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

[papampi]

Probably a terrible question but is there a user guide for nvOC?  I searched the forum and any files in the OS and couldn't find anything.  Trying to find information on setting up SALFTER MPH SWITCHING.  Thanks in advance if I should kill myself........

Hey bruv, I'm here to save you from dying.

You just need to select coin name like this :

COIN="SALFTER_MPH_PROFIT_SWITCHER

You can see that in the coin list at the end.

I agree there should be guides about this, being a community built we need more contributions, hope more people chip in.

Weird...did that yesterday and seemed to give me some errors but seems to be working today.  I did notice the OC setting I had in SALFTER did not work while i was hashing equihash algo.  I assume that would be the same for the others, any idea why the OC settings are not working in SALFTER?  I turned off the manual settings so i didn't miss that...

You can use individual OC and power limit, it will override the salfter oc and power settings.

[papampi]

Another thing: I wanted to know what happened to this story of a guy who had posted and which he proposed to share the source of his code with us although he develloped for him initially.

Leenoox had asked him to share his code with graphics and statistics but I do not know if he did something ...

No idea, he just posted some screen shots.
The thing is writing a code for yourself and for everyone's use has many differences.

When you write for yourself there are bugs and limitations that you know them and you may or may not put time to fix them.
But when you publish a free code for public usage, some people think just because you share your code, they paid you for it and they let themselves tell you whatever they like.
Thats why so many people don't like to post their codes and just use it privately instead of posting it for public usage.

Sometimes I think that's the reason fullzero left his own project and maybe we should do the same too.
Just write for ourselves and use as it suits us ...

[bumbu100]

Hi, guys.
I have tried all that i thought useful.

I CAN'T OVERCLOCK P104 GPU !!


Hardware:
RIG - 13 x P104-100 ASUS
MBO - Asus B250 Mining Expert

NVOC settings (coin ETH, no auto-switch):

1. 1bash OC
TEMPERATURE_CONTROL="YES"
damNmad_ALGO_SPECIFIC_OC="NO"
POWERLIMIT="YES"
 POWERLIMIT_WATTS=150
 __CORE_OVERCLOCK=0
 MEMORY_OVERCLOCK=600
MANUAL_FAN="YES"
 FAN_SPEED=100
P106_100_FULL_HEADLESS_MODE="YES"
AUTOMATIC_OVERCLOCK="NO"

2. automatic OC (waiting 5 hours mining)
TEMPERATURE_CONTROL="YES"
damNmad_ALGO_SPECIFIC_OC="NO"
POWERLIMIT="NO"
 POWERLIMIT_WATTS=150
 __CORE_OVERCLOCK=0
 MEMORY_OVERCLOCK=500
MANUAL_FAN="YES"
 FAN_SPEED=100
P106_100_FULL_HEADLESS_MODE="YES"
AUTOMATIC_OVERCLOCK="YES"

3. Algo OC
TEMPERATURE_CONTROL="YES"
damNmad_ALGO_SPECIFIC_OC="YES"
POWERLIMIT="NO"
 POWERLIMIT_WATTS=150
 __CORE_OVERCLOCK=0
 MEMORY_OVERCLOCK=500
MANUAL_FAN="YES"
 FAN_SPEED=100
P106_100_FULL_HEADLESS_MODE="YES"
AUTOMATIC_OVERCLOCK="NO"

NO ONE WORKING
The same hash rate. Absolutely the same.
Any help, please....

[hashmasta83]

Probably a terrible question but is there a user guide for nvOC?  I searched the forum and any files in the OS and couldn't find anything.  Trying to find information on setting up SALFTER MPH SWITCHING.  Thanks in advance if I should kill myself........

Hey bruv, I'm here to save you from dying.

You just need to select coin name like this :

COIN="SALFTER_MPH_PROFIT_SWITCHER

You can see that in the coin list at the end.

I agree there should be guides about this, being a community built we need more contributions, hope more people chip in.

Weird...did that yesterday and seemed to give me some errors but seems to be working today.  I did notice the OC setting I had in SALFTER did not work while i was hashing equihash algo.  I assume that would be the same for the others, any idea why the OC settings are not working in SALFTER?  I turned off the manual settings so i didn't miss that...

You can use individual OC and power limit, it will override the salfter oc and power settings.

Only problem with this is if SALFTER switches to a different algo those OC settings may not jive to well for instance if you switch from equihash to ethash.  I'm thinking some other setting in the code is messing with these OC settings.

[joshuajones02]

Papampi, can you help me out. I'm not sure where to start really but one of my rigs keeps getting a GPU Utilization is too low: restarting 3main error ever so often and it constantly says "connection closed by server r:0". I've tried different pools and different coins but seem to have the same issue. I've also reformatted with a fresh copy of nvOC 19-2.0 but still have issues. Thanks man!

I think its a dstm problem happens to some of my rigs from time to time too, think I saw some talks about it in its thread, try ewbf or bminer, see if they fix it or not.
In the mean time you can post your problem in dstm thread, see how they can help.

Thanks man, I was having the same issues with EWBF as well. I will look into bminer in the 2.1 prerelease. Thank you

[hashmasta83]

Hi, guys.
I have tried all that i thought useful.

I CAN'T OVERCLOCK P104 GPU !!


Hardware:
RIG - 13 x P104-100 ASUS
MBO - Asus B250 Mining Expert

NVOC settings (coin ETH, no auto-switch):

1. 1bash OC
TEMPERATURE_CONTROL="YES"
damNmad_ALGO_SPECIFIC_OC="NO"
POWERLIMIT="YES"
 POWERLIMIT_WATTS=150
 __CORE_OVERCLOCK=0
 MEMORY_OVERCLOCK=600
MANUAL_FAN="YES"
 FAN_SPEED=100
P106_100_FULL_HEADLESS_MODE="YES"
AUTOMATIC_OVERCLOCK="NO"

2. automatic OC (waiting 5 hours mining)
TEMPERATURE_CONTROL="YES"
damNmad_ALGO_SPECIFIC_OC="NO"
POWERLIMIT="NO"
 POWERLIMIT_WATTS=150
 __CORE_OVERCLOCK=0
 MEMORY_OVERCLOCK=500
MANUAL_FAN="YES"
 FAN_SPEED=100
P106_100_FULL_HEADLESS_MODE="YES"
AUTOMATIC_OVERCLOCK="YES"

3. Algo OC
TEMPERATURE_CONTROL="YES"
damNmad_ALGO_SPECIFIC_OC="YES"
POWERLIMIT="NO"
 POWERLIMIT_WATTS=150
 __CORE_OVERCLOCK=0
 MEMORY_OVERCLOCK=500
MANUAL_FAN="YES"
 FAN_SPEED=100
P106_100_FULL_HEADLESS_MODE="YES"
AUTOMATIC_OVERCLOCK="NO"

NO ONE WORKING
The same hash rate. Absolutely the same.
Any help, please....

Set manual power and OC limits for each GPU it will override any of these settings.

[CryptAtomeTrader44]

Sometimes I think that's the reason fullzero left his own project and maybe we should do the same too.
Just write for ourselves and use as it suits us ...

It is disturbing what you are writing here papampi. I understand what you mean and I think the tone used by some here is a bit too high.

I wanted to talk about the ethmon program revisited by osnwt and that seemed to interest leenoox as much as you.

The code and the program are available on github, would not it be enough to recover it for version 19-2.1?

osnwt  Post :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1854250.6980

[monck]

When you write for yourself there are bugs and limitations that you know them and you may or may not put time to fix them.
But when you publish a free code for public usage, some people think just because you share your code, they paid you for it and they let themselves tell you whatever they like.
Thats why so many people don't like to post their codes and just use it privately instead of posting it for public usage.

Thats absolutely right - you will experiencing with every kind of work you will do free for public some kinds of people who are thinking they bought you.
But don't forget the lots of user, also those one who are only reading here and be very thankful for the whole work you guys are spending to keep the project alive and expand IMO to the best project you will find for all of us!

[CryptAtomeTrader44]

Anychance of adding timetravel algo?

Give us leads and make sure that the mining software installed on nvOC is not enough. It seems to me that one of the software allows to hash this algo. But I'm not sure.

It seemed to me that someone had asked for another coin (BTX). I made a search in the forum search engine to find a post that talks about.
You can see below that the ccminer forked of tpruvot allows you to mine two algo timetravel

/TPccminer$ ./ccminer --help
*** ccminer 2.2.3 for nVidia GPUs by tpruvot@github ***
    Built with the nVidia CUDA Toolkit 8.0 64-bits

  Originally based on Christian Buchner and Christian H. project
  Include some kernels from alexis78, djm34, djEzo, tsiv and krnlx.

BTC donation address: 1AJdfCpLWPNoAMDfHF1wD5y8VgKSSTHxPo (tpruvot)

Usage: ccminer [OPTIONS]
Options:
  -a, --algo=ALGO       specify the hash algorithm to use
                        bastion     Hefty bastion
                        bitcore     Timetravel-10
                        blake       Blake 256 (SFR)
                        blake2s     Blake2-S 256 (NEVA)
                        blakecoin   Fast Blake 256 (8 rounds)
                        bmw         BMW 256
                        cryptolight AEON cryptonight (MEM/2)
                        cryptonight XMR cryptonight
                        c11/flax    X11 variant
                        decred      Decred Blake256
                        deep        Deepcoin
                        equihash    Zcash Equihash
                        dmd-gr      Diamond-Groestl
                        fresh       Freshcoin (shavite 80)
                        fugue256    Fuguecoin
                        groestl     Groestlcoin
                        heavy       Heavycoin
                        hmq1725     Doubloons / Espers
                        jackpot     JHA v8
                        keccak      Deprecated Keccak-256
                        keccakc     Keccak-256 (CreativeCoin)
                        lbry        LBRY Credits (Sha/Ripemd)
                        luffa       Joincoin
                        lyra2       CryptoCoin
                        lyra2v2     VertCoin
                        lyra2z      ZeroCoin (3rd impl)
                        mjollnir    Mjollnircoin
                        myr-gr      Myriad-Groestl
                        neoscrypt   FeatherCoin, Phoenix, UFO...
                        nist5       NIST5 (TalkCoin)
                        penta       Pentablake hash (5x Blake 512)
                        phi         BHCoin
                        polytimos   Politimos
                        quark       Quark
                        qubit       Qubit
                        sha256d     SHA256d (bitcoin)
                        sha256t     SHA256 x3
                        sia         SIA (Blake2B)
                        sib         Sibcoin (X11+Streebog)
                        scrypt      Scrypt
                        scrypt-jane Scrypt-jane Chacha
                        skein       Skein SHA2 (Skeincoin)
                        skein2      Double Skein (Woodcoin)
                        skunk       Skein Cube Fugue Streebog
                        s3          S3 (1Coin)
                        timetravel  Machinecoin permuted x8
                        tribus      Denarius
                        vanilla     Blake256-8 (VNL)
                        veltor      Thorsriddle streebog
                        whirlcoin   Old Whirlcoin (Whirlpool algo)
                        whirlpool   Whirlpool algo
                        x11evo      Permuted x11 (Revolver)
                        x11         X11 (DarkCoin)
                        x13         X13 (MaruCoin)
                        x14         X14
                        x15         X15
                        x17         X17
                        wildkeccak  Boolberry
                        zr5         ZR5 (ZiftrCoin)
 

[Rig4p]

Probably a terrible question but is there a user guide for nvOC?  I searched the forum and any files in the OS and couldn't find anything.  Trying to find information on setting up SALFTER MPH SWITCHING.  Thanks in advance if I should kill myself........

Hey bruv, I'm here to save you from dying.

You just need to select coin name like this :

COIN="SALFTER_MPH_PROFIT_SWITCHER

You can see that in the coin list at the end.

I agree there should be guides about this, being a community built we need more contributions, hope more people chip in.

So is this meant to be a multi-algo switching rather than coin switching (same algo)?  Is it a better switching at estimating most profitable coins?  Just trying to get a better sense of the difference between MPH_EQUIHASH and SALFTER.  Also got it working today

MPH_EQUIHASH just mine equihash algo, SALFETR_MPH switch between different algos.
There are some bugs in 3main in 19-2.0 with ethminer
Open 3main and change ethminer for both nicehash and mph,
Fixed in 19-2.1

salfter nicehash :
Change:

Code:

     "cmd": "/home/m1/eth/ethminer_12dev2/ethminer -SP 2 -S daggerhashimoto.usa.nicehash.com:3353 -O {ADDR}.{MINER}:x -U"

To:

Code:

     "cmd": "/home/m1/eth/ethminer/latest/ethminer -SP 2 -S daggerhashimoto.usa.nicehash.com:3353 -O {ADDR}.{MINER}:x -U"

salfter mph:
Change:

Code:

      "bin": "/home/m1/eth/ethminer_12dev2/ethminer -S {HOST}:{PORT} -O {NAME}.{MINER}:x -U",

To:

Code:

      "bin": "/home/m1/eth/ethminer/latest/ethminer -S {HOST}:{PORT} -O {NAME}.{MINER}:x -U",

Thanks Papampi! That did the trick for Ethash.  Fantastic work!

I pulled out a bit of my hair trying to determine why this was not working for me.
This corrects both MPH_ETHASH and SALFTER_MPH_PROFIT_SWITCHING.
I believe this corrects the SALFTER version because it was always finding Ethereum as the most profitable to mine first and the incorrect path caused the crash.
Thanks again.

[CryptAtomeTrader44]

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Adding/replacing Vericoin coin (and VeRiumMiner) for CPU mining ONLY

More explanations about ASIC and GPU resistant Vericoin coin here :
Steemit : https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@jonipilo/verium-and-vericoin-the-most-profitabale-altcoin-to-mine
BTCTALK thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1540023.0

I'm skeptical because VRC coin is scrypt algorithm so i don't understand why it's not mineable with ASIC L3+ miner (but it seems to use scrypt² not really scrypt). This miner was asked in the tthread (by bumbu100), so i propose some code to mine it on nvOC.

I think papampi and leenoox or damnmad can propose more complex conditionnal loop for testing if you choose XMR or VRC for CPU minning but i'm not sure if it's really a good choice or idea. So i let them to decide if we have to implement a conditionnel loop for this.

Note : What I propose to modify here induces that you will not be able to mine monero with the CPU, but you can always do it with the GPU  by the other program xmr-stak-Gpu. You must be aware of this implication before you start modifying the 3main script.

1/ Download and unzip dedicated cpuminer fork : https://github.com/fireworm71/veriumMiner/releases/download/v1.4/cpuminer_1.4_linux_x64_O2_GCC7.zip
or
compile it from source : https://github.com/fireworm71/veriumMiner
(remmember ./autogen.sh; ./configure.sh; ./build.sh to compile the miner for your own system)

2/ Place it in /home/m1/VeRiumMiner (so, you have to move it and rename his directory in /home/m1 to have the same path like in the code below)

3/ Find plusCPU section in 3main script bash file (line 290 for me in nvOC 19-2.0):

Code:

if [ $plusCPU == "YES" ] && [ $AUTO_START_MINER == "YES" ]
then
  HCD='/home/m1/cpuOPT/cpuminer'
  XMRADDR="$XMR_ADDRESS.$XMR_WORKER"
  echo ""
  echo ""
  echo "LAUNCHING:  plusCPU"
  if [[ `ps -ef |grep cpuminer |grep -v grep |wc -l` -eq 0 ]]
  then
    if [ $LOCALorREMOTE == "LOCAL" ]
    then
      guake -n $HCD -r plusCPU -e "$HCD -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://$XMR_POOL:$XMR_PORT -u $XMRADDR -p x -t $threadCOUNT"
    else
      screen -dmS plusCPU $HCD -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://$XMR_POOL:$XMR_PORT -u $XMRADDR -p x -t $threadCOUNT
    fi
    echo ""
    echo "plusCPU process in guake terminal Tab (f12)"
    echo ""
    running=""
  fi

 
  4/ replace code above with :
  
 

Code:

 if [ $plusCPU == "YES" ] && [ $AUTO_START_MINER == "YES" ]
then
  HCD='/home/m1/VeRiumMiner/cpuminer'
  VRCADDR="$VRC_ADDRESS.$VRC_WORKER"
  echo ""
  echo ""
  echo "LAUNCHING:  plusCPU"
  if [[ `ps -ef |grep cpuminer |grep -v grep |wc -l` -eq 0 ]]
  then
    if [ $LOCALorREMOTE == "LOCAL" ]
    then
      guake -n $HCD -r plusCPU -e "$HCD -o stratum+tcp://$VRC_POOL:$VRC_PORT -u $VRCADDR -p $VRC_PWD -t $threadCOUNT"
    else
      screen -dmS plusCPU $HCD -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://$VRC_POOL:$VRC_PORT -u $VRCADDR -p $VRC_PWD -t $threadCOUNT
    fi
    echo ""
    echo "plusCPU process in guake terminal Tab (f12)"
    echo ""
    running=""
  fi

 
 5/ Add this in 1bash at the end of indivuduals coins :

Code:

# VERICOIN (VRC) 
  # ## No Need to add add stratum+tcp:// to server address
VRC_WORKER="$WORKERNAME"						# WorkerName  : remember that you have to create it in your account pool page !
VRC_ADDRESS="YourWebloginPool"						# Local Wallet Address
VRC_POOL="vrm.n3rd3d.com" 						# 1% pool fee
VRC_PORT="3332"								# It depnds on your CPU Core (see the pool page to use the best port for you)
VRC_PWD="x"

VeRiumMiner use all thread avalilable on your CPU by default but you can specify how much threads at the begenning of 1bash file with this variable between plusCPU and CONTROL_GPU_LED :

Code:

threadCOUNT="1"             # Number of CPU threads to use for plusCPU mining. Please check how many threads your CPU has.

Not tested on my rig but i test minning with typing manually the commands and it works on nvOC. I compile myself but i think pre-compiled file is ok.
It should be verified that the cpuminer that is already installed in nvOC does not allow to directly undermine this crypto currency. I did not do it either.

Happy minning Vericoin !

[urnzwy]

Is there a script for a “rig offline” telegram notification that I’m missing? The telegram messages are awesome, but would be good to know if it powers down and stay down.

[papampi]

Is there a script for a “rig offline” telegram notification that I’m missing? The telegram messages are awesome, but would be good to know if it powers down and stay down.

If system is going to be rebooted you will get notified from script that send the reboot command (watchdog or temp control), but if your rig freeze there is nothing to do.
You can set up an external watchdog like an RPi to check your rigs ping and ssh port and send you message if they were unreachable.

[LuKePicci]

Hi again, I have some news to share with you.

First of all, ethminer is finally adding an amazing "exit on cuda error" feature, I bet somebody here will love this.

Second, my extensive ethash miners testing revealed something strange with newer versions of all major miners, so I asket ethminer devs to give me some kind of changelog for the new stable release, and they did it.

Code:

ethminer 0.13.0 
 chfast released this 13 days ago 

Move stale detection to the source, eliminate solution reporting inefficiencies.
Minor cosmetic console output changes.
CUDA: Much faster job switch time. Higher stable hash rate.
CUDA: Refactored host software. Efficiency and simplification.
OCL: Added support for experimental kernel. Performs better on some cards.
Dropped support for CUDA 8.0
Blank API server fields correctly populated.
Compiler and linker build options optimized.

So I have to ask here, does the update script also update CUDA to version 9? If no how can I safely do that?

Last thing, I agreed with the ethminer devs it would be nice to have OC settings reported near the miner crash report, they said it wouldn't be so easy to do so I would ask here if it would be possible to include the output of "nvOC gpuinfo" near the error log snapshot.

[papampi]

Hi again, I have some news to share with you.

First of all, ethminer is finally adding an amazing "exit on cuda error" feature, I bet somebody here will love this.

Second, my extensive ethash miners testing revealed something strange with newer versions of all major miners, so I asket ethminer devs to give me some kind of changelog for the new stable release, and they did it.

Code:

ethminer 0.13.0 
 chfast released this 13 days ago 

Move stale detection to the source, eliminate solution reporting inefficiencies.
Minor cosmetic console output changes.
CUDA: Much faster job switch time. Higher stable hash rate.
CUDA: Refactored host software. Efficiency and simplification.
OCL: Added support for experimental kernel. Performs better on some cards.
Dropped support for CUDA 8.0
Blank API server fields correctly populated.
Compiler and linker build options optimized.

So I have to ask here, does the update script also update CUDA to version 9? If no how can I safely do that?

Last thing, I agreed with the ethminer devs it would be nice to have OC settings reported near the miner crash report, they said it wouldn't be so easy to do so I would ask here if it would be possible to include the output of "nvOC gpuinfo" near the error log snapshot.

Update script wont install cuda 9 because so many miners still don't have cuda 9 support and it will break them. You can use Nvidia Documentation on how to install Cuda 9.

I installed cuda 9 on a test rig and many miners start giving all kinds of errors, but I'm mining with ethminer 0.13.0 on my rigs with cuda 8 with no problems.

I have no idea how come some miners work and some doesn't with different cuda versions.
It would be nice if someone explain it to us

[WaveFront]

Hello,
What exactly is the difference in running "nvOC-19-2-update" and "./nvOC patch"?
Cheers

[papampi]

Hello,
What exactly is the difference in running "nvOC-19-2-update" and "./nvOC patch"?
Cheers

nvOC-19-2-update script, updates the nvOC miners, scripts and other mining related softwares.
./nvOC patch, stops all nvOC and mining processes and updates/upgrade ubuntu softwares so that no package gets broken.

[WaveFront]

Hello,
What exactly is the difference in running "nvOC-19-2-update" and "./nvOC patch"?
Cheers

nvOC-19-2-update script, updates the nvOC miners, scripts and other mining related softwares.
./nvOC patch, stops all nvOC and mining processes and updates/upgrade ubuntu softwares so that no package gets broken.

Thanks for the answer.
So both are necessary.

[Rig4p]

Having some more issues with the SALFTER_MPH switching setup.
When a Equihash or Ethash algo is determined to be the most profitable all is well.
Occasionally when a different algo is picked the miner crashes and shuts down after a while.
I am almost never watching the terminal at that time but decided to do some testing of the miner start lines in 3main to see if I could find the problem.

First problem I find is I cannot get the skein algo to start properly.
This is what my test command line looks like:

Code:

/home/m1/ASccminer/ccminer -a skein -x stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:12016 -u username.test -p x

And this is the resulting failure:

Code:

*** ccminer alexis-1.0 for nVidia GPUs from alexis78@github ***
*** Built with the nVidia CUDA Toolkit 8.0 (Not recommended prefer 7.5)

*** Based on tpruvot@github ccminer
*** Originally based on Christian Buchner and Christian H. project
*** Include some of the work of djm34, sp, tsiv and klausT.

[2018-02-05 12:39:28] Starting on stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:12016
[2018-02-05 12:39:28] NVML GPU monitoring enabled.
[2018-02-05 12:39:28] 1 miner thread started, using 'skein' algorithm.
[2018-02-05 12:39:28] Stratum authentication failed
[2018-02-05 12:39:28] ...retry after 30 seconds

Every algo in 3main I try this type test with seems to have a Stratum problem.
I have a valid username that I am using successfully with non-switching mining on MPH so I do not believe that is the issue.
I'm still working on it but thought asking for help was also wise. 

[fk1]

try editing the 1bash config with "sudo nano 1bash"
start mining with bash 2unix
try without stratum+tcp:// prefix