PhoenixMiner 6.2c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

[Digital_Seytan]

After a few days of running version 2.8.b on a few rigs, I notice that the performance is unfortunately getting less like the average hashrate of 24 hours and the shares per hour, so I go back to the stable version 2.6. Jammer Phoenixminer I have to now tried all versions but instead of the software is getting better, it just gets worse. which -eres setting is the best for the gtx 1060 6gb cards?

 

[j2james]

Changes in version 2.7c (since 2.6):

Hi. Excellent miner! The very good work. I used Claymore before, but new versions of Claymore beginning from 11.0 work not fine on my NVIDIA rig (some people say the same). Las good worked version is 10.6, but even this one sometime works bad I tried to use PhoenixMiner and I like what I can see for now. It is very strange, but hashrate in PhoenixMiner is more then in Claymore! I need some time to see the result in pool statistics.

Can you add some little feature? I use good android app Claymore's Monitor https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clay.ua to see how my rig work and some information is absent in PhoenixMiner which is present in Claymore. Can you provide information by which card share was found? Something like what claymore does in log:

ETH: 03/14/18-14:13:14 - SHARE FOUND - (GPU 0)

Thank you!

[anoraknophobia]

After a few days of running version 2.8.b on a few rigs, I notice that the performance is unfortunately getting less like the average hashrate of 24 hours and the shares per hour, so I go back to the stable version 2.6. Jammer Phoenixminer I have to now tried all versions but instead of the software is getting better, it just gets worse. which -eres setting is the best for the gtx 1060 6gb cards?

 

You don't need to use -eres command at all with 6GB cards.

[peterboy1]

hey dev, i suggest you not to follow claymore's path such as increasing intensity, lowering cpu load or whatever he makes in his miner.

its getting unstable.

[gsrcrxsi314]

"-eres 0" no work.. cuda error persist (same on claymore) for gtx 1060 3gb.....any solution?

Same here all my 1060 3gb rigs are down even with -eres 0. Based on the log message I got below it seems that this was predicted, as the first line is saying that the allocation of the buffer is good up until #178, when in fact yes, we are now at Epoch #178

17618:22:05:16.548: GPU2 GPU2: Allocating light cache buffer (38.2) MB; good for epoch up to #178
17618:22:05:16.548: GPU2 CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:313 : out of memory (2)

Is there going to be any solution for this? The DAG file is only at 2.39 GB I think.

it's a windows 10 problem. the only solution is to move those cards onto linux or win7.

win 10 has killed 3GB 1060s as of DAG #178

[bitcoin.dbi]

it's a windows 10 problem. the only solution is to move those cards onto linux or win7.

win 10 has killed 3GB 1060s as of DAG #178

On Ethminer you can use 1063 even on windows10. So i think that this problems can be solved.

[M0ndialu]

it's a windows 10 problem. the only solution is to move those cards onto linux or win7.

win 10 has killed 3GB 1060s as of DAG #178

On Ethminer you can use 1063 even on windows10. So i think that this problems can be solved.

gtx 1060 3gb on ethminer: OpenCL Error: clEnqueueNDRangeKernel: CL_MEM_OBJECT_ALLOCATION_FAILURE (-4)


 

[MinerCano]

Perhaps folks can possibly help me as I'm stumped:
Few months back, I was getting an average of 240-250mhs with my 8 card rig.  Same Bios and setup at the time.  
As of recently though I'm averaging about 18-19 per card with one random gpu showing 30ish.  

I've tried to reinstall windows, turn off auto updates (heard that fall creators update can slow the hashes down).  
I tried the blockchain drivers, was pushing 150mhs for the same 8 card rig, and installed the new adrenaline drivers and enabled compute (that's where I got that extra 10mhs with the one random card).

I thought the difficulty went up and that's why they were running worse, but I'm reading people are still pulling about 30mhs with their Powercolor Red Devil RX580's 8GB models.  (I have 16 with hynix memory and 12 with micron memory.  Both groups have modded bios, which before allowed them to each run around 28-30mhs each).  

Any insight as to why they would've dropped?  I picked Phoenix Miner because I've heard good things about them, and the lower dev fee.  

Here is a pic of one of the 8 rigs for example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dlavivnwdfy7fkj/MHS.PNG?dl=0

[Digital_Seytan]

Hello everyone just to be update with latest , my rig is up and running fine with below config Gtx 1060 3GB

Claymore 10.2

-eres 0
-lidag 1

Nvidia driver  376.33
Window 10
Memory 20 gb

Thanks for everyone's help here,For how long time will that work now do you think?

[rboer]

When this happens, what do you guys do?
https://ibb.co/gPFRaS

[ANewMiner]

It pains me to say it but while the numbers phoenix reports, and its lower fee... I actually do get better numbers with claymore..   

I find myself disappointed. because on paper phoenix was streaks ahead, but the numbers at the pool were a good chunk below reported and stales were much higher..

[lesjokolat]

It pains me to say it but while the numbers phoenix reports, and its lower fee... I actually do get better numbers with claymore..   

I find myself disappointed. because on paper phoenix was streaks ahead, but the numbers at the pool were a good chunk below reported and stales were much higher..

I think cetain pools have worse latncy. Im on suprnova and my stales are very low(.25%) daily avg. over the last few days. Claymore i was getting a solid 1.5 to 2.5% stale using a lower mining intensity. Hash rates were also on avg 1 to .5 mh/s.

all i can recommend have a clean system, fresh installed use latest drivers both mobo and watman or nvidia. I honestly think it will solve alot of these more cryptic code erros and issues people see.

glta

[janding]

It pains me to say it but while the numbers phoenix reports, and its lower fee... I actually do get better numbers with claymore..   

I find myself disappointed. because on paper phoenix was streaks ahead, but the numbers at the pool were a good chunk below reported and stales were much higher..

I agree.
I mine on Ethermine which shows stats on stale shares.
Testing both Phoenix and Claymore on the same pool proves Claymore is much better.
Phoenix doesn't seem to be concerned with solving the stale share issue.
They are living in denial. Claymore seems to have solved that issue, consistently giving me
around 1 to 2% stale shares while Phoenix is 4 to 8% and sometimes higher. The little extra speed
that Phoenix gives me doesn't make up for the 2x to 4x higher stales.
I had high hopes for Phoenix, but it isn't working out.

[Metroid]

the 2.8b is not creating logs when you put it on the schedule tasks on windows to start automatically, it creates the log only when you click on it manually. Strange behavior.

[janding]

the 2.8b is not creating logs when you put it on the schedule tasks on windows to start automatically, it creates the log only when you click on it manually. Strange behavior.

That is odd.
Could it be a path problem ? Doesn't know where to write them.

[Metroid]

the 2.8b is not creating logs when you put it on the schedule tasks on windows to start automatically, it creates the log only when you click on it manually. Strange behavior.

That is odd.
Could it be a path problem ? Doesn't know where to write them.

Yes, if I manually click, it creates the log, if is automatic by the windows scheduler then no. If it was a path problem then clicking manually would not help either. It is terrible cause if a gpu crashes and it auto restarts then you have no idea which gpu crashed. I searched the whole drive cause I thought it may have been written to another directory, for example temp in appdata and no, it could not be found at all. 2.7c also had problems related to this. So what is wrong with this miner? Claymore eth miner never had this kind of problem.

[janding]

the 2.8b is not creating logs when you put it on the schedule tasks on windows to start automatically, it creates the log only when you click on it manually. Strange behavior.

That is odd.
Could it be a path problem ? Doesn't know where to write them.

Yes, if I manually click, it creates the log, if is automatic by the windows scheduler then no. If it was a path problem then clicking manually would not help either. It is terrible cause if a gpu crashes and it auto restarts then you have no idea which gpu crashed. I searched the whole drive cause I thought it may have been written to another directory, for example temp in appdata and no, it could not be found at all. 2.7c had no problems related to this.

One last guess from me.
Any chance that when it auto starts from the scheduler that it doesn't have Admin privileges ?

[Metroid]

One last guess from me.
Any chance that when it auto starts from the scheduler that it doesn't have Admin privileges ?

I tried both ways, with and without highest privilege rights and nothing changed. I know, it's odd.

Edit: There is no hope at all, tried all possible things, all user groups and everything possible concerning privilege and the only way it creates a log is when I click on  the bat file.

[lesjokolat]

Does anyone know if we can via config define a set difficulty hashrate?

[Metroid]

I found my problem, it seems that calling the bat file using the windows task scheduler with or without the highest privileges means both ways think is using the highest privileges even though is not. Strange. I have to find a way to turn this thing off.