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

[PIR3lly]

One of my machines stopped sending shares for some reason, miner reported hashing speeds in command prompt, but there were no "accepted share" messages and no hashrate on poolside, after manual miner restart all came back to normal. Can't give you any details because I didn't set up logging into a file, but I did it now, so if that happens again, I'll provide a log.

I had kind of the same problem (see my post above).
Solved it with version 5.2.0.
But could be a completely different problem.

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[akuci]

Nice to see some competition in nVidia miner scene. Good work Bminer, keep it up.

[el_4_jinete]

Hi,

This doesn't work on my rig. I'm using DSTM for two months and no issues.

Code:

rig2:~/bminer$ ./bminer -uri $SCHEME://$USERNAME@$POOL
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:56-05:00] Bminer: When Crypto-mining Made Fast (v5.2.0-4f20af3)
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:56-05:00] Starting miner on devices [0 1 2 3 4]
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:56-05:00] Connected to us1-zcash.flypool.org:3333
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:56-05:00] Subscribed to stratum server
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:56-05:00] Set nonce to 108ddde5b3
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:56-05:00] Authorized
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:56-05:00] Set target to 6abc74931804560e2db29defa7c64b37894160e5d022dbf97e6abc7493180400
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:56-05:00] Starting miner on device 0...
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:56-05:00] [D0] GPU check watchdog has started
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:57-05:00] Started miner on device 0
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:57-05:00] Starting miner on device 1...
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:57-05:00] [D1] GPU check watchdog has started
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:57-05:00] Received new job 63d5ec62c08965e842d3
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:57-05:00] Started miner on device 1
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:58-05:00] Starting miner on device 2...
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:58-05:00] [D2] GPU check watchdog has started
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:59-05:00] Started miner on device 2
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:59-05:00] Starting miner on device 3...
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:14:59-05:00] [D3] GPU check watchdog has started
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:15:00-05:00] Started miner on device 3
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:15:01-05:00] Starting miner on device 4...
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:15:01-05:00] [D4] GPU check watchdog has started
[INFO] [2018-01-23T19:15:02-05:00] Started miner on device 4
[WARN] [2018-01-23T19:15:02-05:00] Miner died! It will be restarted soon...

The dmesg shows me this message:

Code:

rig2:~# dmesg
[99684.245823] traps: bminer[22778] trap invalid opcode ip:6f6a92 sp:7fa0b8ffe930 error:0
[99944.004193] traps: bminer[22900] trap invalid opcode ip:6f6a92 sp:7fc424dfe930 error:0
[99944.004389] traps: bminer[22880] trap invalid opcode ip:6f6a92 sp:7fc4f9110930 error:0

How to resolve this?

Ubuntu 16.0.4
nvidia-387.26-0ubuntu1

What CPU are you using?

AMD PHENOM II

[macabong]

My GTX 1060 jumped from 330 Sol/s to 340 Sol/s after updating... Definitely worth.

How did you achieve that speed, my 1060 only does 270~315 with a lot of power increase as it goes higher. pls show me how and thanks

[andi_21]

same error:
relocation error: /home/mining/bminer/bminer: symbol _ZTTNSt7__cxx1118basic_stringstreamIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEE, version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference

ubuntu 14.04 is not supported?

[akuci]

It would be nice to tweak the miner output a little, like make it more organized and readable. Also adding temperature and fan speed readouts would be nice.

[ateam2]

Just tried again for fun -- still doesn't start for me on Windows 10. Not from batch file, nor on its own with any command arguments.

And that's with two different Windows 10 machines, one AMD Ryzen 7 1700, one intel i7 3770. Both with a GTX 1070.

Any way to debug this? I don't have anything strange running at the same time, as far as I can tell.

Just to confirm -- did you turn off windows defender? Windows Defender sometimes would deny the execution.

What happens if you directly click on bminer.exe?

Yes, I had tried disabling Windows Defender, despite it showing no indication that it cared about bminer.exe. Disabling Windows Defender had no effect.

If I double-click bminer.exe a cmd-style window appears for a couple seconds, then closes. It has no contents. There are no error messages or other outputs.

EDIT: same result with new 5.2.0 version.

Try installing Visual Basic libraries, .NET Framework libraries, and latest CUDA SDK. 99% it will fix this for you

I do some very basic, minimal compiling on these machines, such as compiling xmrig & xmr-stak. So I have the CUDA SDK, and some .NET/VB libraries. Can you suggest specifics on which ones I might be missing?

What are the outputs if you are running the executable directly?

No output. When I run bminer.exe in cmd window, it just pauses, then goes back to the prompt. When I double-click it, an empty console window briefly appears, then disappears.

Hello, the same here. When I run bminer.exe without parameters it pauses for a maybe half a second then quits to the console. No output. I've got Visual Studio 2017 installed, so the libraries you mentioned are in place. What could be missing? Windows 10 x64. I've got number of miners, no problems. Card configuration: MSI 1080 GamingX, MSI 1060 Armor 6G.

[TDartDDD]

Just tried again for fun -- still doesn't start for me on Windows 10. Not from batch file, nor on its own with any command arguments.

And that's with two different Windows 10 machines, one AMD Ryzen 7 1700, one intel i7 3770. Both with a GTX 1070.

Any way to debug this? I don't have anything strange running at the same time, as far as I can tell.

Just to confirm -- did you turn off windows defender? Windows Defender sometimes would deny the execution.

What happens if you directly click on bminer.exe?

Yes, I had tried disabling Windows Defender, despite it showing no indication that it cared about bminer.exe. Disabling Windows Defender had no effect.

If I double-click bminer.exe a cmd-style window appears for a couple seconds, then closes. It has no contents. There are no error messages or other outputs.

EDIT: same result with new 5.2.0 version.

Try installing Visual Basic libraries, .NET Framework libraries, and latest CUDA SDK. 99% it will fix this for you

I do some very basic, minimal compiling on these machines, such as compiling xmrig & xmr-stak. So I have the CUDA SDK, and some .NET/VB libraries. Can you suggest specifics on which ones I might be missing?

What are the outputs if you are running the executable directly?

No output. When I run bminer.exe in cmd window, it just pauses, then goes back to the prompt. When I double-click it, an empty console window briefly appears, then disappears.

Hello, the same here. When I run bminer.exe without parameters it pauses for a maybe half a second then quits to the console. No output. I've got Visual Studio 2017 installed, so the libraries you mentioned are in place. What could be missing? Windows 10 x64. I've got number of miners, no problems. Card configuration: MSI 1080 GamingX, MSI 1060 Armor 6G.

Just try adding a pause command after the arguments in your .bat file.

bminer -ArgumnentsHere -AndHere
pause


Edit:
run this for help with a list of available commands, pretty self explanatory lol

bminer -help
pause

Going to run some multi hour benchmarks on my 1070ti and my 980 individually on the competitive miners and hopefully put my mind at ease with these huge fluctuations and massive dips pool side.

[ThunderousDreamer]

Please let me know your results for the 1070 ti's. Mine are now running 510 sols/s for 125W on dstm and would like to know if bminer can get better results. Thank you

[ateam2]

Just tried again for fun -- still doesn't start for me on Windows 10. Not from batch file, nor on its own with any command arguments.

And that's with two different Windows 10 machines, one AMD Ryzen 7 1700, one intel i7 3770. Both with a GTX 1070.

Any way to debug this? I don't have anything strange running at the same time, as far as I can tell.

Just to confirm -- did you turn off windows defender? Windows Defender sometimes would deny the execution.

What happens if you directly click on bminer.exe?

Yes, I had tried disabling Windows Defender, despite it showing no indication that it cared about bminer.exe. Disabling Windows Defender had no effect.

If I double-click bminer.exe a cmd-style window appears for a couple seconds, then closes. It has no contents. There are no error messages or other outputs.

EDIT: same result with new 5.2.0 version.

Try installing Visual Basic libraries, .NET Framework libraries, and latest CUDA SDK. 99% it will fix this for you

I do some very basic, minimal compiling on these machines, such as compiling xmrig & xmr-stak. So I have the CUDA SDK, and some .NET/VB libraries. Can you suggest specifics on which ones I might be missing?

What are the outputs if you are running the executable directly?

No output. When I run bminer.exe in cmd window, it just pauses, then goes back to the prompt. When I double-click it, an empty console window briefly appears, then disappears.

Hello, the same here. When I run bminer.exe without parameters it pauses for a maybe half a second then quits to the console. No output. I've got Visual Studio 2017 installed, so the libraries you mentioned are in place. What could be missing? Windows 10 x64. I've got number of miners, no problems. Card configuration: MSI 1080 GamingX, MSI 1060 Armor 6G.

Just try adding a pause command after the arguments in your .bat file.

bminer -ArgumnentsHere -AndHere
pause


Edit:
run this for help with a list of available commands, pretty self explanatory lol

bminer -help
pause

Going to run some multi hour benchmarks on my 1070ti and my 980 individually on the competitive miners and hopefully put my mind at ease with these huge fluctuations and massive dips pool side.

you know, the problem isn't I don't know how to parameterize the miner, the problem is, that its output is none. And I've got the console open, so I don't need pause command I even tried the latest version 5.2.0 and the -logfile=.\bminer.log parameter. The file is not created.

[GWBIV]

What would be the miningpoolhub config for this?

[TDartDDD]

Please let me know your results for the 1070 ti's. Mine are now running 510 sols/s for 125W on dstm and would like to know if bminer can get better results. Thank you

Will do!
So far the miner reports 550 sols/s and nvidia inspector says about 133 watts, which seems to be on par with the slight increase on my previous 340 average, bu time to look at the data in detail.


edit:

What would be the miningpoolhub config for this?

bminer.exe -uri stratum://TDartDDD.workername:x@us-east.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:17023 -api 127.0.0.1:1880
pause

edit 2:

Just try adding a pause command after the arguments in your .bat file.

bminer -ArgumnentsHere -AndHere
pause


Edit:
run this for help with a list of available commands, pretty self explanatory lol

bminer -help
pause

Going to run some multi hour benchmarks on my 1070ti and my 980 individually on the competitive miners and hopefully put my mind at ease with these huge fluctuations and massive dips pool side.

you know, the problem isn't I don't know how to parameterize the miner, the problem is, that its output is none. And I've got the console open, so I don't need pause command I even tried the latest version 5.2.0 and the -logfile=.\bminer.log parameter. The file is not created.

Ooooh, I see what your getting at now, that is definitely beyond me, but if I experience something like that ill be sure to report!

[realbminer]

Just tried again for fun -- still doesn't start for me on Windows 10. Not from batch file, nor on its own with any command arguments.

And that's with two different Windows 10 machines, one AMD Ryzen 7 1700, one intel i7 3770. Both with a GTX 1070.

Any way to debug this? I don't have anything strange running at the same time, as far as I can tell.

Just to confirm -- did you turn off windows defender? Windows Defender sometimes would deny the execution.

What happens if you directly click on bminer.exe?

Yes, I had tried disabling Windows Defender, despite it showing no indication that it cared about bminer.exe. Disabling Windows Defender had no effect.

If I double-click bminer.exe a cmd-style window appears for a couple seconds, then closes. It has no contents. There are no error messages or other outputs.

EDIT: same result with new 5.2.0 version.

Try installing Visual Basic libraries, .NET Framework libraries, and latest CUDA SDK. 99% it will fix this for you

I do some very basic, minimal compiling on these machines, such as compiling xmrig & xmr-stak. So I have the CUDA SDK, and some .NET/VB libraries. Can you suggest specifics on which ones I might be missing?

What are the outputs if you are running the executable directly?

No output. When I run bminer.exe in cmd window, it just pauses, then goes back to the prompt. When I double-click it, an empty console window briefly appears, then disappears.

Hello, the same here. When I run bminer.exe without parameters it pauses for a maybe half a second then quits to the console. No output. I've got Visual Studio 2017 installed, so the libraries you mentioned are in place. What could be missing? Windows 10 x64. I've got number of miners, no problems. Card configuration: MSI 1080 GamingX, MSI 1060 Armor 6G.

Which CPU are you using?

[hav]

can you add shares commited per gpu? my gpu nr 5 doesn't seem to be committing shares, but reports hashrate none the less.
I had to debug this by running Zminer

[ateam2]

Just tried again for fun -- still doesn't start for me on Windows 10. Not from batch file, nor on its own with any command arguments.

And that's with two different Windows 10 machines, one AMD Ryzen 7 1700, one intel i7 3770. Both with a GTX 1070.

Any way to debug this? I don't have anything strange running at the same time, as far as I can tell.

Just to confirm -- did you turn off windows defender? Windows Defender sometimes would deny the execution.

What happens if you directly click on bminer.exe?

Yes, I had tried disabling Windows Defender, despite it showing no indication that it cared about bminer.exe. Disabling Windows Defender had no effect.

If I double-click bminer.exe a cmd-style window appears for a couple seconds, then closes. It has no contents. There are no error messages or other outputs.

EDIT: same result with new 5.2.0 version.

Try installing Visual Basic libraries, .NET Framework libraries, and latest CUDA SDK. 99% it will fix this for you

I do some very basic, minimal compiling on these machines, such as compiling xmrig & xmr-stak. So I have the CUDA SDK, and some .NET/VB libraries. Can you suggest specifics on which ones I might be missing?

What are the outputs if you are running the executable directly?

No output. When I run bminer.exe in cmd window, it just pauses, then goes back to the prompt. When I double-click it, an empty console window briefly appears, then disappears.

Hello, the same here. When I run bminer.exe without parameters it pauses for a maybe half a second then quits to the console. No output. I've got Visual Studio 2017 installed, so the libraries you mentioned are in place. What could be missing? Windows 10 x64. I've got number of miners, no problems. Card configuration: MSI 1080 GamingX, MSI 1060 Armor 6G.

Which CPU are you using?

It's an Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.40 Ghz.

[PIR3lly]

Well, after running great for about one day, it came up with errors again today.
Don't know what's up, but even if I restart bminer, it doesn't want to work.
Here is a logfile after just starting:

Code:

[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] Bminer: When Crypto-mining Made Fast (v5.2.0-4f20af3) 
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] Starting miner on devices [0 1 2 3]          
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] Connected to eu.miningspeed.com:3052         
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] Subscribed to stratum server                 
[WARN] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] Get error: Invalid response from the stratum server: &[91 52 48 44 34 102 97 97 49 56 101 99 50 48 57 55 52 99 50 54 100 34 93], resetting in 5 seconds 
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] Starting miner on device 0...                
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] [D0] GPU check watchdog has started          
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] Started miner on device 0                    
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] Starting miner on device 1...                
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] [D1] GPU check watchdog has started          
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] Started miner on device 1                    
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] Starting miner on device 2...                
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:33+01:00] [D2] GPU check watchdog has started          
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:34+01:00] Started miner on device 2                    
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:34+01:00] Starting miner on device 3...                
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:34+01:00] [D3] GPU check watchdog has started          
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:34+01:00] Started miner on device 3                    
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:34+01:00] Starting the management API at 127.0.0.1:1880 
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:38+01:00] Set target to 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000abaaaaaaaaaa1a00 
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:38+01:00] Received new job 1ebdb008                    
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:38+01:00] Connected to eu.miningspeed.com:3052         
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:38+01:00] Subscribed to stratum server                 
[WARN] [2018-01-24T21:24:38+01:00] Get error: Invalid response from the stratum server: &[91 52 48 44 34 98 51 55 52 97 50 53 98 48 57 55 52 99 50 54 102 34 93], resetting in 5 seconds 
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:43+01:00] Set target to 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000abaaaaaaaaaa1a00 
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:43+01:00] Received new job 4a4c9f19                    
[WARN] [2018-01-24T21:24:43+01:00] Rejected share #4 ([21,"job not found"])     
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:43+01:00] Connected to eu.miningspeed.com:3052         
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:44+01:00] Subscribed to stratum server                 
[WARN] [2018-01-24T21:24:44+01:00] Get error: Invalid response from the stratum server: &[91 52 48 44 34 48 53 97 50 56 101 99 50 48 57 55 52 99 50 55 48 34 93], resetting in 5 seconds 
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:49+01:00] Set target to 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000abaaaaaaaaaa1a00 
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:49+01:00] Received new job 1ebdb008                    
[WARN] [2018-01-24T21:24:49+01:00] Rejected share #5 ([21,"job not found"])     
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:49+01:00] Connected to eu.miningspeed.com:3052         
[INFO] [2018-01-24T21:24:49+01:00] Subscribed to stratum server                 
[WARN] [2018-01-24T21:24:49+01:00] Get error: Invalid response from the stratum server: &[91 52 48 44 34 48 98 97 50 56 101 99 50 48 57 55 52 99 50 55 49 34 93], resetting in 5 seconds 

DSTM and EWFB work without problems.
Any ideas (running version 5.2.0)

[snovik]

Same machine, same cards, same pool, same running time from scratch, same ... everything is the same ... running for 48 hours now

bminer has somewhat lower pool reported average hashrate but higher cumulative actual payout by ca. 3% on the pool side.

http://oi68.tinypic.com/2i7pk3o.jpg

Will keep it running until the weekend and then start switching if the status persists

[peteycamey]

I receive update error.

[anotherwave]

Same machine, same cards, same pool, same running time from scratch, same ... everything is the same ... running for 48 hours now

bminer has somewhat lower pool reported average hashrate but higher cumulative actual payout by ca. 3% on the pool side.

http://oi68.tinypic.com/2i7pk3o.jpg

Will keep it running until the weekend and then start switching if the status persists

i'm seeing the same thing with the hashrate on my machine but i find that really strange that the pool paid you out less on dstm even though the hashrate was higher.. i know the difficulty plays a part in it but thats just another mystery of mining... lol

[jwarp]

I tried a 24 hour test with 12x 1070's and found the following.

1) The software reported hashrate is considerably higher than EWBF, around 500 sols faster with same clock/power settings, that is combined over 12 gpu's.

2) The reported hashrate seems to be higher as well, however, the accepted shares seems exactly the same on Mining Pool Hub.

3) Bminer seems to have more rejected shares, not a lot, usually below 1% but at times it was higher. Running fairly moderate O/C settings, rig 1 is +75 core / +400 mem, rig 2 is +150 core / +500 mem, about the same amount of rejected shares for each rig. Also tried with stock settings and had about the same amount of rejected shares.

So I'm a bit confused, I'm going to try again to compare over a longer period, but for now I'm back to EWBF. Btw, Devfee was enabled for both miners during test.