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

[realbminer]

Hi

I have been using bminer on 2x 12 1070ti rigs with no issue.
I have setup another rig with 9x 1080tis. The miner constantly restarts every 30mins or so. The last line in the console is "killed".
Previously when I had a riser fail while running bminer,  it stated exactly which gpu/riser it could not get temperature from.

The restarts do not happen with other softwares.

I am using simple mining and mining on nicehash.

Can anybody assist with the above

Can't assist you on how to solve the problem, but can report I am having the same problem or similar problem to yours also on a nine card rig. I am also using smos.

Mine is a 9x 1070ti rig. It took me a while to realise I had a problem. I was not paying attention to the console.

Whats happening with mine is that the rig loads up as normal on smos with the slow start from Bminer, then when all GPUs are running at full speed, GPU 8 starts dropping off slowly, the sol rate eventually drops down to zero, the rig keeps running for a while and but then I start getting the restarts about every 30 minutes or so. When I revert back to Bminer v5.5.0 the problem goes away, the rig runs normally. I tried dialing back the overclock on GPU 8 to see if this was the problem but that didn't work either. So for now just working v5.5.0. on this rig.

Funny thing is I have another 9 card rig with identical setup to the first, same mobo same power supply etc. Except this is a mixed card rig, 6x 1070 and 3x 1070t1 but this rig runs normally on Bminer v6.0.0.

I have a third 6x 1070ti card rig and this runs problem free as well with v6.0.0.

Just go back to v5.5.0 is my fix for the moment anyhow.

Thanks for feedback. Are you mining nicehash by any chance?
The restarts have somehow reduced to 1 per day.

I have now noticed that my rig shows offline on the pool as well as on simplemining monitor console but strangely the system is still drawing +750watts off power during this state, as per my energy meter. Full draw on this rig is - +2150watts. This would mean that my system is in some kind on halt state? Is some watchdog initiating?

@minebomb @Roby1
Thank you for the feedback. How many memory the rig has? This information will help me diagnose the problem and fix it in the next release.

[danialzo]

I guess I am not the only one having issue with version 6.0.0, GPU hangs after 30-60mins. 5.5.0 works fine tho

[FFI2013]

I just tried bminer and I'm getting better rates than I was with dstm with the same clocks so I'm going to let it run for a day and see if it's stable

[Bimmber]

I just tried bminer and I'm getting better rates than I was with dstm with the same clocks so I'm going to let it run for a day and see if it's stable

Those better rates are fake. I get about 1000 sol difference between console and pool. Lot of people have said bminer fakes data in console.

[supermoew]

gettilee,

where do you see it supports bminer?

https://github.com/Undertrey/FarmWatchBot/releases

I found Bminer here -->Bmnrautorun.bat

[supermoew]

I just tried bminer and I'm getting better rates than I was with dstm with the same clocks so I'm going to let it run for a day and see if it's stable

Those better rates are fake. I get about 1000 sol difference between console and pool. Lot of people have said bminer fakes data in console.

I didn't see such kind of people. it's boring to see someone who keeps posting such kind of things under this thread.

[gettilee]

I just tried bminer and I'm getting better rates than I was with dstm with the same clocks so I'm going to let it run for a day and see if it's stable

Those better rates are fake. I get about 1000 sol difference between console and pool. Lot of people have said bminer fakes data in console.

I didn't see such kind of people. it's boring to see someone who keeps posting such kind of things under this thread.

you are in denial. just stop already.

its completely obvious that bminer over reports hashrate in the console or hes taking more than 2%. bminer's reported hashrate is 3% higher than dstm reported output but still has the same hashrate pool side.

stop ignoring the obvious

[PostJok]

Console: 3730 kSol/s
Avg.Pool: 3680 kSol/s
24h
Looks ok

[vickigoh]

for console reported 4.3k sols but pool reported as 4.05k+/- sols only.

[Arnoldent]

for console reported 4.3k sols but pool reported as 4.05k+/- sols only.

The difference between my console and pool is about 6.5%. Similar to yours.

[penderway]

4. It might be a good idea or not, but I think it will be a bit more transparent if next to the accepted shares, rejected shares you included a new count named Dev Shares then we could keep track and see if it really is a 2% what you are taking away.

4. Yes, I am open to this idea. But simply counting the number of shares will just confuse people due to potentially different difficulties of shares. Once I figured out a right way to implement this, I will do it.

The Developer Shares may not be exactly 2% of the Accepted Shares as the miner share difficulty is likely different from the developer share difficulty but still, it should be close.

For a more accurate number, that accounts for the difference in difficulties, a few calculations can be introduced.

1) "avgDevD", the average difficulty of the developers shares.
2) "avgMnrD", the average difficulty of the miners shares.
3) "%diffD", the percent difference in difficulty or more precisely, the % increase or decrease in the average difficulty of the miners shares compared to the average difficulty of the developers shares. It looks like this: %diffD = (avgDevD / avgMnrD) / avgMnrD * 100

The "avgDevD" and "avgMnrD" values can just go into the bminer.log to lessen console clutter but with the "%diffD" value added to the console, the following equations can be used for verification and should increase confidence in the code.

Dev Shares = 0.02 * Accepted Shares * (1 + %diffD / 100)

Miner Shares = Accepted Shares - Dev Shares

Maybe there's an easier method but this one is not terribly complicated.

[minebomb]

Hi

I have been using bminer on 2x 12 1070ti rigs with no issue.
I have setup another rig with 9x 1080tis. The miner constantly restarts every 30mins or so. The last line in the console is "killed".
Previously when I had a riser fail while running bminer,  it stated exactly which gpu/riser it could not get temperature from.

The restarts do not happen with other softwares.

I am using simple mining and mining on nicehash.

Can anybody assist with the above

Can't assist you on how to solve the problem, but can report I am having the same problem or similar problem to yours also on a nine card rig. I am also using smos.

Mine is a 9x 1070ti rig. It took me a while to realise I had a problem. I was not paying attention to the console.

Whats happening with mine is that the rig loads up as normal on smos with the slow start from Bminer, then when all GPUs are running at full speed, GPU 8 starts dropping off slowly, the sol rate eventually drops down to zero, the rig keeps running for a while and but then I start getting the restarts about every 30 minutes or so. When I revert back to Bminer v5.5.0 the problem goes away, the rig runs normally. I tried dialing back the overclock on GPU 8 to see if this was the problem but that didn't work either. So for now just working v5.5.0. on this rig.

Funny thing is I have another 9 card rig with identical setup to the first, same mobo same power supply etc. Except this is a mixed card rig, 6x 1070 and 3x 1070t1 but this rig runs normally on Bminer v6.0.0.

I have a third 6x 1070ti card rig and this runs problem free as well with v6.0.0.

Just go back to v5.5.0 is my fix for the moment anyhow.

Thanks for feedback. Are you mining nicehash by any chance?
The restarts have somehow reduced to 1 per day.

I have now noticed that my rig shows offline on the pool as well as on simplemining monitor console but strangely the system is still drawing +750watts off power during this state, as per my energy meter. Full draw on this rig is - +2150watts. This would mean that my system is in some kind on halt state? Is some watchdog initiating?

@minebomb @Roby1
Thank you for the feedback. How many memory the rig has? This information will help me diagnose the problem and fix it in the next release.

@realbminer
Thanks for response.
I am using 4gb Ram and a celeron cpu on simplemining.

Thanks await your feedback

[realbminer]

6.1.0 has released.

• Fix potential regression caused by 6.0.0 for GPUs mounting on risers.
• Improve mining algorithm stability.

Happy mining!

[Luwonder]

for console reported 4.3k sols but pool reported as 4.05k+/- sols only.

That is similar to other miners like the Claymore, I got 5-8% less reported.

[jombolo]

Anyone see positive results from 6.1.0?

[tox22544]

Anyone see positive results from 6.1.0?

Yes - this build with Fuerboos trojan. 

[Johnjay06]

Anyone see positive results from 6.1.0?

Yes - this build with Fuerboos trojan. 

Really?  This version has that virus in it??

[realbminer]

Anyone see positive results from 6.1.0?

Yes - this build with Fuerboos trojan.  

Really?  This version has that virus in it??

This version and all previous versions of bminer are clean. Like other miners, Bminer uses DRM techniques to prevent itself to be tempered. Anti-virus software sometimes misclassifies it.

Please see https://www.bminer.me/faq/#why-does-windows-defender-report-bminer-as-virus-malicious-software

[LoraineLY]

Anyone see positive results from 6.1.0?

Slightly higher sol/s on my rigs (~0.5%, 1080Ti + 1070) comparing to 6.0.

I now use bminer to mine ZEC again not because ZEC price recovered, but because ETH price fell...   

When will the stupid market recover? Could these miners lower their devfee to give us some breathing room in this difficult time?

[tox22544]

Anyone see positive results from 6.1.0?

Yes - this build with Fuerboos trojan.  

Really?  This version has that virus in it??

This version and all previous versions of bminer are clean. Like other miners, Bminer uses DRM techniques to prevent itself to be tempered. Anti-virus software sometimes misclassifies it.

Please see https://www.bminer.me/faq/#why-does-windows-defender-report-bminer-as-virus-malicious-software

But prev.version (0.55) was not detected like Fuerboos.