[XPM] BFGMiner Prime Branch - page 4.

96redformula

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So, I got BFG miner built successfully.

I am on windows 8 BTW. Any help as to get bfg miner up and running.

I tried to setup primecoin.conf file with

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rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcallowip=*
daemon=1
server=1

Running Primecoin using

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primecoin-qt -server

Then I tried running bfgminer with the switches in cmd prompt, but it will not run with the switches.

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bfgminer -o http://localhost:8332 -u username -p password --expiry 1 --scantime 3

Running bfgminer by itself it will ask for pool address (http://localhost:8332), username and password, but it will not start up, Pool setup failed.

Any help or ideas?

shinkicker

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Great news, but surey we need SK to first expose the Getblocktemplate API?

paulthetafy

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Any update on the staged work underrun issue? I get it continually, even with a queue of 512-1024 (haven't tested higher). No found blocks yet on live network

Wolf0

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It was only the wind.

Quote from: paulthetafy on July 13, 2013, 12:32:47 AM

Can --coinbase-addr be any address you own (like in a main wallet) or does it have to be from the local primecoind accounts?

It can be any address. You don't have to own it either. Feel free to use AWoLFSojTZoPwqbCwwNqryQdmedD14NGYy

paulthetafy

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Can --coinbase-addr be any address you own (like in a main wallet) or does it have to be from the local primecoind accounts?

torbank

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By my estimates, both of my miners are working on the current block only about 10% of the time.

Why the delay before bfgminer catches up to primecoind?

torbank

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Anyone know why bfgminer is almost always working on blocks that are older than the local primecoind block?

tinnvec

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Quote from: swordfish6975 on July 13, 2013, 12:10:47 AM

Quote from: gateway on July 13, 2013, 12:08:30 AM

Quote from: tinnvec on July 13, 2013, 12:05:41 AM

Perhaps something has changed, but I just cloned the repo and can't find "src/libblkmaker/base58.c"

There is a libblkmaker folder, but it contains nothing

git clone -b prime

?

I thought the same thing but it appears in there after running ./autogen.sh

Thanks! I'm pretty used to using git so I wasn't sure how I'd messed that up. Makes perfect sense now

swordfish6975

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Quote from: gateway on July 13, 2013, 12:08:30 AM

Quote from: tinnvec on July 13, 2013, 12:05:41 AM

Perhaps something has changed, but I just cloned the repo and can't find "src/libblkmaker/base58.c"

There is a libblkmaker folder, but it contains nothing

git clone -b prime

?

I thought the same thing but it appears in there after running ./autogen.sh

gateway

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Quote from: tinnvec on July 13, 2013, 12:05:41 AM

Perhaps something has changed, but I just cloned the repo and can't find "src/libblkmaker/base58.c"

There is a libblkmaker folder, but it contains nothing

git clone -b prime

?

tinnvec

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Perhaps something has changed, but I just cloned the repo and can't find "src/libblkmaker/base58.c"

There is a libblkmaker folder, but it contains nothing

Joe_Bauers

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GCVMMWH

Pretty sweet so far. I'm getting about 400 pps per core on shit old HW. No blocks yet though... Undecided

Thanks to Luke and others for their work Cool

swordfish6975

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i compiled it for winblows with that change but no love....

just crashes with "bfgminer.exe has stopped working"

log -> http://pastebin.com/8X17SkFD

edit: win8 x64 amd fx-6100 (6 core)

K1773R

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/dev/null

more info for sunny, invalidates the GBT things somewhat:

Code:

K1773R: Gateway69: GBT needs *zero* modification on primecoind

although he *could* send a coinbase with it, then --coinbase-addr wouldn't be required

(but that's not as simple as it seems)

if --scan-time and --expiry don't work for solo mining, I'd appreciate if someone could fix it

since that would affect Bitcoin too, I'd need to get it into main bfgminer asap
Luke-Jr: ACK

lishbtc

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thank you sir, will try that

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Quote from: K1773R on July 12, 2013, 09:09:31 PM

we got currently 2 main problems:
worksize is too small, atm my i7-2700K requests 23k work/s, setting a queue of 512 helps a little but thats it...
GBT bugged (dunno if primecoind or bfgminer), it dosnt know when a new block is found on the network, so it will calculate for exactly 120 seconds and then the 120 seconds --expiry kick in and bfgminer knows about the new blocks therefore missing 15-25 blocks. setting --expiry to 1-5 works tough.

current stage:

I'm experiencing the same problems. There are constant staged work underruns, and new network blocks don't show up in bfgminer until they expire.

kendog77

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You have to enable CPU mining in the configure step.

lishbtc

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Compiled but getting ./bfgminer: -a: unrecognized option - is -a prime the correct syntax as per the OP?

K1773R

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/dev/null

we got currently 2 main problems:
worksize is too small, atm my i7-2700K requests 23k work/s, setting a queue of 512 helps a little but thats it...
GBT bugged (dunno if primecoind or bfgminer), it dosnt know when a new block is found on the network, so it will calculate for exactly 120 seconds and then the 120 seconds --expiry kick in and bfgminer knows about the new blocks therefore missing 15-25 blocks. setting --expiry to 1-5 works tough.

current stage:

gateway

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Quote from: Sunny King on July 12, 2013, 08:15:06 PM

Good job! I will look into API support tomorrow.

That would be great.

Btw I just relaying the info from most of the people who worked on it Tongue

no credit here outside of sharing

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