[ANN] Prospector - Multi-Coin GPU+CPU cryptocurrency miner

[oli123]

For me, the prospector number 1 is for mining coins with algo skunkhash. I used sgminer but since I tried a prospector I use only the one. It's 20 to 30 percent more powerful.
That's why I'm glad that newer releases are always coming up with new enhancements. Good work developer. I'm using 4x amd rx480 for sigt. Later I try other algo options and I´ll post the results.
Here's my screen from mining:

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[qualialibre]

On all my rigs with 460/470/480 there is a memory leak
from version 0.0.7 to the current
win 8.1 and win 10
https://image.ibb.co/fyxQzF/2017_09_07_131233.png

I believe this is related to drivers. Can you do a memory dump, and upload it  somewhere ? ( TaskManager , right click on prospector -> create dump file).

That could help.

My bet is that you forked ethminer which contains loads of leaks... bad boys !

[semtexzv]

My bet is that you forked ethminer which contains loads of leaks... bad boys !

Nope.

Ethminer is written in C++, Prospector is written in Rust.
Memory leak on prospector only happens on specific AMD drivers and to very small amount of people. This leak is not a standard memory leak. This is some fatal flaw in the driver, or OpenCL libraary that I'm using.

[qualialibre]

Allright my bad
I say that because i've tracked leaks with similar footprint in ethminer.

Did you started from scratch in Rust or there was a code base alldeay ?

[Mirotvorez113]

This is the error I'm getting on most of the rigs. I have no idea what its all about.



17:37:21 - INFO   prospector 0.0.12-ALPHA starting
17:37:21 - ERROR  Could not load CUDA: Unknown error - Unknown error
17:37:21 - INFO   OpenCL Initialized
17:37:21 - INFO   Configuration successfuly loaded from config.toml
17:37:21 - INFO   Not launching CPU miner
17:37:21 - INFO   Device 0-0 disabled
17:37:21 - INFO   Device 0-1 disabled
17:37:21 - INFO   Starting api server on localhost:42000/api/v0/
17:37:21 - INFO   Signatum: Subscribed, waiting for jobs
17:37:21 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received subscription response
17:37:21 - INFO   Signatum: Authorized  by the pool
17:37:21 - INFO   Signatum: Miner changed difficulty
17:37:21 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:37:24 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:27 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:30 - INFO   Error, no reports
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17:38:00 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:03 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:04 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:38:06 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:09 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:11 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:38:12 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:15 - INFO   Error, no reports
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17:39:03 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:06 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:06 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:39:09 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:12 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:15 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:18 - INFO   Error, no reports
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[semtexzv]

This is the error I'm getting on most of the rigs. I have no idea what its all about.



17:37:21 - INFO   prospector 0.0.12-ALPHA starting
17:37:21 - ERROR  Could not load CUDA: Unknown error - Unknown error
17:37:21 - INFO   OpenCL Initialized
17:37:21 - INFO   Configuration successfuly loaded from config.toml
17:37:21 - INFO   Not launching CPU miner
17:37:21 - INFO   Device 0-0 disabled
17:37:21 - INFO   Device 0-1 disabled
17:37:21 - INFO   Starting api server on localhost:42000/api/v0/
17:37:21 - INFO   Signatum: Subscribed, waiting for jobs
17:37:21 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received subscription response
17:37:21 - INFO   Signatum: Authorized  by the pool
17:37:21 - INFO   Signatum: Miner changed difficulty
17:37:21 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:37:24 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:27 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:30 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:33 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:36 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:39 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:42 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:45 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:48 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:51 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:54 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:37:57 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:00 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:03 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:04 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:38:06 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:09 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:11 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:38:12 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:15 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:18 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:21 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:24 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:27 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:38:30 - INFO   Error, no reports
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17:38:57 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:00 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:03 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:06 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:06 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:39:09 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:12 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:39:15 - INFO   Error, no reports
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This happens because there are no miners running

[semtexzv]

Allright my bad
I say that because i've tracked leaks with similar footprint in ethminer.

Did you started from scratch in Rust or there was a code base alldeay ?

From scratch, First commit is on 15th of April.

[ordimans]

It's working with RX Vega 64.
AT 43.62MH/S in average.

[semtexzv]

It's working with RX Vega 64.
AT 43.62MH/S in average.

Sigt  ? Thats really cool

[ordimans]

It's working with RX Vega 64.
AT 43.62MH/S in average.

Sigt  ? Thats really cool

Yes Sigt sorry.
Very stable.

Don't know if i can do better, with MSI Afterburner.
But RX 64 is quiet than ly old 7970

[Bobby_Atlas]

Hello there,
on ubuntu and SLES12sp2 getting same error for prospector wth 2 adm card's on start

Code:

atlas@Atlas-desktop:~/APPS/Prospect$ ./prospector
17:00:28 - INFO   prospector 0.0.12-ALPHA starting
Could not load  cuda library dll/so 
17:00:28 - ERROR  Could not load CUDA: Unknown error - Unknown error
17:00:28 - INFO   OpenCL Initialized
17:00:28 - INFO   Configuration successfuly loaded from config.toml
17:00:28 - INFO   Not launching CPU miner
17:00:28 - INFO   Starting api server on localhost:42000/api/v0/
17:00:28 - INFO   Miner starting on gpu 0-0 - Hawaii
thread 'API-Server' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Io(Error { repr: Os { code: 98, message: "Address already in use" } })', /checkout/src/libcore/result.rs:906:4
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.
17:00:28 - INFO   Miner starting on gpu 0-1 - Baffin
thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Error(Ocl(

################################ OPENCL ERROR ############################### 

Error executing function: clCreateCommandQueue  

Status error code: CL_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY (-6)  

Please visit the following url for more information: 

https://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/sdk/1.2/docs/man/xhtml/clCreateCommandQueue.html#errors  

############################################################################# 
), State { next_error: None, backtrace: None })', /checkout/src/libcore/result.rs:906:4
thread '<unnamed>' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Error(Ocl(

################################ OPENCL ERROR ############################### 

Error executing function: clCreateCommandQueue  

Status error code: CL_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY (-6)  

Please visit the following url for more information: 

https://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/sdk/1.2/docs/man/xhtml/clCreateCommandQueue.html#errors  

############################################################################# 
), State { next_error: None, backtrace: None })', /checkout/src/libcore/result.rs:906:4
17:00:29 - INFO   Signatum: Subscribed, waiting for jobs
17:00:29 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received subscription response
17:00:29 - INFO   Signatum: Authorized  by the pool
17:00:29 - INFO   Signatum: Miner changed difficulty
17:00:29 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:00:31 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:00:31 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:00:34 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:00:37 - INFO   Error, no reports
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17:01:28 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:01:31 - INFO   Error, no reports
17:01:34 - INFO   Signatum: Miner received new job
17:01:34 - INFO   Error, no reports

no shares submitting, how to manage it?

[4ward]

Please add thread count config for the CPU miner.

Running with 8 threads on i7 simply chokes the CPU and limits performance

[Branko]

Long time no update, I hope this one brings a lot to the table then

[rodyw]

So I want to try this miner. First Google Chrome won't download it, because of potential danger. I ignored that. Then my Windows Defender goes crazy about this file. Ok, it could be a false positive, so I put it in my exclusion list. I start the executable and it creates a config.toml file, which I adjust with my settings. But after this first start the executable just won't run anymore?! Even after a reboot the executable won't start.

I can't be the only one experiencing this problem? Why can't I find anything about this in this thread?

[semtexzv]

So I want to try this miner. First Google Chrome won't download it, because of potential danger. I ignored that. Then my Windows Defender goes crazy about this file. Ok, it could be a false positive, so I put it in my exclusion list. I start the executable and it creates a config.toml file, which I adjust with my settings. But after this first start the executable just won't run anymore?! Even after a reboot the executable won't start.

I can't be the only one experiencing this problem? Why can't I find anything about this in this thread?

Start the executable through command line and report the error text here, I started to rework error reporting, so the miner will wait for user input on errors, but I must have missed something.

[rodyw]

So I want to try this miner. First Google Chrome won't download it, because of potential danger. I ignored that. Then my Windows Defender goes crazy about this file. Ok, it could be a false positive, so I put it in my exclusion list. I start the executable and it creates a config.toml file, which I adjust with my settings. But after this first start the executable just won't run anymore?! Even after a reboot the executable won't start.

I can't be the only one experiencing this problem? Why can't I find anything about this in this thread?

Start the executable through command line and report the error text here, I started to rework error reporting, so the miner will wait for user input on errors, but I must have missed something.

I would really help you with some error text, but as I told earlier, nothing happens after launching it the first time...

********
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]
(c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\xxxx>cd\
C:\>cd Miners
C:\Miners>cd prospector-0.0.12-ALPHA-win64
C:\Miners\prospector-0.0.12-ALPHA-win64>prospector.exe
C:\Miners\prospector-0.0.12-ALPHA-win64>
********

The logfile only show data from the first start when it created the "config.toml" file:

21:17:01 - INFO   prospector 0.0.12-ALPHA starting
21:17:01 - ERROR  Could not load CUDA: Unknown error - Unknown error
21:17:02 - INFO   OpenCL Initialized
21:17:02 - WARN   Configuration file in default location does not exist. creating it.
21:17:02 - WARN   run prospector.exe --help gen-config to see extended options for generating configuration
21:17:02 - WARN   run prospector.exe --config <file> to specify different configuration
21:17:02 - WARN   
21:17:02 - INFO   Generated configuration saved in config.toml
21:17:02 - INFO   Configuration successfuly loaded from config.toml
21:17:02 - INFO   Not launching CPU miner
21:17:02 - INFO   Device 0-0 disabled
21:17:02 - INFO   Starting api server on localhost:42000/api/v0/
21:17:02 - INFO   Device 0-1 disabled
21:17:02 - INFO   Miner starting on gpu 1-0 - Ellesmere
21:17:02 - INFO   Miner starting on gpu 1-1 - Ellesmere
21:17:02 - INFO   Miner starting on gpu 1-2 - Ellesmere
21:17:02 - INFO   Device 1-3 disabled
21:17:03 - ERROR  Signatum: network client disconnected, Trying to reconnect
21:17:04 - ERROR  Signatum: network client disconnected, Trying to reconnect
21:17:05 - ERROR  Signatum: network client disconnected, Trying to reconnect
21:17:07 - ERROR  Signatum: network client disconnected, Trying to reconnect
21:17:08 - ERROR  Signatum: network client disconnected, Trying to reconnect
21:17:08 - INFO   Signatum: Shares    0 accepted / 0 total
21:17:08 - INFO   Signatum: Devices   1-0: 0.00Hash/s, 1-1: 0.00Hash/s, 1-2: 0.00Hash/s
21:17:08 - INFO   Signatum: Average   0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Hash/s (30s, 5m, 30m)

[PerfectAMD]

Hi dev!
When do you release new version of prospector with support of more coin ?

For information, Signatum mining has ending => no dev fee

[Notyoursbuisness]

is it even safe to use this miner ?
it was suggested on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2105778.2360
but when i tried. v0.0.12-ALPHA

https://www.virustotal.com/ru/file/2d7037fa862e0449f9ac8479faf2f15f77b7f1ecc4e0af3c3f6a781ce5844a5b/analysis/1508193987/
and it acted very strange ... almost (?) escaped sandboxie (one of windows had no yellow borders).....it created something like "svchost.exe.exe"  (very suspicious name for file!!) and was stopped by avira. (was hard to turn it off completely).

also my avira antivirus got strangely disabled after using it. it was running but there was button to "install it" when i clicked to check quarantine.

i mean i got this instantly after running this miner in sandbox


"\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\DwiDesk\svchost.exe.exe" 

really suspicious name guys....

[Branko]

is it even safe to use this miner ?
it was suggested on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2105778.2360
but when i tried. v0.0.12-ALPHA

https://www.virustotal.com/ru/file/2d7037fa862e0449f9ac8479faf2f15f77b7f1ecc4e0af3c3f6a781ce5844a5b/analysis/1508193987/
and it acted very strange ... almost (?) escaped sandboxie (one of windows had no yellow borders).....it created something like "svchost.exe.exe"  (very suspicious name for file!!) and was stopped by avira. (was hard to turn it off completely).

also my avira antivirus got strangely disabled after using it. it was running but there was button to "install it" when i clicked to check quarantine.

Most miners give lots of hits on virustotal...sadly, we can' be 100% sure...because
most crypto software developers pack their code same way as virus writers do,
and AV software acts like "better safe than sorry" which leads to lots of
false positives

[Notyoursbuisness]

i know that av detect miners.... and i honestly white-listed miner folders
But to be safer tried to run program in sandbox.
and this one tried to run away into ..... appdata with very shady filename