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

[topteam]

Can you check connection to btc.com (beam coin)?

Code:

[INFO] Connected to eu-beam.ss.btc.com:1800
[WARN] Get error: Connection reset by peer, resetting in 5 seconds
[INFO] Connected to eu-beam.ss.btc.com:1800
[WARN] Get error: Connection reset by peer, resetting in 5 seconds

ok, will do.

work with prefix stratum+ssl 

[Scofield]

Is there an option to control the intensity for GPU? Also, what is the devfee when mining GRIN?

[realbminer]

Is there an option to control the intensity for GPU? Also, what is the devfee when mining GRIN?

please try control cpu usage by -intensity first. please see https://bminer.me/faq/#how-to-adjust-the-cpu-usage-with-the-intensity-flag
grin devfee is 1%,  please see https://bminer.me/

[dafuzz_rsa]

sad to see no support added for swap in the latest release 15.4.0
Are you planning on adding support for it at all?

[realbminer]

We're pleased to release Bminer 15.4.0. The release provides:
  * Improve performance of Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity.
  * Improve compatibility on Windows.
  * Add an experimental flag --fast to improve the performance for Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity, but it might lead to unstability on some systems.

Please see https://www.bminer.me/releases/ for more details.

Happy mining.

[lunobird]

We're pleased to release Bminer 15.4.0. The release provides:
  * Improve performance of Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity.
  * Improve compatibility on Windows.
  * Add an experimental flag --fast to improve the performance for Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity, but it might lead to unstability on some systems.

Please see https://www.bminer.me/releases/ for more details.

Happy mining.

Does this improve performance of Grin?

[QZLP]

I tried the new 15.4 with the --fast flag and it will not accept any shares on thegrinpool. I went back to version 15.3.1 and it will not work either now. Is there a way to disable the --fast flag once it has been activated or is simply removing it from the command line sufficient. I am on Windows 7 with a 1070

[cirlama]

We're pleased to release Bminer 15.4.0. The release provides:
  * Improve performance of Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity.
  * Improve compatibility on Windows.
  * Add an experimental flag --fast to improve the performance for Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity, but it might lead to unstability on some systems.

Please see https://www.bminer.me/releases/ for more details.

Happy mining.

very short test on Grin29, luxor.tech pool, win 10 driver 419.35, single gpu pc i5 with gtx1070, core +160, mem +600, power 65%:
v15.3.1: 4.45 G/s
v15.4.0: 4.80 G/s with --fast option => close to 5.0 G/s after a few hours...

[TAKCuCT]

"--fast" = zero effect on ubuntu both on grin and ae (1070, 1080ti)

[twente-mining]

Sorry to say, but can't get it stable on any of my rigs, to much rejected shares, -fast function doesn't work either.

Tested on Simplemining, 1060, 1070, 1070ti and 1080ti rigs.

Sticking with Gminer for the moment.

[ivan1975]

very short test on Grin29, luxor.tech pool, win 10 driver 419.35, single gpu pc i5 with gtx1070, core +160, mem +600, power 65%:
v15.3.1: 4.45 G/s
v15.4.0: 4.80 G/s with --fast option => close to 5.0 G/s after a few hours...

I noticed only a slight improvement in speed with gtx1070:
4.41 G/s (v15.3.1) -->  4.45 G/s (v15.4.0)

[leoragraves666]

No improvement whatsoever for me

[kotikadze]

Let's go bminer. We are waiting for a new version with a speed 6 g/s or better on GTX1070!

[Magnit0]

Hi. Who got this too how to fix this error? :

Win7-64 Nvidia 419.67
Bminer 15.4.0 got this error, 15.3.1 is OK.

Bminer: When Crypto-mining Made Fast (v15.4.0-9e272fc)
Detecting platform
CudaError: Unknown error: c:\windows\system32\dxgi.dll
Miner died! It will be restarted soon…
CudaError: Unknown error: c:\windows\system32\dxgi.dll
Miner died! It will be restarted soon…

[Scofield]

Is there an option to control the intensity for GPU? Also, what is the devfee when mining GRIN?

please try control cpu usage by -intensity first. please see https://bminer.me/faq/#how-to-adjust-the-cpu-usage-with-the-intensity-flag
grin devfee is 1%,  please see https://bminer.me/

I tried that, didn't help. Actually I've been having constant issues with any version of bminer ever since I tried to undervolt my GPU's using this method: https://www.reddit.com/r/gpumining/comments/9d5i5r/undervolting_nvidia_on_linux/

After the miner crashed I had to reinstall every card again in order to get Ubuntu to detect my GPU's... And now bminer doesn't run stable anymore, crashes randomly after 30-90 minutes of mining.
The fans of some cards start spinning really hard then, and the miner just freezes and I have to manually reboot it. Did I break my cards with undervolting? I thought that wouldn't be possible.


Logs:


[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:53:48+01:00] [GPU 0] Speed: 4.57 G/s Fidelity 1.051 Temp: 61C Fan: 42% Power: 147W 0.03 G/J
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:53:48+01:00] [GPU 1] Speed: 3.84 G/s Fidelity 1.355 Temp: 64C Fan: 46% Power: 128W 0.03 G/J
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:53:48+01:00] [GPU 2] Speed: 4.35 G/s Fidelity 0.836 Temp: 65C Fan: 49% Power: 131W 0.03 G/J
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:53:48+01:00] [GPU 3] Speed: 4.30 G/s Fidelity 1.012 Temp: 68C Fan: 54% Power: 120W 0.04 G/J
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:53:48+01:00] [GPU 4] Speed: 4.32 G/s Fidelity 0.832 Temp: 70C Fan: 59% Power: 141W 0.03 G/J
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:53:49+01:00] Total 21.38 G/s Accepted shares 41 Rejected shares 0
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:00+01:00] Received new job 7
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:01+01:00] Accepted share
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:07+01:00] Accepted share
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:07+01:00] Received new job 0
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:18+01:00] [GPU 0] Speed: 4.58 G/s Fidelity 1.012 Temp: 62C Fan: 43% Power: 134W 0.03 G/J
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:18+01:00] [GPU 1] Speed: 2.97 G/s Fidelity 1.295 Temp: 63C Fan: 47% Power: 124W 0.02 G/J
[ERRO] [2019-03-29T16:54:18+01:00] Failed to fetch device Status for device id: 1, Error code: 15
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:18+01:00] [GPU 2] Speed: 4.32 G/s Fidelity 0.973 Temp: 65C Fan: 49% Power: 118W 0.04 G/J
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:18+01:00] [GPU 3] Speed: 3.29 G/s Fidelity 0.968 Temp: 68C Fan: 55% Power: 162W 0.02 G/J
[ERRO] [2019-03-29T16:54:18+01:00] Failed to fetch device Status for device id: 3, Error code: 15
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:18+01:00] [GPU 4] Speed: 3.32 G/s Fidelity 0.796 Temp: 70C Fan: 59% Power: 134W 0.02 G/J
[ERRO] [2019-03-29T16:54:18+01:00] Failed to fetch device Status for device id: 4, Error code: 15
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:19+01:00] Total 18.48 G/s Accepted shares 43 Rejected shares 0
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:22+01:00] Received new job 1
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:33+01:00] Accepted share
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:37+01:00] Received new job 2
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:48+01:00] [GPU 0] Speed: 4.59 G/s Fidelity 0.980 Temp: 61C Fan: 43% Power: 124W 0.04 G/J
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:48+01:00] [GPU 1] Speed: 1.80 G/s Fidelity 1.297 Temp:  1C Fan: 1% Power: 1W 1.80 G/J
[ERRO] [2019-03-29T16:54:48+01:00] Failed to fetch device Status for device id: 1, Error code: 15
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:48+01:00] [GPU 2] Speed: 4.32 G/s Fidelity 0.975 Temp: 65C Fan: 50% Power: 132W 0.03 G/J
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:48+01:00] [GPU 3] Speed: 2.00 G/s Fidelity 0.969 Temp:  1C Fan: 1% Power: 1W 2.00 G/J
[ERRO] [2019-03-29T16:54:48+01:00] Failed to fetch device Status for device id: 3, Error code: 15
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:48+01:00] [GPU 4] Speed: 2.01 G/s Fidelity 0.797 Temp:  1C Fan: 1% Power: 1W 2.01 G/J
[ERRO] [2019-03-29T16:54:48+01:00] Failed to fetch device Status for device id: 4, Error code: 15
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:49+01:00] Total 14.72 G/s Accepted shares 44 Rejected shares 0
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:52+01:00] Received new job 3
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:55+01:00] Accepted share
[INFO] [2019-03-29T16:54:59+01:00] Accepted share

[Bluecheese]

Am I able to use my old R9 290X's?

[realbminer]

I tried the new 15.4 with the --fast flag and it will not accept any shares on thegrinpool. I went back to version 15.3.1 and it will not work either now. Is there a way to disable the --fast flag once it has been activated or is simply removing it from the command line sufficient. I am on Windows 7 with a 1070

Just remove the --fast flag in your command line it will be diabled.
Have you tried combine intensity and --fast to see if it helps? since we have tried on our rig and it helps.

[realbminer]

We're pleased to release Bminer 15.4.0. The release provides:
  * Improve performance of Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity.
  * Improve compatibility on Windows.
  * Add an experimental flag --fast to improve the performance for Cuckaroo29 / Aeternity, but it might lead to unstability on some systems.

Please see https://www.bminer.me/releases/ for more details.

Happy mining.

Does this improve performance of Grin?

Grin mining on P102 is about 7.78G/s now. without using --fast flag.

[realbminer]

Sorry to say, but can't get it stable on any of my rigs, to much rejected shares, -fast function doesn't work either.

Tested on Simplemining, 1060, 1070, 1070ti and 1080ti rigs.

Sticking with Gminer for the moment.

--fast

several users have given me pretty positive feedbacks...

[unsivilaudio]

working on it...

Small request from someone maintain an ethOS integration; https://github.com/cynixx3/third-party-miner-installer-for-ethos

Will you please add a version call to your miner.  E.G. "./bminer --version"
Thank you for your work on this miner, its great.

No?