Ufasoft Miner - Windows/Linux, x86/x64, SSE2/OpenCL, Open Source - page 42.

mmortal03

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Quote from: Nythain on May 11, 2011, 07:28:49 AM

0Mhash/s problem with BTC Guild using

bitcoin-miner -g no -a 5 -o http://btcguild.com:8332 -u XXXX_XXXX -p XXXXXXXX

tried it with a trailing / tried changing the -a to various numbers from 4 to the default 15, still no luck. Any advice?

Is this a known issue? I can't connect over there, but I can connect to mining.bitcoin.cz just fine.

igorsol

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Dear ufasoft,

Thank you for great miner.
I would like to ask you for one more feature specific to windows version: please add possibility to run worker threads at idle priority (SetThreadPriority(THREAD_PRIORITY_IDLE)).
Current version works nice but if I try to use other applications when bitcoin-miner.exe is working then windows freezes for several seconds every minute. This is a big headache for me.
Please add command line switch to lower worker threads priority to idle or make this by default in windows version.

Thank you.

IlbiStarz

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Are there instructions for running the file, and with the -? commands?

Zenitur

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For all who have 0 MHash/s. Just wait and in can start.

fess

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Hello!
When I run this miner I have the error:
C:\BitCoin\Ufasoft\bitcoin-miner.exe -o http://deepbit.net:8332 -u [hide] -p [hide]
bitcoin-miner 0.10 Copyright (c) 2011 Ufasoft http://ufasoft.com/open/bitcoin
Mining for http://deepbit.net:8332
4 threads Using SSE2
0 MHash/s Error 80072EFF: ╤cЁю°xэю яюфъы■ўxэшx ъ ¤Єюьє ёxЁтxЁє.

0 MHash/s Error 80072EFF: ╤cЁю°xэю яюфъы■ўxэшx ъ ¤Єюьє ёxЁтxЁє.

What is wrong? I'm using Win7 x64, CPU - Core I7 920.

IlbiStarz

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Need help.

Im trying this miner on my laptop, what am I supposed to do before I run it? I just installed bitcoin, ran it with the -server. I ran the miner but the command prompt closes before I can read anything. Any help?

Thanks.

AngelusWebDesign

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I experimented with poclbm settings today --

python poclbm.py -d 0 -r 5 --user USERNAME --pass PASSWORD -w 64 -f 10 -o http://mining.bitcoin.cz -p 8332

I haven't messed with the "a" setting yet.

I'm now getting 7.8 to 8.0 MHash/s between one instance of poclbm (1 thread) and one instance of bitcoin-miner (running in 2 threads)

There's a bit of lag on my desktop now, so the GPU seems to be doing something.

How can I check what version of NVidia driver I'm using?

Also, how do I run poclbm on the GPU but not the CPU? Is that even possible?

Thanks,

Matthew

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Quote from: AngelusWebDesign on May 17, 2011, 11:59:46 PM

Now ufasoft's bitcoin-miner should be doing GPU as well as CPU mining since I have it set to "-g yes".

So you think that 5.5 MHash/s is CPU-only mining?

I compiled and tried poclbm (Python) today, but I only got 3.2 MHash/s when I launched it twice. It was clearly using 100% of both CPU cores. I suppose Mhash/s is something that can be compared across the different programs -- they don't have different ways of computing the speed, do they?

I wonder why ufasoft's miner isn't using my graphics card.

1. yes, 5.5 mhash/s seems right for your CPU. it's too low for that graphics card.

2. running poclbm on your CPU is decidedly non-optimal and will result in much slower hashing, as your numbers show. poclbm runs openCL code, which is intended for massively parallel processors (i.e. GPUs) and performs poorly on CPUs.

3. did you check if your drivers are up to date as i mentioned in my previous post? the latest version of the nvidia linux driver is 270.41.06 released april 20, 2011.

AngelusWebDesign

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Now ufasoft's bitcoin-miner should be doing GPU as well as CPU mining since I have it set to "-g yes".

So you think that 5.5 MHash/s is CPU-only mining?

I compiled and tried poclbm (Python) today, but I only got 3.2 MHash/s when I launched it twice. It was clearly using 100% of both CPU cores. I suppose Mhash/s is something that can be compared across the different programs -- they don't have different ways of computing the speed, do they?

I wonder why ufasoft's miner isn't using my graphics card.

compro01

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Quote from: AngelusWebDesign on May 17, 2011, 12:30:17 PM

Hi everyone -- just joined the Bitcoin universe. I'm a Linux guy; I just successfully built the source for Linux (took a few hours to get all the pieces in place!)

I don't think I'm getting any GPU work done. I have a nVidia GeForce 9500GT 1 GB card -- pretty fast for 3D actually (for me, I mean. Not by today's standards!), but I don't know if it's supported by most miners. Does anyone know which cards are supported?

I'm getting 5.4 - 5.5 MHash/s using 2 threads. The most I ever get is 5.61 MHash/s
I have a Core2Duo 2.4 GHz CPU.

My machine is actually pretty old -- 2 years! I'm going to get a new one in a month or two.

Nice to meet you all!

Matthew

any GPGPU-capable card will mine, and that means nvidia 8-series, ATI x1900 and later (except the 3-series ATI and i don't think some 4 series mobile ones do either), so your card will mine. make sure your drivers are up to date. i had issues with getting GPU mining to work on my old 8800GTS and a driver update fixed that up.

though your 9500GT will only get 6-7 Mhash/s. 5.4-5.5 also sounds about right for your CPU, as i get 6.7-6.9 out of my core2 duo 3.0ghz.

between those, that's about 0.07BTC/day of hashing, sans pool fees/stales/etc.

if you're planning on new hardware, you may want to step that up some. at current prices, my 6870 is about halfway to paying itself off in the past 11 days, but the conditions may get unfavorable towards new hardware buying if the difficulty keeps rising like it is unless prices start jumping again as well.

AngelusWebDesign

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Hi everyone -- just joined the Bitcoin universe. I'm a Linux guy; I just successfully built the source for Linux (took a few hours to get all the pieces in place!)

I don't think I'm getting any GPU work done. I have a nVidia GeForce 9500GT 1 GB card -- pretty fast for 3D actually (for me, I mean. Not by today's standards!), but I don't know if it's supported by most miners. Does anyone know which cards are supported?

I'm getting 5.4 - 5.5 MHash/s using 2 threads. The most I ever get is 5.61 MHash/s
I have a Core2Duo 2.4 GHz CPU.

My machine is actually pretty old -- 2 years! I'm going to get a new one in a month or two.

Nice to meet you all!

Matthew

Homeless

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Anyone with an nvidia card having a problem getting the GPU part to work? having -g yes or not having the flag at all doesn't seem to use GPU resources. CPU resources work just fine though

Soepkip

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I'm noticing with the GPU on that my rig's graphical performance starts to lag greatly.
Is there a way for me to set GPU to a lower percentage as such to improve my normal operations?

I suppose turning off GPU when using the rig and only using CPU will work, however an option to do both would be greatly appreciated.

slothbag

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I tried to compile the source for bitcoin-miner on windows with no luck. Tried MinGW, VS2011, and installing the Ufasoft LISP package with VS2011.

Thanks guys, i'll try see if guiminer works with output redirection.

shivansps

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you have the same idea, i also wondering how to export the hash rate to a file.

just do this

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bitcoin-miner.exe -v -a 5 -o wharever -u wharever -p -t -g no 1>all.log 2>&1

parsing it its hard, because of the unknown character at the begining of the mhash reading messing the things up, but i got a code up, it may fails to read the last value sometimes when the reading got cut, but when it fails it will just use the last known value.

im coding it for my project Tongue

aeMaeth

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Quote from: slothbag on May 14, 2011, 10:34:42 AM

Any chance of getting the hash rate output to the stdout instead of stderr so "guiminer" can display hash rates?

Thanks

does adding "1>&2" at the end of the command work for you? although i don't know guiminer, so just taking a shot in the dark

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Well test for the 0MHash/sec on ubuntu naughty and the recent source (today) and reply

I'll try the recent source, but if the solution is 11.04, i don't want to be right, i'll just end my trials here.

slothbag

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Any chance of getting the hash rate output to the stdout instead of stderr so "guiminer" can display hash rates?

Thanks

walidzohair

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Quote from: aeMaeth on May 13, 2011, 10:51:49 AM

Quote from: walidzohair on May 11, 2011, 06:18:51 AM

Quote from: ufasoft on May 10, 2011, 11:52:46 AM

Quote from: varepsilon on May 10, 2011, 07:28:14 AM

Funny

Yes, I did exactly what you did (except I'm using gcc-4.6), and ran into 0 MHash/sec as I sad

The bug fixed, please redownload sources.

confirmed .. working now on ubuntu natty (naughty) FINALLY and it is hashing too!

Iw ill confirm about teh performance gain later and if it actually hash out some milicoins

I still get 0MHash/sec and 0% cpu usage, what am i doing wrong?

Well test for the 0MHash/sec on ubuntu naughty and the recent source (today) and reply

aeMaeth

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Quote from: Silverfang on May 13, 2011, 04:24:56 PM

Quote from: aeMaeth on May 13, 2011, 10:51:49 AM

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I still get 0MHash/sec and 0% cpu usage, what am i doing wrong?

Had the same problem only to find out that I saved the miner's name wrong: Names are case sensitive. So check if you've spelled your data correctly when running bitcoin-miner.exe. (I'm new to bitcoin and mining, so this is my only idea about what could have went wrong. I still hope it helps...)

Silverfang

Thanks for the reply
I had mostly done what walidzohair did already, but repeated the steps just to be safe, at that point we both had the same/similar problem.
i'm using the latest version
not sure what more could go into this

Silverfang

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Quote from: aeMaeth on May 13, 2011, 10:51:49 AM

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I still get 0MHash/sec and 0% cpu usage, what am i doing wrong?

Had the same problem only to find out that I saved the miner's name wrong: Names are case sensitive. So check if you've spelled your data correctly when running bitcoin-miner.exe. (I'm new to bitcoin and mining, so this is my only idea about what could have went wrong. I still hope it helps...)

Silverfang

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