V1.6.9 - Algo switching without miner restart
- Benchmark everything from algos.txt and just paste the hashrates (--benchmarkalgos)
- Added number of algo switches to API and stats
- Added cmd parameter --resetmineronalgoswitch which forces miner to reset on algo change
- Changed minimum --algoswitchmintime from 3 min to 30 sec, default is still 600 sec
- Fixed API pool stats when not connected to a pool
- Added cmd parameters --cjobtimeout, --cmaxdifficulty, --ckeepalive
- When critical temp is reached, ADL temp is now logged before shutdown
- Notification on too many compute errors (set with --gpuerrorsalert value)
- Added a performance tuning parameter 'fragments' for gpu_conf and cmd
- Fixed a bug that could crash miner on shutdown
+ Algo switch without miner restart is here finally. This is now the default mode. If you want to use the 'old fashioned' switch where the miner restarts itself use
--resetmineronalgoswitch in .bat.
The only reason i can see to use the switching with restart is for Vegas, because they tend to drop hashrate on algo switch, and only --resetvega can help to regain full speed again.
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here how to setup algo switching+ Some people were too lazy to benchmark algo by algo to get the 'hashrate' values for algos.txt, so there is a
--benchmarkalgos now , that benchmarks the algos set in algos.txt, and creates
benchmark_results.txt, from where you just have to take and paste the values into algos.txt
+ The
--algoswitchmintime minimum value can now be 30 seconds, altough Monero Ocean really likes to disregard this setting
+ There is on-screen and log notification now when you have too much compute errors (default is 15). You can set this value with
--gpuerrorsalert value+ (re)added fragments parameter for some performance tuning. This parameter was set internally, but my tests show it can REALLY be different for even the same type of GPU, but different vendor.
So now everyone can find his 'optimal' value for this parameter. It differs for algos and also for the amount of VRAM, so a value that is good for 4GB cards maybe isn't the best value for 8GB cards.
Indeed on Vega the miner kinda brakes and can not handle the change without --resetmineronalgoswitch . This also affects the --benchmarkalgos as the function ignores the --resetmineronalgoswitch in my tests.
Is there a way for the above to get fixed or make the reset of the miner faster? Also can you make it so that the bench performs the restart?
