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

[Ivanek]

Same problem with 6600XT on ssl://eu1.ethermine.org:5555
Wait to fix it.

[Marburg57]

Hi

Suddenly @ 13:30 GMT+2 on the 22 of August, my PhoenixMiner reports error while mining ETC on 3 GB cards

GPU1: Starting up… (0)
GPU1: Generating etchash light cache for epoch #223
Listening for CDM remote manager at port 3335 in read-only mode
Eth: New job #7e8cde29 from eu-etc.hiveon.net:8888; diff: 5000MH
Eth: New job #778ea926 from eu-etc.hiveon.net:8888; diff: 5000MH
Light cache generated in 4.3 s (10.2 MB/s)
GPU1: Free VRAM: 2.966 GB; used: 0.018 GB
GPU1: Disabling DAG pre-allocation (not enough VRAM)
GPU1: Allocating DAG for epoch #223 (2.74) GB
GPU1: Allocating buffers failed with: clCreateBuffer (-61).
Fatal error detected. Restarting.

As far as I knwo we are far ( 1 year ) from being at epoch so DAG file size is over 3 GB

Other miners continue to work properly ( e.g. : lolminer )

I use 5.7b but also tried with 5.4c

Any idea ?

[jonnymaserati]

Hi there!

I thought I'd share this since maybe somewhere here wants to do something similar and it might save them some time.

My miner has been playing up on the last version (5.6) and I wanted to capture the performance data so that I could plot it and see if there's any indications of when it's going to fnck up. I ended up writing some Python code that imports a log file, extracts the data and then generates some charts.

https://jonnymaserati.github.io/assets/images/2021-08-22-phoenixminer-gpu-performance.png

Here's a post describing what the code is doing https://jonnymaserati.github.io/2021/08/21/why-engineers-should-use-python.html.

There's a link at the bottom of the post to download the .py file.

Hope it helps someone... I can always make a repo on GitHub if anyone wants to develop it a bit more.

Interestingly, the problem I was having (the hash rate dropping to zero and then rocketing to a huge value before crashing the miner) seems to have stopped since updating to version 5.7b and this didn't happen with previous versions?

[MrWorms]

Has anyone encountered such a error?
https://i.ibb.co/88fy09s/Przechwytywanie.png

I tested two different graphics cards (GTX 1070 and GTX 1660 Ti) and two risers (with different PCI-E connectors) and the same thing every time. In another device, both tested cards are working properly.

All of them were operational until 4/5 August. After restarting the system, there is sometimes another error informing that the speed of the fans cannot be read.

[janding]

Hi there!

I thought I'd share this since maybe somewhere here wants to do something similar and it might save them some time.

My miner has been playing up on the last version (5.6) and I wanted to capture the performance data so that I could plot it and see if there's any indications of when it's going to fnck up. I ended up writing some Python code that imports a log file, extracts the data and then generates some charts.



Here's a post describing what the code is doing https://jonnymaserati.github.io/2021/08/21/why-engineers-should-use-python.html.

There's a link at the bottom of the post to download the .py file.

Hope it helps someone... I can always make a repo on GitHub if anyone wants to develop it a bit more.

Interestingly, the problem I was having (the hash rate dropping to zero and then rocketing to a huge value before crashing the miner) seems to have stopped since updating to version 5.7b and this didn't happen with previous versions?

Don't be disappointed if you don't get many takers on your program. I can appreciate the effort, I'm a retired software engineer and write lots of tools and utilities for all sorts of things just for fun sometimes.
I have my own log parser that I use and constantly make it better, but I wouldn't put it out here. Someone would blame you or me if something totally unrelated happened.
People here are very cautious to download any code and for good reasons. These forums are full of malicious software and putting unknown code on your miner is considered a no no.
I'm sure your intentions are good and the code too. But, even I wouldn't download it. Good luck.

[penizminer]

Hi,

I can also report high % of stales / rejected (>10%) with RX 6600XT with Phoenix 5.7b

With NBMiner 39.0 only about 0.05% stales/rejected.

OS:     Windows 10 Version 2009, 10.0.19043
Driver: non-whql-radeon-software-adrenalin-2020-21.8.1-win10-64bit-aug10

Same problem here with 6600 XT, but it happens also with older versions of Phoenixminer, not only 5.7b. Stale rate reported by Phoenixminer is always over 30%, and yes, even with 100% stock settings.

But imo the biggest problem is that after about 1-3 days mining, 6600 XT's start doing 100% incorrect shares and because of that, they are not anymore regonized by a pool and you lose money. (after restarting miner all works good again, but its not nice to wake up in the morning and see that your 6600 Xt or more of them has been hashing incorrect shares whole night)

I have two different rigs with RX 6600 XT gpus: both of them are mixed with Nvidia cards, and only those RX 6600 XT:s starts doing 100% incorrect shares after that 1-3 days of mining. This has happened never before any of my other GPU's and i have been mining over one year with Phoenixminer which has been my absolute favourite... until now.

Phoenixminer with Radeon 6600 XT is incredibly unstable at this moment. I'm really hoping to see somekind of fix to this situation.

[Branko]

Strange problem here, I have single RX580 in PC, but when I try to mine with it, it crashes.

When I start miner with -l option I get this:

"Phoenix Miner 5.7b Windows/msvc - Release build
-----------------------------------------------

No CUDA driver found
OpenCL driver version: 21.6-7.x
Available GPUs for mining:
GPU1: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 1), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU2: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 1), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
"

so miner sees single GPU as 2 devices...I can prevent crash if i put "-gpus 1" or "_gpus 2" option,
but then I only get 15MH/s (half the normal hashrate). I tried DDU and various other ways to clean
drivers, but nothing helps, its probably some registry leftover.

Ideas?

[makipsee]

Strange problem here, I have single RX580 in PC, but when I try to mine with it, it crashes.

When I start miner with -l option I get this:

"Phoenix Miner 5.7b Windows/msvc - Release build
-----------------------------------------------

No CUDA driver found
OpenCL driver version: 21.6-7.x
Available GPUs for mining:
GPU1: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 1), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU2: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 1), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
"

so miner sees single GPU as 2 devices...I can prevent crash if i put "-gpus 1" or "_gpus 2" option,
but then I only get 15MH/s (half the normal hashrate). I tried DDU and various other ways to clean
drivers, but nothing helps, its probably some registry leftover.

Ideas?

I had this happen once when I was using remote desktop top. I think windows creates a "virtual" GPU to create the display. I switched to vnc and used a dummy display and works fine now

[swogerino]

Hi,

I can also report high % of stales / rejected (>10%) with RX 6600XT with Phoenix 5.7b

With NBMiner 39.0 only about 0.05% stales/rejected.

OS:     Windows 10 Version 2009, 10.0.19043
Driver: non-whql-radeon-software-adrenalin-2020-21.8.1-win10-64bit-aug10

Same problem here with 6600 XT, but it happens also with older versions of Phoenixminer, not only 5.7b. Stale rate reported by Phoenixminer is always over 30%, and yes, even with 100% stock settings.

But imo the biggest problem is that after about 1-3 days mining, 6600 XT's start doing 100% incorrect shares and because of that, they are not anymore regonized by a pool and you lose money. (after restarting miner all works good again, but its not nice to wake up in the morning and see that your 6600 Xt or more of them has been hashing incorrect shares whole night)

I have two different rigs with RX 6600 XT gpus: both of them are mixed with Nvidia cards, and only those RX 6600 XT:s starts doing 100% incorrect shares after that 1-3 days of mining. This has happened never before any of my other GPU's and i have been mining over one year with Phoenixminer which has been my absolute favourite... until now.

Phoenixminer with Radeon 6600 XT is incredibly unstable at this moment. I'm really hoping to see somekind of fix to this situation.

Phoenix miner has always had a lot of problems with the 6000 series (I am owner of 6800 Xt) and even now with this new release 6600 XT it is the same.They fixed the problems in the upcoming versions of their miner and I think you only have to be patient until the next release which will most probably contain a fix to this,until then you can switch miner as the other option to stop getting incorrect shares.

[makipsee]

Hi,

I can also report high % of stales / rejected (>10%) with RX 6600XT with Phoenix 5.7b

With NBMiner 39.0 only about 0.05% stales/rejected.

OS:     Windows 10 Version 2009, 10.0.19043
Driver: non-whql-radeon-software-adrenalin-2020-21.8.1-win10-64bit-aug10

Same problem here with 6600 XT, but it happens also with older versions of Phoenixminer, not only 5.7b. Stale rate reported by Phoenixminer is always over 30%, and yes, even with 100% stock settings.

But imo the biggest problem is that after about 1-3 days mining, 6600 XT's start doing 100% incorrect shares and because of that, they are not anymore regonized by a pool and you lose money. (after restarting miner all works good again, but its not nice to wake up in the morning and see that your 6600 Xt or more of them has been hashing incorrect shares whole night)

I have two different rigs with RX 6600 XT gpus: both of them are mixed with Nvidia cards, and only those RX 6600 XT:s starts doing 100% incorrect shares after that 1-3 days of mining. This has happened never before any of my other GPU's and i have been mining over one year with Phoenixminer which has been my absolute favourite... until now.

Phoenixminer with Radeon 6600 XT is incredibly unstable at this moment. I'm really hoping to see somekind of fix to this situation.

Phoenix miner has always had a lot of problems with the 6000 series (I am owner of 6800 Xt) and even now with this new release 6600 XT it is the same.They fixed the problems in the upcoming versions of their miner and I think you only have to be patient until the next release which will most probably contain a fix to this,until then you can switch miner as the other option to stop getting incorrect shares.

I have a 6900xt and never had an issue running on the 5.6d version or the 5.7b but running the older 21.5.2 drivers

[janding]

Hello Miners.

General question to anyone who cares to comment.

If your miner was a dedicated PC and you are not a gamer and your miner was running near perfect,
but your windows driver was older than the most currently supported, would you see a reason to update
to the latest? What advantage might that offer when you have no issues?. I don't see a reason to
update and possibly cause issues where I had none before. Also, my hash rates are as good or better
than any I've seen posted here.

Current installed AMD driver 20.4.1
Highest AMD Windows Driver supported by Phoenix 5.7b:  21.8.1

Comments?

[webhead]

just use latest drivers but you should use nbminer much better , pheonix is a bit crap now dont support new rtx cards a lot of it is buggy plus the hashrate reporting is dubious on it too , they need whole new upgrade on it really used to be good but theres much better out there now.

[janding]

just use latest drivers but you should use nbminer much better , pheonix is a bit crap now dont support new rtx cards a lot of it is buggy plus the hashrate reporting is dubious on it too , they need whole new upgrade on it really used to be good but theres much better out there now.

Yea, I've see a lot of reports about those type cards and issues. Fortunately for me, I started mining years ago and got all AMD cards at a pretty good price back then and those were some of the first cards Phoenix supported. So it seems for those cards most all the bugs were eliminated a long time ago. For me I don't have any of the issues reported by other cards, and I don't plan on purchasing any more cards at this point.
Thanks for commenting..

[UnclWish]

just use latest drivers but you should use nbminer much better , pheonix is a bit crap now dont support new rtx cards a lot of it is buggy plus the hashrate reporting is dubious on it too , they need whole new upgrade on it really used to be good but theres much better out there now.

Yea, I've see a lot of reports about those type cards and issues. Fortunately for me, I started mining years ago and got all AMD cards at a pretty good price back then and those were some of the first cards Phoenix supported. So it seems for those cards most all the bugs were eliminated a long time ago. For me I don't have any of the issues reported by other cards, and I don't plan on purchasing any more cards at this point.
Thanks for commenting..

What percent of rejected shares you have? Not percent that showed by miner. Just take all rejected shares and divide by all shares and multiply by 100.

[janding]

just use latest drivers but you should use nbminer much better , pheonix is a bit crap now dont support new rtx cards a lot of it is buggy plus the hashrate reporting is dubious on it too , they need whole new upgrade on it really used to be good but theres much better out there now.

Yea, I've see a lot of reports about those type cards and issues. Fortunately for me, I started mining years ago and got all AMD cards at a pretty good price back then and those were some of the first cards Phoenix supported. So it seems for those cards most all the bugs were eliminated a long time ago. For me I don't have any of the issues reported by other cards, and I don't plan on purchasing any more cards at this point.
Thanks for commenting..

What percent of rejected shares you have? Not percent that showed by miner. Just take all rejected shares and divide by all shares and multiply by 100.

Currently running at 0.54% rejected. What do you think. Too Hight ?

[UnclWish]

just use latest drivers but you should use nbminer much better , pheonix is a bit crap now dont support new rtx cards a lot of it is buggy plus the hashrate reporting is dubious on it too , they need whole new upgrade on it really used to be good but theres much better out there now.

Yea, I've see a lot of reports about those type cards and issues. Fortunately for me, I started mining years ago and got all AMD cards at a pretty good price back then and those were some of the first cards Phoenix supported. So it seems for those cards most all the bugs were eliminated a long time ago. For me I don't have any of the issues reported by other cards, and I don't plan on purchasing any more cards at this point.
Thanks for commenting..

What percent of rejected shares you have? Not percent that showed by miner. Just take all rejected shares and divide by all shares and multiply by 100.

Currently running at 0.54% rejected. What do you think. Too Hight ?

No, it's not too high... But TR even on nicehash gives only 0.3%. You mine not on nicehash?

[janding]

What percent of rejected shares you have? Not percent that showed by miner. Just take all rejected shares and divide by all shares and multiply by 100.

Currently running at 0.54% rejected. What do you think. Too Hight ?

No, it's not too high... But TR even on nicehash gives only 0.3%. You mine not on nicehash?

No, I use ethermine. Started with them way back from day one.
Once I find something that works I usually stay with it. But, if there is sufficient reason to change I will always.

[UnclWish]

What percent of rejected shares you have? Not percent that showed by miner. Just take all rejected shares and divide by all shares and multiply by 100.

Currently running at 0.54% rejected. What do you think. Too Hight ?

No, it's not too high... But TR even on nicehash gives only 0.3%. You mine not on nicehash?

No, I use ethermine. Started with them way back from day one.
Once I find something that works I usually stay with it. But, if there is sufficient reason to change I will always.

Nicehash just usual have more rejects than other pools. So PM on nicehash gives more than 0,5% rejected shares. For me difference between PM and TR in speed not so big as difference in rejected shares. TR is uses less power then. And TR didn't depends on driver versions - it works on any.

[SLEI]

I upgraded to 7.2b so I could use newer graphic drivers as memory tweak started to make some errors and I tried to fix that.
I have 3x Vega 64 water cooled in W10 in this PC.
Memory tweak is working now but after graphic driver installation and crossfire disabling the first and second gpus are mining 44.5 mhs and not over 50 as before for a long time. 3. gpu is working as before and the share count for gpus show that they are mining at different speeds.

I think this is a driver or W10 issue but I can't find what is wrong and all settings in AMD driver program are same for all gpus, any ideas?

What kind of page is phoenixminer.org virus or mallware?

[doctorman]

just use latest drivers but you should use nbminer much better , pheonix is a bit crap now dont support new rtx cards a lot of it is buggy plus the hashrate reporting is dubious on it too , they need whole new upgrade on it really used to be good but theres much better out there now.

Any reason to upgrade the drivers on the RTX 3000 series?  version 466 still here, any improvement worth upgrading NVIDIA driverS?

been using HiveOn pool but in the past week they had some down times in North America, considering a switch,  is the income on the ethermine better considering they have 1% fee while Hiveon is free?

Do you think NBminer is better even for older RTX 3000 series?  Phoenixminer seems to be sleep which sucks considering how much his Etherum wallet has grown thanks to our fees, he posts here like once a month if that...