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[bigjme]

How is yac working out christian?
I have a few thousand but ive lost track of what their worth

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[cbuchner1]

How is yac working out christian?
I have a few million but ive lost track of what their worth

50 YAC (one block reward) should be worth 60 Euro cents. So excuse me doubting your balance. :-)

[bigjme]

Oopse I mixed up yac and microcoin (dont ask how)
I have a few thousand yac lmao

2.66khash/s on my 780
Havent mined this in so long, is that about right now christian?

[ManIkWeet]

How is yac working out christian?
I have a few million but ive lost track of what their worth

One million YAC - 27BTC, you're rich guy!

[Thirtybird]

How is yac working out christian?
I have a few million but ive lost track of what their worth

So, YKMwM5jeTYp42YmiQ65dMCqJJavv6UpiHa is you?  So many people were wondering what the story was...

[bigjme]

No I mixed up my yac balance and my microcoin balance lmao

[ThomasMuller]

I have been mining LTC on my GTX 560 for the last 48 hours now. I have not seen one penny in my wallet yet! Cudaminer shows my hashrate is 145KH/s

What am I doing wrong?

Probably nothing wrong with what your doing, the difficulty of LTC is actually pretty high. But you should see something if your mining in a pool. If you are solo mining, good luck with that, you'll most likely never(?) find a block.

Yes, I'm in a pool but I'm trying to learn the mechanics of mining and how fast I should expect a return at this point in the game. So if BTC and LTC aren't good for the average Joe due to demanding calculations which ones should I try just for fun? I'm hearing MicroCoin, NetCoin, etc... but I have only one machine and trying to learn as fast as I can so I can upgrade my GPU.

So far, it is costing me electricity and no coins!  

[ManIkWeet]

3 ASUS ROG MARS cards are ordered. This should be close to 20 kHash/s YAC mining power - all on one mainboard.

Wouldn't the 2GB/GPU be a restriction then? Eventually?

[cbuchner1]

2.66khash/s on my 780
Havent mined this in so long, is that about right now christian?

you should be getting about 4.5 kHash/s with -L 6 and some overclock. use the lower case t kernel and autotune.

Christian

[bigjme]

3 ASUS ROG MARS cards are ordered. This should be close to 20 kHash/s YAC mining power - all on one mainboard.

Wouldn't the 2GB/GPU be a restriction then? Eventually?

For scrypt-jane yes
They would still be good for most other things. Although my 780 using over 2gb of memory is still only getting 2.6khash/s so im unsure how those 3 will get 20khash/s?

[cbuchner1]

3 ASUS ROG MARS cards are ordered. This should be close to 20 kHash/s YAC mining power - all on one mainboard.

Wouldn't the 2GB/GPU be a restriction then? Eventually?

possibly, but lookup gap will help a bit. And the previous experience I've had with a 2 GB GTX 760 Model wasn't so bad...

[ThomasMuller]

3 ASUS ROG MARS cards are ordered. This should be close to 20 kHash/s YAC mining power - all on one mainboard.

What kind of hash rate would you expect for LTC with the ASUS ROG MARS? Why did you choose these? they seem to cos US$650 on Newegg. I'm trying to learn before I upgrade my GTX 560ti.

Are you going to run all 3 in one instance for the same coin or you are going to have 3 instances running different coins in parallel. What's the best strategy at this point?

[mhps]

I just upgraded the driver to 382.50 for my Tesla C2075's (I have two in a win8 64bit box)  and upgraded cudaminer from 12-18 to 2-9. The problem since DEcember is still there -- when I specify -d 0 I get a lot of errors (cuda error 30) and nvidia-smi shows GPU#1 consumes more power; when I specify -d 1 the cudaminer console shows GPU#0 working confirmed by nvidia-smi showing GPU#0 consumes more power.

Anyway for -d 1, GPU#0 gives 1.65kh/s with -i 0 -H 1 -C 2 -l f104x1 when mining YAC.

[skyvahaerie]

Hm if i try to pass a launch configuration with a lower case k kernel cudaminer crashes with the generic error message "Cudaminer stopped working". The upper case works fine, also autotune sets a lower case, but if i do it manually cudaminer crashes. Tested the last 6 releases, doesn't work for me a single time. Any ideas on that?

[cbuchner1]

3 ASUS ROG MARS cards are ordered. This should be close to 20 kHash/s YAC mining power - all on one mainboard.

What kind of hash rate would you expect for LTC with the ASUS ROG MARS? Why did you choose these? they seem to cos US$650 on Newegg. I'm trying to learn before I upgrade my GTX 560ti. Are you going to run all 3 in one instance for the same coin or you are going to have 3 instances running different coins in parallel. What's the best strategy at this point?

I have a mainboard with three PCI express x16 slots spaced far apart and I do not yet want to experiment with risers. I do not really care about costs of initial investment ( I wouldn't be building nVidia farms if I did ). The GTX780Ti's can't get above 5 kHash/s each, but a single ROG MARS card might push close to 7 kHash/s.

All six GPUs will be mining Yacoin or some other scrypt-jane coins. Each GPU should do 3.3-3.4 kHash/s. I am going to run all 6 in one instance probably (under Linux).

Christian

[cbuchner1]

Hm if i try to pass a launch configuration with a lower case k kernel cudaminer crashes with the generic error message "Cudaminer stopped working". The upper case works fine, also autotune sets a lower case, but if i do it manually cudaminer crashes. Tested the last 6 releases, doesn't work for me a single time. Any ideas on that?

what's the output on the console before the crash? a screenshot would do.

[bigjme]

2.66khash/s on my 780
Havent mined this in so long, is that about right now christian?

you should be getting about 4.5 kHash/s with -L 6 and some overclock. use the lower case t kernel and autotune.

Christian

Just so you know, t in autotune, cudaminer crashes everytime it gets past 14x**

Cuda errors start to occur weirdly
So right now im doing t12x31 at 4.15khash/s

I now remember why I went to linux, and why I miss my old launch configs so bad that I lost when linux died

[ThomasMuller]

3 ASUS ROG MARS cards are ordered. This should be close to 20 kHash/s YAC mining power - all on one mainboard.

What kind of hash rate would you expect for LTC with the ASUS ROG MARS? Why did you choose these? they seem to cos US$650 on Newegg. I'm trying to learn before I upgrade my GTX 560ti. Are you going to run all 3 in one instance for the same coin or you are going to have 3 instances running different coins in parallel. What's the best strategy at this point?

I have a mainboard with three PCI express x16 slots spaced far apart and I do not yet want to experiment with risers. I do not really care about costs of initial investment ( I wouldn't be building nVidia farms if I did ). The GTX780 can't get above 5 kHash/s each, but a single ROG MARS card might push close to 7 kHash/s.

All GPU will be mining Yacoin or some other scrypt-jane coins. Each GPU should do 3.3-3.4 kHash/s. I am going to run all 6 in one instance probably (under Linux).

Christian

Thank you Chris, I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question!

[patoberli]

Yacoin autotune still kills my Nvidia driver when I use -i 1:

cudaminer.exe -a scrypt-jane -i 1 -L 3 -o stratum+tcp://yac.coinmine.pl:9088 -O pato.3:password -H 2 -d 0 -C 2 -b 2048 -l f
....................
[2014-02-13 17:11:23] DEBUG: job_id='90a8' extranonce2=00000000 ntime=52fceeaa
[2014-02-13 17:11:23] Stratum detected new block
[2014-02-13 17:11:28]   8:0.062|0.122|0.182|0.239|0.294|0.346|0.392|0.435|
                          0.468|0.500|0.518|0.645|0.674|0.712|0.834|0.888|
                          0.913|0.966|0.978|1.031|     |     |     |     |
                               |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | kH/s

----------------------> around here display driver crashes and windows force closes cudaminer

[2014-02-13 17:11:51] GPU #0: cudaError 6 (the launch timed out and was terminat
ed) calling 'cudaDeviceSynchronize()' (C:/Users/Patrick/Desktop/cudaminer/cudami
ner/salsa_kernel.cu line 635)

[2014-02-13 17:11:51]   9: 69.4|137.5|204.5|269.2|330.6|389.5|441.3|489.4|
                          527.3|562.1|581.9|602.1|607.8|618.8|621.0|631.6|
                               |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
                               |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |  H/s
[2014-02-13 17:11:51] GPU #0: cudaError 6 (the launch timed out and was terminat
ed) calling 'cudaDeviceSynchronize()' (C:/Users/Patrick/Desktop/cudaminer/cudami
ner/salsa_kernel.cu line 635)

[2014-02-13 17:11:51] GPU #0: cudaError 6 (the launch timed out and was terminat
ed) calling 'cudaDeviceSynchronize()' (C:/Users/Patrick/Desktop/cudaminer/cudami
ner/salsa_kernel.cu line 635)

The last line continues now a few hundred times more until the following stands at the end:

[2014-02-13 17:11:53] GPU #0: cudaError 6 (the launch timed out and was terminat
ed) calling 'cudaEventRecord(context_serialize[1][thr_id])' (C:/Users/Patrick/De
sktop/cudaminer/cudaminer/salsa_kernel.cu line 303)

[2014-02-13 17:11:53] GPU #0: cudaError 33 (invalid resource handle) calling 'cu
daStreamWaitEvent(context_streams[stream][thr_id], context_serialize[(stream+1)&
1][thr_id], 0)' (C:/Users/Patrick/Desktop/cudaminer/cudaminer/salsa_kernel.cu li
ne 931)

[2014-02-13 17:11:53] GPU #0: cudaError 33 (invalid resource handle) calling 'cu
daEventRecord(context_serialize[stream][thr_id], context_streams[stream][thr_id]
)' (C:/Users/Patrick/Desktop/cudaminer/cudaminer/salsa_kernel.cu line 937)

[2014-02-13 17:11:53] GPU #0: cudaError 33 (invalid resource handle) calling 'cu
daStreamQuery(context_streams[stream][thr_id])' (C:/Users/Patrick/Desktop/cudami
ner/cudaminer/salsa_kernel.cu line 943)

[2014-02-13 17:11:53] GPU #0: cudaError 33 (invalid resource handle) calling 'cu
daStreamWaitEvent(context_streams[stream][thr_id], context_serialize[(stream+1)&
1][thr_id], 0)' (C:/Users/Patrick/Desktop/cudaminer/cudaminer/salsa_kernel.cu li
ne 931)

[2014-02-13 17:11:53] GPU #0: cudaError 33 (invalid resource handle) calling 'cu
daEventRecord(context_serialize[stream][thr_id], context_streams[stream][thr_id]
)' (C:/Users/Patrick/Desktop/cudaminer/cudaminer/salsa_kernel.cu line 937)

[2014-02-13 17:11:53] GPU #0: cudaError 33 (invalid resource handle) calling 'cu
daStreamQuery(context_streams[stream][thr_id])' (C:/Users/Patrick/Desktop/cudami
ner/cudaminer/salsa_kernel.cu line 943)

[2014-02-13 17:11:53] GPU #0: cudaError 6 (the launch timed out and was terminat
ed) calling 'cudaMemcpyAsync(hash, context_hash[stream][thr_id], mem_size, cudaM
emcpyDeviceToHost, context_streams[stream][thr_id])' (C:/Users/Patrick/Desktop/c
udaminer/cudaminer/keccak.cu line 503)

[patoberli]

Oh and nearly forgot it again. A small feature request for autotune.
Could you add a flag that allows me to configure up to a maximum limit the memory shall be utilized for autotune? This would be nice for the interactive 1 people (like me).
Let's say I have 350 MB GPU RAM used, my card has ~2000 MB, then autotune would fill it up until the closest possible to 2000 MB. This means opening other programs would have a slower performance or even crash cudaminer, once it's running with the best speed (which is normally the maximum memory allocation). In this case I would like to save another 150 MB, for normal usage.
What I would like to be able to do, is to tell autotune reserve all possible memory, but leave some 150 MB free, in other words, it shall reserve up to 1850 MB instead up to 2000 MB. Not to forget the already used 350 MB, that means autotune would have 1500 MB to work with.

I hope it's clear what I mean, otherwise I could write it in German

Thanks