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

[wetblanket]

Run for two days and still cannot reproduce the error.

Have you tried different mining pool?

Not yet, no.
This pool gives me the best payout at the moment. I've been running Ewfb miner for days on it without problems.
Since it stopped mining with Bminer I switched to dstm and its been running great with about the same reported hash rates.

Would love to run Bminer, if it was faster or if it had lower fee than the others. But stability problems is a much bigger concern than slightly higher hash rates.

realbminer, it almost sounds like a stratum protocol parsing issue, specific to the one pool's implementation? Although, PIR3lly stated that it ran well for a day before starting to fail.

Perhaps something related to the mining 'session' (re: mining.subscribe ID used to resubscribe after disconnect) - not sure if bminer supports resuming mining sessions. Given the slow, staggered startup, I'm guessing 'no'. (and it's very unlikely that it would resume between fresh bminer starts, anyway) But if so, maybe starting subscribing fresh, without resuming would help?

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[realbminer]

EVGA GTX 1080SC, +100/+500/87pl around 155-160w

@realbminer: What does this error message mean?


Is there a way to reduce the CPU usage of this miner? I've used the "-gpucheck 0" to get the 8rigs to work,...but for 12 rigs it's too CPU intensive and it it closes/crashes without any warning.
What's the command line to get the watchdog disabled? "-watchdog false/0" won't work.

It looks promising, will test further, finally some competition in equihash algo.

Should be -watchdog=false

See https://www.bminer.me/examples/#exit-immediately-in-case-of-network-failures for an example.

What cards are you using and which CPU are you using for the rig?

If it crashes do you happen to collect any logs?

[realbminer]

Run for two days and still cannot reproduce the error.

Have you tried different mining pool?

Not yet, no.
This pool gives me the best payout at the moment. I've been running Ewfb miner for days on it without problems.
Since it stopped mining with Bminer I switched to dstm and its been running great with about the same reported hash rates.

Would love to run Bminer, if it was faster or if it had lower fee than the others. But stability problems is a much bigger concern than slightly higher hash rates.

realbminer, it almost sounds like a stratum protocol parsing issue, specific to the one pool's implementation? Although, PIR3lly stated that it ran well for a day before starting to fail.

Perhaps something related to the mining 'session' (re: mining.subscribe ID used to resubscribe after disconnect) - not sure if bminer supports resuming mining sessions. Given the slow, staggered startup, I'm guessing 'no'. (and it's very unlikely that it would resume between fresh bminer starts, anyway) But if so, maybe starting subscribing fresh, without resuming would help?

Thanks for the info. Will look into it.

[realbminer]

Hi,

Hoping someone can help me. I am running the ASUS mining board with 12 GPU's currently, will soon add #13. I cannot get Bminer to start properly, it starts but never starts hashing and then basically stops saying something like "GPU0 hang detected...." and then restarts. Ive put a screenshot below (the 1st one). EWBF seems to work fine but I prefer Bminer......


https://imgur.com/a/zQJ7E

Any ideas?

Hmm...can you please try just running with a few GPUs (i.e., bminer -devices 0,1) and to see whether it works?

[car1999]

Bminer is the fastest equihash miner on my gtx 1050ti+gtx750 testing rig...

[Supercoiner111]

Any hashrate increase in new 5.2?

[gsanjin]

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.

Having same problem. Win 7 x64, 390.x drivers, latest win updates, other miners working without problems. Funny how even author don't know exact library dependencies

[tinfoilMining]

Amazing miner so far. Got a 5.5% increase in sol/s on 1080TI, and temp dropped by 1C 
Big thumbs up 

[gsanjin]

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.

Having same problem. Win 7 x64, 390.x drivers, latest win updates, other miners working without problems. Funny how even author don't know exact library dependencies

Just tried on Win 10 Falls Creator with latest updates and same (win 10) driver version and it works ok, with 12-15 sols more than with dstm's miner (Windforce 1060 3GB).

[elchorizo]

Tried running this on ethOS and got the following error:

Code:

08:32 PM ethos@xxxxxx 192.168.1.64 [miner disallowed] /home/ethos/bminer-v5.2.0-4f20af3 # ./mine.sh
./bminer: relocation error: ./bminer: symbol _ZTTNSt7__cxx1118basic_stringstreamIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEE, version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference

[apoc@lypse]

I run your batch but not anything...
I not change in your batch.
1080x2 and 1060(3gb)x4
http://www.mx7.com/i/192/5Ztu6b.png

[threeflappp]

@realbminer

Can you change the uptime to day:hr:min:sec? or just day:hr:min would be fine as well

Great miner so far.

https://0x1a4.moe/i/xw74i.png

[realbminer]

Tried running this on ethOS and got the following error:

Code:

08:32 PM ethos@xxxxxx 192.168.1.64 [miner disallowed] /home/ethos/bminer-v5.2.0-4f20af3 # ./mine.sh
./bminer: relocation error: ./bminer: symbol _ZTTNSt7__cxx1118basic_stringstreamIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEE, version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference

Still working on the support for EthOS / Ubuntun 14.04. It should be available in the next release or two.

[Andrey09]

Can you change the uptime to day:hr:min:sec? or just day:hr:min would be fine as well Smiley

Agree. Please change.

Please modify telemetry page, as example: https://i.imgur.com/5Ct2aom.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/5Ct2aom.jpg


Tnx you for work.

[cryptodunno]

is it possible to mine zcl with bminer? or only zec?
edit: looks like it`s possible, I`ve set it up myself, will see how it goes

[SPEC1AL1ST]

is it possible to mine zcl with bminer? or only zec?
edit: looks like it`s possible, I`ve set it up myself, will see how it goes

possible to mine zcl

[pietroow]

I was mining BTG for at least 4hours... and all my credit disappearead ....
I don't know if I did something wrong.. but mining ZCL was normal... I just tryed to change the command line:

mine.bat -
ZCL: bminer -uri stratum://user.worker:pwWorker@zcl.suprnova.cc:4042 (WORKING)
BTG: bminer -uri stratum://user.worker:pwWorker@btg.suprnova.cc:8816

I deleted the text inside mine.bat with "@echo off"etc... and used just the command above.
I really wanna mine BTG with this miner... can someone help me plz?

[anotherwave]

I was mining BTG for at least 4hours... and all my credit disappearead ....
I don't know if I did something wrong.. but mining ZCL was normal... I just tryed to change the command line:

mine.bat -
ZCL: bminer -uri stratum://user.worker:pwWorker@zcl.suprnova.cc:4042 (WORKING)
BTG: bminer -uri stratum://user.worker:pwWorker@btg.suprnova.cc:8816

I deleted the text inside mine.bat with "@echo off"etc... and used just the command above.
I really wanna mine BTG with this miner... can someone help me plz?

if thats the command line your using you have to use your suprnova username in there... eg.  -uri stratum://pietroow.worker1@btg.suprnova.cc:8816

otherwise it should work.

[Elisaly]

hey guys ,

Can someone confirm is this profitable to using in comparison with EWBF and ZM ?

and What the 1060 3gb hashing give when using bMiner?

[p33k]

I came back to revisit your miner.  Cheers for the updates on this, it has come a long way since the first release.  I am seeing noticeable gains from other miners on the two rigs I am using it on now!