than Nscrypt vsLTC?

Awesome!  Its looking solid so far (just added another coin).  Assuming everything goes well over the next 24hrs, I'll post a link on the site, and we'll open it up to more people.  Then on to X13

Thanks PW! Just pointed 20MH/s X11 at the test pool.

Sorry about that, thats what I get for writing it quickly

Give it another shot, I think everything should be cast properly (was an issue with values coming back from our cache layer as strings rather than the proper data type).

Thanks.  You might want to recheck the output of that new api command though.  There seem to be quotation marks missing from around some of the values types that are surrounded by quotation marks elsewhere in the output.  Of course, I don't know what your original intentions were, but it does not look to be consistently implemented.