excavator by NiceHash - multi-algorithm NVIDIA GPU miner [1.5.6a]

[MarcusDe]

@nicehash:

After more testing I see there are many bad shares (share above target) > 20%.

Which pool do you use? Have you tried with a bit lower mem OC? It is possible that OC is too agressive causing memory errors which produce invalid shares.

Nicehash.
Same core/mem settings don't cause those errors on claymore and latest ethmier.
I think that you included in miner latest ethminer patch (--cuda-parallel-hash).

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[djeZo]

@nicehash:

After more testing I see there are many bad shares (share above target) > 20%.

Which pool do you use? Have you tried with a bit lower mem OC? It is possible that OC is too agressive causing memory errors which produce invalid shares.

Nicehash.
Same core/mem settings don't cause those errors on claymore and latest ethmier.
I think that you included in miner latest ethminer patch (--cuda-parallel-hash).

No, we did not include, GPL would not allow us that, but we used the idea + some other tunning.

[polymer_city]

I have reported the same admin mode AMD issue on github again with new version

Please fix this devs!!

I would like to run some miners just for BTC rather than changing to BTC

I have faith, you seem to be so close.

Can you tell me what you think the issue is? hardware/software/code bugs?


Something I noticed in the last version was this;

Hashrate got to 190 (7 x rx480) - Great!
After about 12hrs hashrate continually fell to about 140 (when i stopped it)

I would like to use this miner, but until its as profitable as Claymore, I really can't

[preda]

I get 150mh with new ethminer optimised for 1060 with my 6x 1060 3gb
80%tdp
+100 core
+880 memory
Power consumption 525w total

This is like nicehash app but more fast? And you get paid in bitcoin?

[mINGz]

Okay, testing it:

~148 MH/s on 6 x 1060 3GB.

Also very fast DAG generation.

Q: What number of miner threads is optimal? 1 or 2?

Anyway, good job!

Wow! nice hash
Could you share OC setup?

Thank you

Sure.
+100, +900, 80W, 60% fan.
Cards are with Samsung memory chips.

Mine are Hynix ...will try and share how far could I go

[PcChip]

any idea when ethermine.org support will be added ?

[Adevill20]

any idea when ethermine.org support will be added ?

and nanopool eth & sia ?

[Kayfolom]

any idea when ethermine.org support will be added ?

and nanopool eth & sia ?

Nanopool not support Excavator. I wrote the pool administration, but they have long disregarded users' appeals, so the answer will be with low probability...

[nevermind41]

I tested ethereum with suprnova but it just work with 1 card. I couldn't find any info about working with multiple cards.

[djeZo]

any idea when ethermine.org support will be added ?

and nanopool eth & sia ?

Nanopool not support Excavator. I wrote the pool administration, but they have long disregarded users' appeals, so the answer will be with low probability...

To everyone asking when some new protocol will be added to Excavator. The answer is NEVER.

But pools are welcome to update their protocols. Here are documentations.

For SIA: https://siamining.com/stratum

For EthereumStratum: https://github.com/nicehash/Specifications/blob/master/EthereumStratum_NiceHash_v1.0.0.txt

Contrary to their implementations, we actually make documentation, everything is well explained and there are examples.

[MarcusDe]

Okay, testing it:

~148 MH/s on 6 x 1060 3GB.

Also very fast DAG generation.

Q: What number of miner threads is optimal? 1 or 2?

Anyway, good job!

Wow! nice hash
Could you share OC setup?

Thank you

Sure.
+100, +900, 80W, 60% fan.
Cards are with Samsung memory chips.

Mine are Hynix ...will try and share how far could I go

Hi, and what are your results?
I just have 2 new cards... sadly with Hynix memory, with 4 Samsung and those 2 Hynix I can't get more than 137MH/s so far...

[MarcusDe]

I don't know if it's just me, but after some time rig goes 140 -> 70 and don't go up.

Cards are 1060 3GB.

Code:

[18:21:21][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #78 accepted
[18:21:25][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 138.039299 MH/s
[18:21:40][0x00000f00][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 138.033316 MH/s
[18:21:41][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315a84752', diff=0.5
[18:21:55][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 138.018359 MH/s
[18:21:57][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315a8c246', diff=0.5
[18:21:57][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #79 accepted
[18:22:07][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #80 accepted
[18:22:10][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 138.003402 MH/s
[18:22:13][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #81 accepted
[18:22:14][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #82 accepted
[18:22:16][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #83 accepted
[18:22:25][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 138.000411 MH/s
[18:22:49][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 133.875325 MH/s
[18:22:49][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #84 accepted
[18:23:04][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #85 accepted
[18:23:18][0x00000f00][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 125.586267 MH/s
[18:23:31][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315a9401b', diff=0.5
[18:23:33][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #86 accepted
[18:23:46][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #87 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:23:48][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 117.309174 MH/s
[18:23:48][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315a9f451', diff=0.5
[18:23:48][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #88 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:24:15][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315aae8ec', diff=0.5
[18:24:17][0x00000f00][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 109.038063 MH/s
[18:24:17][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315ab26df', diff=0.5
[18:24:17][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #89 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:24:46][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 100.749005 MH/s
[18:24:59][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315ac48e4', diff=0.5
[18:25:01][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315ac6454', diff=0.5
[18:25:01][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #90 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:25:15][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 92.456955 MH/s
[18:26:10][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315ad134b', diff=0.5
[18:26:10][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315adabe4', diff=0.5
[18:26:10][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #91 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:26:23][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #92 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:26:25][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #93 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:26:25][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #94 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:26:25][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #95 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:26:25][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #96 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:26:25][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #97 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:26:38][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #98 accepted
[18:26:40][0x00000f00][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 84.167896 MH/s
[18:26:40][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315aea3f2', diff=0.5
[18:26:40][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315af28dc', diff=0.5								
[18:27:07][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315afbee1', diff=0.5
[18:27:09][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 75.878838 MH/s
[18:27:09][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b01171', diff=0.5
[18:27:09][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #99 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:27:23][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #100 accepted
[18:27:36][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b09882', diff=0.25
[18:27:38][0x00000f00][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 69.199131 MH/s
[18:27:51][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b149a0', diff=0.25
[18:28:07][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 69.175200 MH/s
[18:28:35][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b26355', diff=0.25
[18:28:36][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 69.172209 MH/s
[18:28:51][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #101 accepted
[18:29:06][0x00000f00][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 69.184174 MH/s
[18:29:06][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #102 accepted
[18:29:06][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #102 accepted
[18:29:20][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #103 accepted
[18:29:33][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b32725', diff=0.25
[18:29:35][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 69.211096 MH/s
[18:29:35][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #104 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:29:48][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #105 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:29:50][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #106 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:29:50][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #107 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:29:50][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #108 accepted
[18:30:02][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #109 accepted
[18:30:04][0x00000f00][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 69.246993 MH/s
[18:30:04][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b340f0', diff=0.25
[18:30:04][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b3d1f5', diff=0.25
[18:30:04][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b45ec4', diff=0.25
[18:30:17][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b51a66', diff=0.25
[18:30:19][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #110 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:30:33][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 63.425806 MH/s
[18:30:49][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #111 accepted
[18:31:02][0x00000f00][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b61517', diff=0.25
[18:31:04][0x00000f00][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 55.103843 MH/s
[18:31:04][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #112 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:31:16][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b6ccba', diff=0.25
[18:31:18][0x00000f00][info] net | Share #113 rejected
                                reason: Job not found.
[18:31:33][0x00000fd4][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 53.446629 MH/s
[18:31:46][0x00000fd4][info] algo-daggerhashimoto | New job '0000000315b778c6', diff=0.25
[18:32:02][0x00000f00][info] core | Algorithm 'daggerhashimoto' total speed: 53.446629 MH/s
[18:32:17][0x00000fd4][info] net | Share #114 accepted

[ssdaytona]

newbie here...


does anyone have a quick intro on how to get excavator working with ethermine.org pool? I have a win10 and a gtx 1070.

figure it needs a batch file just like genoil's miner?


thanks

[kaltar]

newbie here...


does anyone have a quick intro on how to get excavator working with ethermine.org pool? I have a win10 and a gtx 1070.

figure it needs a batch file just like genoil's miner?


thanks

RTFM

[MarcusDe]

newbie here...


does anyone have a quick intro on how to get excavator working with ethermine.org pool? I have a win10 and a gtx 1070.

figure it needs a batch file just like genoil's miner?


thanks

If you want to understand config look here:

https://github.com/nicehash/excavator/tree/master/api

[zorvalth]

@djeZo/@zawawa , is there any recommended settings for nvidia/dagger additional params: Number of blocks/Number of threads per block/Number of parallel hashes per warp/Number of streams ? I tried to play with them but no noticeable difference and my speeds are far slower than the stated. Also it takes some time(few minutes) for the miner to get to the highest speed, is that normal?

[thhjs]

I'm running at 51 Mh/s

One EVGA 1070 SC +/- 29 Mh/s
One EVGA 1060 SC 6 Gb +/- 22 Mh/s

Both running on Micron memory.

If I go +600 Mhz I get artifacts.

So I have set mine at +400.

[djeZo]

@djeZo/@zawawa , is there any recommended settings for nvidia/dagger additional params: Number of blocks/Number of threads per block/Number of parallel hashes per warp/Number of streams ? I tried to play with them but no noticeable difference and my speeds are far slower than the stated. Also it takes some time(few minutes) for the miner to get to the highest speed, is that normal?

Readjust worker.reset timed command to happen later so that DAG generation time has no effect on end speed - then real speed is shown almost instantly.

[Milles001]

Hello guys
I'm new in mining thing and i'm little lost here.
After the last update I get this error even after disabling drivers signature and running the miner in admin mode.
There are something that I have to do to fix this issue?
The hashrate was ~27Mh/s before
Sorry for my grammar, I'm not native.
Thank you.
**The VGA is a Sapphire RX 480 stock


[20:49:54][0x00001f68][info] Log started
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][info] opencl | Loaded phymem for direct PCIe access.
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][info] core | Found OpenCL device: AMD Radeon RX 480
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][info] opencl |     PCI Vendor/Device ID: 0x1002, 0x67df
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][info] opencl |     PCI Subsystem Vendor/Device ID: 0x1002, 0x0b37
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][info] opencl |     Memory Type: GDDR5
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][info] opencl |     Memory Size: 8192MB
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][info] opencl |     Video BIOS: 57KB
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][error] opencl |     Failed to gather information for hardware acceleration.
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][error] opencl |     Hardware acceleration will not be available.
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][info] api | Listening on 127.0.0.1:4000
[20:49:54][0x00001f68][info] core | Initialized!

https://i.imgur.com/HSo31Js.jpg

[cTnko]

Hi everyone, i am very happy to announce that my GUI for Excavator is finally ready!   

Few screenshots so you would have an idea how it looks



To anyone that would be willing to try it, you can find the GUI with instructions on how to use it over here: https://github.com/cTn-dev/Excavator-GUI

Currently it has only been tested on Nvidia cards (sadly i don't own an AMD gpu).
If people will like the GUI, ill try to save up some funds to buy one AMD card to properly implement and test everything on AMD side aswell.

If you have any questions, please let me know, happy mining! :-)