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Alan Lupton

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Quote from: padrino on July 02, 2011, 01:55:11 PM

I used separate workers because bitcoin.lc has issues with a single worked (username and password) handling all of my GPUs. This is actually the reason I decided to move from Diablo to smartcoin, I needed something to setup a separate worker per GPU and smartcoin is really slick.

Really? I just set up one worker for bitcoins.lc and it runs like a charm. Equally split with the first worker.

jondecker76

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glad to hear!

I'm out for the rest of the day - taking the family to "Yankee Lake" - a weekly truck mudding event. Should be fun

padrino

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Quote from: jondecker76 on July 02, 2011, 02:41:51 PM

On the control screen, go to option 4) Edit Settings
Double check the settings for:
AMD/ATI SDK installation location
Phoenix installation location

for example, my AMD/ATI SDK location looks like:
/home/jondecker76/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx32/lib/x86

and my phoenix installation location looks like:
/home/jondecker76/phoenix/

Make sure yours look correct

Also, if you could get me the exact error message that keeps flashing, that would be helpful!

Thanks, this prompted me to jump from SDK 2.1 to 2.4 just in case and it seems to have cleared everything up.. I can't say exactly what caused it at this point but it's good now.

jondecker76

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On the control screen, go to option 4) Edit Settings
Double check the settings for:
AMD/ATI SDK installation location
Phoenix installation location

for example, my AMD/ATI SDK location looks like:
/home/jondecker76/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx32/lib/x86

and my phoenix installation location looks like:
/home/jondecker76/phoenix/

Make sure yours look correct

Also, if you could get me the exact error message that keeps flashing, that would be helpful!

padrino

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Quote from: jondecker76 on July 02, 2011, 02:07:30 PM

Ok, the launch strung looks correct

What does your status screen show? Is it making all workers as down?

Yes, every few seconds it refreshes with some file not found errors, looks like it's trying to hit the screen sessions. I can manually run the miner with the same string copied and pasted without issues (tokens replaced with test values) but it doesn't want to run them with smartcoin, Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit.

Added a bit of logging to try and get a feel for what's happening, only first miner attempts to even launch, and it doesn't look to make it..

Code:

07/02/11 15:24:58 Starting main smartcoin screen session...

07/02/11 15:24:58 Creating tab for each machine...

07/02/11 15:24:58 localhost

07/02/11 15:24:58 Starting status monitor for machine 1

07/02/11 15:24:58 NEW PROFILE DETECTED!

07/02/11 15:24:58 Switching from profile: to profile: 2

07/02/11 15:24:58 Killing Miners....

07/02/11 15:25:00 Starting miner Miner.9!

07/02/11 15:25:00 Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 1 1 1

07/02/11 15:25:00 Miner Path: /home/braymond/mining/phoenix/

07/02/11 15:25:00 Launching miner with launch string: python /home/braymon
d/mining/phoenix/phoenix.py -v -u http://vUUHwB:[email protected]:8080/ -k phat
k device=0 worksize=256 vectors aggression=11 bfi_int fastloop=false

07/02/11 15:25:02 Starting miner Miner.10!

07/02/11 15:25:02 Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 2 1 2

07/02/11 15:25:02 Starting miner Miner.11!

07/02/11 15:25:02 Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 3 1 3

07/02/11 15:25:02 Starting miner Miner.12!

07/02/11 15:25:02 Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 4 1 4

07/02/11 15:25:02 Starting miner Miner.13!

07/02/11 15:25:02 Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 5 1 5

07/02/11 15:25:02 Starting miner Miner.14!

07/02/11 15:25:02 Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 6 1 6

07/02/11 15:25:02 Starting miner Miner.15!

07/02/11 15:25:02 Command: /home/braymond/smartcoin/smartcoin_launcher.sh
1 8 1 8

07/02/11 15:25:16 Exit option selected

07/02/11 15:25:16 Killing Miners....

sojolly

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Quote from: sojolly on July 02, 2011, 12:39:59 PM

Switching one of my machines to Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit .. will let you know in a couple of hours....

Ok .. loaded a machine and smartcoin is working.

A few questions.

How do i associate the workers with the GPU's?

for example i want:
deepbit 1A and btcguild 1A to be assigned to GPU0
deepbit 1B and btcguild 1B to be assigned to GPU1

My local GUI screen is very laggy while smartcoin is running. The ssh screen is very responsive.

Top doesn't show anything more than 2% CPU. Anyone else seen this?

Just wondering, will mostly be using ssh to monitor and control the machines.

Thanks for the great program. will be loading my other machines in the next couple of hours.

jondecker76

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Ok, the launch strung looks correct

What does your status screen show? Is it making all workers as down?

padrino

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Quote from: jondecker76 on July 02, 2011, 01:41:07 PM

Padrino- what revision or smartcoin are you on?
depending on revision, you should find a log in either ~/smartcoin.log or ~/smartcoin/smartcoin.log

Almost every time i've seen miners not launching correctly, I have found that the launch string in the database is incorrect.
Can you go to Configure Devices -> Edit -> Localhost -> Phoenix and tell me what is entered for the launch string? (also, make sure its listed as the default miner)

Also, I would still suggest deleting all of your duplicate worker entries, and using the auto profile - it will have the same effect as your manual profile, without having to have 8 workers set up!

The latest r290

python <#path#>phoenix.py -v -u http://<#user#>:<#pass#>@<#server#>:<#port#>/ -k phatk device=<#device#> worksize=256 vectors aggression=11 bfi_int fastloop=false

I used separate workers because bitcoin.lc has issues with a single worked (username and password) handling all of my GPUs. This is actually the reason I decided to move from Diablo to smartcoin, I needed something to setup a separate worker per GPU and smartcoin is really slick.

jondecker76

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Kennel - failover pools are one of the next features coming, but not implement yet. Until then, I would recommend mining to a couple of pools at the same time. If your very paticular on the issue, then you can also A) Create a new miner (Configure Miners->Add), and set it up identical to the default phoenix miner, but with a extremely low agression. Then create a manual profile that assigns an instance of your preferred pool per GPU using the stock phoenix miner entry, and an instance of your failover pool using the alternate phoenix miner you defined (the one with the low agression). This way, almost all of your hashes will go to your preferred pool, since it is using the phoenix instance with the higher agression.. If it fails, then the phoenix instance with the lower aggression will take over.

ETA to failovers is about 2 weeks

jondecker76

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Padrino- what revision or smartcoin are you on?
depending on revision, you should find a log in either ~/smartcoin.log or ~/smartcoin/smartcoin.log

Almost every time i've seen miners not launching correctly, I have found that the launch string in the database is incorrect.
Can you go to Configure Devices -> Edit -> Localhost -> Phoenix and tell me what is entered for the launch string? (also, make sure its listed as the default miner)

Also, I would still suggest deleting all of your duplicate worker entries, and using the auto profile - it will have the same effect as your manual profile, without having to have 8 workers set up!

Fletch

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Quote from: jondecker76 on July 02, 2011, 01:27:46 PM

Kennel:
This is correct behavior. The auto profile launches 1 instance of each worker that is set to allow auto profiling on each GPU. Really, what you want, it to only define unique workers. To properly assign workers to cards, use the profile system.

For example, lets say you have a worker, named "My Worker"
The auto profile would start an instance of phoenix on each GPU, against "My Worker"
If you want to create your own profile (instead of the auto profile), then you have full control over which workers receive their own instance on each specified GPU.

Thanks. That did the trick.

How do I set things up so that I can have a fallback pool if my primary pool is down? I only want to mine to the fallback pool if the primary pool is down.

padrino

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Quote from: jondecker76 on July 02, 2011, 01:27:46 PM

Kennel:
This is correct behavior. The auto profile launches 1 instance of each worker that is set to allow auto profiling on each GPU. Really, what you want, it to only define unique workers. To properly assign workers to cards, use the profile system.

For example, lets say you have a worker, named "My Worker"
The auto profile would start an instance of phoenix on each GPU, against "My Worker"
If you want to create your own profile (instead of the auto profile), then you have full control over which workers receive their own instance on each specified GPU.

Thanks, this was the same issue I had, moved to my own profile and it starts one worker per instance. Now I have an issue where it will not create or start the miners, file not found in /tmp/smartcoin..... How can I kick logging up to see what might be failing?

jondecker76

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Alan,

Can you send me a screenshot?

Gives me something to think about, marking a pool as down on unusually high rejection rates...

jondecker76

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padrino:
see my previous post, you have the exact same issue. You only need to identify unique workers to the database.

jondecker76

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Kennel:
This is correct behavior. The auto profile launches 1 instance of each worker that is set to allow auto profiling on each GPU. Really, what you want, it to only define unique workers. To properly assign workers to cards, use the profile system.

For example, lets say you have a worker, named "My Worker"
The auto profile would start an instance of phoenix on each GPU, against "My Worker"
If you want to create your own profile (instead of the auto profile), then you have full control over which workers receive their own instance on each specified GPU.

padrino

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I just grabbed smartcoin to give it a shot, love the post on the features. In any case I have 8 GPUs and I configured a worker for each, it appears it's trying to launch 64 miners

Fletch

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Thanks Alan. ctrl + a + 0/1 did the trick.

Question number two. I have two GPUs and have setup one worker for each GPU. However, Smartcoin appears to launch four phoenix instances instead of two. It launches one phoenix instance for each device and each worker. Any way around that?

Example:

Code:

smartcoin Management System r286 Sat Jul 2 19:57:50 CEST 2011
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host: localhost
GPU[0]: Temp: 75.50 load: 99%
GPU[1]: Temp: 74.50 load: 99%
CPU Load : 2.37%

Profile: Automatic
--------Bitcoins.lc--------
GPU[0]: [170.67 Mhash/sec] [1 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
GPU[1]: [164.99 Mhash/sec] [2 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
GPU[0]: [170.67 Mhash/sec] [0 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
GPU[1]: [187.75 Mhash/sec] [2 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [RPC (+LP)]
Total : [694.08 MHash/sec] [5 Accepted] [0 Rejected]

Grand Total: [694.08 Mhash/sec] [5 Accepted] [0 Rejected] [0% Rejected]

sojolly

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Switching one of my machines to Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit .. will let you know in a couple of hours....

Alan Lupton

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Hey, I noticed something. Bitcoinpool appears to be down atm, so I get just rejections. Currently I have 40 accepted (BTCGuild) and 53 rejected. The status tab says that 120% were rejected. That's an error with the calculation, 56% would be correct.

jondecker76

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Update available:
r290 - AutoDonate now displays minutes remaining on the status screen. Nothing important, just thought it would be nice for the user to have this feedback

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