lolMiner
-- Announcement Thread --
Hi there,
this is the announcement thread for
lolMiner 0.6 (stable version) and
lolMiner 0.7 (alpha version) a multi algorithm Equihash miner with focus on AMD GPUs (OpenCL based).
Note it will run on most Nvidia GPUs, too but the speed and stability may vary. Hope to improve this in the future.
Currently with this miner you can mine 4 different algorithms:
Algorithm | Req GPU Mem | Coins that use it |
Equihash96/5 | 500MB | Minex Coin (MNX) |
Equihash144/5 | 1.8G | E.g. ANON, BTG, BTCZ,XSG, ZEL and many more! |
Equihash150/5 | 3.5G | Beam (only in 0.7 alpha 2 trunk) |
Equihash192/7 | 3G | Zero (ZER), Genesis (GENX) & Zero Classic |
Equihash210/9 | 1G | Aion Mainnet |
Download:lolMiner 0.6 stable:
[Linux & Windows]
Click me (0.6 - for Linux and Windows) lolMiner 0.7 alpha 5 for mining BEAM:
[Linux & Windows]
Click me (0.7 alpha 5 - for Linux and Windows) Changes over 0.6 alpha 4:- Fixed a bug with defect shares when running on >4 GPUs
- Slightly improved AION performance on AMD
- Added support for edit ExchangeCoin (shortcut: EXCC) (Equihash 144/5) pow structure change that happens today (!)
- Rules back to the alpha 3 MNX code for AMD. Worked better for most cards
- Reduced Equihash
144/5 fee to 1.5%- lolMiner Awesome OS integration and HIVE 0.6 integration will be updated automatically
Changes over 0.5 stable:- New codes for all coins on all cards (better speed)
- New API and statistics module (API updating every 10 seconds)
- Better stratum stability
- Improved stability for many GPU systems
- and many more small stuff I can not remember
Usage:The first way to use the miner is from command line interface. The syntax is
Linux: ./lolMiner --coin <shortCut> --pool <poolAddr> --port <portNumber> --user <Wallet or user name> --pass <userPassword>
Windows: lolMiner.exe --coin <shortCut> --pool <poolAddr> --port <portNumber> --user <Wallet or user name> --pass <userPassword>
Here the <shortCut> parameter is a short name for the coin you want to mine. For example inserting AION will configure the miner to mine AION, MNX for MinexCoin and so on.
For more shortcuts and more options please read the lolMiner_manual.pdf shipped with the miner. lolMiner 0.5 supports fail-over pools, configuration files (easy sharing between Rigs and easy switching between coins), automatic worker names, a simple statistics reading API, logging to text file and many more features.
Estimated Performance (0.6): GPU | Equi 96/5 | Equi 210/9 | Equi 144/5 | Equi 192/7 |
Vega64 | ~24.0ksol/s | ~160 sol/s | ~44 sol/s | ~26 sol/s |
580 | ~13.0 ksol/s | ~118 sol/s | ~28 sol/s | ~17 sol/s |
2080 | ~31.0 ksol/s | ~280 sol/s | ~75 sol/s | ~38 sol/s |
1080 | ~24.0 ksol/s | ~205 sol/s | ~55 sol/s | ~29 sol/s |
Known issues and troubleshooting: Problem: The miner crashed at startup when creating memory buffers or miner ends up with 0 sol/s from start.
Solution: The AMD driver requires on start as many MB of system memory as it will need on all started GPUs together. Increase the fixed page file size (Windows) or swap partition size (Linux) to give the rig more virtual memory.