Claymore's CryptoNote AMD GPU Miner v11.3

[songjuhee]

I had that behaviour when moved to claymore v10.2 but, to be honnest I had a superior speed with it.  Like you, sometimes the miner restart and stay freezed at 0H/s as well. The only way of getting out of this state was rebooting the whole rig. And by rebooting, i mean shutting it off, wait 2-3s in power-off and then rebooting. Lowering the "-h" parameter bring more stability to the system. So, my current onfiguration is:

Cards: RX580-4G,RX580-4G,RX580-4G,RX570-8G,RX570-8G,RX580-4G,RX580-4G,RX580-4G,RX580-4G,RX480-4G

Claymore command line to XMR mining:
-xpool stratum+ssl://xmr-eu1.nanopool.org:14433 -xwal XMR_ADDRESS/$rigName/your@email.com -xpsw x -mport -3333 -h 850,850,850,1700,1700,850,850,850,850,850

As you can see, you can pass to the miner a comma separated values in that each one is to a specific card from my list above. For reference, the default "-h" value  for the 4Gigs cards is "900" and "1800" for the 8Gigs.

My current frequencies for each card are:
CORE: 1200,1200,1200,1200,1200,1200,1200,1200,1200,1200
MEM: 2000,2000,2000,1900,1900,2000,2000,2000,2000,2000

XMR - Total Speed: 6948 H/s, Total Shares: 1340, Rejected: 0, Time: 06:43                                                       |
XMR: GPU0 715 H/s, GPU1 715 H/s, GPU2 715 H/s, GPU3 686 H/s, GPU4 649 H/s, GPU5 712 H/s, GPU6 715 H/s, GPU7 713 H/s, GPU8 713 H/|
s, GPU9 615 H/s

Hope this help

Can anyone confirm what's the "-h" is doing behind the scenes? and why lowering it a bit bring more stability?

Just wanted to update. I tried lowering the -h value on my rigs. I have three different setups:

6x RX570 4G - these are at 1200/1750/1000mV -h 850 -> These have been stable for last 24h, no resets

11x RX570 4G - these are at 1200/1750/1000mV -h 850 -> These have reset 2-4 times over last 24h - Going to test -h 800 to see if I can get better stability

11x RX580 8G - these are at 1200/2000/1000mV -h 1700 -> These have reset 1-2 times over last 24h - Going to test -h 1600 to see if I can get better stability

For the RX570 4G cards, I'm hashing at 644, for the RX580 8G cards, I'm hashing at 733. I'm not sure why the RX570 4G have been stable but the RX580 8G have not. Hopefully this next test shows a better result.

I'm not sure if there's a way to increase the virtual memory on SMOS. My rigs use 8G of physical RAM (tho I just realized that both my 6x and 11x rigs both are using 8G of RAM so maybe I should increase my 11x rigs to 16G of RAM). I'm not using SSDs either, SMOS is being booted from a 16G 3.0 USB drive. I'm not sure if 16G of physical RAM would increase stability as I used to mine Ethereum with these rigs and they have been stable with far more aggressive settings. The RX570 4G were at 1150/1750/950mV and the RX580 8G were at 1150/2100/950mV and the systems were stable for 100+ hours with no resets.

Cheers,

You can use overclock settings but let the NH run claymore, or run claymore alone without undervolt (-mvddc or -cvddc). It works for me...

[QuirkSilver]

thx claymore 390x made 1200 h/s

Those things need a nuclear power plant run.

Notabatman, i follow up your posts and i like how you think. i tried GG and Sgminer because of you (however wasn't in this forum) Now, i mostly have some Hawaii GPUs of which two i destroyed, but anyway, i have been obsessed with the fact that these are really power houses because of thier massive memory bandwidth. yet with LOADS of intensity/work size tweaks i can never get more than 860 h/s with those on 1040 mhz Undervolted.
I have a 290x with Stilt's this thing is really optimum, in GPU-Z consuming ~90 watts (probably 110 w in reality) but anyway, with Cryptonight, consumption is way less so i do raise the core clock but still.
What do you reckon a good build is?

I have some questions for Pros and i do hexedit a lot but i'm really clueless on what to do on Hawaii Elpida BBBG (i overclock the stilt one) and on 390 Nitro i leave it to stock 1500 (Hynix AJR) but i would really be happy if i can get on hold of a build (timings/thread/intensity)
thanks in advance.
BTW 10.2 works for me now, glitchy with my 270x 4gb (which is massive performer for its price and age) 390s,blockchain, Nicehash xmr gives me steady 840 h/s+

[RMXg1025829]

Hi there cataloging experiences with Cryptonote Miner and HD 7850 & 7870 rig. I had a hell of a time troubleshooting etc.

Firstly rig specs
Core i7 875k @ 4.3mhz cpu
GA-P55A-UD5 mobo
8GB dr3 1833mhz @ cl8 or 1600mhzcl7 ram
1SSD + 5xHDD
3x HD7850 2gb 1x7870 2gb,
Hashrate =1900h/s-2100h/s GPU only.
Miner used - 9.7
PSU 600w Bronze for cpu and hdd and cooling fans. + 12v 18a 180w PSU for 2 7850 (from my idle 3d printer
Windows 10

On stock settings.....cards quickly reach tdp limit. 69c will kill these cards, as apparent by the burning metal & epoxy smell. so really need to monitor temps.

Pros
Relatively easy and intuitive? Theres a large user base.

Issues,
sometimes command line options don't work. Sometimes, it's better to leave the rig in tune mode, as this stops freezing issues with displays.
DevFee causes big drop off from pools after the 1hr mark. I checked logs and the pool switching is the problem. If you turn off the display, the miner has a spaz and the pc freaks out causing low hash rate and expired shares. Logical differences and physical differences haven't been accounted for.. i.e reporting that the miner is going to use 2140mb of ram when physically, there is only 2048 addressable. Status displays only the first 2 miners, wheres stats for the others? GPU gives new name eveytime the system is rebooted, difficult when overclocking. Overclocking inside of the app caused bsods and crashing. Irrelevant feature. Remote management is good in theory, but should be turned off for security reasons. Also, disabling devfee did no appreciable decrease in hash, when active it produced 5 Dev Fee shares over 7 minutes....what's this shit? Screwing my shares expiring them and hashing your own pools? btw, as everyone said, don't try to connect to my pool and kick me out while you mine, of course the app will error out. Overclocking from catalyst, (Crimson is ruuuuubish) is now made more difficcult due to Claymores "Driver recomendations") If overclocking pump out the memory first, then when adding memory goes backwards, and some juice 1-2% when it evens out hash rate again, pump up the cooling, when its stable increase Core Processor clock, this allow more headroom to increase ram speeds some more. Also, when using older hardware(like my mobo) You need to add poweer to the units in ascending order (Furthest from cpu to closest) to smooth out ripple and prevent line level load drop (and also staggered hash counts)
Claymore 10.2 doesn't even run half descent. 323h/s as opposed to 440h/s? gummon maite (c'mon mate)

But, i am gratefull i can mine at full hash without your fee! i find it highly unreasonable how much you ask of people for your product...capitalism at it's worst...Anyone using these cards, nofee 1  is the way to go. otherwise mining wasted shares.

Also, low reported hash rates were due to windows system processes chewing up grunt for some wastey rubbish NSA spying...i mean windows updating *cough

[pehoko]

How to mine coins other than XMR with version 9.7?

[notbatman]

thx claymore 390x made 1200 h/s

Those things need a nuclear power plant to run.

Notabatman, i follow up your posts and i like how you think. i tried GG and Sgminer because of you (however wasn't in this forum) Now, i mostly have some Hawaii GPUs of which two i destroyed, but anyway, i have been obsessed with the fact that these are really power houses because of thier massive memory bandwidth. yet with LOADS of intensity/work size tweaks i can never get more than 860 h/s with those on 1040 mhz Undervolted.
I have a 290x with Stilt's this thing is really optimum, in GPU-Z consuming ~90 watts (probably 110 w in reality) but anyway, with Cryptonight, consumption is way less so i do raise the core clock but still.
What do you reckon a good build is?

I have some questions for Pros and i do hexedit a lot but i'm really clueless on what to do on Hawaii Elpida BBBG (i overclock the stilt one) and on 390 Nitro i leave it to stock 1500 (Hynix AJR) but i would really be happy if i can get on hold of a build (timings/thread/intensity)
thanks in advance.
BTW 10.2 works for me now, glitchy with my 270x 4gb (which is massive performer for its price and age) 390s,blockchain, Nicehash xmr gives me steady 840 h/s+

I haven't bothered to mod any of my old HD or R9 cards, it's too much trouble to mess with old cards. Get some RX570/580s you'll find they run relatively trouble free, are easy to mod and cheap to buy. This miner is also beta so I wouldn't be too hard on claymore regarding bugs and problematic default settings on old cards.

Clay should probably remove the dev fee until a polished version is available IMO.

[Scandalrosi]

Hello,

i´ve a lot of trouble, with the DevFee Server. Isn´t there a, let´s say "KeepAlive" option for the DevFee Server. I´m loosing my connection to the DevFee Server,
frequently, exactly after 10 minutes, except the time between two founded DevFee Shares is less then 10 minutes. As much as i know, german providers handle this different. Some providers disconnect the session, after 60sec without traffic, others after 10 minutes. If i understand right. DevFee is mined every hour for 36sec. So, there is no traffic for about 60 minutes. And of course the provider disconnect this connection.
I´m loosing a lot of power, because of these ongoing re-connections. The only solution right now is, to use the -nofee 1 option, i really don´t like.

This miner is free-to-use, however, current developer fee is 1% if you use secure SSL/TLS connection to mining pool, every hour the miner mines for 36 seconds for developer.
If you use unsecure connection to mining pool, current developer fee is 1.5%, every hour the miner mines for 54 seconds for developer.

Is there anything i can do, from my end, to get rid of these disconnections?

Many greatings,
Marcus

[RMXg1025829]

thx claymore 390x made 1200 h/s

Those things need a nuclear power plant to run.

Notabatman, i follow up your posts and i like how you think. i tried GG and Sgminer because of you (however wasn't in this forum) Now, i mostly have some Hawaii GPUs of which two i destroyed, but anyway, i have been obsessed with the fact that these are really power houses because of thier massive memory bandwidth. yet with LOADS of intensity/work size tweaks i can never get more than 860 h/s with those on 1040 mhz Undervolted.
I have a 290x with Stilt's this thing is really optimum, in GPU-Z consuming ~90 watts (probably 110 w in reality) but anyway, with Cryptonight, consumption is way less so i do raise the core clock but still.
What do you reckon a good build is?

I have some questions for Pros and i do hexedit a lot but i'm really clueless on what to do on Hawaii Elpida BBBG (i overclock the stilt one) and on 390 Nitro i leave it to stock 1500 (Hynix AJR) but i would really be happy if i can get on hold of a build (timings/thread/intensity)
thanks in advance.
BTW 10.2 works for me now, glitchy with my 270x 4gb (which is massive performer for its price and age) 390s,blockchain, Nicehash xmr gives me steady 840 h/s+

I haven't bothered to mod any of my old HD or R9 cards, it's too much trouble to mess with old cards. Get some RX570/580s you'll find they run relatively trouble free, are easy to mod and cheap to buy. This miner is also beta so I wouldn't be too hard on claymore regarding bugs and problematic default settings on old cards.

Clay should probably remove the dev fee until a polished version is available IMO.

I second that Devfee comment

[Call_Me_Bambi]

How to mine coins other than XMR with version 9.7?

You can, of course, mine any Cryptonote coin with the Claymore Cryptonote miner; how to mine depends on which coin and what pool you want to use.

For example, if you want to mine Sumokoin, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1905086.0 , this is what you could use.
Sumokoin pool: https://pool.sumokoin.com/

Code:

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

NsGpuCNMiner -o stratum+tcp://pool.sumokoin.com:3333 -u SumokoinAddress -p x -a 0 -ftime 10 -allpools 1 

[pehoko]

KMC mining not working with 9.7 with 10.2 always crash, I will try sgminer as this claymore miner  is useless for me.

[swiftfox]

Hi! I have a problem after I start the miner with what I can say are the right settings, but when I launch it, I get a red error code. The code says:
UNKNOWN OPTION -u
UNKNOWN OPTION My username
UNKNOWN OPTION -p
UNKNOWN OPTION my password

What do you suggest I should do?

Let's start with a clean slate.

Make sure the "config.txt" file looks something like this, it does not matter what is in there as long as each line starts with a # symbol.

Code:

#-xpool 
#-xwal 
#-xpsw x
#-allpools 1

Delete everything in the "start.bat" file then add this to the start.bat file save and run start.bat - let us know how you get on.

Code:

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

NsGpuCNMiner.exe -xpool ssl://europe.cryptonight-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20580 -xwal monolith.worker -xpsw x  -nofee 1 -ftime 10 -h 0 -dmem -1

Okay, it sorta worked, but now I get this
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2a failed -4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4

[BSAlex]

Okay, it sorta worked, but now I get this
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2a failed -4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4

Okay, if you sorta care to read a few messages of the topic you'll surely find that virtual memory setting that you are using are too low. Please set virtual memory to more then total RAM of all your GPU, I am using 64Gb

[gsanjin]

Hi! I have a problem after I start the miner with what I can say are the right settings, but when I launch it, I get a red error code. The code says:
UNKNOWN OPTION -u
UNKNOWN OPTION My username
UNKNOWN OPTION -p
UNKNOWN OPTION my password

What do you suggest I should do?

Let's start with a clean slate.

Make sure the "config.txt" file looks something like this, it does not matter what is in there as long as each line starts with a # symbol.

NsGpuCNMiner.exe -xpool ssl://europe.cryptonight-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20580 -xwal monolith.worker -xpsw x  -nofee 1 -ftime 10 -h 0 -dmem -1

Okay, it sorta worked, but now I get this
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2a failed -4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4

Try -dmem 0

[Call_Me_Bambi]

Okay, it sorta worked, but now I get this
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2a failed -4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4
GPU 0, GpuMiner dk2an0 failed - 4

There have been a couple of good suggestions already posted to help fix this problem. The "-dmem -1" is the auto setting, setting it to "-dmem 0" is a good start as it switches off 'double memory mode' which might be causing your problem.
I'm sure there was a post that suggested 8GB of virtual memory PER CARD,  so 64GB should be fine for upto 8 cards
How to set virtual memory (AKA Swap File) in Windows 10 https://www.geeksinphoenix.com/blog/post/2016/05/10/how-to-manage-windows-10-virtual-memory.aspx

[invicta]

I just wanted to add that I'm suffering issues with Pitcairn based cards (270/270X), they seem fine on 10.2 but get incorrect shares, on 9.7 they are fine but hash slower and run hotter. As they are part of other mixed rigs I've just run them on 10.2 anyway but I'd rather not be wasting shares. I am at the stage now where all my spare cards are in use, I could deal with losing a bit of hashrate if they run cooler and stable on 10.2. The obvious solution is to buy newer RX cards but why waste what is still a very powerful piece of hardware and I'm not convinced that long-term buying more cards now is a smart move - I also found RX cards present their own issues.

If anyone has a temporary fix for Pitcairn cards please post it (other than using 9.7), I was looking at other miners but Claymore just seems simple, stable and easy to configure.

[garytheasshole]

I just wanted to add that I'm suffering issues with Pitcairn based cards (270/270X), they seem fine on 10.2 but get incorrect shares, on 9.7 they are fine but hash slower and run hotter. As they are part of other mixed rigs I've just run them on 10.2 anyway but I'd rather not be wasting shares. I am at the stage now where all my spare cards are in use, I could deal with losing a bit of hashrate if they run cooler and stable on 10.2. The obvious solution is to buy newer RX cards but why waste what is still a very powerful piece of hardware and I'm not convinced that long-term buying more cards now is a smart move - I also found RX cards present their own issues.

If anyone has a temporary fix for Pitcairn cards please post it (other than using 9.7), I was looking at other miners but Claymore just seems simple, stable and easy to configure.

Try xmr-stark-amd and sgminer

[invicta]

I just wanted to add that I'm suffering issues with Pitcairn based cards (270/270X), they seem fine on 10.2 but get incorrect shares, on 9.7 they are fine but hash slower and run hotter. As they are part of other mixed rigs I've just run them on 10.2 anyway but I'd rather not be wasting shares. I am at the stage now where all my spare cards are in use, I could deal with losing a bit of hashrate if they run cooler and stable on 10.2. The obvious solution is to buy newer RX cards but why waste what is still a very powerful piece of hardware and I'm not convinced that long-term buying more cards now is a smart move - I also found RX cards present their own issues.

If anyone has a temporary fix for Pitcairn cards please post it (other than using 9.7), I was looking at other miners but Claymore just seems simple, stable and easy to configure.

Try xmr-stark-amd and sgminer

Thanks, I read up on that but also read conflicting information on stability and SGMiner not being in development any more and XMR-STAK-AMD not being supported on Nicehash. I could be wrong about all this but concluded that the time I spend fiddling with the machines and time offline might be offset by the shares I'm losing due to being incorrect.

Also on another note, are the Blockchain drivers better for older cards - 200/300 series? My R9 380 have seen a slowdown on ETH to about 17MH/s from 20MH/s few months back. I could try them but am reluctant to fiddle if it's stable and working.

Thanks

[pehoko]

I don't see any difference in speed with blockchain driver and Crimson 15.12 with my old cards 79xx, 380's. Even with blockchain driver on some of cards were missing settings like powerune in AB, so I am sticking with 15.12.

[carlo_0000]

last msi afterburner works with blockchain driver   but speed on r9 series won't change
but not working on win7

but stay on 9.7
i tested xmr stak but not stable and not faster, even slower on some model , did not find any good setting
also not good on rx460-560

[a1unicorn]

Is anyone else having 'GPU ## found incorrect share" errors using this miner w/ Nicehash ?

Probably around 10% of my shares are incorrect. Changing the '-h' value doesn't make it better nor worse.

I'm using Radeon R9 280x's with 16gb virtual memory, and "-h 700 -dmem 1".

[carlo_0000]

Is anyone else having 'GPU ## found incorrect share" errors using this miner w/ Nicehash ?

Probably around 10% of my shares are incorrect. Changing the '-h' value doesn't make it better nor worse.

I'm using Radeon R9 280x's with 16gb virtual memory, and "-h 700 -dmem 1".

r9 series need to stay on 9.7, they bug on 10.x   except the 390