[ANN][YAC] Yacminer GPU miner for Yacoin

[Thirtybird]

Hmm, thought yacminer worked with the sj-**** variables to mine other variable n factor scrypt-jane coins (?)

Can't get mine to do UTC (was experimenting a bit with a new card...r9 270 2gb)

It does, so long as you're running 3.4.2.  I mined ThorCoin with it for giggles, and lottery tickets too.

Hmmm, I'll try again later tonight. Thanks.

let me know if you have problems.  BTW - the new version I'm working on fixes the scrypt support and adds N-Scrypt support, so you can actually use one program for pretty much any scrypt derivative coin

hello
again thanx the help
one question left

the -R how calculate the number 3072 i cant understand
please explain me if possible.
thank you

Please read here : https://github.com/Thirtybird/YACMiner/blob/master/SCRYPT-README - Starting around line 93

[Demontager]

Hi, i came from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=413978.11120 where you suggested to use yacminer
I bit adapted suggested settings for 270 cards written above, but getting rejects and 80 khash while mining Ultracoin

Code:

"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : true,
"crypt-chacha" : true,
"worksize" : "256", 
"rawintensity" : "3072", 
"buffer-size" : "1576", 
"lookup-gap" : "8", 
"auto-fan" : true,
"temp-target" : "73", 
"temp-overheat" : "80", 
"temp-cutoff" : "85", 
"gpu-engine" : "1150", 
"gpu-mclock" : "1500", 
"gpu-powertune" : "0"

[hxmsam]

Thank you, trying it out now.

[Thirtybird]

Hi, i came from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=413978.11120 where you suggested to use yacminer
I bit adapted suggested settings for 270 cards written above, but getting rejects and 80 khash while mining Ultracoin

Code:

"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : true,
"crypt-chacha" : true,
"worksize" : "256", 
"rawintensity" : "3072", 
"buffer-size" : "1576", 
"lookup-gap" : "8", 
"auto-fan" : true,
"temp-target" : "73", 
"temp-overheat" : "80", 
"temp-cutoff" : "85", 
"gpu-engine" : "1150", 
"gpu-mclock" : "1500", 
"gpu-powertune" : "0"

you need settings for scrypt-chacha in your config file.  do a "yacminer --help" or check out the scrypt-readme file for information on how to set the nfmin, nfmax, and starttime (per pool!) - I recommend setting them from the command line and saving your config file and working from there.

[Demontager]

Ok now i set as required

Code:

         {
         "url" : "stratum+tcp://pickaxe.pool.pm:3306",
         "user" : "Work.workername",
         "pass" : "mypass",
         "nfmin" : "4",
         "nfmax" : "30",
         "starttime" : "1388361600"
         }
]
,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : true,
"crypt-chacha" : true,
"worksize" : "256", 
"rawintensity" : "3072", 
"buffer-size" : "1576", 
"lookup-gap" : "8", 
"auto-fan" : true,
"temp-target" : "73", 
"temp-overheat" : "80", 
"temp-cutoff" : "85", 
"gpu-engine" : "1150", 
"gpu-mclock" : "1500", 
"gpu-powertune" : "0"
}

Pool reports share is above target

Also tried tu run config in command line and it gives 2.5khs

Code:

#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
yacminer --scrypt-chacha -o stratum+tcp://pickaxe.pool.pm:3306 --worksize 256 -R 3072 --buffer-size 1576 --lookup-gap 8 --auto-fan --temp-target 73 --temp-overheat 80 --temp-cutoff 85 --gpu-engine 1150 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-powertune 0 -u Work.workername -p mypass

[ivanlabrie]

I got up to 2.6kh/s with an R9 270 at 1120mhz core and 1480mhz memory.

Mining UTC I got it to do 92kh/s with the following config: yacminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://ultra.nitro.org:3337 -u ivanlabrie.1 -p x --scrypt-chacha --nfmin 4 --nfmax 30 --starttime 1388361600 --no-submit-stale --expiry 10 --scan-time 1 -d 3 --remove-disabled --queue 0 --gpu-engine 0-1100,0-1100,0-1100,0-1100 --gpu-memclock 1000,1000,1000,1200 --gpu-fan 70-100 --temp-target 85 --temp-cutoff 100 --temp-overheat 90 --auto-gpu --auto-fan --rawintensity 5120 --buffer-size 1400 -g 1 -w 256 --lookup-gap 2

[Thirtybird]

Ok now i set as required

Code:

         {
         "url" : "stratum+tcp://pickaxe.pool.pm:3306",
         "user" : "Work.workername",
         "pass" : "mypass",
         "nfmin" : "4",
         "nfmax" : "30",
         "starttime" : "1388361600"
         }
]
,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : true,
"crypt-chacha" : true,
"worksize" : "256", 
"rawintensity" : "3072", 
"buffer-size" : "1576", 
"lookup-gap" : "8", 
"auto-fan" : true,
"temp-target" : "73", 
"temp-overheat" : "80", 
"temp-cutoff" : "85", 
"gpu-engine" : "1150", 
"gpu-mclock" : "1500", 
"gpu-powertune" : "0"
}

Pool reports share is above target

Also tried tu run config in command line and it gives 2.5khs

Code:

#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
yacminer --scrypt-chacha -o stratum+tcp://pickaxe.pool.pm:3306 --worksize 256 -R 3072 --buffer-size 1576 --lookup-gap 8 --auto-fan --temp-target 73 --temp-overheat 80 --temp-cutoff 85 --gpu-engine 1150 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-powertune 0 -u Work.workername -p mypass

your config file has misspelled "scrypt-chacha".

2.5 KH/sec - dunno what card that is, but that's in the neighborhood for YACoin.  If you're mining  a different coin (as your pool name suggests), you need to specify an nfmin, nfmax, and starttime on the commandline too.

[Demontager]

Sorry,
I'm Mining UTC(Ultracoin) http://ultra.nitro.org, cards are R9 270 Gigabyte

Their suggested settings for 270, but it is for ultracoinminer
HD7870XT/270X ~75-85Kh/s

Code:

setx GPUMAXALLOCPERCENT 100
setx GPUUSESYNCOBJECTS 1
ultracoinminer -o stratum+tcp://ultra.nitro.org:3337 -u xxx -p xxx --scrypt-jane --sj-nfmin 4 --sj-nfmax 30 --sj-time 1388361600 -w 256 -g 1 -I 17 --thread-concurrency 25948 --no-submit-stale --lookup-gap 3--expiry 10 --scan-time 1 --queue 0

Fixed typo, and below produce 20 khs http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-222scrot

Code:

{
"pools" : [
          
         {
         "url" : "stratum+tcp://ultra.nitro.org:3337",
         "user" : "Cosmo.cosmo",
         "pass" : "x",
         "nfmin" : "4",
         "nfmax" : "30",
         "starttime" : "1388361600"
         }
          
]
,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : true,
"scrypt-chacha" : true,
"worksize" : "256", 
"rawintensity" : "3072", 
"buffer-size" : "1576", 
"lookup-gap" : "8", 
"auto-fan" : true,
"temp-target" : "73", 
"temp-overheat" : "80", 
"temp-cutoff" : "85", 
"gpu-engine" : "1150", 
"gpu-mclock" : "1500", 
"gpu-powertune" : "0"

[Thirtybird]

For ultacoin, even with only 2 GB, you're still shader limited at N=11.  Your intensity is too low.  -R 3072 is roughly -I 11.5 (note: you can't use 11.5!)  Try using xintensity instead and set it to 32 or 128 or something. 

Your settings are great for N=12 though, so keep them handy for early april

[Demontager]

With same settings, but instead "rawintensity" : "3072" i put "xintensity" . Tried "32" and then "128" no deference - 32 khash.  Hard to figure out what should be set to get at least 80khs

[Thirtybird]

With same settings, but instead "rawintensity" : "3072" i put "xintensity" . Tried "32" and then "128" no deference - 32 khash.  Hard to figure out what should be set to get at least 80khs

Does it say you're connected to a pool with NFactor 11 or NF=12 in the connection line?

[Demontager]

Guys, with new N-factor, what parameters may i try to tweak for R9 270 (Ultracoin) ? Below my old setting generated 90-93 kh/s, and now they produce 46 kh/s with HW.

Code:

{    
          "url" : "stratum+tcp://ultra.leetpools.com:3333",
          "user" : "User",
          "pass" : "x",
          "nfmin" : "4",
          "nfmax" : "30",
          "starttime" : "1388361600"

        }
]
,
"api-allow" : "W:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : true,
"scrypt-chacha" : true,
"worksize" : "256", 
"xintensity" : "32", 
"buffer-size" : "1624", 
"lookup-gap" : "2", 
"auto-fan" : true,
"temp-target" : "73", 
"temp-overheat" : "80", 
"temp-cutoff" : "85", 
"gpu-engine" : "1100", 
"gpu-mclock" : "1200", 
"gpu-powertune" : "0"

[Uggle]

When using yacminer one of my cards seem to be lagging behind. Works fine with cgminer. Does anyone know a good fix for this?

[Demontager]

changed "lookup-gap" to 4, other settings remained same - 31kh/s and no HW. http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-yacst

[Thirtybird]

When using yacminer one of my cards seem to be lagging behind. Works fine with cgminer. Does anyone know a good fix for this?

You've probably over-allocated memory and it's swapped into dynamic memory, which is slow... run hwinfo or gpuz and look at each cards' memory allocation

[ivanlabrie]

When using yacminer one of my cards seem to be lagging behind. Works fine with cgminer. Does anyone know a good fix for this?

You've probably over-allocated memory and it's swapped into dynamic memory, which is slow... run hwinfo or gpuz and look at each cards' memory allocation

Sometimes a fresh boot fixes that. Sometimes you need to allocate less memory (buffer-size) or reduce -R

[Uggle]

When using yacminer one of my cards seem to be lagging behind. Works fine with cgminer. Does anyone know a good fix for this?

You've probably over-allocated memory and it's swapped into dynamic memory, which is slow... run hwinfo or gpuz and look at each cards' memory allocation

Sometimes a fresh boot fixes that. Sometimes you need to allocate less memory (buffer-size) or reduce -R

I lowered the buffer size and the intensity and it started to work again! Thanks all 

[meodows92]

Hi have problem compiling my miner and the error as follows:




checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking build system type... (cached) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... (cached) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking sys/mman.h usability... yes
checking sys/mman.h presence... yes
checking for sys/mman.h... yes
checking wchar.h usability... yes
checking wchar.h presence... yes
checking for wchar.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for mprotect... yes
checking for sigaction... yes
checking for sigaltstack... yes
checking for siginterrupt... yes
checking for mmap... yes
checking for MAP_ANONYMOUS... yes
checking whether memchr works... yes
checking whether memmem is declared... yes
checking for memmem... yes
checking whether memmem works... yes
checking for C/C++ restrict keyword... __restrict
checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether the preprocessor supports include_next... yes
checking whether system header files limit the line length... no
checking for wchar_t... yes
checking for unsigned long long int... yes
checking for long long int... yes
checking whether stdint.h conforms to C99... yes
checking whether memmem is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether mempcpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether memrchr is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether rawmemchr is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether stpcpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether stpncpy is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strchrnul is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strdup is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strncat is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strndup is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strnlen is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strpbrk is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strsep is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strcasestr is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strtok_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strerror_r is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strsignal is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether strverscmp is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether memmem works in linear time... yes
checking for memmem... (cached) yes
checking whether memmem works... (cached) yes
checking for struct sigaction.sa_sigaction... yes
checking for volatile sig_atomic_t... yes
checking for sighandler_t... yes
checking whether sigaction is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether sigaddset is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether sigdelset is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether sigemptyset is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether sigfillset is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether sigismember is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether sigpending is declared without a macro... yes
checking whether sigprocmask is declared without a macro... yes
checking for sigprocmask... yes
checking whether NULL can be used in arbitrary expressions... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking syslog.h usability... yes
checking syslog.h presence... yes
checking for syslog.h... yes
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking for OpenCL... no
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
checking for json_loads in -ljansson... no
checking for library containing addstr... no
configure: WARNING: Could not find curses library - if you want a TUI, install libncurses-dev or pdcurses-dev
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for LIBCURL... no
checking for LIBCURL... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating compat/Makefile
config.status: creating compat/jansson/Makefile
config.status: creating ccan/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands



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yacminer 3.3.1-yac2
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Configuration Options Summary:

  curses.TUI...........: NOT FOUND. TUI support DISABLED
  OpenCL...............: NOT FOUND. GPU mining support DISABLED
configure: error: No mining configured in




Could anyone tell me how can i solve this problem? I have done all the setting including install lissl-dev, automaker and many more. Hope someone will help me solve this problem and i will be very tankful to your.

[Thirtybird]

Well, YACMiner 3.3.1 was authored by someone else, and is REALLY depreciated.  Get the new version from the links in my signature and those include build instructions with the full list of dependancies

[barbados-fs]

I get 11,95 kH/s on my 4xR9 280x

In my opinion this is somehow a little?

Or is this normal?

SET GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
yacminer.exe --scrypt-chacha -o stratum+tcp://yac.coinmine.pl:9088 -u barbados-2 -p 1 --worksize 256 --lookup-gap 4 -g 1 -R 2048 --thread-concurrency 48640 --buffer-size 2656 --auto-fan --temp-cutoff 90 --temp-overheat 85 --gpu-fan 85-95 2>logfile.txt