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

[Lolliedieb]

I think I am now 100% sure that there is no switch to the primary pool from the fall-back pool not 30 min later, not 10 (which I set in --set-reconnection-timer 10), not at all.

I will give that a check.

[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 9188.96 sol/s
[Device 1] Average speed (5s): 9918.42 sol/s
[Device 2] Average speed (5s): 10140.2 sol/s
[Device 3] Average speed (5s): 10173.8 sol/s
[Device 4] Average speed (5s): 9941.01 sol/s
[Device 5] Average speed (5s): 10024.8 sol/s
[Device 6] Average speed (5s): 6902.02 sol/s
[Device 7] Average speed (5s): 6636.27 sol/s
[Device 8] Average speed (5s): 6775.64 sol/s
[Device 9] Average speed (5s): 6401.12 sol/s
[Device 10] Average speed (5s): 7138.37 sol/s
[Device 11] Average speed (5s): 6737.25 sol/s
[Device 12] Average speed (5s): 6953.81 sol/s

Maybe a overall high CPU load? This seems to me that the runtime can not fill the cards fast enough with new work. What can help is increasing --set-work-batch. I hope to get is less demanding on CPU side timing in next major version.

[Lolliedieb]

I think I am now 100% sure that there is no switch to the primary pool from the fall-back pool not 30 min later, not 10 (which I set in --set-reconnection-timer 10), not at all.

So, I gave it a check and it worked as it should.
What did I do for a try? Well I uses this config:

Code:

--server eu.minexpool.nl,optiminer.eu           
--port 9998,9999                         
--user XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033,XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033       
--pass x,x           
                 
--max-connection-attempts 5      
--set-reconnection-timer 10      
               
--set-short-stats-interval 30       
--set-long-stats-interval 120 

So you see I reduced stats output a bit and set the reconnection timer to 10 minutes.

And then got this output:

Code:

Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Too many attempts. Switching to failover pool optiminer.eu:9999
Connected to optiminer.eu:9999
Subscribed to stratum server
New target received: 0000333333333333340000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
New job received: cf6f
Authorized worker: XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033
Start Mining...
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1211.59 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
New job received: cf70
Submitting share
Share accepted
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1203.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1159.75 sol/s
New job received: cf71
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1180.03 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1143.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1128.57 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1082.13 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1108.65 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1112.11 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1128.52 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1100.85 sol/s
New target received: 0001051eb854a875700000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
New job received: cf72
New job received: cf73
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1124.74 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1114.01 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1113.44 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1112.48 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1113.21 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1106.15 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1142.23 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1121.17 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1121.42 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1100.78 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1121.37 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1139.7 sol/s
Trying to reconnect to original pool.
Lost connection to stratum server optiminer.eu:9999 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Too many attempts. Switching to failover pool optiminer.eu:9999
Connected to optiminer.eu:9999
Subscribed to stratum server
New target received: 0000333333333333340000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
New job received: cf73
Authorized worker: XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1102.12 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1107.46 sol/s
New job received: cf74
New job received: cf75
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1068.84 sol/s

You see that of cause the first connection to minexpool.nl failed because I configured the wrong port. After 5 attempts it connected to optiminer.eu and started mining. After about 10 minutes it tried to reconnect to minexpool.nl, but failed again (because the port is still not valid) and therefore swaped back to the first failover.

Overall this is exactly what it should do. Test system is an AMD A10 7850K integrated graphics, running Windows 10 Pro.

[bcfkm]

Hi

I keep getting "Bus error".  I get the same error if I run with all available GPUs or just with a single one.  I have tried all the available options but always get the same error.

Code:

-------------------------------------------------
         Welcome to lolMiner-mnx 0.33

   This software is only meant for pool mining
    with the Equihash 96/5 algorithm (MARS)

For usage instructions add -h to the commandline.
   For support visit our bitcointalk thread.

          Made by Lolliedieb, March 2018
-------------------------------------------------
No Argument given - Switching to Benchmark mode
Auto selecting platform with id 0: NVIDIA CUDA
Auto selecting all GPU in platform.
Using device with id 0 (GeForce GTX 1050)
Using device with id 1 (GeForce GTX 1050)
Using device with id 2 (GeForce GTX 1050)
Using device with id 3 (GeForce GTX 1050)
Using device with id 4 (GeForce GTX 1050)
Using device with id 5 (GeForce GTX 960)
Using device with id 6 (GeForce GTX 1050)
Using device with id 7 (GeForce GTX 1050)
Using device with id 8 (GeForce GTX 1050)
Using device with id 9 (GeForce GTX 1050)
Using device with id 10 (GeForce GTX 1050)
Selected work-batch for device 0: 22
Selected work-batch for device 1: 22
Selected work-batch for device 2: 22
Selected work-batch for device 3: 22
Selected work-batch for device 4: 22
Selected work-batch for device 5: 14
Selected work-batch for device 6: 22
Selected work-batch for device 7: 22
Selected work-batch for device 8: 22
Selected work-batch for device 9: 22
Selected work-batch for device 10: 22
Bus error

I read through the entire history and see memory mentioned a few times.  Is that related?

Can you point me in the right direction to diagnose whats wrong?

Thanks

[ouray]

@nguyenkhoj93,

1. Remove --platform AUTO
2. Set --device ALLGPU --set-work-batch AUTO --optim OFF                       

Try this?  Good luck!

[amdfxman1701]

Pfff - some use Windows because they've much important things to do in their lives than to invest time and energy in learning or using Linux.

This is precisely the lazy, self-entitled attitude I'm talking about. You had a need (linux miner) and refused to meet that need by taking a few hours to set up a linux miner. Thus, you missed out on several weeks, if not months, of mining MNX at much more profitable rates.

This isn't about Windows vs Linux. This is about doing what you need to do to get things done.

[snovik]

I think I am now 100% sure that there is no switch to the primary pool from the fall-back pool not 30 min later, not 10 (which I set in --set-reconnection-timer 10), not at all.

So, I gave it a check and it worked as it should.
What did I do for a try? Well I uses this config:

Code:

--server eu.minexpool.nl,optiminer.eu          
--port 9998,9999                          
--user XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033,XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033      
--pass x,x          
                
--max-connection-attempts 5    
--set-reconnection-timer 10    
               
--set-short-stats-interval 30        
--set-long-stats-interval 120  

So you see I reduced stats output a bit and set the reconnection timer to 10 minutes.

And then got this output:

Code:

Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Too many attempts. Switching to failover pool optiminer.eu:9999
Connected to optiminer.eu:9999
Subscribed to stratum server
New target received: 0000333333333333340000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
New job received: cf6f
Authorized worker: XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033
Start Mining...
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1211.59 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
New job received: cf70
Submitting share
Share accepted
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1203.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1159.75 sol/s
New job received: cf71
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1180.03 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1143.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1128.57 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1082.13 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1108.65 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1112.11 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1128.52 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1100.85 sol/s
New target received: 0001051eb854a875700000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
New job received: cf72
New job received: cf73
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1124.74 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1114.01 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1113.44 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1112.48 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1113.21 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1106.15 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1142.23 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1121.17 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1121.42 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1100.78 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1121.37 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1139.7 sol/s
Trying to reconnect to original pool.
Lost connection to stratum server optiminer.eu:9999 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Too many attempts. Switching to failover pool optiminer.eu:9999
Connected to optiminer.eu:9999
Subscribed to stratum server
New target received: 0000333333333333340000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
New job received: cf73
Authorized worker: XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1102.12 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1107.46 sol/s
New job received: cf74
New job received: cf75
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1068.84 sol/s

You see that of cause the first connection to minexpool.nl failed because I configured the wrong port. After 5 attempts it connected to optiminer.eu and started mining. After about 10 minutes it tried to reconnect to minexpool.nl, but failed again (because the port is still not valid) and therefore swaped back to the first failover.

Overall this is exactly what it should do. Test system is an AMD A10 7850K integrated graphics, running Windows 10 Pro.

well, I dont what happens on my system as I dont see it in the log. What I see is that one of my rigs keep on switching from minexpool to surpnova but *never* so far come back. actually both of them switch but randomly. which brings me to the point that it is not even minexpool related

[uhro]

Pfff - some use Windows because they've much important things to do in their lives than to invest time and energy in learning or using Linux.

This is precisely the lazy, self-entitled attitude I'm talking about. You had a need (linux miner) and refused to meet that need by taking a few hours to set up a linux miner. Thus, you missed out on several weeks, if not months, of mining MNX at much more profitable rates.

This isn't about Windows vs Linux. This is about doing what you need to do to get things done.

I actually setup linux on a bunch of usb sticks and ran my rigs with Optiminer for a couple of those more profitable months, but when 4/570s and 4/580s are hashing just as good as my 1080tis I gave up because Optiminer wasn't advancing, it was what it was and it was pretty clear there wasn't any optimizations coming.

When this miner came out I gave it a try and WHAM!, my 1080TIs are going 20k+, more than twice what Optiminer was giving me in Linux.
To me, this just highlighted the need for a more optimized version of the miner for high end cards (I would have run this miner even if it was Linux only), if Optiminer had done it I would probably be running his miner right now, but as I said before, he thought he cornered the market and sat on an unfinished product.

Sure others may have lost out not using Linux early on, but this was a much needed miner and optiminer is the one losing out now because he didn't bother to continue developing his miner.  He could have have made it totally unnecessary for another miner to be developed by optimizing his for high end cards and putting out a Windows miner (as I said, i would be fine without Windows version, but it is easier).

Optiminer opened the door for this project by ignoring the users requests for improvements and a Win version.

[snovik]

I think I am now 100% sure that there is no switch to the primary pool from the fall-back pool not 30 min later, not 10 (which I set in --set-reconnection-timer 10), not at all.

So, I gave it a check and it worked as it should.
What did I do for a try? Well I uses this config:

Code:

--server eu.minexpool.nl,optiminer.eu          
--port 9998,9999                          
--user XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033,XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033      
--pass x,x          
                
--max-connection-attempts 5    
--set-reconnection-timer 10    
               
--set-short-stats-interval 30        
--set-long-stats-interval 120  

So you see I reduced stats output a bit and set the reconnection timer to 10 minutes.

And then got this output:

Code:

Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Too many attempts. Switching to failover pool optiminer.eu:9999
Connected to optiminer.eu:9999
Subscribed to stratum server
New target received: 0000333333333333340000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
New job received: cf6f
Authorized worker: XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033
Start Mining...
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1211.59 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
New job received: cf70
Submitting share
Share accepted
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1203.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1159.75 sol/s
New job received: cf71
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1180.03 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1143.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1128.57 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1082.13 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1108.65 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1112.11 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1128.52 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1100.85 sol/s
New target received: 0001051eb854a875700000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
New job received: cf72
New job received: cf73
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1124.74 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1114.01 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1113.44 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1112.48 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1113.21 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1106.15 sol/s
Submitting share
Share accepted
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1142.23 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (120s): 1121.17 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1121.42 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1100.78 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1121.37 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1139.7 sol/s
Trying to reconnect to original pool.
Lost connection to stratum server optiminer.eu:9999 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Stratum connection not reacting for too long time.
Lost connection to stratum server eu.minexpool.nl:9998 or server not reachable.
Trying to connect in 5 seconds
Too many attempts. Switching to failover pool optiminer.eu:9999
Connected to optiminer.eu:9999
Subscribed to stratum server
New target received: 0000333333333333340000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
New job received: cf73
Authorized worker: XQZoBeGPZJoLhTdkcF8bScsNH5Wyesd9g4.W033
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1102.12 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1107.46 sol/s
New job received: cf74
New job received: cf75
[Device 0] Average speed (30s): 1068.84 sol/s

You see that of cause the first connection to minexpool.nl failed because I configured the wrong port. After 5 attempts it connected to optiminer.eu and started mining. After about 10 minutes it tried to reconnect to minexpool.nl, but failed again (because the port is still not valid) and therefore swaped back to the first failover.

Overall this is exactly what it should do. Test system is an AMD A10 7850K integrated graphics, running Windows 10 Pro.

well, I dont what happens on my system as I dont see it in the log. What I see is that one of my rigs keep on switching from minexpool to surpnova but *never* so far come back. actually both of them switch but randomly. which brings me to the point that it is not even minexpool related

now 2 rigs switched to suprnova while minexpool seems ok. how long do I wait until I see them coming back to minexpool? what shall I see in the log?

log info is really bad in this sense

[snovik]

nope. does not switch back. i have to restart miners manually. and connected now

[Lolliedieb]

nope. does not switch back. i have to restart miners manually. and connected now

You you can not see it in the logs - when this happens again and you observe it can you do a full copy of the log and share it with me in private msg? Would like to know what is hoing on there.

By the way: which version & OS you are using?

Optiminer opened the door for this project by ignoring the users requests for improvements and a Win version.

Not really ^^ I started this as a learning project and wanted to see how far I get. The dicision to publish it I took after I saw my approach worked better then I expected - ok I have to admit if there would have been a Windows verson before I would not have done this cross-compiled version.

Anyways I belive having a good miner for all bigger Platforms and GPUs is important for the coin. Leaving an open door for huge large improvements is not a good idea - assume this miner or optiminer would have been developed back 8 month ago but not published but instead used in background. At that time one larger farm easily could have created half the netHash ...

Overall - miners come and go. Mine is not developed to the end yet neither I belive optiminer is. And for sure there will be an other comming some day faster and more mature then ours. Thats crypto - nothing lasts forever / for long here ^^

[UrsaUrsa]

I thought there were no Easter miracles, only Christmas ones but here we go, Optiminer showed up because someone started taking a slice of his cake. I can't wait until Alexis Provos shows up in sp_'s thread telling him off for using his kernels

@Lolliedieb: If I recall it correctly the next step is going to be a patched version (fork!) released by a newbie with 1 post with your dev fee removed. It will definitely leave us guessing who did that... (pg 5, Book of Miner Wars)

I just hope you continue your invaluable work, this has made a lot of nVidia owners extremely happy. Worst comes to worse i'll start donating mnx to you

[ouray]

..., this has made a lot of nVidia owners extremely happy...

I second that!  Thanks Lolliedieb.

[ALFA-Dnepr]

I think that two processor cores do not pull a large number of video cards. Today 6 cards 1060 3 GB were launched and two cards yield 11,000 sol, and four cards total 9700 sol. Loading of processor cores is 40%.
If you run three cards, then we have one -11,500 and two 10500 sol/s.
It is also clear that well-functioning cards have 75-80% of capacity, poorly operating only 65-70% of capacity.
Overclocking parameters are the same.
On a farm where there are four core processors there are no such problems. All the cards give 11400 sol/s. Loading of cores up to 20%

[telemen]

guys, please tell me how many 79xx video card give, I want to connect them for mining?
2 7950 and 1 7970, I will count the coin minex, I seem very promising coin. Thank you for the answer.

[ALFA-Dnepr]

The Neoscript has a similar problem, the CPU  i5 works much better than the celeron / Pentium.
I hope that the programmer Lolliedieb will solve this problem. It is difficult for him to see with 12 cores 

[Timoxa886]

guys, please tell me how many 79xx video card give, I want to connect them for mining?
2 7950 and 1 7970, I will count the coin minex, I seem very promising coin. Thank you for the answer.

Hi

7950 - 4500-5000 s/s (Optiminer) 4300-4500 (LoL)
7970 - 7900-8100 s/s (Optiminer) 7500-7900 (LoL)
r9 290 - 10700 s/s (Optiminer)

[tale01]

Optiminer is better than lolminer Hashrate different 1000 sol/s

For fiji at the moment yes, can confirm that is hat problems with lolMiner. I will try to fix it in 0.4.

I user Optiminer, when I increase intensity, GPU use more RAM and speed is up. -> For stock core and reduce core volt get speed 13.2k

In lolminer -> stock core and reduce core volt get speed 12.4k and OC 12.8k
**R9 nano --set-work-batch 7 is the best speed for more or HIGH speed is drop

Hope this information will  improve speed up more than Optiminer

[LORD-X27]

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[Myth888]

1st of all nice project. there are some problems though. as it uses high memory for amd cards i cannot run the whole rig on mnx. So swtich off the other cards using the config file but it still queries the other cards during startup which causes the system to hang i your mining using another miner. It is a hit and miss. On some system it works fine and wont query the other cards but on some it will despite being selected off. Once running it will leave the other cards alone but on start up it will cause the system to hang.

[toyo87]

Helloo Dev, Is there a video explanation on how to set it up?

I am new to mining and your miner procedure is kind of difficult to be followed up with.

Any assistance from the community will be highly appreciated.