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Dear Zawawa, is it planned to add new algorithms to the Excavator?
Good question - now I need ethash algorithm too, but on AMD and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS  Dear Zawawa, help us!  EXCAVATOR DOES ETH-HASH (DAGGER-HASHIMOTO)-- You may read on pages 48-50 or so for example configurations. Excavator dual-mines with no fee. Detailed configuration docs are on the GitHub site. --scryptr I saw 48-50 pages before and config dual-mining for ZEC and XMR. But I didn't know what algorithm is for ETH in Excavator miner. Thnx! Now I can't config web stats for Excavator on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Where can I put the "index.html" file to get stats on web? I start excavator with -wp and -wi parameters (not local IP bind) and get on web "404 Not Found", but when I do "api?..." to binded IP and port I can get stats in JSON format. Thnx! Лeкc, cпpocи вoт тyт https://github.com/nicehash/excavator/issues/60 , caм нe знaю, нa линyкce нe зaпycкaл. Ask here https://github.com/nicehash/excavator/issues/60, I do not know, I did not run it on Linux. |
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November 21, 2017, 05:04:34 AM |
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Version 1.3.6 alpha NVIDIA for Linux
* cryptonight bug fixes & improvements
The Linux version of excavator is compatible only with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and it requires NVIDIA Display Driver 387 or later. All you need to do for installation on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is to install a compatible NVIDIA driver and to run:
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Sorry for the delay... The new support scripts should be pretty useful, though. Enjoy!
Hi! I compared performance of versions 1.3.4a and 1.3.6a in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Palit p106-100 (GFX 1060 6G). It's very strange - on Monero (cryptonight algorithm) I have results: 1.3.4a ~ 431-436 H/s, 1.3.6a ~ 460-464 H/s. In json config I use CUDA-cryptonight parameters: B=30,TPB=32. PS. ZEC mining looks the same in both versions. I am not sure if it is my optimization or voidstar's bug fix, but I am glad to hear that anyway! One another question - how to use miner on AMD GPUs in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? Is there solution to start mining with Excavator on AMD GPUs in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? I read all pages and didn't found recept to do this. |
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November 21, 2017, 12:54:03 PM |
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If I install excavator and ubuntu 16.04 on my 1070s will excavator still be able to control the clocks just wondering I'm not a linux guy but trying to learn it more than my second question is on my win 10 pro build do I just leave out the clock commands to let AF manage my cards I'm asking because I read somewhere that running excavator would disable msi AF or this is no longer the case
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November 23, 2017, 08:06:42 AM |
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Version 1.3.6 alpha NVIDIA for Linux
* cryptonight bug fixes & improvements
The Linux version of excavator is compatible only with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and it requires NVIDIA Display Driver 387 or later. All you need to do for installation on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is to install a compatible NVIDIA driver and to run:
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Sorry for the delay... The new support scripts should be pretty useful, though. Enjoy!
Hi! I compared performance of versions 1.3.4a and 1.3.6a in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Palit p106-100 (GFX 1060 6G). It's very strange - on Monero (cryptonight algorithm) I have results: 1.3.4a ~ 431-436 H/s, 1.3.6a ~ 460-464 H/s. In json config I use CUDA-cryptonight parameters: B=30,TPB=32. PS. ZEC mining looks the same in both versions. I am not sure if it is my optimization or voidstar's bug fix, but I am glad to hear that anyway! One another question - how to use miner on AMD GPUs in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? Is there solution to start mining with Excavator on AMD GPUs in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? I read all pages and didn't found recept to do this. Unfortunately, Excavator doesn't support AMD anymore. Sorry. |
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November 23, 2017, 08:16:17 AM |
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If I install excavator and ubuntu 16.04 on my 1070s will excavator still be able to control the clocks just wondering I'm not a linux guy but trying to learn it more than my second question is on my win 10 pro build do I just leave out the clock commands to let AF manage my cards I'm asking because I read somewhere that running excavator would disable msi AF or this is no longer the case
Excavator will not disable MSI Afterburner, you can manage your GPU settings either using command line or third party software (e.g. MSI AF). Regarding Linux, yes you will still be able to manage GPU through excavator's commands. |
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m1n1ngP4d4w4n
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November 23, 2017, 02:12:11 PM |
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Hello,
How do you put the pool/worker password in the json ?
The following doesn't seems to work.
{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.add","params":["algo","pool_address:pool_port","workername.mypass"]}
{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.add","params":["algo","pool_address:pool_port","workername/mypass"]}
{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.add","params":["algo","pool_address:pool_port","workername","mypass"]}
Could you please give me the right method ?
Thanks.
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dropky
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November 23, 2017, 02:15:20 PM |
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Hello,
How do you put the pool/worker password in the json ?
The following doesn't seems to work.
{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.add","params":["algo","pool_address:pool_port","workername.mypass"]}
{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.add","params":["algo","pool_address:pool_port","workername/mypass"]}
{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.add","params":["algo","pool_address:pool_port","workername","mypass"]}
Could you please give me the right method ?
Thanks.
You should split username and password with ":". {"id":1,"method":"algorithm.add","params":["algo","pool_address:pool_port","workername:mypass"]} https://github.com/nicehash/excavator/tree/master/api#-algorithmadd |
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November 23, 2017, 06:58:50 PM |
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Ahhhhhhhh, apologies, i didn't saw this, thanks for your help  |
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November 24, 2017, 11:09:03 PM |
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Testing out the 1.3.8 release with neoscrypt algo, doesn't perform as well as KlausT or Alexis CCminer, (getting about 900kH/sec instead of 1.1MH/sec per card), tweaked a bit the B parameters but default one seems to be good, also tried to use dual-worker, but no dice, can't squeeze more from it, need a little more optimisation to be competitive. keep up the good work |
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November 25, 2017, 12:16:24 AM |
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Testing out the 1.3.8 release with neoscrypt algo, doesn't perform as well as KlausT or Alexis CCminer, (getting about 900kH/sec instead of 1.1MH/sec per card), tweaked a bit the B parameters but default one seems to be good, also tried to use dual-worker, but no dice, can't squeeze more from it, need a little more optimisation to be competitive. keep up the good work NEOSCRYPT NEEDS OPTIMIZATION-- I have similar results. My 1080ti gets about 1.02MH/s with Excavator v1.3.8a, default parameters and default clocks. With CCminer v2.2.2, default parameters and clocks, it gets about 1.4Mh/s while mining NeoScrypt. Tweaking the block ("B") parameter did nothing but lessen the hashrate on Excavator. Mild clock changes did very little to help, also. --scryptr |
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November 25, 2017, 09:19:29 AM |
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Testing out the 1.3.8 release with neoscrypt algo, doesn't perform as well as KlausT or Alexis CCminer, (getting about 900kH/sec instead of 1.1MH/sec per card), tweaked a bit the B parameters but default one seems to be good, also tried to use dual-worker, but no dice, can't squeeze more from it, need a little more optimisation to be competitive. keep up the good work NEOSCRYPT NEEDS OPTIMIZATION-- I have similar results. My 1080ti gets about 1.02MH/s with Excavator v1.3.8a, default parameters and default clocks. With CCminer v2.2.2, default parameters and clocks, it gets about 1.4Mh/s while mining NeoScrypt. Tweaking the block ("B") parameter did nothing but lessen the hashrate on Excavator. Mild clock changes did very little to help, also. --scryptr Thanks for the feedback. We're still working on optimisations, mainly for the 1080 and 1080 ti cards. |
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November 25, 2017, 06:45:55 PM |
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Testing out the 1.3.8 release with neoscrypt algo, doesn't perform as well as KlausT or Alexis CCminer, (getting about 900kH/sec instead of 1.1MH/sec per card), tweaked a bit the B parameters but default one seems to be good, also tried to use dual-worker, but no dice, can't squeeze more from it, need a little more optimisation to be competitive. keep up the good work NEOSCRYPT NEEDS OPTIMIZATION-- I have similar results. My 1080ti gets about 1.02MH/s with Excavator v1.3.8a, default parameters and default clocks. With CCminer v2.2.2, default parameters and clocks, it gets about 1.4Mh/s while mining NeoScrypt. Tweaking the block ("B") parameter did nothing but lessen the hashrate on Excavator. Mild clock changes did very little to help, also. --scryptr Thanks for the feedback. We're still working on optimisations, mainly for the 1080 and 1080 ti cards. 6x 1060 3GB - excavator -> 3.4 MH, ccminer -> 3.9 MH |
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November 28, 2017, 06:59:28 AM |
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If I install excavator and ubuntu 16.04 on my 1070s will excavator still be able to control the clocks just wondering I'm not a linux guy but trying to learn it more than my second question is on my win 10 pro build do I just leave out the clock commands to let AF manage my cards I'm asking because I read somewhere that running excavator would disable msi AF or this is no longer the case
Excavator will not disable MSI Afterburner, you can manage your GPU settings either using command line or third party software (e.g. MSI AF). Regarding Linux, yes you will still be able to manage GPU through excavator's commands. Are you sure? I didn't manage to get excavator change GPU settings (clock, memory, fan and TDP). They just do nothing. No errors, but nothing changes. Have to use nvidia-smi and nvidia-settings to make changes for now. |
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November 28, 2017, 07:35:27 AM |
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does anyone has crash issues on 1070 ? whenever i open excavator for neoscrypt sometimes even it freezes the system until i restart again.
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Kayfolom
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November 28, 2017, 07:40:53 AM |
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does anyone has crash issues on 1070 ? whenever i open excavator for neoscrypt sometimes even it freezes the system until i restart again.
At me too does not work, here the details https://github.com/nicehash/excavator/issues/78 |
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November 28, 2017, 01:21:58 PM |
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MY COMPUTER FREEZES SOLID-- With v1.6.8a, mining CryptoNight worked well, without a sluggish computer response while trying to do other tasks. However, I have found my computer completely frozen a couple times, no mouse movement, no clock increment, no response to ctrl-alt-del. I love the system, with the web-interface and console stats. But, it is still a bit raw. --scryptr |
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For user ReallyMe Refer to the first post of this topic or follow this link to download the excavator binaries on github. https://github.com/nicehash/excavator (i recommend at that time the 1.3.7a, because i had stability issue with 1.3.8 ) The miner work with json configuration files that will contain everything needed to mine a specific algo (algo, pool, number of GPU's, overclock, miner console settings, etc...), there is an extensive documentation available on the github depot for each and every configuration parameters. Here is an example configuration for lyra2rev2 mining (monacoin and such) for 6gpus and no overclock specified. mona_suprnova.json [
{"time":0,"commands":[
{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.add","params":["lyra2rev2","mona.suprnova.cc:2995","workerpass.workername"]}
]},
{"time":3,"commands":[
{"id":1,"method":"worker.add","params":["0","0"]},
{"id":2,"method":"worker.add","params":["0","1"]},
{"id":3,"method":"worker.add","params":["0","2"]},
{"id":4,"method":"worker.add","params":["0","3"]},
{"id":5,"method":"worker.add","params":["0","4"]},
{"id":6,"method":"worker.add","params":["0","5"]}
]},
{"time":10,"loop":10,"commands":[
{"id":1,"method":"worker.print.speed","params":["0"]},
{"id":2,"method":"worker.print.speed","params":["1"]},
{"id":3,"method":"worker.print.speed","params":["2"]},
{"id":4,"method":"worker.print.speed","params":["3"]},
{"id":5,"method":"worker.print.speed","params":["4"]},
{"id":6,"method":"worker.print.speed","params":["5"]},
{"id":1,"method":"algorithm.print.speeds","params":["0"]}
]}
]
This configuration file is pretty basic and simple First portion add the algorithm and pool infos for the mining to start second portion add the workers per GPU for mining, in the parameters first number equal the worker number of the second number that represent the GPU ID (0,0 = worker 0 of GPU 0), not that depending on the algorithm it's better to define 2 worker per gpu, there is a table explaining that in the nvidia manual of excavator. third portion is the console output setting, i ask for all my 6gpu to print the current hashrate, and at the end the overall hashrate. You can expand this configuration file with overclock and such. The manual explain how to do it. Now to start excavator the most basic way excavator.exe -c yourconfig.json You can also expand the command by adding for example webUI or Json API interface for monitoring. excavator.exe -c yourconfig.json -wp my_network_port -wi my_rig_local_ip (or 0.0.0.0 to bind it to all your rig ip's) Hope it'll help you set it up. Cheers. |
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December 03, 2017, 03:35:17 PM |
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EXCAVATOR BENCHMARKS--
After installing Excavator on my Linux rig (instructions at the GitHub site), I ran the bencmark script. Here are the results:
Excavator Version: v1.3.8a_nvidia
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
NVIDIA Driver Version: 384.90
Found 3 device(s):
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Benchmarking with 3 device(s) for 300 seconds for each algorithm...
Benchmarking without network connection first...
equihash: 1.412996 kH/s
pascal: 3.140780 GH/s
decred: 8.864810 GH/s
sia: 5.674955 GH/s
lbry: 837.269673 MH/s
blake2s: 12.842469 GH/s
lyra2rev2: 119.783266 MH/s
cryptonight: 1.569471 kH/s
daggerhashimoto: 70.255890 MH/s
daggerhashimoto_pascal: 52.603532 MH/s & 2.006996 GH/s
daggerhashimoto_decred: 67.375154 MH/s & 2.927411 GH/s
daggerhashimoto_sia: 68.533263 MH/s & 1.346579 GH/s
Benchmarking with 3 device(s) for 300 seconds for each algorithm...
Connectng to usa.nicehash.com...
equihash: 1.408922 kH/s (50 acceped, 0 rejected)
pascal: 2.084523 GH/s (38 acceped, 0 rejected)
decred: 8.870751 GH/s (124 acceped, 0 rejected)
sia: 5.676765 GH/s (102 acceped, 0 rejected)
lbry: 837.882124 MH/s (97 acceped, 0 rejected)
blake2s: 12.825668 GH/s (194 acceped, 0 rejected)
lyra2rev2: 119.710346 MH/s (66 acceped, 0 rejected)
cryptonight: 1.536833 kH/s (2 acceped, 1 rejected)
daggerhashimoto: 52.099698 MH/s (12 acceped, 0 rejected)
daggerhashimoto_pascal: 49.025702 MH/s & 1.836451 GH/s (82 acceped, 1 rejected)
daggerhashimoto_decred: 47.552451 MH/s & 2.268395 GH/s (42 acceped, 0 rejected)
daggerhashimoto_sia: 50.623493 MH/s & 1.102006 GH/s (32 acceped, 0 rejected)
Things to note! I had difficulty breaking out of the benchmark process with "control-c" and had to reboot to stop the process. The word "accepted" is spelled wrong. The process took more than 2 hours, 22 benchmarks at 300 seconds each. Neoscrypt is not included in the benchmarks. My 1070ti is slightly faster than my 980ti cards, at about 1/2 the wattage. --scryptr
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December 07, 2017, 02:41:00 PM |
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EXCAVATOR BENCHMARKS--
After installing Excavator on my Linux rig (instructions at the GitHub site), I ran the bencmark script. Here are the results:
Excavator Version: v1.3.8a_nvidia
OS: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
NVIDIA Driver Version: 384.90
Found 3 device(s):
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Benchmarking with 3 device(s) for 300 seconds for each algorithm...
Benchmarking without network connection first...
equihash: 1.412996 kH/s
pascal: 3.140780 GH/s
decred: 8.864810 GH/s
sia: 5.674955 GH/s
lbry: 837.269673 MH/s
blake2s: 12.842469 GH/s
lyra2rev2: 119.783266 MH/s
cryptonight: 1.569471 kH/s
daggerhashimoto: 70.255890 MH/s
daggerhashimoto_pascal: 52.603532 MH/s & 2.006996 GH/s
daggerhashimoto_decred: 67.375154 MH/s & 2.927411 GH/s
daggerhashimoto_sia: 68.533263 MH/s & 1.346579 GH/s
Benchmarking with 3 device(s) for 300 seconds for each algorithm...
Connectng to usa.nicehash.com...
equihash: 1.408922 kH/s (50 acceped, 0 rejected)
pascal: 2.084523 GH/s (38 acceped, 0 rejected)
decred: 8.870751 GH/s (124 acceped, 0 rejected)
sia: 5.676765 GH/s (102 acceped, 0 rejected)
lbry: 837.882124 MH/s (97 acceped, 0 rejected)
blake2s: 12.825668 GH/s (194 acceped, 0 rejected)
lyra2rev2: 119.710346 MH/s (66 acceped, 0 rejected)
cryptonight: 1.536833 kH/s (2 acceped, 1 rejected)
daggerhashimoto: 52.099698 MH/s (12 acceped, 0 rejected)
daggerhashimoto_pascal: 49.025702 MH/s & 1.836451 GH/s (82 acceped, 1 rejected)
daggerhashimoto_decred: 47.552451 MH/s & 2.268395 GH/s (42 acceped, 0 rejected)
daggerhashimoto_sia: 50.623493 MH/s & 1.102006 GH/s (32 acceped, 0 rejected)
Things to note! I had difficulty breaking out of the benchmark process with "control-c" and had to reboot to stop the process. The word "accepted" is spelled wrong. The process took more than 2 hours, 22 benchmarks at 300 seconds each. Neoscrypt is not included in the benchmarks. My 1070ti is slightly faster than my 980ti cards, at about 1/2 the wattage. --scryptr
Hi! I tested of lyra2rev2 algo with 1.3.4a, 1.3.7a and 1.3.8a on Ubuntu 16.04 and had this results: 26-27 MH/s, 22-23 MH/s, 22-23 MH/s. I think it is not normal. GPU - P106-100 (Palit GTX 1060 6Gb). Monero has a worse result too on new versions. |
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December 07, 2017, 06:56:19 PM |
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So i just got this miner for myself, so pretty noob still with it. I have 2 GPU's and i would want to mine with only my secondary one from time to time, how do i do it?
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