[XPM]unofficial jhPrimeminer thread

[neo101one]

I have quite a few computers mining primecoin now - from Dual Core Intel chips to 3rd gen i5/i7's, and even older dual processor quad core intel servers.  I thought I would add a new AMD 8320 to the mix.  8 cores running at least at 3.5 ghz should work out fairly well, right?

Well my first problem is that the 7.1 avx version crashes.  No big deal, I can just run the regular version.  Problem 2 is that each time it finds a share, it gives the message Invalid Share - Invalid data time overflow.  Then I moved to the original one from ypool - same problem, but in addition to the data time overflow messages, some times I get other ones like duplicate share.  So I downgraded to the v6 version.  Although I can run both the AVX and normal versions of v6 - and my shares are actually accepted - my latest problem is that it seems VERY slow.  I am getting about 1,600-2,000 4 chains/hr.  My other computers are averaging 4,000 to 6,000 4 chains an hour.

The only setting I am using is the number of threads and it matches the processor cores - 8.  Is anyone else using this processor - FX-8320 and is having better luck than I am?  When my value per hour is around 2 and I have other computers that are over 20, something just doesn't seem right.

-Randy

Im actually getting that cpu later on when I get a new mb. I dont know exactly what causes the crashes or invalid shares but I hope its fixed in v8. Id check out v5 with AVX back on page 10 and see if it runs faster.

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[mhps]

Invalid Share

From what I've heard you should check the date, time, CMOS time, maybe even timezone etc. of  your machines.

[maco]

How is everyone doing with this? I see this thread has jumped quite a bit since X3Maniac's post.

Anyone satisfied with XPM earnings @ ypool?

[geofflosophy]

How is everyone doing with this? I see this thread has jumped quite a bit since X3Maniac's post.

Anyone satisfied with XPM earnings @ ypool?

Mine have been pretty good, I haven't done a good job of keeping track but to give you an idea I started with GMP v5 on a 2.3 GHertz i7 laptop (6 threads dedicated to mining) and have 4.28 in my balance and 2.05 in my unconfirmed. My guess is 1-1.5 XPM per day or so.

[dudeguy]

How is everyone doing with this? I see this thread has jumped quite a bit since X3Maniac's post.

Anyone satisfied with XPM earnings @ ypool?

I'm so so about it. I got terribly unlucky waiting over 2 weeks for a block on the HP builds staying up to date on every release so I went to Ypool. I likely would have made more XPM solo mining but I just couldn't risk a GPU miner coming out and never having the same ability to make up for my lost time making no XPM with the three processors I have here. Tuning this miner is a bitch. I've gone through dozens of combinations and used every indicator at my disposal to test mining effectiveness. Nothing is set in stone and most of it is luck however I find anything that isn't a server, or high end processor likes a sieve size under 1000000. That's my experience. It's late so I probably made no sense.

[maco]

How is everyone doing with this? I see this thread has jumped quite a bit since X3Maniac's post.

Anyone satisfied with XPM earnings @ ypool?

I'm so so about it. I got terribly unlucky waiting over 2 weeks for a block on the HP builds staying up to date on every release so I went to Ypool. I likely would have made more XPM solo mining but I just couldn't risk a GPU miner coming out and never having the same ability to make up for my lost time making no XPM with the three processors I have here. Tuning this miner is a bitch. I've gone through dozens of combinations and used every indicator at my disposal to test mining effectiveness. Nothing is set in stone and most of it is luck however I find anything that isn't a server, or high end processor likes a sieve size under 1000000. That's my experience. It's late so I probably made no sense.

I haven't tried these optimizations that much but I would say if you got no other alternative, try V4 posted here.

Try these, I found them effective with my optimizations -primes 100000 and -s 100000 with -d 8
But I am sticking with solo for now.  Hope that helps you out :]

[psyc]

hello guys have any suggestions for set 8-core AMD Opteron? 

[reb0rn21]

I see there is V7 version with AVX, anyone did AVX2 optimization for haswell, AVX2 should be a lot faster compared to AVX?

[hasle2]

I am having issues redirecting the output on linux. I built from the latest sources (thanks for setting it up for linux guys ) and run it like so:

Code:

jhprimeminer -o http://ypool.net:10034 -u user.w -p x -t 4 > out 2>&1 < /dev/null &

but nothing is showing up in the out file. Any suggestions? I would really like to have it running in the background an be able to check a file for the status as I control my linux boxes by ssh.

[bcp19]

I switched over to 7.1 and when I ran the bat file to start it, the miner seemed to be working normally but my system acted like it was overloaded.  Took over 20 seconds to bring up internet explorer after I clicked on it and almost as long for it to close.  Is this normal for 7.1?

[geofflosophy]

I switched over to 7.1 and when I ran the bat file to start it, the miner seemed to be working normally but my system acted like it was overloaded.  Took over 20 seconds to bring up internet explorer after I clicked on it and almost as long for it to close.  Is this normal for 7.1?

I ran 7.1 all day today running on all eight threads without any lag issues, but in the past I've had problems with lag when running on all threads, which is why I usually run it with 6. I don't think it should surprise anyone that your computer lags when it's trying to run at max capacity.

[mhps]

Uhhhh, what's going on?

I got this on an E5620 with -t 4 -s 3000000, about 8  hours after starting the miner

v7.1  win8

I just lost 10 hours by a similar but difference error. The error message is

Code:

Restarting thread 0
Sirve/Test ratio:0.0 / 100.0%  - New PrimorialMultiplier: 2

then repeat for every other thread. then repeat  forever.

Can I avoid the error by turning off the PrimorialMultiplier auto searching?

[bcp19]

I switched over to 7.1 and when I ran the bat file to start it, the miner seemed to be working normally but my system acted like it was overloaded.  Took over 20 seconds to bring up internet explorer after I clicked on it and almost as long for it to close.  Is this normal for 7.1?

I ran 7.1 all day today running on all eight threads without any lag issues, but in the past I've had problems with lag when running on all threads, which is why I usually run it with 6. I don't think it should surprise anyone that your computer lags when it's trying to run at max capacity.

That's just it though, I did not experience this slowdown with V3, V4, V5 or V6.  I never tried V7 but V7.1 near killed it.  I tried it on 3 different comps with the same result so I'm back to V6 for now.

[bengtåke]

I am having issues redirecting the output on linux. I built from the latest sources (thanks for setting it up for linux guys ) and run it like so:

Code:

jhprimeminer -o http://ypool.net:10034 -u user.w -p x -t 4 > out 2>&1 < /dev/null &

but nothing is showing up in the out file. Any suggestions? I would really like to have it running in the background an be able to check a file for the status as I control my linux boxes by ssh.

You could use an utility called screen, it allows you to run a process in a virtual terminal that you can detach and attach to, and watch some process running in it. Like

Code:

screen jhprimeminer -o ypool.net -u blabla -p bla

then press CTRL+A+D when its running to detach, to reattach it again you can type screen -rd, that wont solve your piping problem (not sure why that isnt working), but you can attach to it at any point and watch the output at least.

[Fernandez]

Can somebody point me to the best version for Windows 7 32 bit on Core i3-540?

[dudeguy]

Can somebody point me to the best version for Windows 7 32 bit on Core i3-540?

You don't have AVX so I suggest 7.1 instead of the 7.1 AVX

Leave it on stock settings overnight. Don't forget to press C after your auto tune has stabilized (after about 20 min). Pressing C will auto tune your L1 Cache. Write the results down and be sure to include that all other settings were on stock.

[baloo_kiev]

Still getting the best results (measured by 4-ch/h) with mumus' version 4 under wine.
I'm on Ubuntu x64 and AMD Opterons.
Performance per core for v4 is about 2k 4-ch/h compared to ~800 for v7.1 (both wine and native linux).

[bcp19]

Still getting the best results (measured by 4-ch/h) with mumus' version 4 under wine.
I'm on Ubuntu x64 and AMD Opterons.
Performance per core for v4 is about 2k 4-ch/h compared to ~800 for v7.1 (both wine and native linux).

that is because V4 adds all 4ch and up for 4ch total and V7 is only 4ch.

[baloo_kiev]

Still getting the best results (measured by 4-ch/h) with mumus' version 4 under wine.
I'm on Ubuntu x64 and AMD Opterons.
Performance per core for v4 is about 2k 4-ch/h compared to ~800 for v7.1 (both wine and native linux).

that is because V4 adds all 4ch and up for 4ch total and V7 is only 4ch.

Still about 2x speedup for v4 even after subtracting 5ch+ shares from 4ch.

[ivanlabrie]

Hi there guys

I finally got a cpu upgrade in the form of an i7 3820 which I run at 4.4ghz.
What are the best settings for the avx 7.1 miner?

Couldn't find up to date specific settings...
Thanks in advance!

EDIT: well, look what happens when running it.