do you not know how to use notepad?

and have you read the readme?

 

what is the output from the "--list-devices" command or have you not tried this yet?

v0.31 and others before it work great and stable for me, however I am running Ubuntu Linux and I would guess you are using Windows.

The code is developed and compiled on Linux so it will always perform better on that operating system, so if stability is so important to you I suggest you upgrade your OS

are you overclocking?  the 1070 I received today to try out does the same when I push the graphics clock up to +200

otherwise with graphics +150 and memory +2000 I am getting about 19KSol/s with the 1070 at maximum power (drawing 145W @ 40C currently but in a very cold garage with fan 75%)

I am running the same card and also found that --optim OFF was better, but with overclocking mine can churn through about 13000Sol/s but using almost 115W power (on Linux).

Is yours running with any overclocking and is it Windows or Linux?

Awesome work once again Mr Lollie!

However, with my little setup I have found that with my Nvidia GTX 1060 v0.31 with "--optim=OFF" works better/faster than v0.3 and v0.22
(I think since writing this you have made another fix, I will re-test)

For this card (slightly overclocked) the average speeds for each version are:
v0.22 - 11200 sol/s
v0.3 -  11300 sol/s
v0.31 - 12500 sol/s

And now with v0.31 if I try to run it against my Intel CPU I see one core get very busy but not much else (in benchmark mode):

 ./lolMiner-mnx_v031 --platform 1 --device 1 --optim OFF --use-alt-mine-thread
-------------------------------------------------
          Welcome to lolMiner-mnx v0.31

   This software is only meant for pool mining
    with the Equihash 96/5 algorithm (MARS)

For usage instructions add -h to the commandline.
   For support visit our bitcointalk thread.

          Made by Lolliedieb, March 2018
-------------------------------------------------
Using expert parameter "--use-alt-mine-thread". Be aware on possible consequences on CPU load and miner stability.
Multi GPU support will be deactivated.
No Argument given - Switching to Benchmark mode
Using device with id 1 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz)
Selected work-batch for device 1: 42
^C



Also, the stdout from lolMiner (all versions) when piped into a file is regarded by my Linux host to be a data file, because I think of a control-@ null character...?

$ ./lolMiner-mnx_v031 --platform 0 --device 0 --optim OFF  > test.log 2>&1

$ file test.log
test.log: data

$ cat test.log
-------------------------------------------------
          Welcome to lolMiner-mnx v0.31

   This software is only meant for pool mining
    with the Equihash 96/5 algorithm (MARS)

For usage instructions add -h to the commandline.
   For support visit our bitcointalk thread.

          Made by Lolliedieb, March 2018
-------------------------------------------------
No Argument given - Switching to Benchmark mode
Using device with id 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 3GB)
Selected work-batch for device 0: 20
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12448.7 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12457.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12481.3 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12427.7 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12400 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12393.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12440.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12393.3 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12475.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12541.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12474.9 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (60s): 12454.8 sol/s
---------------------------------------------

$ vi test.log
-------------------------------------------------
          Welcome to lolMiner-mnx v0.31

   This software is only meant for pool mining
    with the Equihash 96/5 algorithm (MARS)

For usage instructions add -h to the commandline.
   For support visit our bitcointalk thread.

          Made by Lolliedieb, March 2018
-------------------------------------------------
No Argument given - Switching to Benchmark mode
Using device with id 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 3GB^@)



This is only a bit annoying when wanting to use text search tools such as grep on the log files, which I can fixup using the strings util.

$ grep Average test.log
Binary file test.log matches

$ strings test.log | grep Average
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12448.7 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12457.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12481.3 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12427.7 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12400 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12393.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12440.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12393.3 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12475.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12541.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12474.9 sol/s
Average speed (60s): 12454.8 sol/s

The output should looks more like this from my laptop which has an on-board Nvidia M1200 and external GTX 1060:

All available OpenCL platforms and devices:

Platform 0: NVIDIA CUDA
    Device 0: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (GPU)
    Device 1: Quadro M1200 (GPU)
Platform 1: Intel(R) OpenCL
    Device 0: Intel(R) HD Graphics (GPU)
    Device 1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz (CPU)


What you have copied looks to be from your attempt to start up lolMiner with no platform or devices set.

Try again, but this time run:
lolMiner-mnx.exe --list-devices

what is the output from --list-devices ?

and are you starting it with the options --platform and --device set correctly?

Windows or Linux?

on my Linux box I run 3 separate instances of lolMiner, one for each device (2 x Nividia and 1 x Intel)

I finally managed to OC my GTX1060 (with one wobbly fan) running on ubuntu 17.10 and can now report a slight increase in performance, but additional power draw.

So before any over clocking:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (not over clocked): ~10.1KSol/s @ 96W with v0.22 and ~10.3KSol/s @ 100W with v0.3
NVIDIA Quadro M1200: ~3.6KSol/s with v0.22 and ~2.1KSol/s with v0.3
Intel i7-7820HQ CPU: ~600Sol/s with v0.22 and max rate about ~581Sol/S with v0.3 (no core affinity set, top shows it using only 1% CPU)

After over clocking:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB: ~11.3KSol/s @ 108W with v0.3

FYI:
When trying to enable overclocking for the GTX1060 the main problem was caused by xorg.conf being reset at either reboot or a restart of gdm.
This was fixed by making the file read only and immutable after making any required edits to it, which included:

Option         "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PerfLevelSrc=0x2222; PowerMizerLevel=0x1; PowerMizerDefault=0x1; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x1"
Option         "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" "True"
Option         "Coolbits" "28"

Is this true?

On my ubuntu 17.10 machine with 32GB physical memory I just have a 16GB swap partition and have a GTX1060 3GB plus on-board Quadro M1200 4GB so going by your reckoning I should set swap size to be 40GB ?

I'll try adding another swap file sized 24GB and see if there is any difference in performance.

As mentioned in telegram yesterday, with v0.3 on my Ubuntu 17.10 gen7 i7 machine the "--list-devices" command produces no output, however I can run it using the config used with v0.22 but the Sol/s are much lower for intel CPU and the laptops onboard Nvidia Quadro M1200 but the (not overclocked) GTX1060 3GB connected via TB3 in an eGPU box is only marginally faster with v0.3

EG:

$ ./lolMiner-mnx_v03 --list-devices
-------------------------------------------------
          Welcome to lolMiner-mnx v0.3

   This software is only meant for pool mining
    with the Equihash 96/5 algorithm (MARS)

For usage instructions add -h to the commandline.
   For support visit our bitcointalk thread.

          Made by Lolliedieb, March 2018
-------------------------------------------------
All available OpenCL platforms and devices:


$ ./lolMiner-mnx_v022 --list-devices
-------------------------------------------------
          Welcome to lolMiner-MNX v0.22

   This software is only meant for pool mining
    with the Equihash 96/5 algorithm (MARS)

For usage instructions add -h to the commandline.
   For support visit our bitcointalk thread.

        Made by Lolliedieb, Feburary 2018
-------------------------------------------------
All available OpenCL platforms and devices:

Platform 0: NVIDIA CUDA
    Device 0: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (GPU)
    Device 1: Quadro M1200 (GPU)
Platform 1: Intel(R) OpenCL
    Device 0: Intel(R) HD Graphics (GPU)
    Device 1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz (CPU)


Average speeds of each device (excluding the Intel HD graphics as this causes all CPU cores to run near 100%) and on each version using mostly a default lolMiner config are:


NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (not over clocked): ~10.1KSol/s @ 96W with v0.22 and ~10.3KSol/s @ 100W with v0.3
NVIDIA Quadro M1200: ~3.6KSol/s with v0.22 and ~2.1KSol/s with v0.3
Intel i7-7820HQ CPU: ~600Sol/s with v0.22 and max rate about ~581Sol/S with v0.3 (no core affinity set, top shows it using only 1% CPU)

I am not sure why the v0.3 "--list-devices" command shows nothing but the openCL libraries I am running have been compiled using an Intel supplied script available here:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/sdk-for-opencl-gsg

But using a slightly modified version of the "experimental" script was used (https://software.intel.com/file/593325/download) to make it work with Ubuntu 17.10 (kernel 4.13.0-36-generic)

The Intel page also mentions a python System Analyzer Utility available here:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/mss-sys-analyzer-linux

And the output from this on my machine (that does not have Media Server Studio Installed) is:

# sys_analyzer_linux.py
--------------------------
Hardware readiness checks:
--------------------------
 [ OK ] Processor name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz
--------------------------
OS readiness checks:
--------------------------
 [ OK ] GPU visible to OS
--------------------------
Media Server Studio Install:
--------------------------
 [ OK ] user in video group
 [ ERROR ] libva.so.1 not found.  Check LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains '/usr/lib64;/usr/local/lib'
 [ ERROR ] libva not loading Intel iHD
 [ ERROR ] vainfo not reporting codec entry points
 [ ERROR ] could not open /dev/dri/renderD128
 [ OK ] /dev/dri/renderD129 connects to Intel i915
--------------------------
Component Smoke Tests:
--------------------------
 [ ERROR ] no Media SDK include files.  Are Intel components installed?
 [ OK ] OpenCL check:platform:NVIDIA CUDA GPU OK CPU FAIL
platform:Intel(R) OpenCL GPU OK CPU OK

please copy in the output from your --list-devices command

when I do this on my Linux machine (no rig but 1 external GPU) I see:

./lolMiner-mnx --list-devices



Platform 0: NVIDIA CUDA
    Device 0: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (GPU)
    Device 1: Quadro M1200 (GPU)
Platform 1: Intel(R) OpenCL
    Device 0: Intel(R) HD Graphics (GPU)
    Device 1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz (CPU)




so in my case I would want to be running lolMiner against platform 0 and device 0 (but can also separately run against the others)

Спасибо за вашу помощь, но, к сожалению, создание 1 в группе не помогло. А также проверенные устройства списка, это также не помогает мне в соответствии с readme.

Readme, но я читал, что это не совсем понятно, это также бета-версия с тысячей проблем. Единственный способ, с которым я должен работать, - это окно для Grafica, и это дает некоторые потрясающие результаты.

Жаль, что некоторые люди думают, что мы не читаем readme, я их читаю, и я помню их, и когда это все еще не работает, я спрашиваю: мне не нужен кто-то очень умный, кто думает, что я его не читал.

Это просто не работает, как должно, но вы не можете попросить эту отличную бета-версию. Я надеюсь, что вы научитесь быть немного более образованным, а не предположениями.

but first read the readme (readme_windows.txt)

it tells you about the option:
--list-devices

What make are the cards?

lolMiner works best with Nvidia as far as I know.

I have been trying out v0.22 on both Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux (16.04 and 17.10) and the built in Nvidia Quadro M1200 does about 3.6 kSol/s

Tonight I am expecting a Nvidia GTX 1060 to arrive and I have been told this should work at about 11 kSol/s and a 1070 about 14k Sol/s

either:
A. stick with Windows, learn PowerShell (or maybe you can do it as a batch script) and write your own bit of code to do this
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docs/learning-powershell
or possibly create a Windows Service to do this?  (google it)

B. install a flavour of Linux (I recommend Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for you) and run (the more stable) lolMiner there, which can be easily executed from the commandline to run as a back ground process, or made to be a service that the operating system will restart as necessary

upgrade from Windows to Linux

Hi Mr @Lolliedieb

I have been playing with v0.22 on my Dell gen7-i7 quad-core (7820HQ) laptop with a Nvidia M1200 built in GPU running ubuntu for the most part, and have recently upgraded ubuntu from 16.04 LTS to 17.10 (slight headache getting Xorg to work nicely at the end, but got there)

FYI:
As part of the upgrade process I downloaded from Intel their scripts for compiling the Linux openCL libraries and a new 4.8 kernel as described on this page:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/sdk-for-opencl-gsg
but using the "experimental script" (which allows you to skip the kernel build):
https://software.intel.com/file/593325/download

And once this is done and working I noticed that the Sol/s rate for the Intel CPU was much better than if using the ubuntu supplied pre-compiled openCL libraries (was about 400Sol/s but now averages about 600Sol/s with self compiled Intel script)

The Nvidia M1200 works at about 3600Sol/s using the distro supplied 384.111 driver, which I cannot download the source for and recompile... or can I?
Please let me know if this is possible.


Soon I will be receiving a GTX 1060 to place within a HP Omen Accelerator eGPU unit, which I can connect to my laptop via a Thunderbolt cable, so I will see how this goes and works, hopefully on ubuntu and not Windows 10.

My question to you is:
Would it be possible to release an OSX (intel x86_64) compiled version of lolMiner as I have a late 2011 macbook with the first Thunderbolt port on it, so if the first test with Dell Thunderbolt 3 and ubuntu works, I'd like to try the macbook and Thunderbolt 1.

my name is not on any list but I just wanted to say thanks and keep up the great work!

thanks for that... so my built in Nvidia M1200 supposedly performs at about 3500 Sol/s according to the output from lolminer but the stats shown online at eu.minexpool.nl are a bit wild, with an average of around 4K Sol/s

only 9000 Sol/s for a GTX 970?  I'll see if I can talk the guy down in price from £150 to £100 or less