I hear you on that front, need to crack a cold one myself. Maybe I'm just half asleep today...I found info on Ployminer's rhminer implementation easily enough, but not for PascalCoinMiner_4.0. Regardless I found the issue that was causing the miner to exit on launch - i.e. just change miner server private key to always use the same key.

*raises glass* Thanks for the nudge.

Is there a setup guide for PascalCoinMiner_4.0 anywhere? I don't see anything on Github or the Pascal site.

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Hi @tlaskows, Indeed CPU+GPU mining is a little bit slower on the cpu side because of the CUDA driver and some internal stuff that occurs in the miner (mainly gpu mining handling !)

As it was stated many times, GPU mining of RandomHash is slower by design. But it has some room for improvement that will come in the later weeks (if all goes well).

If I read correct, you have 400 GPU threads per 1080. I'm, sure you can raise that substantially. Look at the "Ideal CUDA thread count" on the rhminer main page : https://github.com/polyminer1/rhminer#ideal-cuda-threads-count

Still ~2000 H/s for a system like that is awesome in comparisons to typical systems (i5, i3...)

Cheers.
Polyminer1

This problem is almost everyone who used Microsoft products mate. So much garbage is stuffed from the first days that it is difficult to work with time. In this case, the Apple is all the better. But this is a privilege of a closed operating system rather.

Can you extract some block with this hashrate?

Using rhminer on i7 6700, I got about 600 h/s. That's about +200 more compared to bundled pascalcoinminer.

Hmm shitty german laptop just found a block haha !

Then rhminer said: "end of devmode"... "you an awesome person" !

I wonder what this means exactly.

Perhaps the 1% fee is only for 1 block or something ? and then it's disabled or it's because testnet... not sure...

Hmm I wonder how this fee is applied.

Doesn't seem implemented... see no transactions in operations explorer ? Hmmm...

Maybe that devmode is ment for stratum/mining pools ?

* little update note to consider *:

This time the shitty german laptop is running the rhminer cpu version.... with two threads... and it's hash rate is higher than pascalcoinminer.

However CPU utilization not that much 56% or so... I am kinda amazed that laptop hasn't shutdown yet...

Another explanation might be that the block explorer (if visible) in pascalcoin deadlocks and might make the laptop crash.

But for now I will assume the laptop only crashes/shutsdown if it gets to hot... I could try running more threads... to see if I can force it to overheat again... without showing the block explorer... just to make sure it's not some windows nt kernel dll deadlock that makes this laptop intel cpu crash... but for now I am pooped and almost time for bed so this will have to wait till tomorrow.

See you ! =D

root@the-beast:~/rhminer_Pascal# uname -a
Linux the-beast 4.18.0-kali2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.18.10-2kali1 (2018-10-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@the-beast:~/rhminer_Pascal# ./rhminer -list

  rhminer v0.9 beta for CPU and NVIDIA GPUs by polyminer1 (http://github.com/polyminer1)
  NVIDIA CUDA SDK 9.1

  Donations : Pascal account 529692-23
  Donations : Bitcoin address 19GfXGpRJfwcHPx2Nf8wHgMps8Eat1o4Jp

List of gpus and cpus:
GPU0 : GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GPU1 : GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
CPU  : Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.40GHz
root@the-beast:~/rhminer_Pascal# nvidia-smi
Mon Nov  5 23:49:28 2018      
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 390.87                 Driver Version: 390.87                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 108...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   39C    P8    14W / 250W |    324MiB / 11175MiB |      1%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  GeForce GTX 108...  Off  | 00000000:02:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%   31C    P8     8W / 250W |      2MiB / 11178MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                              

Run them all independently, so they all have seperate work. Maybe I'm wrong, if so please correct.

Polyminer released his open source RandomHash today. Get it and be ready for hard fork on Nov 15.

Sources : https://github.com/polyminer1/rhminer
Binaries : https://github.com/polyminer1/rhminer/tree/master/Release

Heya Folks,

Even my DreamPC from 2006 was cable of mining a few blocks/coins. Will keep hash rate secret for now lol.

The fastest core did it, core 2 (2.0 ghz and much slower memory probably then todays machines ).

It is possible to include spaces in the miner name by using -n "Miner name".

So encapsulate it with " " in batch file/prompt commands to do it right.

For the time being all miners stopped maybe later I will do some more testing =D thanks for testing guys ! =D

Bye for now,
  Skybuck.

Hey tlaskow... thx for the pictures... funny to see rig involved.... kinda noticed this on the testnet4... i7... 8 cores or something...

Here is a hint... my dual core AMD x2 3800+ can only do 1/20 th of your machine !   if both cores running.

I will however try and optimize the randomhash code here and there to see how much I can squeeze out of it

I think you wrong about the gpu/asic part though.

The GPU hash algorithm is still present in the pascalcoinminer... but it will become completely useless soon... I tried mining with it... but it gives wrong results for pascalcoin v4.

Mining must be done with the -C option on the testnet v4 as far as I can tell.

And since this code randomhash and such is as far as I know pascal only at the time being there is no real way of running this on a GPU... it would have to be converted to C first... or some "magic" pascal to "intermediate" and then to ptx/opencl/cuda or whatever... don't think such a compiler exists yet though I could be wrong

The sha256 part of randomhash might be executed on gpu... but randomhash uses many many many hashing algorithm... so this would give it a slight boost.... but the source code of the pascalcoinminer would first have to be adjusted a bit...

Here is a question for you:

Did you already try to optimize randomhash while running it on testnet v4 ? Did you change any code yet ?

Oh in regards to your rigs.... Yes they do look fine... their aircooling look fine.... I would still be a bit worried about my own rigs though... they may even have better airflow... but what kind of stress can memory chips truely take ? Hmmm... Well you have been running it a lot... so for now I would guess it's probably alright for now...

The laptop overheat... probably related to CPU just getting to hot... so maybe I got a little scare there.... I have never really hard of a system overheating because of too much RAM activity... so I may be way off... or perhaps this is something new... I am just not sure... and I don't have a real way to tell...

But perhaps in the future hardware will have temperature readings on RAM chips as well... that be nice

Building special machine is probably the way to go for cryptocoin mining.

But this is also why it may fail... the idea of "average joe" mining on his "main rig" is probably an illusion... most people will probably consider their computers to important to do this... especially if it's work related...

So these cryptocoin miners... do provide some service and are running servers... so the idea of "distributing" cryptocoins fairly... is slightly flawed... ofcourse anybody could buy a second computer and just run it on that... (most people probably won't do this though thinking it's a waste of money... so in that sense this distribution idea is flawed...)

* update *

There are still a few days before main net switches over... so this should give some days of more testing on TESTNET v4.

Later today I will leave the laptop on running at 1 core or so... with 1 miner... just to see if "my" laptop can still get some coins VERSUS your BEAST ! LOL.

Pls leave beast running as normal... just to see if """my""" laptop can get some coins "fairly" too

Since I am using internet connection sharing... might as well launch this f*cker now so I can keep an eye on it...

Shitty german laptop here it comes ! =D


*** UPDATE 2 ***:

HAHA !!!!

Success !!! =D LOL.

Shitty German Laptop was able to mine a block on TESTNET v4 !

See block number 146693 on TESTNET v4 safebox/blockchain ! =D

I am starting to like this new hashing method ! LOL =D

*** Update 3 ***:

I can mine on laptop with 1 miner, with two miners the laptop overheats and shuts down ! HAHA. At least that's what I think is happening. It's kinda weird though... it's not even getting that hot... perhaps there is some heat setting somewhere... This time I also "lifted up" the laptop a little bit... to let cold air flow under it... still overheated/shutdown hmm...

Will try my DreamPC next for the fun of it... hopefully it won't get damaged Don't think it will... bit risky but fun. It must update the blockchain first though... hmm..

Bye,
  Skybuck =D

watch -n .1 sensors

PASC is going back to CPU only mining?

Heya Folks,

Today is the first time I saw RandomHash in action, it was quite amuzing (why is secret for now). Unfortunately my main CPU is probably a bit too slow to compete with modern CPUs though with a bit of luck maybe some mining can be done, or maybe some parts of the randomhash can be executed on gpu though I am not yet sure if there will be CPU-mining pools I would guess so which might make mining with a single CPU useless anyway.

However that is not the main reason I am writing this.

The main reason is this:

I just tested the new miner on a very shitty german laptop which I got for free from somebody... I ran multiple miners on it... and after only a few minutes the laptop shut off... it probably got to warm.

This is a little bit alarming really ! Cause this laptop was able to game, but somehow it shuts off... I did kinda let the laptop fall while setting it down near a candy carnval shop not sure if that has anything to do with it and it also has driver/IRQ blue screen issues probably cause I stopped some services or maybe there is some other damage... not sure though...

Hover this shutdown seemed different... total black screen and simply power down.

What I am concerned about... even on my main system ! is this:

RandomHash alledgedly uses some "memory algorithm" which is supposedly hard to run on a GPU and it's memory chips, so now instead it will run on CPU/MAIN RAM right ?! (The gpu option of the pascalminer is not to be used... ?! instead cpu option !)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!! SO THE ISSUE/WARNING ALERT IS THIS: !!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RandomHash will make your memory chips RUN HOT !!!!

!!! Probably/maybe much hotter than normal !!!

And at least on my hardware there is no way to check the MEMORY TEMPERATURE OF MAIN RAM ?!?!?!?!?!?!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So as far as I am concerned this is a very bad and dangerous situation.

I can monitor CPU core temperatures fine with CPUID HWMonitor tool/software. I can monitor GPU cores with GPU-z and such.

But here is my point:

Monitoring the temperatures of memory chips is unheard of as far as I know ?!

My hardware is old though.

Can your hardware and software monitor your memory chip temperatures ?!?!??!?!?!??!???!?!!!!?!?!?!?

If so please backup any claims with screenshots as proof !!!!! )

Note:

I have been through the experience of having a RAM memory chip develop 1 single bit error probably due to heat, static discharge can also not completely be ruled out.

This was a very scary experience which lead to file to file copy corruption and zip corruption and cd/dvd burning corruption at the time... very scary.

I would definetly not like to go through something like that again.

So this is a big worry right now.

Nobody really knows what kind of HEAT and STRESS RandomHash will cause on main RAM memory chips.

Perhaps this very shitty german laptop is a very fortunate thing to happen... without it... this potential issue may have remained hidden for some time... until much later... when better ventilated systems might also start showing damage because of this. Now the issue was immediately detected by this shitty german hp laptop with intel hardware/cpu in it.

I have used my current main system for 12 years and I am pretty confident it can handle all kinds of memory stress/loads cause god knows I have stressed the shit out of it with all kinds of softwares lol and test programs.

However RandomHash might be something totally different/something totally new that may tax RAM chips like never before ?! So I am slightly worried about this.

It seems to only use 1 or 2 MB of RAM or so from these chips (according to pip/documents, not evaluated via monitoring tools yet), but this specific section will probably become pretty damn hot !

Now imagine running this for 24 hours non-stop ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

You may be risking damage to your RAM chip ! So consider yourself warned.

I hope to god that I am wrong... cause it would be cool if I was wrong... but this laptop shutting down might be a sign of things to come...

For your information: This laptop was used to run a pretty hot game: "Master of Orion"...

Hopefully the shutdown is not related to heat... but I am pretty damn sure it was... because the FANS started spinning up like crazy.

First miner: it was like ok... little bit of fan spin.

Second miner: wow... much more fan spin...

Third miner: fans going super load/max for a laptop...  few seconds later... BAM laptop shuts down...

This was an i3 core laptop 2 real cores 2 logical cores.... so this thing has hyper threading...  maybe it was a hyper threading bug but I don't think so... maybe the laptop has special overheat protection software or maybe it's just the CPU inside forcing the shutdown... or perhaps some motherboard sensors near memory chips shutting this thing down. Pretty sure it's heat related though. (So I don't know exactly what happened cause I don't know this fucking laptop that well lol... but it was pretty damn scary ! it rarely or almost never did this during master of orion... not that I can clearly remember... maybe one time or so... maybe two times... but then I shutdown many services... currently it has some services which may not be necessary but nothing to bad... before running the software the system was pretty idle... so I don't think these services are contributing to much to heat... though I could try and shut some down... I don't think it will matter measure... and the overheat/shutdown result will probably be the same. Perhaps because this enclosure is so small... the heat from the memory chips reaches cpu sensors... ofcourse I could be completely off the mark... and perhaps it's the CPU itself that is totally overheating... that could be and would be very funny as well... then intel's/hp products truely crap then again one might consider this some abnormal heat/load detection by advanced software and shutting it down out of precaution... though it more seems like some shitty overheat situation which is simply bad product design... your mileage may vary... very interested in hearing about any other systems shutting down because of overheat ! )

Here is my question for you:

"How the fuck are you going to measure your RAM chips temperatures ?!" Would love it if somebody could actually do this ? =D

Bye for now,
  Skybuck.

Hey all, what is Poloniex doing for the fork?  That is where my coins are now.