[ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/Cuckaroo29z miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 16.4.9

[adnetcoin]

It's faster. Getting 5-10% more than EWBF.

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[Bimmber]

Does anybody know how to install bminer in ethos   

[deksa]

Hello,

I am using Bminer for Equihash and on my Rig I have 2 GPUs (No.1 I use it for mining, No.2 I want to game on it)
What is the command which I need to write in the bat. file so I can use only 1 for mining?
My Motherboard has 1 PCIe main GPU slot (my Miner on it) and + 2 more slots (with Riser I got my No.2 gaming card connected on one of those).

Thanks!

[fr4nkthetank]

I've been running two tests for a week each, on nanopool.
First with Bminer and then with DSTM, and a few hours ago I switched to excavator 1.4.4a, and I'll run that till next Sunday to compare.

I completely ignored miner/pool stats for Sols, and instead focused on Shares and Payments as reported by nanopool.
Since they are paying me for my shares, I have to accept that their numbers are what matters.

Now, I only have a single Asus 1070, not OC'd nor undervolted or any of that fancy stuff, and it's in a regular gaming rig. Now, I didn't (rarely do) play any games during this period, and my box is on and mines 24/7, no matter what I do. It's an i7-6700K, 32 GB RAM, with SSDs. Now, I said no gaming, but I use it every day for a couple of hours, surfing and what-not, including watching movies with Kodi, streaming 720p/1080p content from NAS over local Gbit network. My external network is 1000/100 Mbit and rock solid.

Neither of the miners have caused any troubles for my machine, and I've only noticed that DSTM needed to restart itself a bunch of times during the week. If I remember correctly, Bminer ran without any problems. I rarely restart my computer, but it happens. Same with the miners. If they were ever closed, it was only for a few minutes during the entire week.

My conclusion?
Well, darn near identical results, with a slight edge for DSTM.
Initially, I ran Bminer with devfee and the later days with the -nofee option. I never noticed any difference in Sols, and don't know if it ever affected shares/payments.


Stats in a shared Google Sheets here .

Next week, I'll add numbers for excavtor.

I'd like to see those stats for excavator, keep up the good work.  Its well built, im pretty sure reporting is accurate and overall speeds should be pretty good.

[quick_dry]

Hello,

I am using Bminer for Equihash and on my Rig I have 2 GPUs (No.1 I use it for mining, No.2 I want to game on it)
What is the command which I need to write in the bat. file so I can use only 1 for mining?

add the "-devices=" flag to the command line.

e.g. say MSI Afterburner shows have a 1080ti in position 1 and a 1070ti in position 2 and 3, and I want to do my mining on the 1080ti, my command line would have the option -devices=0 (Afterburner starts counting from 1, but devices start counting from 0, so device 0 is shown as 1 in Afterburner, dev 1 is 2, dev 2 shown as 3, etc. If I wanted to mine on both 1070ti's and game on the 1080ti, my command switch would be "-devices=1,2"

[NoSubstitute]

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Stats in a shared Google Sheets here .
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I'd like to see those stats for excavator, keep up the good work.  Its well built, im pretty sure reporting is accurate and overall speeds should be pretty good.

Sheet updated with excavator stats!

Just started up Bminer 5.4.0 allowing devfee, so lets see what a week can do there. :-)

[HaberHash]

I just ran a test using 2 - Zotac 1080 Ti minis.  They were doing ~594 and 600 Sols each using DSTM.  With bminer the console was showing +20 Sols EACH without any other changes.  The last 4 hours in Nanopool my hash rate is tending lower than with DSTM.  Reported shares per hour are also down

This miner looks stable and I'm interested in the project, but NOT when it's incorrectly reporting and sacrificing profits.

I don't mind so much that it phones home, provided that communication is clearly documented and that it WILL NEVER block the miner from working.  The devfee is limiting as well.  If you want to lure miners and get tons of people using your software 1% devfee would make you more than enough money in the end and be equitable overall.  I don't mind paying for software, but dev, test, support doesn't equal 2% of every workers output forever.

The only thing a high devfree does is drives miners to use other products.

[tipztek]

help .. whats wrong with my gpu using bminer ... before i am using dstm work fine and get 192 sol/s with my gtx 1060 3gb vga card ..but when i use bminer always 0 sol/s

Code:

[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:23-08:00] Bminer: When Crypto-mining Made Fast (v5.4.0-ae18e12) 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:23-08:00] Checking updates                            
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Watchdog has 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Starting miner on devices [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10] 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Starting miner on device 0...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Started miner on device 0                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Starting miner on device 1...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Connected to btg.suprnova.cc:8816            
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Started miner on device 1                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Subscribed to stratum server                 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Set nonce to c685fc07000000000000000007fc85c5 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Set target to 8787878787878787878787878787878787878787878787878787878787870700 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Received new job 5ed5                        
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Authorized                                   
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:31-08:00] Starting miner on device 2...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:36-08:00] Started miner on device 2                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:36-08:00] Starting miner on device 3...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:45-08:00] Started miner on device 3                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:45-08:00] Starting miner on device 4...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:55-08:00] [GPU 0] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 42C Power: 28W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:56-08:00] [GPU 1] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 42C Power: 28W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:57-08:00] Started miner on device 4                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:57-08:00] Starting miner on device 5...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:06-08:00] Received new job 5ed6                        
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:07-08:00] [GPU 2] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 42C Power: 24W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:11-08:00] Started miner on device 5                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:12-08:00] Starting miner on device 6...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:15-08:00] [GPU 3] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 38C Power: 25W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:26-08:00] [GPU 0] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 39C Power: 28W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:30-08:00] [GPU 1] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 39C Power: 28W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:31-08:00] [GPU 4] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 39C Power: 24W 0.00 Sol/J 

100% devfee

[promomei]

tested 3 hours on suprnova , mining ZCL dident found a single block . But miner shows workers on

scam

[deksa]

Hello,

I am using Bminer for Equihash and on my Rig I have 2 GPUs (No.1 I use it for mining, No.2 I want to game on it)
What is the command which I need to write in the bat. file so I can use only 1 for mining?

add the "-devices=" flag to the command line.

e.g. say MSI Afterburner shows have a 1080ti in position 1 and a 1070ti in position 2 and 3, and I want to do my mining on the 1080ti, my command line would have the option -devices=0 (Afterburner starts counting from 1, but devices start counting from 0, so device 0 is shown as 1 in Afterburner, dev 1 is 2, dev 2 shown as 3, etc. If I wanted to mine on both 1070ti's and game on the 1080ti, my command switch would be "-devices=1,2"

cheers buddy!

[NameTaken]

tested 3 hours on suprnova , mining ZCL dident found a single block . But miner shows workers on

scam

Wow a 3 hour test, so scientific.

[Arnoldent]

tested 3 hours on suprnova , mining ZCL dident found a single block . But miner shows workers on

scam

I tested 24 hours on the flypool. Compared to EWBF, it can get 2.7% more shares as shown in the miners.  So if you consider the 2% fee, it is 0.7% more than EWBF.

I use the 1080Ti.

[promomei]

tested 3 hours on suprnova , mining ZCL dident found a single block . But miner shows workers on

scam

Wow a 3 hour test, so scientific.

waited 30 min and back to dstm miner - found block like in 10 min or so

[quick_dry]

I have a recurring problem where bminer hangs, and keeps the GPUs going at full power as if they were working - but zero shares are submitted.

As soon as the console window has a key pressed in it, the program will print the error message and exit, but until that - it sits at the "INFO - received job" message. This is every time this error happens.

Options to bminer:

-watchdog=false -gpucheck=90 -share-check=300 -max-network-failures=0

Console output after error has occured

[INFO] [2018-02-26T08:38:40+11:00] [GPU 4] Speed: 536.42 Sol/s 286.65 Nonce/s Temp: 58C Power: 138W 3.89 Sol/J
[INFO] [2018-02-26T08:38:40+11:00] Total 2472.19 Sol/s 1322.92 Nonce/s Accepted shares 370 Rejected shares 1
[INFO] [2018-02-26T08:38:45+11:00] Received new job 509799653315178
[INFO] [2018-02-26T08:38:58+11:00] Received new job 512495257073625

Console output AFTER pressing 'return' in the console window.

[WARN] [2018-02-26T20:14:44+11:00] Get error: End of file, resetting in 5 seconds
[FATA] [2018-02-26T20:14:44+11:00] Too many consecutive (0) failures. Exiting...
[INFO] [2018-02-26T08:39:09+11:00] [GPU 0] Speed: 683.75 Sol/s 366.33 Nonce/s Temp: 56C Power: 174W 3.93 Sol/J

Are my flags set improperly? I was getting the same behaviour with watchdog true - I was hoping to just exit as soon as the error happened and then the batch script could loop and run it again - but since bminer never exits, it won't restart.

[melpheos]

tested 3 hours on suprnova , mining ZCL dident found a single block . But miner shows workers on

scam

Now that's a reliable test lol...
Have you looked at the share rate, has suprnova found a block during that time, how many workers to you have ?

[ctlangtao]

I get 2% sol more than dstm in the same situation，that‘s better！

[BlivAK]

https://imgur.com/eydIqps

Results looking good. Running a single GTX1080

[Rutdam]

I get 2% sol more than dstm in the same situation，that‘s better！

Same power consumption?

[HaberHash]

https://imgur.com/eydIqps

Results looking good. Running a single GTX1080

Results from the miner are meaningless.  You should compare data from your pool to determine true output.

[snovik]

help .. whats wrong with my gpu using bminer ... before i am using dstm work fine and get 192 sol/s with my gtx 1060 3gb vga card ..but when i use bminer always 0 sol/s

Code:

[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:23-08:00] Bminer: When Crypto-mining Made Fast (v5.4.0-ae18e12) 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:23-08:00] Checking updates                            
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Watchdog has 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Starting miner on devices [0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10] 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Starting miner on device 0...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Started miner on device 0                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Starting miner on device 1...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:25-08:00] Connected to btg.suprnova.cc:8816            
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Started miner on device 1                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Subscribed to stratum server                 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Set nonce to c685fc07000000000000000007fc85c5 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Set target to 8787878787878787878787878787878787878787878787878787878787870700 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Received new job 5ed5                        
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:26-08:00] Authorized                                   
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:31-08:00] Starting miner on device 2...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:36-08:00] Started miner on device 2                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:36-08:00] Starting miner on device 3...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:45-08:00] Started miner on device 3                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:45-08:00] Starting miner on device 4...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:55-08:00] [GPU 0] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 42C Power: 28W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:56-08:00] [GPU 1] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 42C Power: 28W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:57-08:00] Started miner on device 4                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:10:57-08:00] Starting miner on device 5...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:06-08:00] Received new job 5ed6                        
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:07-08:00] [GPU 2] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 42C Power: 24W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:11-08:00] Started miner on device 5                    
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:12-08:00] Starting miner on device 6...                
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:15-08:00] [GPU 3] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 38C Power: 25W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:26-08:00] [GPU 0] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 39C Power: 28W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:30-08:00] [GPU 1] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 39C Power: 28W 0.00 Sol/J 
[INFO] [2018-02-25T19:11:31-08:00] [GPU 4] Speed: 0.00 Sol/s 0.00 Nonce/s Temp: 39C Power: 24W 0.00 Sol/J 

Power: 28W

check your settings. if you cannot configure your system, think of doing smth else