[ANN] dstm's ZCash / Equihash Nvidia Miner v0.6.2 (Linux / Windows)

[bigjee]

Hello DSTM! Thank you for your work and new versions! Keep it going! We believe in you!!!

Hello guys (again)!
Want to remind to all of you, that if somebody has any problems with stability of EWBF, DSTM, CLAYMORE miners or needs some extra control over your rigs please read carefully my message below.

I want to introduce to you a script, which can solve most of your problems. It is a result of half a year hard work with my beta testers. Now it is clean of any bugs and ready to be introduced for the wide mining community.

1) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2071108.0
2) https://forum.z.cash/t/cmd-equihash-miner-autorun-autorestart-watchdog-for-ewbf-claymore-dstm/20640

It will definetely reduce your valuable time spent near your rigs, because this script will do all the work for you. Just start it and forget about your rigs, relax or do anything else. In case of any problem this script will restart your miner, or the rig, if necessary. It will notify you by Telegramm message about all problems and corrective actions taken. It is open source code (CMD/BAT, not an .exe or something like this), so anyone can check throug the code if needed.
Enjoy your life, let the script to monitor your rigs for you.

I love your Autostart program. Its the best one Ive seen (used it on ebwf and will now use it with dstm).
Thank you for keeping it free. And especially love how quickly you update your software to match the miner updates.

Keep it up!!

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[bigjee]

You do realise you have to pay 2% for this miner, when EWBF is free is you have the no fee option, you dont lose any speed either.

ewbf was more unstable for my rig. Needed acrefawn's autorestart program to reset the miner every 2 hours to keep mining.
I like dstm as he is active and I show him my support. The very recent update covers more than his 2% fee in performance so Im not going to worry about it.  

[jnickel]

I have to apologize and eat my words....it appears my problem with Invalid Solution was a hardware/overclock issue.

So...now I just need to determine if DSTM is actually any faster.  Since I have both the client and the pool side, I will be able to check and see if it really is better or not.  I will let you know.

Jim

[mountaintoy]

The new version is working great after reworking my overclock. The oc I had been using with previous versions was causing the miner to crash. Reducing the oc managed to keep about the same rate while slightly increasing efficiency from about 3.3 Sol/W to about 3.5.

Code:

ID	DEVICE NAME		°C	∅ Sol/s		∅ Sol/W		∅ Watt
0	GeForce GTX 1070	55	498.70		3.53		141.56

Keep up the good work. 

[Kejvu]

i been keeping same OC i used with EWBF but i noticed that on flypool i have invalid shares...

[jnickel]

Ok...I have confirmed that it IS actually faster.  Between 8%-14%.

Seems to actually be worth it.

Jim

[Heardalis]

works fine for me.  Got also a boost of 5%.

[insider_83]

0.5.6
Good improvement on stability and a few more sols/s, Cpu load also dropped quite a bit, good work dtsm.

6x EVGA FTW GTX 1070 (TDP 60% ~112W +135/+540)
https://i.imgur.com/Dy41APG.png

6x KFA2 GTX 1070 (TDP 50% ~100W +175/+480)
https://i.imgur.com/yfnRndH.png

Need to test for a while longer, but seems to be good improvements on latest, especially stability.

Hi! Can u type EVGA 1070's core and memory clocks from Afterburner. I've never seen 110W @ 470sol. Maybe u have Samsung memory. My cards run ~480sol @ ~135W (CC 1936-1987, memory 8600)

[CreamyG31337]

Thanks dev, for the recent updates. My friend running linux says it's more stable for him now. I never had any issue with this running on win 10. It's about the same speed as EWBF for me though, so I hope you consider lowering the fees even a half percent to stay ahead.
Anyone using nicehash legacy should comment on their github issue requesting this miner be added. I can't post url due to by super-noob status, just google "Add dstm’s ZCash Nvidia Miner #445" and you'll find the page.

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

i been keeping same OC i used with EWBF but i noticed that on flypool i have invalid shares...

dtsm and ewbf work very differently, you have to do a whole new powerlevel & overclock testing before finding the sweet spot that maximise performance.

[PickAxe131]

Hi DTSM,

Back with a report for you.

0.5.4: Unstable but worked at least 6-8h before an error. Lost 20 Sol/s each on my 1080ti's.
0.5.5: Instant crash between 5 seconds and 30mins. Lost over 80 Sol/s each on my 1080ti's. Very unstable and not worth using (could be the windows update causing problems).

0.5.6: Sol/s is back up running 725-740! (Like before). Vey low temperature again and no errors, no cuda problems, very stable and everything is working fine again.

Summary: I don't know what you did but everything is working fine for me again. Thank you DTSM. More efficiency on  1080ti's would be lovely. Keep you the good work!

[dstm]

how to add option to Ethos globalminer --telemetry=0.0.0.0:2222 ? is it any way to get api control in ethos for your miner?

Could you pls explain in more detail how 'api control' works in ethos? I'm not aware of it.

[dstm]

For people who are asking about dev fee. I'm understanding ofc your interest in having it as low as possible - however it's not very different in comparison to other mining software, I'm not planning to change it - in either direction. All the numbers reported by zm are exact including the amount of dev shares ofc - zm doesn't try to make things look better than they are.

[dstm]

@dstm thank you for the great tool!

I have recently joined to the mining community. Setup Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, using x2 1070 (planning to extend), BIOS 8010 (tweaked).

While running zm, getting:

Code:

2017-11-27 07:10:53 PM|#  GPU0 + GeForce GTX 1070         MB: 8112  PCI: 1:0
2017-11-27 07:10:53 PM|#  GPU1 + GeForce GTX 1070         MB: 8114  PCI: 3:0
2017-11-27 07:10:53 PM|
2017-11-27 07:10:53 PM|#  telemetry server started
2017-11-27 07:10:53 PM|#  GPU0  connected to: eu1-zcash.flypool.org:3333
2017-11-27 07:10:55 PM|#  GPU1  connected to: eu1-zcash.flypool.org:3333
2017-11-27 07:10:58 PM|#  GPU0  server set difficulty to: 0004189374bc6a7ef9db22d0...
2017-11-27 07:11:00 PM|#  GPU1  server set difficulty to: 0004189374bc6a7ef9db22d0...
2017-11-27 07:11:18 PM|>  GPU0  44C  Sol/s: 449.8  Sol/W: 3.05  Avg: 449.8  I/s: 240.8  Sh: 2.99   1.00 43  +
2017-11-27 07:11:20 PM|>  GPU1  42C  Sol/s: 454.4  Sol/W: 3.16  Avg: 454.4  I/s: 241.0  Sh: 0.00   . .
2017-11-27 07:11:20 PM|   ========== Sol/s: 904.3  Sol/W: 3.11  Avg: 904.3  I/s: 481.7  Sh: 2.99   1.00 43
2017-11-27 07:11:38 PM|   GPU0  49C  Sol/s: 448.5  Sol/W: 3.05  Avg: 449.2  I/s: 238.9  Sh: 1.49   1.00 43
2017-11-27 07:11:40 PM|   GPU1  47C  Sol/s: 445.8  Sol/W: 3.09  Avg: 450.1  I/s: 238.9  Sh: 0.00   . .
2017-11-27 07:11:40 PM|   ========== Sol/s: 894.3  Sol/W: 3.07  Avg: 899.3  I/s: 477.9  Sh: 1.49   1.00 43
2017-11-27 07:11:58 PM|>  GPU0  53C  Sol/s: 445.4  Sol/W: 3.05  Avg: 447.9  I/s: 238.4  Sh: 1.00   1.00 43
2017-11-27 07:12:00 PM|   GPU1  51C  Sol/s: 438.6  Sol/W: 3.05  Avg: 446.3  I/s: 238.6  Sh: 0.00   . .
2017-11-27 07:12:00 PM|   ========== Sol/s: 884.0  Sol/W: 3.05  Avg: 894.2  I/s: 477.0  Sh: 1.00   1.00 43
2017-11-27 07:12:18 PM|   GPU0  56C  Sol/s: 448.2  Sol/W: 3.04  Avg: 448.0  I/s: 238.0  Sh: 0.75   1.00 43
2017-11-27 07:12:20 PM|   GPU1  54C  Sol/s: 433.2  Sol/W: 3.03  Avg: 443.0  I/s: 238.1  Sh: 0.75   1.00 383 +

Questions:
- Why GPU0 has PCI 1.0?
- Earlier this day, before some BIOS tweaks my GPU0 would have around 120 Sol/W. Curious whether this could be caused by PCI 1.0?

PCI x:y denotes the pci-busid and the pci-deviceid of the GPUs.

[dstm]

hello i previesly used EWBF and now i started using dstm's mining. Where i can see how much shares in total is accepted like in EWBF?

And is this normal for Asus Strix GTX 1080 Ti 85%TDP +100 +300 and Asus Dual GTX 1060 85%TDP  +155 +700

Code:

2017-11-27 21.17.06|>  GPU0  57C  Sol/s: 735.6  Sol/W: 3.23  Avg: 752.5  I/s: 401.3  Sh: 1.99   1.00 76  +
2017-11-27 21.17.09|   GPU1  62C  Sol/s: 327.9  Sol/W: 3.27  Avg: 331.2  I/s: 176.4  Sh: 0.99   1.00 77
2017-11-27 21.17.09|   ========== Sol/s: 1063.5 Sol/W: 3.25  Avg: 1083.6 I/s: 577.8  Sh: 2.99   1.00 76
2017-11-27 21.17.26|   GPU0  57C  Sol/s: 762.7  Sol/W: 3.24  Avg: 752.9  I/s: 401.2  Sh: 2.31   1.00 76  +++
2017-11-27 21.17.29|   GPU1  63C  Sol/s: 329.7  Sol/W: 3.27  Avg: 331.1  I/s: 174.5  Sh: 1.08   1.00 76  +
2017-11-27 21.17.29|   ========== Sol/s: 1092.4 Sol/W: 3.25  Avg: 1084.0 I/s: 575.8  Sh: 3.40   1.00 76
2017-11-27 21.17.46|   GPU0  58C  Sol/s: 762.5  Sol/W: 3.24  Avg: 753.4  I/s: 401.0  Sh: 2.34   1.00 75  +
2017-11-27 21.17.49|   GPU1  63C  Sol/s: 325.6  Sol/W: 3.27  Avg: 330.9  I/s: 174.9  Sh: 1.17   1.00 76  +
2017-11-27 21.17.49|   ========== Sol/s: 1088.1 Sol/W: 3.25  Avg: 1084.2 I/s: 575.9  Sh: 3.51   1.00 75
2017-11-27 21.18.06|   GPU0  57C  Sol/s: 745.8  Sol/W: 3.24  Avg: 753.0  I/s: 401.1  Sh: 2.24   1.00 75
2017-11-27 21.18.10|   GPU1  63C  Sol/s: 331.9  Sol/W: 3.27  Avg: 330.9  I/s: 175.0  Sh: 1.24   1.00 75  +
2017-11-27 21.18.10|   ========== Sol/s: 1077.7 Sol/W: 3.25  Avg: 1083.9 I/s: 576.1  Sh: 3.49   1.00 75
2017-11-27 21.18.26|   GPU0  57C  Sol/s: 760.2  Sol/W: 3.24  Avg: 753.3  I/s: 401.3  Sh: 2.27   1.00 374 +
2017-11-27 21.18.30|   GPU1  63C  Sol/s: 323.0  Sol/W: 3.26  Avg: 330.6  I/s: 175.1  Sh: 1.31   1.00 75  +
2017-11-27 21.18.30|   ========== Sol/s: 1083.2 Sol/W: 3.25  Avg: 1083.9 I/s: 576.4  Sh: 3.59   1.00 224
2017-11-27 21.18.46|   GPU0  57C  Sol/s: 758.9  Sol/W: 3.24  Avg: 753.5  I/s: 401.2  Sh: 2.30   1.00 75  +
2017-11-27 21.18.50|   GPU1  63C  Sol/s: 323.9  Sol/W: 3.26  Avg: 330.3  I/s: 173.3  Sh: 1.26   1.00 75
2017-11-27 21.18.50|   ========== Sol/s: 1082.8 Sol/W: 3.25  Avg: 1083.9 I/s: 574.5  Sh: 3.56   1.00 75
2017-11-27 21.19.06|>  GPU0  58C  Sol/s: 745.8  Sol/W: 3.24  Avg: 753.3  I/s: 401.3  Sh: 2.33   1.00 75  +
2017-11-27 21.19.10|>  GPU1  64C  Sol/s: 327.6  Sol/W: 3.26  Avg: 330.2  I/s: 173.1  Sh: 1.32   1.00 75  +
2017-11-27 21.19.10|   ========== Sol/s: 1073.4 Sol/W: 3.25  Avg: 1083.5 I/s: 574.4  Sh: 3.65   1.00 75

And what that "1"at end mean?

The total amount of accepted and rejected shares are accessible via the webui or by json-rpc. The '1' at the and denotes the ratio of accepted shares. Be aware that the numbers are rounded down - so a value of 0.99 may actually be something like 0.9999.. i.e. 99.9999...%.

[dstm]

i been keeping same OC i used with EWBF but i noticed that on flypool i have invalid shares...

dtsm and ewbf work very differently, you have to do a whole new powerlevel & overclock testing before finding the sweet spot that maximise performance.

Thx for helping m1n1ngP4d4w4n.
In addition to this: every change on the solver side (like in 0.5.6) may slightly change the optimal overclocking point, especially the optimal balance between core and memory clocks.

[ioglnx]

Any support for MinexCoin planned?
Equihash init params need to be changed.

[yurganov]

Hi. Thx for the miner.

Small suggestion about API: can you please add GPU model to JSON-RPC responce? Thx!

[pilalove]

Dear envelopment team dstm ZM
Could you help me fix error follow this picture,
I cant mine ZM

............
Sever set difficulty to : .....

And my PC lagging, need to be restart

[shubaduba]

Dear envelopment team dstm ZM
Could you help me fix error follow this picture,
I cant mine ZM

............
Sever set difficulty to : .....

Any my PC lagging, need to be restart

Provide more information about your hardware and software
Launch config?