[OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining

[damNmad]

Hey, ty for adding teamviewer to nvOC!

But i got a problem: teamviewer never start on boot, i always need to enter this on guake terminal :

sudo teamviewer --daemon enable


My rigs are not at home, and if i need to reboot this, i can't control after the reboot :-(, please help me.

On your 1bash be sure to set

TEAMVIEWER="YES"

Oh thanks, there is a way to edit the 1bash in ubuntu ? if yes it need a restart ? thanks!

Yes, you can. It is in the home directory. Please search in home folder (where you see all miners)

EDIT:

For restart, to apply the 1bash changes you don't need to restart whole rig, you can kill the mining process using 'CTRL + c' and it should restart the process with new changes, if it doesn't just close the terminal after 'CTRL+c' and close the terminal and restart the terminal (not the rig)

[damNmad]

can we do skunk on this?  on zpool


do I have to add the software to mine  or is the option added.

I been tied up for days fixing my btc and my bcc. the  free money was nice.

I now would like to do some skunk on my new build here.

Yes you can mate, just browse around couple of pages back, there are instructions with comments (I could've quoted it but using mobile now sorry)

EDIT:

Here you go mate, tried my best, hope it helps...

Hi guys,

i do a little "how to" if some people want to mine SIGT / skunk algo.

First of all i use Palginmodccminer ( the SP_MOD is faster but u have to pay )

FIRST STEP GET THE CLIENT

### Be in home dir ###

cd /home/m1/

### Create a directory for your new miner ###

mkdir PMccminer

### Go in new dir ###

cd PMccminer/

### Download miner client ###

wget https://github.com/palginpav/ccminer/releases/download/1.1/palginmod_1.1_Ubuntu.tar.gz

### Extract the file ###

tar -zxvf palginmod_1.1_Ubuntu.tar.gz

### Delete start.sh ###

rm start.sh

### Back to home dir ###

cd /home/m1/

SECOND STEP EDIT BASH

### Open 1bash

nano 1bash

### Add SIGT  and  SIGT_BTC to the coin selection

# CHOOSE COIN FROM:
# DMD  GRS  ZPOOL_LYRA2V2  ZPOOL_BLAKE2S
# ZEC   ZCOIN  HUSH   ZEN  ZCL   SIGT  SIGT_BTC
# NICE_ETHASH  ETH    MUSIC  ETC  EXP  DCR  PASC
# MONA  VTC    DGB    SIA  FTC  LBC
# DUAL_ETC_DCR    DUAL_ETC_PASC    DUAL_ETC_LBC    DUAL_ETC_SC
# DUAL_EXP_DCR    DUAL_EXP_PASC    DUAL_EXP_LBC    DUAL_EXP_SC
# DUAL_ETH_DCR    DUAL_ETH_PASC    DUAL_ETH_LBC    DUAL_ETH_SC
# DUAL_MUSIC_DCR  DUAL_MUSIC_PASC  DUAL_MUSIC_LBC  DUAL_MUSIC_SC

### Add SIGT and SIGT_BTC specs ( u have to modify SIGT_WORKER and SIGT_ADDRESS by your seting )

SIGT_WORKER="SIGT"
SIGT_ADDRESS="Bibi187"
SIGT_POOL="stratum+tcp://sigt.suprnova.cc:7106"
 
###SIGT_BTC use BTC adresses###
SIGT_BTC_POOL="stratum+tcp://skunk.mine.zpool.ca:8433"

### If u use SIGT_BTC, be sure to get correct ( your BTC adress )

BTC_ADDRESS="3JJaMUVBJp55BNsGvYynaJhDXRyUf95hyG"

### Add miner specs to the end of ur file between the two last "fi"   ( ensure ur worker have x password on suprnova pool, or modify the "-p x" by "-p YourPassword" in the SIGT section )

if [ $COIN == "SIGT_BTC" ]
then
HCD='/home/m1/PMccminer/ccminer'
ADDR="$BTC_ADDRESS"
 
screen -dmS miner $HCD -a skunk -o $SIGT_BTC_POOL -u $ADDR -p c=SIGT
 
if [ $LOCALorREMOTE == "LOCAL" ]
then
screen -r miner
fi
 
BITCOIN="theGROUND"
 
while [ $BITCOIN == "theGROUND" ]
do
sleep 60
done
fi
 
if [ $COIN == "SIGT" ]
then
HCD='/home/m1/PMccminer/ccminer'
ADDR="$SIGT_ADDRESS.$SIGT_WORKER"
 
screen -dmS miner $HCD -a skunk -o $SIGT_POOL -u $ADDR -p x
 
if [ $LOCALorREMOTE == "LOCAL" ]
then
screen -r miner
fi
 
BITCOIN="theGROUND"
 
while [ $BITCOIN == "theGROUND" ]
do
sleep 60
done
fi

THIRD STEP OC SETTING ( ASUS 1070 GTX 8OG / prolly ok for most 1070 gtx )

First of all this algo, gona get a lot of heat from your card, he use core, not memory.

CoreClock : 120
MemClock : -2000
PowerLimit at default : 150W
Temp Target 70°
Fan between 95% - 75%  ( I use watchdog )

This fine tunning work like a charm 213mh/s on suprnova, 211mh/s on zpool

U have to disable

IAmNotAJeep_and_Maxximus007_WATCHDOG="NO"

Or your RIG gona get restart for nothing, i dont modify IAmNotAJeep_and_Maxximus007_WATCHDOG, if i do prolly i can get him work with this setup but more simple to stop him for this coin


Et voila

thanks for the walkthrough. there is a few things that i think are backwards on your instructions. on my nvoc the directories are /home/m1/ and you have /m1/home/ in your instructions.
also, with the settings i am entering into the fields for the suprnova pool info, i dont know if they are right or what is going on...i am getting a error when i run the terminal "stratum authentication failed" then trying again in 30 seconds. your settings show:
SIGT_WORKER="SIGT"
SIGT_ADDRESS="Bibi187"
SIGT_POOL="stratum+tcp://sigt.suprnova.cc:7106"

in suprnova, my worker is "firstname.systemnumber" example "lovecoin.sys1" - so would i make my settings look like SIGT_WORKER="lovecoin.sys1" ? also what am i editing to sigt_address?

Nice point about the path, the true one is /home/m1, i edit the post
SIGT_WORKER="sys1"
SIGT_ADDRESS="lovecoin"

Will do the job

[damNmad]

Hi Guys,

This was really a great forum, especially for us newbie to linux mining.

I just want to ask im trying to setup my first ever Linux OS and Miner, i already did installing nvOC v18 on my sata hdd 500gb and successfully booted,
then i already setup 1bash for SIGT mining but i always stuck on this part and then the PC will auto-restart after a couple of minutes.



I hope you can help me.

Thanks

God Bless

As per the instructions you need to disable watch_dog by setting it to 'NO'.

EDIT:

Sorry, just saw your screenshot, go to quake terminal by pressing F12.

Type

Code:

screen -r miner

It should show the mining process in that tab/quake terminal.

If it doesn't, then try disabling the watch dog and see.

Let me know if you still see the issue.

[tomlev5]

Hi!
I'm about to build a rig with Pentium G4400.
But after reading about Skylake issues with hyper threading don't know
should I use it or better to return and exchange it with i3?

i have a rig runs 8 cards with G3900, no problem.

I have a rig with G3900 and 10 cards, but it seems that the G3900 is bottlenecking the system. First core uses 100%, the other around 20%.

Is there a way to split the workload on both cores (If I could run EWBF miner in two terminals or is there some other way)?

Can somebody please help me, i'm a noob in linux.


nvOC is a great system. Thanks for all the work.

[JayneL]

Hi Guys,

This was really a great forum, especially for us newbie to linux mining.

I just want to ask im trying to setup my first ever Linux OS and Miner, i already did installing nvOC v18 on my sata hdd 500gb and successfully booted,
then i already setup 1bash for SIGT mining but i always stuck on this part and then the PC will auto-restart after a couple of minutes.



I hope you can help me.

Thanks

God Bless

As per the instructions you need to disable watch_dog by setting it to 'NO'.

EDIT:

Sorry, just saw your screenshot, go to quake terminal by pressing F12.

Type

Code:

screen -r miner

It should show the mining process in that tab/quake terminal.

If it doesn't, then try disabling the watch dog and see.

Let me know if you still see the issue.

I already disable watch dog still my ccminer skunk not running for SIGT, i use skunk miner spmod5 from github.. oh i try to mine ZEC and its working fine. but for SIGT no luck.. i just leave for an hour to buy a 32GB flash drive BRB

[damNmad]

Hi Guys,

This was really a great forum, especially for us newbie to linux mining.

I just want to ask im trying to setup my first ever Linux OS and Miner, i already did installing nvOC v18 on my sata hdd 500gb and successfully booted,
then i already setup 1bash for SIGT mining but i always stuck on this part and then the PC will auto-restart after a couple of minutes.



I hope you can help me.

Thanks

God Bless

As per the instructions you need to disable watch_dog by setting it to 'NO'.

EDIT:

Sorry, just saw your screenshot, go to quake terminal by pressing F12.

Type

Code:

screen -r miner

It should show the mining process in that tab/quake terminal.

If it doesn't, then try disabling the watch dog and see.

Let me know if you still see the issue.

I already disable watch dog still my ccminer skunk not running for SIGT, i use skunk miner spmod5 from github.. oh i try to mine ZEC and its working fine. but for SIGT no luck.. i just leave for an hour to buy a 32GB flash drive BRB

Which pool you use to mine ZEC and SIGT??

[JayneL]

for zec im using the default pool included in the nvOC, for the SIGT i use supernova that was working on my windows..i see that after disabling watchdog the machine now doesn't do any restart or crashing but still miner still not working. tnx for help can you help me via teamviewer?

[damNmad]

for zec im using the default pool included in the nvOC, for the SIGT i use supernova that was working on my windows..i see that after disabling watchdog the machine now doesn't do any restart or crashing but still miner still not working. tnx for help can you help me via teamviewer?

Have you added the required code for SIGT in your oneBash??

[JayneL]

yup i do.... still figuring out now...

[damNmad]

yup i do.... still figuring out now...

Have you followed the below instructions?? Please try the below again, if it doesn't work. happy to help you via teamviewer.

Hi guys,

i do a little "how to" if some people want to mine SIGT / skunk algo.

First of all i use Palginmodccminer ( the SP_MOD is faster but u have to pay )

FIRST STEP GET THE CLIENT

### Be in home dir ###

cd /home/m1/

### Create a directory for your new miner ###

mkdir PMccminer

### Go in new dir ###

cd PMccminer/

### Download miner client ###

wget https://github.com/palginpav/ccminer/releases/download/1.1/palginmod_1.1_Ubuntu.tar.gz

### Extract the file ###

tar -zxvf palginmod_1.1_Ubuntu.tar.gz

### Delete start.sh ###

rm start.sh

### Back to home dir ###

cd /home/m1/

SECOND STEP EDIT BASH

### Open 1bash

nano 1bash

### Add SIGT  and  SIGT_BTC to the coin selection

# CHOOSE COIN FROM:
# DMD  GRS  ZPOOL_LYRA2V2  ZPOOL_BLAKE2S
# ZEC   ZCOIN  HUSH   ZEN  ZCL   SIGT  SIGT_BTC
# NICE_ETHASH  ETH    MUSIC  ETC  EXP  DCR  PASC
# MONA  VTC    DGB    SIA  FTC  LBC
# DUAL_ETC_DCR    DUAL_ETC_PASC    DUAL_ETC_LBC    DUAL_ETC_SC
# DUAL_EXP_DCR    DUAL_EXP_PASC    DUAL_EXP_LBC    DUAL_EXP_SC
# DUAL_ETH_DCR    DUAL_ETH_PASC    DUAL_ETH_LBC    DUAL_ETH_SC
# DUAL_MUSIC_DCR  DUAL_MUSIC_PASC  DUAL_MUSIC_LBC  DUAL_MUSIC_SC

### Add SIGT and SIGT_BTC specs ( u have to modify SIGT_WORKER and SIGT_ADDRESS by your seting )

SIGT_WORKER="SIGT"
SIGT_ADDRESS="Bibi187"
SIGT_POOL="stratum+tcp://sigt.suprnova.cc:7106"
 
###SIGT_BTC use BTC adresses###
SIGT_BTC_POOL="stratum+tcp://skunk.mine.zpool.ca:8433"

### If u use SIGT_BTC, be sure to get correct ( your BTC adress )

BTC_ADDRESS="3JJaMUVBJp55BNsGvYynaJhDXRyUf95hyG"

### Add miner specs to the end of ur file between the two last "fi"   ( ensure ur worker have x password on suprnova pool, or modify the "-p x" by "-p YourPassword" in the SIGT section )

if [ $COIN == "SIGT_BTC" ]
then
HCD='/home/m1/PMccminer/ccminer'
ADDR="$BTC_ADDRESS"
 
screen -dmS miner $HCD -a skunk -o $SIGT_BTC_POOL -u $ADDR -p c=SIGT
 
if [ $LOCALorREMOTE == "LOCAL" ]
then
screen -r miner
fi
 
BITCOIN="theGROUND"
 
while [ $BITCOIN == "theGROUND" ]
do
sleep 60
done
fi
 
if [ $COIN == "SIGT" ]
then
HCD='/home/m1/PMccminer/ccminer'
ADDR="$SIGT_ADDRESS.$SIGT_WORKER"
 
screen -dmS miner $HCD -a skunk -o $SIGT_POOL -u $ADDR -p x
 
if [ $LOCALorREMOTE == "LOCAL" ]
then
screen -r miner
fi
 
BITCOIN="theGROUND"
 
while [ $BITCOIN == "theGROUND" ]
do
sleep 60
done
fi

THIRD STEP OC SETTING ( ASUS 1070 GTX 8OG / prolly ok for most 1070 gtx )

First of all this algo, gona get a lot of heat from your card, he use core, not memory.

CoreClock : 120
MemClock : -2000
PowerLimit at default : 150W
Temp Target 70°
Fan between 95% - 75%  ( I use watchdog )

This fine tunning work like a charm 213mh/s on suprnova, 211mh/s on zpool

U have to disable

IAmNotAJeep_and_Maxximus007_WATCHDOG="NO"

Or your RIG gona get restart for nothing, i dont modify IAmNotAJeep_and_Maxximus007_WATCHDOG, if i do prolly i can get him work with this setup but more simple to stop him for this coin


Et voila

thanks for the walkthrough. there is a few things that i think are backwards on your instructions. on my nvoc the directories are /home/m1/ and you have /m1/home/ in your instructions.
also, with the settings i am entering into the fields for the suprnova pool info, i dont know if they are right or what is going on...i am getting a error when i run the terminal "stratum authentication failed" then trying again in 30 seconds. your settings show:
SIGT_WORKER="SIGT"
SIGT_ADDRESS="Bibi187"
SIGT_POOL="stratum+tcp://sigt.suprnova.cc:7106"

in suprnova, my worker is "firstname.systemnumber" example "lovecoin.sys1" - so would i make my settings look like SIGT_WORKER="lovecoin.sys1" ? also what am i editing to sigt_address?

Nice point about the path, the true one is /home/m1, i edit the post
SIGT_WORKER="sys1"
SIGT_ADDRESS="lovecoin"

Will do the job

[car1999]

Hey, ty for adding teamviewer to nvOC!

But i got a problem: teamviewer never start on boot, i always need to enter this on guake terminal :

sudo teamviewer --daemon enable


My rigs are not at home, and if i need to reboot this, i can't control after the reboot :-(, please help me.

On your 1bash be sure to set

TEAMVIEWER="YES"

Oh thanks, there is a way to edit the 1bash in ubuntu ? if yes it need a restart ? thanks!

Yes, you can. It is in the home directory. Please search in home folder (where you see all miners)

EDIT:

For restart, to apply the 1bash changes you don't need to restart whole rig, you can kill the mining process using 'CTRL + c' and it should restart the process with new changes, if it doesn't just close the terminal after 'CTRL+c' and close the terminal and restart the terminal (not the rig)

press CTRL+c, it restarts 1bash, do you know how to disable this feature?
 I'd like to exit the terminal when I press CTRL+c, thanks.  

[hwlgraka]

Hello,

I have two scenarios, where I don't have a solution. And I'm not able to search only in this entire thread, is that possible?

Maxximus007_AUTO_TEMPERATURE_CONTROL is disabled
Config is set to REMOTE

1) Sometimes the miner get stuck. This means, that I can still open the session (screen -r miner), but I cannot kill it (pkill -e miner).
If I happen to be in that situation, how do I kill the miner? Sending a pkill -9 -e miner also doesn't help.

2) After the miner gets killed (via pkill -e miner), there is no screen session opened again (screen -ls returns nothing). How can I manually start the 1bash script again, so that it starts the corresponding and correct screen session?

Thanks very much in advance.
Kind regards

[Bibi187]

Hello,

I have two scenarios, where I don't have a solution. And I'm not able to search only in this entire thread, is that possible?

Maxximus007_AUTO_TEMPERATURE_CONTROL is disabled
Config is set to REMOTE

1) Sometimes the miner get stuck. This means, that I can still open the session (screen -r miner), but I cannot kill it (pkill -e miner).
If I happen to be in that situation, how do I kill the miner? Sending a pkill -9 -e miner also doesn't help.

2) After the miner gets killed (via pkill -e miner), there is no screen session opened again (screen -ls returns nothing). How can I manually start the 1bash script again, so that it starts the corresponding and correct screen session?

Thanks very much in advance.
Kind regards

When u are on the miner terminal do CTRL+C interrupt your miner.
To launch a new 1bash just do "bash 1bash"
Let him do the work, when u see the final line do CTRL+C
"screen -ls" gona show you new miner

[JayneL]

thanks guys i finally manage to make it run for couple of hours now, heres the new problem i plug all my 6 GPU in my Biostar TB250-BTC PRO but only 5 was working
bios already set to mining above 6gpu, pcie set to GEN1, i plug my monitor on the 1x16 pcie all fans are working. and im lost

[uat88]

I've managed to make it work with my RIG, it seems working fine (issue was with path as mentioned in one of the replies).

Getting around 125 MH with my 8x 1060 6GB ASUS (oc:0,mc:0,pl:80), please share you OC settings if you think I'm getting low hashrate.

Thanks.

I dont know about 1060, but on skunk algo, u dont care about mc so put them in lower value, max as u can for 1070 is -2000.
Up your powerlimit to the default powerlimit and Clockmemory step by step start at 100, wait 24h and increment by 10 after every 24hours before crash.
When crash occur reduce to the previous step, wait again more 24h if stable lower your powerlimit to get a better ratio watt / hashrate.

So for my ASUS 1070 GTX 8OG
MemClock : -2000
CoreClock : 130 ( the 24hours step, i go push to 130 just now )
PowerLimit : 150W per gpu
TempLimit : 70c
Fan range : 95-75 ( autotemp ON )  

As SIGT is running good for 2500 blocks after reward get halved, i suggest you to get a stable setting cause watchdog is disable, so if your RIG crash, he dont gona reboot him self

Thanks mate for the suggestions and sharing your OC settings, i will try to increase as per your suggestions and see how it goes.

Will share my OC settings if it improves.

Is getting around 125 MH with my 8x 1060 6GB considered low hashrate?
What should be the ideal for this GTX 1060 or 1070?

[damNmad]

I've managed to make it work with my RIG, it seems working fine (issue was with path as mentioned in one of the replies).

Getting around 125 MH with my 8x 1060 6GB ASUS (oc:0,mc:0,pl:80), please share you OC settings if you think I'm getting low hashrate.

Thanks.

I dont know about 1060, but on skunk algo, u dont care about mc so put them in lower value, max as u can for 1070 is -2000.
Up your powerlimit to the default powerlimit and Clockmemory step by step start at 100, wait 24h and increment by 10 after every 24hours before crash.
When crash occur reduce to the previous step, wait again more 24h if stable lower your powerlimit to get a better ratio watt / hashrate.

So for my ASUS 1070 GTX 8OG
MemClock : -2000
CoreClock : 130 ( the 24hours step, i go push to 130 just now )
PowerLimit : 150W per gpu
TempLimit : 70c
Fan range : 95-75 ( autotemp ON )  

As SIGT is running good for 2500 blocks after reward get halved, i suggest you to get a stable setting cause watchdog is disable, so if your RIG crash, he dont gona reboot him self

Thanks mate for the suggestions and sharing your OC settings, i will try to increase as per your suggestions and see how it goes.

Will share my OC settings if it improves.

Is getting around 125 MH with my 8x 1060 6GB considered low hashrate?
What should be the ideal for this GTX 1060 or 1070?

Well, from my experiments, i came to conclusion that the following settings are good (maybe not!!) I think.

cc :150
mc:-1500
pl  :80

gave me around 138MH

But I just found this

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2070862

Testing it now, will keep you posted.

Please let me know if the above OC settings has made any improvement?

 

[tomlev5]

Hi!
I'm about to build a rig with Pentium G4400.
But after reading about Skylake issues with hyper threading don't know
should I use it or better to return and exchange it with i3?

i have a rig runs 8 cards with G3900, no problem.

I have a rig with G3900 and 10 cards, but it seems that the G3900 is bottlenecking the system. First core uses 100%, the other around 20%.

Is there a way to split the workload on both cores (If I could run EWBF miner in two terminals or is there some other way)?

Can somebody please help me, i'm a noob in linux.


nvOC is a great system. Thanks for all the work.

I tried opening two miners in two screens with some change in 1bash:

screen -dmS minerX1 $HCD --eexit 3 --fee $EWBF_PERCENT --cuda_devices 0 1 2 3 4 --pec --server $ZEC_POOL --user $ZECADDR --pass z --port $ZEC_PORT;
screen -dmS minerX2 $HCD --eexit 3 --fee $EWBF_PERCENT --cuda_devices 5 6 7 8 9 --pec --server $ZEC_POOL --user $ZECADDR --pass z --port $ZEC_PORT;

After the change there are two processes in System monitor, but CPU usage is still the same (100% one core, 20% second core).

Is it possible that System monitor doesn't show the correct CPU utilization?
Will it help if I change the CPU from G3900 to i3 or perhaps i5?

Fullzero, I see You have 13 GPUs on Asrock H110 PRO BTC (I am using the same motherboard). What kind of CPU do you have so that everything is working smoothly?

[salfter]

@salfter :

I'd like to suggest an idea to your switcher: when the most profitable algorithm is Ethash, give the option to dual-mine automatically with the second most profitable algorithm if it's able to do so.

Of course I'm oversimplifying, as the switching itself will have to consider a higher power limit, more complex profit calculation and perform a "switch inside a switch" (Ethash fixed + switching second algo). But I think we can get a few more bucks this way, at least from my short mining experience it's usually profitable to dual-mine when Ethash is the most profitable.

My somewhat limited experience is that it only squeezes out a few more cents, not dollars.  I'd also need to redo miner benchmarks, as I've been using Genoil's ethminer.

[dbolivar]

I tried opening two miners in two screens with some change in 1bash:

screen -dmS minerX1 $HCD --eexit 3 --fee $EWBF_PERCENT --cuda_devices 0 1 2 3 4 --pec --server $ZEC_POOL --user $ZECADDR --pass z --port $ZEC_PORT;
screen -dmS minerX2 $HCD --eexit 3 --fee $EWBF_PERCENT --cuda_devices 5 6 7 8 9 --pec --server $ZEC_POOL --user $ZECADDR --pass z --port $ZEC_PORT;

After the change there are two processes in System monitor, but CPU usage is still the same (100% one core, 20% second core).

Is it possible that System monitor doesn't show the correct CPU utilization?
Will it help if I change the CPU from G3900 to i3 or perhaps i5?

I don't have experience with your particular hardware, but from the specs of your CPU, it supports up to 16 PCIe lanes, so at least I/O shouldn't be a problem (https://ark.intel.com/products/90741/Intel-Celeron-Processor-G3900-2M-Cache-2_80-GHz), as long as you use all your cards with risers, so they all run at PCIe 1x.

You can check the following in your Linux installation:

1) In "top" or "system monitor", what's the breakdown of the CPU usage for USER, SYSTEM, NICE and WAIT? This will help identify where the bottleneck could be.

2) Which are the top 3 processes using more CPU?

3) Check if you have the process "irqbalance" running with the correct parameters: "ps aux | grep irqbalance".

[salfter]

Sorry but that's not really related to my question. It's no problem how loud the graphic cards are, they should just run at 100%. The cooler the card, the longer the lifespan. And at the moments in the room I really need them to run at 100%. They get 70 degree at 50% which is too much.

I thought I read somewhere that running the fans much past 85% won't do much in the way of additional cooling, but it will run up additional wear on the motors.