Topic: Smartcoin Linux mining administration. [MULTI-MACHINE SUPPORT NOW IN!] - page 17. (Read 105030 times)

I have a GPU that locks up if I OC over about 960 MHz (it's a 5830).  When it locks up, the other GPU often stops processing as well.

Actually, Jon, what I'd prefer is that you can specify a script to run when a card locks up.  I can then do whatever I want.  Something like "lockup.sh".  In my script I would:

1)  Capture Temps
2)  Capture GPU Status (overclock rates, etc)
3)  Send the above to me in an email
4)  Reboot the box

By having a script, I could even code whether or not I want to reboot.  Maybe setting a flag each time it reboots and if I see it reboot 4 times unattended, I just leave it down (because I need to look into what's going on).

Thoughts?

why are you using AMDOverdriveCtrl
is there anything what can't be done just by  catalyst 11.6?

like:
aticonfig --od-setclocks=900,1000 --adapter=all
or
export DISPLAY=:0.1; aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get fanspeed 0"
export DISPLAY=:0.1; aticonfig --pplib-cmd "set fanspeed 0 100"

unless AMDOverdriveCtrl can finally overvolt
but I bet 11.7 will do it too or atitweak http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25750.msg371068#msg371068 (overvolt bypass bios in next version)

Admittedly undereducated about exactly what AMDOverdriveCtrl is doing to my overclock settings/performance - but I have to start it for both cards everytime I reboot my rig. How can I script this with a detached screen? I'm trying in an init.sh file w/ SmartCoin:

most people don't wanna checking rig daily when they wake up.
maybe not shutdown,
restart (email about restart)
with smartcoin autostart after restart. (email about recovery)
then if restart 5x in 1hour (too hot outside or something)  let it hang and send email every x hours about lockup.


also emails about configurable events will be awsome:
like
temperature threshold
failover - profile name
fan threshold
stats every X minutes
Mhash/s threshold
etc.

Why would you kill smartcoin and kill the other working devices? Let's say I go to bed and sleep 7 hours. After 1 hour one GPU locks. Then you kill smartcoin and 6 hours idle time for 3 other GPUs. That doesn't make sense to me. The current state is even better, because when getting up I can easily detect the the lockup by looking at the stats and I wouldn't waste 6 hours x3 GPUs hashing time.

Email, wonderful. Shutdown smartcoin, very bad idea imo.

Maybe because cgminer has implemented
- Dynamic intensity that keeps desktop interactive under load and maximises throughput when deskop idle
so if you fiddling with PC intensity going down

or it can be just Intel/AMD sensitive

but anyway, I'm using CGminer for CPU only, Phoenix for GPUs

 
Please note: for some reason after CPU mining is each GPU 2Mhash/s faster than without CPU mining.


now just tiny things like CPU load is 0.88% for GPU mining.
most likely 100% for CPU mining.

I'm getting CPU temperature from "lm-sensors", some people don't have lm-sensors installed.



also I personally do not understand, why people pushing sqlite.
This will be big project and i can see people using it in mining farms with 50+ computers.
Mysql is perfect solution and for mailing postfix.
Think BIG.
People don't cry for 50MB on your 1TB HDD.
Safety first and what is better an more often maintained than Mysql or Postfix?
Some shady project without security upgrades?


jondecker76 Thank you for your super fast development speed.

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P.S.:
I'm thinking about writing some documentation, soon it will be too complex for people who starting from this point.
But maybe after some front page simplification.
For example:
Pool configuration on front page
 - it is already pre-configured, but users will try to do something just because they see it...like jen
I think first page have to be just this:

1) Reboot Computer
2) Kill smartcoin (exit)
3) Disconnect from smartcoin (leave running)
4) Select Profile
5) Configure   
6) Update Smartcoin


and most important info:
Ctrl + a      =  switch to rigs live streaming
Ctrl + a +d =  disconnect from smartcoin (leave running)

Submenu 5.

Mandatory basic Configure:
1) Configure Workers

Advacend configure:
2) Edit Settings
3) Remote computers: (yes/no) , address conf. etc

Profile configure:
3) Configure Profiles
4) Set Profile Failover Order

Pre-configured for basic use (tune for your own hardware):
5) Configure Miners
6) Configure Devices
7) Configure Pools

Now, I can see I have to more think about it. Because I'm not sure if is it much easier or more clear than before.
hmmm
....But at least now you do have idea what I mean.

happy SmartCoin donator/new-to-forum, excited to join this thread and watch the development 

you somehow missed a schema update.  a reinstall at this point would be easiest

the bug with failed queries from a locked database is to blame, but has been fixed in recent updates

Did already these steps before initially posting here even.

When starting smartcoin, I get an error:


I can't even select a manual profile, smartcoin won't apply the use of another profile.

How do you know?  Auto-donate should only run at a specified time.  I could see auto-donate getting "stuck" and running away, but if you killed SmartCoin following the update and restarted, it shouldn't run.

If it is, then SmartCoin thinks that's the profile you want to be running.  Go to the main screen and choose "Select Profile" (Option 5) and then select the profile you want (not Auto-Donate) and see if that corrects it.  Possibly set up a new Profile and select it.

also, go to edit settings from the control screen.  make sure the donation minutes per day is set to a reasonable value, perhaps something got entered in error?   you can also adjust the donation start time from the settings page.

please share what you find, as any bug in the donation system are top priority!

Jon,

SmartCoin is now the main interface I use for Mining.

As such, the 1.0 BTC Donation was just sent to 1AnDpiSvcUKejhENUFuigRCZC97cir4uwn (for my own reasons I don't use auto-donate)

Keep up the good work.

doesn't

Run an update, r442 is the latest stable release and may fix that.

Hi, I have a little problem on two of my rigs. Auto Donate runs for 4 hours str8 and I can't get it to stop (did a reboot already). Any file I can delete to resolve this issue? r425 stable

Jon, you know me, always with the suggestions.  I'd look at "sendemail":

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/sendemail.1.html

Several examples of usage here:

http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-sendemail-from-the-command-line-using-a-gmail-account-and-others.html

Seems much more lightweight than requiring EXIM, Postfix, or Sendmail be installed.

I want to gather suggestions on the preferred cli email program to be used by smartcoin.  I'll go with the most requested.

I finished a new routine which monitors for GPU lockups (the kind common when pushing overclocking a bit too far)
All of my tests so far indicate that a full reboot is needed to recover from locked card conditions.  Currently, the routine will monitor for this  kind of hard lock condition,  and if found it will Log and error, shut down smartcoin and fire off an email.  I'm going to do some tests to see if its possible to revive a locked card, but until then this is about as elegant as I can come up with.

Any further suggestions on this?

Update r439(experimental) available!

- Miner monitoring internal restructure is finished
- Hash rates are abstracted, so that hashrates from different bases add up properly (in the case where some are reported back as MHash, and others as khash, etc)
- preliminary poclbm support!  Take note, however, that the Accepted and Rejected info will always read 0, as poclbm doesn't supply these!
- preliminary cgminer support!  Everything appears to work fine here, including accepted/rejected stats.



To test poclbm support:
-go to Configure Miners->Add and add the poclbm miner, use the following launch string (adjust parameters as necessary):

- Make a new profile that uses the new poclbm miner
- Change profiles to the new profile




To test cgminer support:
- got to Configure Miners->Add and add the cgminer. Use the following launch string (and adjust parameters as necessary)
Note: add -t 2 to also start 2 CPU mining threads with each instance if you also want to add CPU mining!  If done this way, you can create a dummy device, name it CPU, leave the device number blank and set its type to 'cpu', and this should start a CPU-only instance




If you have problems or errors, please restart smartcoin then try again. Report back failures or success please

plantucha -

I'm just testing the cgminer and poclbm support.
So far for me, cgminer has been the slowest of the bunch for me (about 1040 MHash/sec vs about 1150 MHash/sec in phoenix). Here is the launch string that I have been testing with:

Also, I don't get much more than 0.7MHash out of my GPU no matter what I do (though, it is an older P4)

Let me know if you have any suggestions!  I'll update this post once I can confirm that the cgminer support in smartcoin is complete