#31 Re: Using ASICS miners etc on Bitcoin
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 10:13 pm
Easiest way is to run the ASICs on a separate computer like I do.
Not the answer you want so here goes. The boinc scheduler is a piece of $hit concocted into Boinc by DA to help further the cause of credit new, where all projects pay the same crap credits to keep the Seti acolytes happy. Basically what he did was change it from how it used to work which was as you would think as a human makes sense and follow what you put in for project shares in your account page or far easier in Bamstats. What he changed was to base scheduler requests on RAC, so all projects scheduling is based on the principle that they all issue roughly the same credit. You have now ran into it's ridiculous consequences. The scheduler now see's the RAC on bitcoin and believes that every other project you are running needs time to balance the ' amount of work ' put into bitcoin. It will now completely ignore your wishes.
You will now have to set bitcoin to a ridiculously high resource share level compared to other projects to get the scheduler to request work. Also if you are running the recommended version of boinc I would update to a later test version as they have been working on the scheduler. I am running 7.4.8.
You can also force it to download manually but that involves babysitting the computer at least every day.
There is a third way which we might have to employ if this doesn't work where you have to edit the projects scheduler priority in one of the .xml files but I will have to do a search for it as I can't remember which one you need to edit to basically reset the scheduler priority on bitcoin.
Not the answer you want so here goes. The boinc scheduler is a piece of $hit concocted into Boinc by DA to help further the cause of credit new, where all projects pay the same crap credits to keep the Seti acolytes happy. Basically what he did was change it from how it used to work which was as you would think as a human makes sense and follow what you put in for project shares in your account page or far easier in Bamstats. What he changed was to base scheduler requests on RAC, so all projects scheduling is based on the principle that they all issue roughly the same credit. You have now ran into it's ridiculous consequences. The scheduler now see's the RAC on bitcoin and believes that every other project you are running needs time to balance the ' amount of work ' put into bitcoin. It will now completely ignore your wishes.
You will now have to set bitcoin to a ridiculously high resource share level compared to other projects to get the scheduler to request work. Also if you are running the recommended version of boinc I would update to a later test version as they have been working on the scheduler. I am running 7.4.8.
You can also force it to download manually but that involves babysitting the computer at least every day.
There is a third way which we might have to employ if this doesn't work where you have to edit the projects scheduler priority in one of the .xml files but I will have to do a search for it as I can't remember which one you need to edit to basically reset the scheduler priority on bitcoin.