PPLNS or p2pool? Can you post your settings?
Pplns, I20, TC 24550, engine 1070, mem 1500. powertune +50, You're welcome
Topic: Vertcoin - First Scrypt N | First Stealth Address - Privacy without mixer - page 507. (Read 1232701 times)
February 05, 2014, 07:03:51 PM
Pplns, I20, TC 24550, engine 1070, mem 1500. powertune +50, You're welcome
February 05, 2014, 06:55:18 PM
Let me explain. Pool software has a whole set of cron jobs scheduled to run at a regular intervals of time. If even a small error occurs, pool automatically disables corresponding cron job. That's what has happened with vtc.poolz.net, at 6:31 AM EST the following message has arrived:
Error Code E0062
Error Message Block has no share_id, not running payouts
The problem was with the block number 29921. After that, blocks were being found but were invisible because of disabled cron job, responsible for accounting of newly found blocks. I woke up around 11 am, investigated the problem and fixed it. After that I enabled the cron job previously disabled by the pool sw. Blocks found during the time when the cron job was disabled got accounted and paid and now you can see that in fact from 6:30 to 12:11 we found 11 blocks.
Till the last time we had efficiency of 80-95% (means that we managed to find more blocks than we should in average). Last day our pool experienced multiple DDOS attacks (and other Vertcoin pools too). I spent lots of time and almost a whole night trying to mitigate these attacks (currently we have mod_evasive enabled only which helps to some extent), and our pool soon will be moved to a data center with AntiDDOS support. Because of the DDOS attacks our efficiency decreased a little bit, but I hope that we will catch up.
So in reply to the: "I think the big mining rigs have caught up and learned how to compile and tweak Vertminer", I can't say anything about other pools, but this one is not stealing your money for sure. 1% Pool fee gives me a bit more than my mining rig, but I'm spending more time to maintain it, compared to my mining rig. In the last 2 days I upgraded server powers twice - and now pool server's hardware allows to accommodate 5 times more miners than current amount.
Error Code E0062
Error Message Block has no share_id, not running payouts
The problem was with the block number 29921. After that, blocks were being found but were invisible because of disabled cron job, responsible for accounting of newly found blocks. I woke up around 11 am, investigated the problem and fixed it. After that I enabled the cron job previously disabled by the pool sw. Blocks found during the time when the cron job was disabled got accounted and paid and now you can see that in fact from 6:30 to 12:11 we found 11 blocks.
Till the last time we had efficiency of 80-95% (means that we managed to find more blocks than we should in average). Last day our pool experienced multiple DDOS attacks (and other Vertcoin pools too). I spent lots of time and almost a whole night trying to mitigate these attacks (currently we have mod_evasive enabled only which helps to some extent), and our pool soon will be moved to a data center with AntiDDOS support. Because of the DDOS attacks our efficiency decreased a little bit, but I hope that we will catch up.
So in reply to the: "I think the big mining rigs have caught up and learned how to compile and tweak Vertminer", I can't say anything about other pools, but this one is not stealing your money for sure. 1% Pool fee gives me a bit more than my mining rig, but I'm spending more time to maintain it, compared to my mining rig. In the last 2 days I upgraded server powers twice - and now pool server's hardware allows to accommodate 5 times more miners than current amount.
Guys, I'm on vtc.poolz.net. They have 10% of the mining power, but haven't found a block in a few hours. Next difficulty is estimated to be 189! Network hash rate is 5.2Ghash/s and climbing, which gives this coin a 10.4Ghash network in LTC Scrypt terms. I think the big mining rigs have caught up and learned how to compile and tweak Vertminer.
Have been with your pool for a while mate and your efforts are greatly appreciated. There have been a few hiccups along the way but most of us understand that this is a novel situation and no crypto-currency has been trouble free. I don't think anyone could name a VC pool that hasn't had issues over the last few days - I personally lost about 60 VTC as orphaned due to the whole wallet/gravity pool change - despite doing everything right. The current issues are more minor and I think it makes sense for everyone to make sure they have fallback pools - I personally use at least 2. Incidentally might help to have a forum to post info for the pool and somewhere to report issues when/if you get a chance. Am not a huge miner but am donating 2% in the hopes it will help to keep you going. All the best and keep up the good work,
Arif.
Thank you very much for your understanding of the situation and for the donation as well!
February 05, 2014, 06:53:23 PM
I've got Sapphire, never had any trouble with it tbh...
Do you know what bios? apparently its the latest (015.041) bios thats the problem.
Pff, no idea. The 290s were pretty much plug and play. The 7970s otoh took some extra work, had to flash Asus firmware onto it to get it from 550 to 740 (scrypt obviously).
BTW the 290's can indeed do 450+ overhere, but they tend to get instable (one of them will crap out after 3 or 4 days at 85C and I'll need to restart all of them to fix that). I found 400-420 to be the most stable over here. 7970s run at 370-ish here.
February 05, 2014, 06:51:21 PM
PPLNS or p2pool? Can you post your settings?
Pplns, I20, TC 24550, engine 1070, mem 1500. powertune +50, You're welcome
my powertune maxes out at 20, or at least i think so, how did you get 50?
February 05, 2014, 06:48:44 PM
PPLNS or p2pool? Can you post your settings?
Pplns, I20, TC 24550, engine 1070, mem 1500. powertune +50, You're welcome
February 05, 2014, 06:46:14 PM
February 05, 2014, 06:44:35 PM
Time to relax, eat dinner, and wait for the chinamen to bring the price back up.
February 05, 2014, 06:44:29 PM
I've got Sapphire, never had any trouble with it tbh...
Do you know what bios? apparently its the latest (015.041) bios thats the problem.
February 05, 2014, 06:44:20 PM
Maxvolts, the 290s do about 30 kH/s more than my 7970s (280x is basically a rebranded 7970). There's a 100 euro price difference where I live, so the 290s are not worth it IMO. (I had hoped I could squeeze more out of them...)
Im getting about 480 khash with 290s.. something wrong with your settings brah
February 05, 2014, 06:41:53 PM
Maxvolts, the 290s do about 30 kH/s more than my 7970s (280x is basically a rebranded 7970). There's a 100 euro price difference where I live, so the 290s are not worth it IMO. (I had hoped I could squeeze more out of them...)
Im getting about 480 khash with 290s.. something wrong with your settings brah
February 05, 2014, 06:41:23 PM
Was looking at 8gb system ram, so hopefully that will be enough? have heard people running 16 with the 290's?
12GB minimum for 270/290, 16GB is optimal. 4GB is all you need for 280X.
February 05, 2014, 06:40:45 PM
Was looking at 8gb system ram, so hopefully that will be enough? have heard people running 16 with the 290's?
February 05, 2014, 06:40:09 PM
I've got Sapphire, never had any trouble with it tbh...
February 05, 2014, 06:39:48 PM
Anyone have any ideas of how to make BAMT look at the vertminer.conf file instead of the cgminer.conf file when running vertminer?
February 05, 2014, 06:39:15 PM
The 280X requires less system RAM for it's optimal thread concurrency. I'm not sure if it's just my 290's, but they seem less stable than my 280X's. They're a lot louder too (reference design).
February 05, 2014, 06:37:00 PM
Maxvolts, the 290s do about 30 kH/s more than my 7970s (280x is basically a rebranded 7970). There's a 100 euro price difference where I live, so the 290s are not worth it IMO. (I had hoped I could squeeze more out of them...)
yeah those 290 are so fu** big!
February 05, 2014, 06:36:45 PM
Maxvolts, the 290s do about 30 kH/s more than my 7970s (280x is basically a rebranded 7970). There's a 100 euro price difference where I live, so the 290s are not worth it IMO. (I had hoped I could squeeze more out of them...)
Yeah, i think your right, the extra 30 wouldnt be worth the cost i guess, out of interest what manufacturer are you using? msi, sapphire etc? have heard the sapphire brand have had a lot of problems with the latest bios killing the hashrate when it reaches a certain temperature. So am thinking of going with msi.
February 05, 2014, 06:36:12 PM
New pool for mining Vertcoin
+Low statum diff
+Low fee for manual and autopayout
+now fee for launch pool
+Physical server
+Located in a datacenter in France ( Good for all EuropaRegion )
+For next block . I have increase reward 50 to 55 ( +10% VTC more )
+Low fee for manual and autopayout
+now fee for launch pool
+Physical server
+Located in a datacenter in France ( Good for all EuropaRegion )
+For next block . I have increase reward 50 to 55 ( +10% VTC more )
February 05, 2014, 06:35:38 PM
Yeah, diff went from 147 to 152 while I was watching the show on Cryptsy.
Miners are not giving up. Me neither btw.
Miners are not giving up. Me neither btw.
February 05, 2014, 06:34:58 PM
Coinedup has had some cheap prices. Someone just dumped 200 @ .00511
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