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61  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v11.7 (Windows/Linux) on: May 01, 2018, 01:48:17 PM
Good morning.  I'm new at this so please bear with me.  I'm running two 1050's, Defender disabled, virtual mem set to 16384, getting a

socket was closed remotely (by pool)
ETH; Job timeout, disconnect, retry in 20 sec....

Batch file

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool us1.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal 0xMyEtherWalletAddress.backroom -esm 2 -epsw x -dpool stratum+tcp://dcr.suprnova.cc:3252 -dwal Redhex.my -dpsw x -nofee 0 -mode 1

#-eworker 0xMyEtherWalletAddress.backroom

Lastly, what adjustments do I need to make to get paid as quickly as possible?

Thank you in advance and sorry if you already face palmed after reading this.

Hi there,
First off, there should be no line/break, CR, after last variable, and your exe string.

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool us1.ethermine.org:4444 -ewal 0xMyEtherWalletAddress.backroom -esm 2 -epsw x -dpool stratum+tcp://dcr.suprnova.cc:3252 -dwal Redhex.my -dpsw x -nofee 0 -mode 1


Question: How is this computer connecting to the internet?
If you are using wifi, DON'T, connect via CAT6, ideally direct into the router/modem link to internet.

There are multiple postings with this issue, I also encountered it in my early days mining, where I was feeling my way in, working off my desk, in isolation, and wifi was convenient.

Also, try ETH only mining, (-mode 1), if you're PSUs are weak, not only will cards fail to init, but you can pull down other things, (like wifi).
I also had some funky system crashes, eventually traced that to openrig concept, zero shielding from microwaves, and the wifi as kicking it offline. This was very repeatable, if I placed myself between the rig and the antenna, it was ok, I'd get up from my desk, and 1~2 times every other day, it would crash.

Since I switched to cable connection, I've not had a single socket time out error.

How often are you seeing that?

If it's occasional, (1~2 times a day), that could be normal, depends on the quality of your internet connection.

You could also try this in the console

tracert us1.ethermine.org

Less is better, I just tried that from the UK, it's rubbish, I've hit 30 hops, and it's timing out on many.
You could also try

ping /t us1.ethermine.org

Keep that console open, and next time you see the socket closed, check you still have a connection, (not timing out).

There are basically 2 possibilities here, the socket is closed your end, (as us1.ethermine.org became unreachable), or ethermine closed it their end, (unlikely) but possible if under attack for example.


Saving the best to last,
Lastly, what adjustments do I need to make to get paid as quickly as possible?

I can certainly help you here, it's simple, mine faster :-)



62  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v11.7 (Windows/Linux) on: May 01, 2018, 01:06:55 PM
Hi,
after switching to 11.7 I get following after mining approximately half an hour:

Miner cannot initialize for 5 minutes, need to restart miner!

����������������������������������������������������������������ͻ
�                Claymore's Dual GPU Miner - v11.7               �
�              ETH + DCR/SIA/LBC/PASC/BLAKE2S/KECCAK             �
����������������������������������������������������������������ͼ

ETH: 1 pool is specified
Main Ethereum pool is eth-eu1.nanopool.org:9999
At least 16 GB of Virtual Memory is required for multi-GPU systems
Make sure you defined GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
Be careful with overclocking, use default clocks for first tests
Press "s" for current statistics, "0".."9" to turn on/off cards, "r" to reload pools, "e" or "d" to select current pool, "x" to select GPU, "z" to find best -dcri values
OpenCL initializing...

AMD ADL library not found.


Any help would be highly appreciated.
Alex

same issue with 11.7 under ubuntu 16.04

Try adding:
#GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
export GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=100
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
export GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT=100

Even with this environment variables miner stops after approximately 20 h with the same message. I also have Ubuntu 16.04

What do the logs show? (Immediately before this event?)
How many GPU are you mining with?

I've had a few instances (win10) where something locked up, sometime with a BSOD, sometimes total system freeze, hard-reset required, and on next init, AMD drivers are "missing", (openCL) in my case.

(This is also mentioned in the readme)

I've also had a few cases, (after flashing BIOS), where cards were not stable, or rather not performing as well as I expected, and a FULL shutdown, bleed-down solved that.
Shutdown OS, wait until it's off, pull the power input cables from the PSUs, (leave the PSUs ON), then press the power on button, hold it in for 20sec.
Big PSUs will have a lot of power held in caps, this will keep circuits alive for some minutes after power cables are removed.
Holding the power button down, will try to enable power, and the hardware will rapidly bleed down all residual power, (if you have some BIOs LEDs on the mb, keep holding the power button depressed, until those are all out, wait 10 more sec, release).
Power OFF PSUs, attach power cables, switch on, and press the power button.

The above is good general advice prior to digging into instability issues, (make sure you have a clean start etc).

In my case, (openCL missing) After a lot of debugging, I think the cause was hardware related. One of the challenges as you add more GPUs, risers, cables, pcie cards etc, you're adding a lot of connections, only one needs to be suboptimal, and you're in trouble, and have a lot of things to check.

If you hit the wall, I'd suggest break it down, divide and conquer. Assuming you have 4 GPU, remove half of them, (power cable to riser, "usb" cable, power to GPU).

Run with that, if you don't have an issue about 1 hour, (3 times the previous event period (you mentioned 20min), then add 1 more GPU, etc.
If you still see the issue with only 2 GPU, remove all but 1, and try again.

It's also very easy with rigid "USB" cables to slightly tip, dislodge the PCIe card in the slot. *TIP* Get some nylon stand-offs, and string your PCIe cards together, I use these, and since doing this, my rigs have stabilised a LOT!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Malayas-Stand-off-Assortment-Electronics-Computers/dp/B01M9AY5Z6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1525179057&sr=8-2&keywords=nylon+standoffs

The above kit, has various lengths, so you can assemble the spacing to match the socket pitch on your motherboard. They are nylon, so soft, won't damage the tracks, or expand with heat, stress the boards etc.
Sure, it's not so easy to swap out a bad board, when it's chained up, but at least 2 boards I thought were bad, have been running fine for weeks, (now they are secure in the sockets).
Visually inspect them when using for the first time.

I should add, all the above assumes you are actually mining ok for the first 20min, that being so, probably your config is ok, and you're looking at a hardware related issue, (or have some other application starting around the 20min mark).

Good luck./





63  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v11.7 (Windows/Linux) on: May 01, 2018, 12:15:02 PM
Hello, I cannot open the file .bat and do not either manage to execute him I am under windows10 64 bits

thanks

To help find out what your problem is let us know what graphic card(s) you are using and post your .bat file here so we can see what's wrong with it.

Here is an example .bat file configuration for use with miningpoolhub.com.

Code:
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

EthDcrMiner64.exe -epool us-east.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20535 -ewal ThumperDumbo.test001 -eworker ThumperDumbo.test001 -esm 2 -epsw x -nofee 1 -mode 1


For my config it is complicated 6XRX580 but the problem is that I do not arrive modified and execute the .bat file and I am under Windows 10

Thank you


Like Call_Me_Bambi said, POST your Batch file here! Or a screen shot of the actual error!

One thing to check though, after all these years Microsoft is STILL delivering windows explorer configured in VIRUS friendly mode.
By that I mean, it will hide extensions by default. It's therefore very common for users to THINK or ignore the fact they are not seeing the real file extension.

If your batch file started out as text file, and you renamed it, (with default set, windows explorer hiding extensions), then you will have a file that actually looks like this

startme.batch.txt    Essentially it's NOT a batch file, it's still just a text file.

Best advice for everyone, unhide extensions, ALWAYS, it's the first thing you should do after installing windows.

Otherwise, Iamnotavirus.txt.bat will appear as Iamnotavirus.txt

Anyway, general advice when asking for help, (A LOT OF POSTERS HERE NEED TO READ THIS!)
It's always good advice when asking for help, to be specific.!!

"I got an error" is a useless statement, as is "I'm using the latest drivers, or the new version..." (New to WHO? what version?")
While you might not understand what is wrong, if you're not specific, no one else will understand you either!

Worse still, the help you might get won't apply to your issue. Wastes your time, and those trying to help you.

OK, back to this batchfile issue.
Pictures, (screenshots) are a good method to illustrate your issues.

One other thing you could try, open a command window, (to the location (directory) of your batch file), and execute it from there. That way, the console will print out some clues for you. (Post a screenshot of that printout).

Equally, assuming you didn't set path as a system variable, make sure your batchfile, (is really a batch file), but is also residing in the same directory as EthDcrMiner64.exe.

Good luck./
64  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v11.7 (Windows/Linux) on: April 28, 2018, 07:47:00 AM
Feature Request.

Greetings Mr Claymore and fellow miners.

Apologies if there is an existing thread for Claymore miner feature requests, I did search for that, and while I found multiple postings, there wasn't an obvious (to me), category for those.

So, without further ado, having used Claymore's miner for about 6 months, I have a list of refinements for consideration.

Background:
One the biggest PITAs is the way windows enumerates GPUs. AMD drivers seem to confuse things further, and when one looks at the numbering, the numbers used by Claymore, Radeon settings, GPU-z, Trixx etc, and device manager seem to differ. To make matters worse, every time I add a GPU, the numbering changes. The Radeon settings are bad joke, if you have more than 10 GPUs, and just checking if all are set to compute mode, and or setting them, can take well over an hour.
Some changes (graphic/compute) fail, and multiple reboots and attempts can be required.
With all the moaning and bitching about GPU shortages, gamers vs miners etc, regardless of what camp you sit in, for a supplier, miners are their dream come true. New market, multiple purchases, shortage generated, supply and demand rules, price hikes, or excuses for them, I'd say ALL consumers are loosing from that, but really, AMD, WTH, miners are your dream customer, purchasing 10s of cards vs gamers 1, so limiting drivers to 13 cards, and with a crappy interface that can literally take 3 hours to set up a 13 GPU rig, you should be utterly ashamed of yourselves!

Cudos to Mr Claymore, I see far more development with useful features, prompt action when bugs are encountered, and SOLUTIONS to issues.
(I've been playing with the -y 1 switch, but as it needs to be run as admin, that adds other concerns, but all the same, it's nice to see SOMEONE doing something about a moronic situation with AMD drivers).

One of the challenges maintaining a multiple GPU rig is identifying and locating sources of problems. This very same challenge is a daily event in every data/storage centre, and one solution that evolved was an ident-LED, so by management interface, it's possible to alarm trip, or manually illuminate those, which clearly marks the physical hardware on the rack.

So.....requests.

I'm using the -altnum 3 switch, which has at least remove the GPU-0 tag, which no other applications use, and seems to have aligned numbering with GPU-z, however, not so in the EthMan application, which is locked to the default numbering.

1.0 Would it be possible to have numbering control in ethman, (or have it clone the setting used in the miner config?)

1.1 Would it be possible to add a control in EthMan, to set FAN speed to maximum. It would be nice to have Ethman change LED colour on GPUs, but I'd imagine that would be a nightmare for programming as no 2 vendors or even models of card could be relied on to behave the same way. So, forgoing that, setting fan to MAX would serve as a useful manual indicator to identify problem GPU in the rack.
(I set the Sapphire cards, nitro LED to change by fan speed, so setting fan to max, would also make LEDs on those cards change to a specific colour, as well as hearing/seeing fans trucking.)

2.0 Console tweak. Option to suppress the purple temp/fan info. (Please keep that in the logs).
(I'm monitoring that in EthMan)

Side note about logs, THANK YOU for sorting out a configurable path for those, having them bundled in with the app was a pita when cleaning up/updating etc.

2.1 Console Tweak. Option to aggregate the "New job from..." i.e time stamp (see below), "n New jobs from...in last n seconds"

2.2 Console tweak. Option to add time stamps for each line.  

Maybe I should explain, or rather ask for some clarification as to what I'm currently seeing in the console. I see a lot of new jobs, and indeed shares are found, but there is no means to match those up. Which jobs are completed? How many outstanding jobs, (buffer/queue size).
I get the feeling a lot more jobs are received than solved/shares received.
Perhaps that is normal?

2.3 What would be cool is to have the means to stop/pause new jobs, and monitor the processing, completion of queued jobs, and have some means to tune that.
Or at least monitor it.

Being able to log, see something like.
20180428082631 Job 12345 received, 14th in queue, ......
20180428082701 Job 12345 finished, share accepted 16ms.......
20180428082959 Job 12345 finished, share (confirmed/rejected/stale/incorrect)

On that subject, I NEVER see any rejected shares in the console.
(BTW I am using -estale 1)
But what is odd is, some percentage 1~2% are stale according to the pool stats, but Claymore does not indicate that.

So, maybe I'm misunderstanding the purpose of "rejected" in the console, but at least for me it seems to serve no purpose, while incorrect shares, and stale shares don't seem to be indicated in the console.

2.4 Being able to follow the full path, received, processed, submitted, accepted, confirmed etc would be really helpful with debugging performance issues.

3.0 Configs for multiple pools.
Background, sometimes I'm switching coins, and pools. the epools.txt and dpools.txt are nice, but it's not clear what pools are in those.
Being able to define in the BAT file, WHICH pool file to use would be nice.

e.g. ETHpools.txt and ETCpools.txt, and "select" that in the start batch file would make that clearer, and mean I can leave static configs deployed, rather than having to edit/swap pool files each time, and run the risk I mess that up.


Update May 1st 2018. My bad, I spent some time to more thoroughly review the 11.7 readme, and spotted the solution to my 3.0 request above. Specifically Claymore 11.7 (and 11.6) now allows you to specify the file name of your pools file, (in your startup batch file).
Very cool, I've tested it in 11.7, and confirmed it works. e.g.

-epoolsfile epoolsEthermineETH.txt

What I would suggest though, is sectioning and versioning the readme file.
It seems this feature was already released with 11.6, mentioned in brief in the History.txt, but was missing the scope/scale/use case/example entry in the readme.


Well, that's about it for now.
Cheers.















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