Newbie Question: Am I mining?

kopiikat

Hello, I'm a newbie with a very basic question: Am I mining?

I received my BFL 5Gh/s Jalapeno today, and I believe I've had some success with mining, as I'm currently hashing at 7.62 Gh/s, shares are being accepted, my wallet address (14SGNGuNd327Y1xkgbDnZ8KAUE5EKMnQs8) shows up on the pool graph, and my Jalapeno has gotten quite warm!  I'm running the FPGA/ASIC miner.

However, my graph stats are currently:

Total -Mean: 169MH/s Area: 14.6TH

Dead -Mean: 36.7MH/s Area: 3.17TH

If I'm supposedly mining at 7.62 Gh/s, why are those numbers so much lower? Is there something wrong, or is that normal? Are approximately 16 accepted shares and a handful of rejected shares normal over the span of an hour or two?

I'm also receiving a great deal of errors. Or, at least it looks that way. I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to be seeing. API Output is blank and reading "Socket connect failed: Connection refused." It managed to connect a single time, and showed some stats, but they never updated as I mined, and nothing else has shown since. What am I doing wrong?

Also, my output is full of phrases like "failed," "no response," "not found," "refused," and a great number of 0's. When I start up mining, it looks like this: http://pastebin.com/8yDWHJ1B I'm particularly curious about:

1.  [2013-12-21 03:23:34] ModMiner detect: no response to version request from /dev/cu.usbserial-00002026

I believe that device is my miner. Does "no response" mean that something is not working, or is that how it always looks when first detecting hardware?

Here's a clip of how output looks once it gets going: http://pastebin.com/VG0r5HTS I seem to be having a great deal of trouble connecting to the pool. Is that typical?

I've been looking for answers around different forums, but I'm not familiar with a lot of mining terminology yet, so I haven't had much luck searching. So... am I mining?

Thanks!

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Output update: http://pastebin.com/9tNT4wJj

FabulousPanda

Hey, 

The graph stats show a day by default and you haven't been mining that long which is why the average is so low, the hourly graph is better:

http://pool.fabulouspanda.co.uk:9332/static/graphs.html?Hour

You are mining normally! The API Output error is curious, can you please paste

/Applications/MacMiner.app/Contents/Resources/apiaccess

in the Terminal and let me know if it says Connection refused? If not it's a MacMiner bug, if so maybe a firewall problem.

The ModMiner bug is just that it looks for that first and it's basically identifying it as BFL hardware - it's not a problem, I think it would go away if you use

-S bfl:all

instead of 

-S all

in miner settings - but I'm speculating

pool.hostv.pl:9332 is down at the moment though usually quite reliable but it's just one of 3 p2pool nodes so not a problem

I hope that clears things up a bit for you!

kopiikat

Thank you! That was extremely helpful. I thought everything was working okay, but I guess the amount of negative words in the output threw me off.

Here's what I get when I paste into Terminal: http://pastebin.com/0g5VD0E2

And, API Output is suddenly working! Although, interestingly, it's not showing the same numbers as Terminal: http://i.imgur.com/bKh2kaq.png

FabulousPanda

Weird, is the API Output data refreshing every few seconds? There are a couple of instances in which the window doesn't handle unexpected data properly - it's still quite new - but it shouldn't be that buggy! 

The output does look a little unnerving - maybe I should make some of it a bit clearer!

kopiikat

It actually doesn't seem to be refreshing at all. I assume it should be?

FabulousPanda

Ah. yeah sorry about that, It :: should :: start working again if you quit and reopen MacMiner - this is going to be one of the primary focuses of the next few updates.. Please do let me know of any other bugs if you run in to them!

kopiikat

Thanks so much for all of your help. I've run everything overnight now, and I seem to be mining fine. I'll definitely let you know if anything else starts working strangely.

Thanks again!