[ANN] lolMiner-mnx, Mining MinexCoin(MNX) New version: v0.4 (July 22)

[ZenoDiac]

Running fairly stable here on W10, except that when I shut off teamviewer, hash rate drops from 14ksols to 1500 sols...
Then jumps right back up when team viewer is turned on again.

Ideas?  

TeamViewer generally eats graphic power, see here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gpumining/comments/7mwgpc/high_gpu_usage_in_teamviewer_pc_mining/

@All that habe problems with the --enable-nv-hotfix:
It seems that on some systems the current version is to aggressive. I will try an alternative variant in the next hours and hopefully find a solution that works for all users. If new one looks more promising, will be included in the next version.

No sir, the other way around.
When I turn on team viewer, hash rate goes UP (1500 -> 14000)
When I turn the remote display (TV) OFF, hash rate goes DOWN.

Weird, huh?

This is both on the miner and poolside, btw. Like clockwork.

Added - Im also testing on 2x 1080s and one 980ti for now.
Would rather not linux this one.

Also, currently experiencing this with 1080's. No display connected, only Teamviewer. When connected > Hashrates around 14000 sols. Disconnect for a while then reconnect > I see the hashrates are all sitting at 5000 sols... then they proceed to ramp up again while connected.

[cryptomininer]

How Many MNX A Day Do You Get With 60ksols a day there is no supnova says i should get 7.5MNX after 72hrs I Get Only 3.5MNX?

Is there anyone that knows the averge MNX payout For The RX580??? 8GB

[Sebahl]

60khas should give you around 1MNX a day. So what you got in 72 hours seems about right.
You can calculate it here:
https://bchain.info/MNX/tools/calculator

[Nedrek]

Share, who used this program, it on indicators has caught up with the Optiminer for linux?

[Timeclo]

It seems like --enable-nv-hotfix helped the miner from crashing/idling. I'll update more on how long the miner has been running but it's been on for 3-4 hours without stopping.

[Baanx.com Cryptobank]

Sounds great - how do we get access to this and is there anything we can do to help - or collaborate?

[ZenoDiac]

The AFK hashrate drop seems to stop if you have your rig permanently connected to a display.
Removing the hotfix also solves the problem, but the strain on the CPU is not worth it and crashes a lot more.

Stable currently AFK with display connected.
Restarting every 1200s.
Let's see if it lasts through the night...

[ZenoDiac]

@Monayman @goedi

I see you're also mining with 980ti/980.
Have a 980ti myself. I can't get it to hash properly (v12 or v13) getting like 100 sol/s, with or without hotfix it doesn't make a difference. Also using G3900 cpu. Perhaps you know of something I can do

Batch file as follow
lolMiner-mnx.exe --server eu.minexpool.nl --port 9999 --platform 0 --device 0 --user XKJRCWtcKC8CFsoMdXgmFF9tbMsQVvK4y8.BigZeno --enable-nv-hotfix

GeForce drivers are up to date
I can see it's not trying, cause the temperature isn't going up. Just casually working out 100sol/s.

Regards
-Zeno

[Lolliedieb]

I just made an interesting observation regarding headless displays and maybe also applies for ZenoDiac:

In Windows 10 it happens thst the order of Platforms is volatile when Intel GPU drivers are installed, because with monitor attached or much stress on GPU the Nvida (may also happen with AMD) is platform 0 but without anything platform 0 is Intel and platform 1 is Nvidia. Therefore it can happen that you instead run the Intel iGPU or even CPU when in wrong order.

I will try implementing something that allows auto detection, but currently when platform 0 device 0 is only giving 3 digit sols where there should be more than 5k, then try again with platform 1 device 0. Sometimes this may fix it.

[yurez83]

Lolliedieb, make the time and date of the share in the miner. it is sometimes useful to see how long a break in work has been and whether the work is stable.

[NameTaken]

Waiting for version that will use all GPUs with 1 instance.

[Monayman]

@Monayman @goedi

I see you're also mining with 980ti/980.
Have a 980ti myself. I can't get it to hash properly (v12 or v13) getting like 100 sol/s, with or without hotfix it doesn't make a difference. Also using G3900 cpu. Perhaps you know of something I can do

Batch file as follow
lolMiner-mnx.exe --server eu.minexpool.nl --port 9999 --platform 0 --device 0 --user XKJRCWtcKC8CFsoMdXgmFF9tbMsQVvK4y8.BigZeno --enable-nv-hotfix

GeForce drivers are up to date
I can see it's not trying, cause the temperature isn't going up. Just casually working out 100sol/s.

Regards
-Zeno

The only difference between your batch file and mine is the --platform command, I do not use that. Try it without.
That said, I have only been semi-successful with my Nvidia cards and this miner. I can have it running stable now, but the "team viewer" problem - which was initially fixed with v0.13 - has returned.

[Monayman]

I just made an interesting observation regarding headless displays and maybe also applies for ZenoDiac:

In Windows 10 it happens thst the order of Platforms is volatile when Intel GPU drivers are installed, because with monitor attached or much stress on GPU the Nvida (may also happen with AMD) is platform 0 but without anything platform 0 is Intel and platform 1 is Nvidia. Therefore it can happen that you instead run the Intel iGPU or even CPU when in wrong order.

I will try implementing something that allows auto detection, but currently when platform 0 device 0 is only giving 3 digit sols where there should be more than 5k, then try again with platform 1 device 0. Sometimes this may fix it.

"There is no platform 1 on this system" error ...

Switched the Nvidia rig back to bminer/equihash for now. 2 AMD rigs - one with rx's and one with r9 290's seem to be doing fine. Not 100% stable, but only one instance crashes every now and again - randomly and without any sort of set time in between the crashes.

[kdb]

Ubuntu 16.04, G3900, 4GB
I can start only 5 threads. System has freeze when I start 6th thread. With 7 threads I can't tested. Optiminer work correctly on this system. Now start 4 GPU with lolMiner-MNX and 3 with optiminer

Windows 10 + 1xGTX1050 work more then 2 days (crash after 30 min of post  )

Windows 10, AMD Athlon II 3xGTX1070
1xGTX1070
http://i12.pixs.ru/storage/8/2/9/1x10701min_5566932_29390829.png

3xGTX1070 (on start)
http://i12.pixs.ru/storage/8/4/6/3x107030se_8406699_29390846.png

3xGTX1070
http://i12.pixs.ru/storage/8/5/4/3x10702min_9948240_29390854.png

[ZenoDiac]

I just made an interesting observation regarding headless displays and maybe also applies for ZenoDiac:

In Windows 10 it happens thst the order of Platforms is volatile when Intel GPU drivers are installed, because with monitor attached or much stress on GPU the Nvida (may also happen with AMD) is platform 0 but without anything platform 0 is Intel and platform 1 is Nvidia. Therefore it can happen that you instead run the Intel iGPU or even CPU when in wrong order.

I will try implementing something that allows auto detection, but currently when platform 0 device 0 is only giving 3 digit sols where there should be more than 5k, then try again with platform 1 device 0. Sometimes this may fix it.

Great observation.
Using platform 1, device 0 works and it is hashing properly at around 15k/s now.
Thanks

However, you have to remove the hotfix for the hashrate to stay constant for headless displays after disconnecting from teamviewer.

[Lolliedieb]

Ubuntu 16.04, G3900, 4GB
I can start only 5 threads. System has freeze when I start 6th thread. With 7 threads I can't tested. Optiminer work correctly on this system. Now start 4 GPU with lolMiner-MNX and 3 with optiminer

Its surprising that the  G3900 does 5 cards at all. That CPU is very weak (only two threads) and due to Nvidia high CPU load with OpenCL and the work to be done sha-ing the results it is great to know it does 5 of these. Optiminer somehow found a better solution to handle the Nvidia OpenCL CPU load. I will try if I also can do better because the current situation where hash-rate drops from time to time and more cards make the system freeze is well ... undesirable ^^
Maybe thinking one month ahead I think I would like to implement a switch shifting the sha256 calculation to GPU as well ... then a G3900 should be able to power 6-8 cards when the tiny processor does not have to do the target calculation itself...

[kdb]

Its surprising that the  G3900 does 5 cards at all. That CPU is very weak (only two threads) and due to Nvidia high CPU load with OpenCL and the work to be done sha-ing the results it is great to know it does 5 of these. Optiminer somehow found a better solution to handle the Nvidia OpenCL CPU load. I will try if I also can do better because the current situation where hash-rate drops from time to time and more cards make the system freeze is well ... undesirable ^^
Maybe thinking one month ahead I think I would like to implement a switch shifting the sha256 calculation to GPU as well ... then a G3900 should be able to power 6-8 cards when the tiny processor does not have to do the target calculation itself...

Next system has 5 GTX1050 and AMD Athlon II (that less powerfull) and lolMiner-MNX work great in 2 days. 6 GTX1050ti on next system with AMD Athlon II do not work correctly too.

[promuckaj]

I just made an interesting observation regarding headless displays and maybe also applies for ZenoDiac:

In Windows 10 it happens thst the order of Platforms is volatile when Intel GPU drivers are installed, because with monitor attached or much stress on GPU the Nvida (may also happen with AMD) is platform 0 but without anything platform 0 is Intel and platform 1 is Nvidia. Therefore it can happen that you instead run the Intel iGPU or even CPU when in wrong order.

I will try implementing something that allows auto detection, but currently when platform 0 device 0 is only giving 3 digit sols where there should be more than 5k, then try again with platform 1 device 0. Sometimes this may fix it.

"There is no platform 1 on this system" error ...

Switched the Nvidia rig back to bminer/equihash for now. 2 AMD rigs - one with rx's and one with r9 290's seem to be doing fine. Not 100% stable, but only one instance crashes every now and again - randomly and without any sort of set time in between the crashes.

Just one question, are you able to mine minex with bminer ?

[FuSioNmAn]

Ok...version 0.13 it's more stable.
Mining by 12 hours.
Test with one gpu AMD rx550 4gb (1.7k/s)

[goedi]

just tested my vega 56 stock bios with core freq -10, mem 990, powerlimit +10 which makes +- 1965 on cryptonight, gives me 11.7ksol/s with lolminer. compared to 9.5 without tuning.