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

[ilovecoding]

Hey guys i was switching back over to dstm to compare it vs bminer and i realized something odd.

For some reason it's slowing down my radeon cards mining and even my desktop?. claymore miner slows down from 49 down to 44~ and my desktop even feels laggy while using dstm miner.

When i was using Bminer this wouldn't happen and was wondering if anyone knew what may be the cause, my cpu is nowhere near overloaded so im genuinely curious.

Im using v 5.8 and im just preparing since there's a lot of mixes reviews about bminer and im not so sure about it.

Thanks

[anotherwave]

2% is a lot.. 0.05% is closer to reality for the few lines of code..
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Hahaha.. "Few lines of code"... only if... i would have made my own miner long ago.. haha

[phuocduong]

when have new version?

[RH1]

Hello all.

What happens when "contime" reset but uptime continue count?

Contime means time from last disconnect from pool server?

When appeared "error recv failed: 10054 " ? Due overclocking ?

I having exactly the same ZEC mining error "# recv failed: 10054" It disconnect every minute, Don't know what to do. Don't know why? Please help.

[theOfficialJoeGG]

Is it possible to use just 1 device with the miner? I have 2 cards but I sometimes like to game with one so being able to shut off the miner from using one at some points would be nice, even if it requires a separate .bat

[nazzer]

Is it possible to use just 1 device with the miner? I have 2 cards but I sometimes like to game with one so being able to shut off the miner from using one at some points would be nice, even if it requires a separate .bat

Yes.

Code:

 Options:
    --help           Print this help
    --dev            Space separated list of cuda devices
    --list-devices   List available cuda devices

[Andrey09]

From Bminer thread live test:

dstm 0.5.8:    https://zcash.flypool.org/miners/t1aoQJwvJqYT32xHVpYezWBxKuxPSwaJB1h
bminer 5.3.0:  https://zcash.flypool.org/miners/t1dU7Gve41A3b4mxL7a3oVAnBLsF9kMgDgA

[God_TM]

From Bminer thread live test:

dstm 0.5.8:    https://zcash.flypool.org/miners/t1aoQJwvJqYT32xHVpYezWBxKuxPSwaJB1h
bminer 5.3.0:  https://zcash.flypool.org/miners/t1dU7Gve41A3b4mxL7a3oVAnBLsF9kMgDgA

So does this indicate they're pretty much equal (I see the current is different, but that varies... the average is pretty much the same, right)?

[AzzAz]

@ DSTM:
 I noticed that in case network is off ( router restart ) miner goes to loop "retrying"  even after network is back. Can you make it try several ( i.e: 5 or 10 times ) than just restart?

[MrTDHP]

Is this dead already? It's been a while since dstm posted something here. Said gonna release 0.6 soon but no sign of it coming 

[toptek]

Is this dead already? It's been a while since dstm posted something here. Said gonna release 0.6 soon but no sign of it coming 

IF it's does dead they/he will blame it on the fee complainer but that's not why .... we have all said why a few times so I won't go there .

[theOfficialJoeGG]

Is it possible to use just 1 device with the miner? I have 2 cards but I sometimes like to game with one so being able to shut off the miner from using one at some points would be nice, even if it requires a separate .bat

Yes.

Code:

 Options:
    --help           Print this help
    --dev            Space separated list of cuda devices
    --list-devices   List available cuda devices

How do I use this? I have done "--dev 1" "--dev 980ti" what is the correct variable?

[nazzer]

Is it possible to use just 1 device with the miner? I have 2 cards but I sometimes like to game with one so being able to shut off the miner from using one at some points would be nice, even if it requires a separate .bat

Yes.

Code:

 Options:
    --help           Print this help
    --dev            Space separated list of cuda devices
    --list-devices   List available cuda devices

How do I use this? I have done "--dev 1" "--dev 980ti" what is the correct variable?

Code:

$ ./zm --list-devices
Device: 0    GeForce GTX 1070         MB: 8119  PCI: 1:0
Device: 1    GeForce GTX 1070         MB: 8119  PCI: 3:0
Device: 2    GeForce GTX 1070         MB: 8119  PCI: 4:0
Device: 3    GeForce GTX 1070         MB: 8119  PCI: 5:0
Device: 4    GeForce GTX 1070         MB: 8119  PCI: 6:0
Device: 5    GeForce GTX 1070         MB: 8119  PCI: 7:0

Devices are numbered as per --list-devices

e.g.

Code:

$ ./zm --dev 0 1 3 5

[joe.inconspicuous]

@dstm

Can you add version of the miner into README?

[dstm]

Any chance to add pool failover support @dstm?. With EWFB I can setup several pools in case one of the fails

0.6 has it. It's priority based, zm switches to the pool with the highest priority after it gets reachable again.

This is good news, thanks. Any limit on the number of pools?

--ypsi

It's limited to 8 - any issues with it?

[dstm]

Hey dtsm, how's the new version coming ? any approx ETA ? Will it be available in cuda 9.1 ?

keep up the good work !

This weekend +- a couple days seems realistic.
No it won't be compiled against cuda 9.1 in the next release. ZM's solution rate decreases by about 2% when compiled against it - so this requires a more detailed analysis first.

[dstm]

i'm using two GPU in my rig:
- GPU0 GTX 1060 3GB
- GPU1 GTX 1050Ti 4GB

i can't see eficiency sol/w for my GTX 1050Ti, why?

https://i.imgur.com/jEd1A4S.jpg

Nvidia disabled reporting of this data for the 1050Ti in their recent driver versions - it will work if you donwgrade your drivers.

[dstm]

Hi dstm, I had problem on my one rig. Your miner has just stopped with error disconnected from server and stop working. It didn't try to reconnect or anything. On this location I've 3 rigs and only this one had this error. Can you please explain what is this error and why your miner didn't reconnect automatically? Thanks

This looks strange - does this also happen on 0.5.8?

[dstm]

I got random disconnection issues with Nicehash pool. It says something about not supporting protocol v.01000020.

Anyway, what about 0.6? Any release date? 

Support for protocol 01000020 was added in 0.5.8.

This weekend +- a couple days seems realistic.

[BansheeHero]

Hey dtsm, how's the new version coming ? any approx ETA ? Will it be available in cuda 9.1 ?

keep up the good work !

This weekend +- a couple days seems realistic.
No it won't be compiled against cuda 9.1 in the next release. ZM's solution rate decreases by about 2% when compiled against it - so this requires a more detailed analysis first.

Any chance you could add support for Power Limit to the version? Afterburner reports it as Power % on Pascal GPUs.
It is so much work to match solutions to watt to TDP limits.