[XMR] Monero Mining

[2jz]

I am user of minergate since a long time even mine few of coins with minergate. But I realize that minergate supports for cryptonote algorithm based cryptocurrencies.

SO can anyone give me info about external mining hardware work with minergate ?

Don't use minergate.

Why?

It gives you low hash rate for your equipment, if not the lowest.

Just tested with Clymore cryptonote cpu and it gives 30-35 H/s difference. Pool is minergate.

So Dual Xeon E5-2670
Minergate - 450 H/s
Clymore Cryptonote CPU Miner - 480 H/s

[GingerAle]

I am user of minergate since a long time even mine few of coins with minergate. But I realize that minergate supports for cryptonote algorithm based cryptocurrencies.

SO can anyone give me info about external mining hardware work with minergate ?

Don't use minergate.

Why?

Minergate = bytecoin = scam.

Basically, the old timers in monero don't trust anything bytecoin related. And I won't be sympathetic until they come clean with their scam.

[2jz]

I am user of minergate since a long time even mine few of coins with minergate. But I realize that minergate supports for cryptonote algorithm based cryptocurrencies.

SO can anyone give me info about external mining hardware work with minergate ?

Don't use minergate.

Why?

Minergate = bytecoin = scam.

Basically, the old timers in monero don't trust anything bytecoin related. And I won't be sympathetic until they come clean with their scam.

For me it's ok, simple to use and transactions don't have any problems. I'm new in monero mining and I don't know what they did before and why it's scam but now it does not have any issues, at least for me.

[tokona44]

Hey guys, im trying to start solo mining on osx with bitmonerod with start_mining address and 3 threads
and it say
2016-Aug-28 23:27:35.046792 Mining has started with 3 threads, good luck!
2016-Aug-28 23:27:35.046819 Miner thread was started

2016-Aug-28 23:27:35.046825 Miner thread was started [1]
2016-Aug-28 23:27:35.046846 Miner thread was started [2]
ERROR   {2} {p1} 2016-08-28 23:27:35.128018 [abstract_tcp_server2.inl+955 ::handle_accept] Some problems at accept: Invalid argument, connections_count = 12

what am i doing wrong?
and yeah im not new to this mining stuff i know it can be hell to find a solo block

edit

it say its on but

hashrate: 0.0000
hashrate: 0.0000
hashrate: 0.0000
hashrate: 0.0000
hashrate: 0.0000
hashrate: 0.0000

and now this it was synced when i started

2016-Aug-28 23:51:25.654018 [P2P9][86.76.26.250:18080 OUT]Sync data returned unknown top block: 1003397 -> 1123708 [120312 blocks (83 days) behind]
SYNCHRONIZATION started
hashrate: 13.0526
hashrate: 13.0526
2016-Aug-28 23:51:30.786683 [P2P6][85.14.79.26:18080 OUT]Synced 1003454/1123708
2016-Aug-28 23:51:30.786900 [P2P7][69.172.146.139:18080 OUT]Synced 1003454/1123708
hashrate: 13.2632

[hyc]

Looks like you've got a fairly old/slow Mac there. What model is it, how old?

[Das]

For me it's ok, simple to use and transactions don't have any problems. I'm new in monero mining and I don't know what they did before and why it's scam but now it does not have any issues, at least for me.

Those who claimed Monero was a scam did not really know what they were saying. Nowadays, no one will say such a thing.

[iluvbitcoins]

There isn't any hardware for XMR mining?

Is it worth it to start CPU/GPU mining  concerning electricity prices

[superresistant]

There isn't any hardware for XMR mining?
Is it worth it to start CPU/GPU mining  concerning electricity prices

My miner friends told me that CPU is profitable and GPU is on par with ETH.
For CPU mining you need to have AES-NI instructions. Professional CPU (servers) are the most efficient.
Anti-virus will flag CPU miner software as a virus, you need to whiteflag/trust the folder and exe manually (if using Widows ofc).

[Donteuqilla]

I'am looking for a low fee pool with statistics (at least avarage hashrate) and downtime e-mail notifications when using claymore miner. Right now I'am mining at minergate with low 1% fee. I don't know if they pay tx fees?! but they don't have any usable statistics and no e-mail notifications (at least i haven't found one while using claymore miner).

Thank you for your help

[owlcatz]

I'am looking for a low fee pool with statistics (at least avarage hashrate) and downtime e-mail notifications when using claymore miner. Right now I'am mining at minergate with low 1% fee. I don't know if they pay tx fees?! but they don't have any usable statistics and no e-mail notifications (at least i haven't found one while using claymore miner).

Thank you for your help

Personally I hate minergate, so I use http://www.moneropool.com .. They are finding a lot of blocks lately even as the hash rate rises since more miners are moving over to XMR.

[Donteuqilla]

why are you hating them and has your pool e-mail notifications? I switched to dwarfpool because they have e-mail notifcations and free payout to polo after 5 xmr mined - but 2% fee. Dwarfpool doesn't pay tx-fees, are other pools paying them? Should be a lot if costs 0,1 XMR to send money in the network

[Entrax]

Hey guys,


I'm already mining (xmr) on an old Sapphire 2 GB R9 270, on 16.6.2 and raw intensity set 670 (because i got the -61 err, fixed it with that) and getting around 350 H/s
I have almost free power (because of wind and solar power) thus i do not have to think much about power efficiency...
So i want to buy another GPU an wondering which one it should be. Essentially i want choose between those: 4 GB Sapphire R9 380 Nitro Dual X OC, 4GB R9 290 Tri X OC or an ASUS Strix R9 380 DC2OC 4GB. Which one would deliver the best hash rate?
Or can you recommend some other card from here? https://e4btc.com/output-devices/video-cards (Not over 340€ pls) I have to order there because you can pay with BTC and they're shipping from Germany (to Germany) .


Thank you in advance

[owlcatz]

why are you hating them and has your pool e-mail notifications? I switched to dwarfpool because they have e-mail notifcations and free payout to polo after 5 xmr mined - but 2% fee. Dwarfpool doesn't pay tx-fees, are other pools paying them? Should be a lot if costs 0,1 XMR to send money in the network

Because they made me install some evil spyware-looking software, then they ripped me off .8 XMR in the end. (Yeah I know, not much but still lol).

Anyhow, no, no email notifications, it's just another pool like monerohash etc... it pays out every .4 XMR, so it's good for us small miners.

[bbOOmm]

I need a little help....

From source, I expanded the .tar.gz file

cd'ed into the folder, typed make

received the following:

Code:

monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$ make
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c crypto/aesb.c -o crypto/aesb.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c crypto/aesb-x86-impl.c -o crypto/aesb-x86-impl.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c crypto/c_blake256.c -o crypto/c_blake256.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c crypto/c_groestl.c -o crypto/c_groestl.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c crypto/c_keccak.c -o crypto/c_keccak.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c crypto/c_jh.c -o crypto/c_jh.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c crypto/c_skein.c -o crypto/c_skein.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c crypto/oaes_lib.c -o crypto/oaes_lib.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c cryptonight.c -o cryptonight.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c log.c -o log.o
log.c: In function ‘Log’:
log.c:25:3: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
   printf(timebuf);
   ^
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c net.c -o net.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c minerutils.c -o minerutils.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c gpu.c -o gpu.o
gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -O0 -ggdb3 -std=c11 -pthread -c main.c -o main.o
main.c: In function ‘PoolBroadcastThreadProc’:
main.c:133:3: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘Sleep’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
   while(pthread_mutex_trylock(&QueueMutex)) Sleep(1);
   ^
main.c: In function ‘SetupXMRTest’:
main.c:626:2: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 4 has type ‘size_t’ [-Wformat=]
  snprintf(Options, 31, "-I. -DWORKSIZE=%d", LocalThreads);
  ^
main.c:626:2: warning: format ‘%d’ expects argument of type ‘int’, but argument 4 has type ‘size_t’ [-Wformat=]
gcc -pthread -O0 -ggdb3 crypto/aesb.o crypto/aesb-x86-impl.o crypto/c_blake256.o crypto/c_groestl.o crypto/c_keccak.o crypto/c_jh.o crypto/c_skein.o crypto/oaes_lib.o cryptonight.o log.o net.o minerutils.o gpu.o main.o -ljansson -lOpenCL -ldl -o miner
monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$

I was told that those are -warnings- not errors, so I tried to run the miner.


I tried to get the miner to work with the existing xmr.conf before I add my personal configuration, just to see if it works.

This is what I tried:

Code:

monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$ miner xmr.conf
No command 'miner' found, did you mean:
 Command 'mines' from package 'sgt-puzzles' (universe)
 Command 'mixer' from package 'csound-utils' (universe)
miner: command not found
monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$

Am I using the correct command / format to start the miner?



I also tried using WiNE...... just in case it still needs WiNE - I was trying to compile the miner so I would not have to use WiNE

Code:

monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$ wine miner xmr.conf
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\miner.exe"
monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$

What am I doing wrong?

[owlcatz]

From the looks of it, you just need to

1. make sure that miner exists in the current directory (ls -al)
2. start the miner like this ./miner --flags etc etc  ( ./ is current dir).

Thanks

edit - sometimes it is named "minerd", but IDK in your case, I don't use that miner.

the problem is that your current directory is not in your %PATH% so it can't see miner, so you have to start it by ./ or fully qualified path e.g. /usr/local/src/miner-src/build/miner --flags

[bbOOmm]

From the looks of it, you just need to

1. make sure that miner exists in the current directory (ls -al)
2. start the miner like this ./miner --flags etc etc  ( ./ is current dir).

Thanks

edit - sometimes it is named "minerd", but IDK in your case, I don't use that miner.

the problem is that your current directory is not in your %PATH% so it can't see miner, so you have to start it by ./ or fully qualified path e.g. /usr/local/src/miner-src/build/miner --flags

oh derrrrrr.... I was forgetting the "./" in front of "miner"

however, a new issue ----

Code:

monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$ ./miner xmr.conf
[18:01:22] Parsed pool URL: xmr.poolto.be
[18:01:22] Successfully connected to pool's stratum.
[18:01:22] Request: {"method": "login", "params": {"login": "438gFWUiHY68N4MUMWbgUGXyqGC47eqq65TbiTy4MyL4Fm7aRYHKPBM9aGyNbmeqWvLMC4aUsifgS719Shg38KKa8TZaXG7", "pass": "x", "agent": "wolf-xmr-miner/0.1"}, "id": 1}

[18:01:22] Got something: {"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":null,"result":{"id":"933664273004978","job":{"blob":"02039e95bdbe05b0d489689fc1bd652f8f9e8de35c28ff976410ee758c8a5cc3d4324de1f2cf6f0000000024dc732a4391e0ae70ffbdb6e6fb50933baa6a54ba950ec7e709982ea8e3f00803","job_id":"262076305435039","target":"711b0d00"},"status":"OK"}}

[18:01:23] Error -61 when calling clCreateBuffer to create hash scratchpads buffer.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$ 

In the wolf readme it states

Wolf's OpenCL XMR Miner for AMD GPUs

If you get an error about clCreateBuffer - lower your rawintensity. See the example config xmr.conf for details.

Generally, you want to raise rawintensity as high as it will go without error - but remember, 2MiB of GPU RAM is needed for every work-item.

I edited the xmr.conf to reflect my GPU's stock clock and memory freqs, then reduced the intensity to 100 .... I still got the error. I reduced the intensity all the way to 1, I still got the error. I don't think its an intensity issue, more like an open cl issue perhaps?

Your thoughts?

[owlcatz]

damn, I'm sorry but I honestly can't help you with that one, I've never mined XMR using linux and when I did it was CPU only long ago... Wolf hangs out here sometimes, and I'm sure you are not alone. Have you googled it to death yet?

Good luck! Thanks

Edit - did you have any issues installing all the AMD/opencl stuff?

[bbOOmm]

From the looks of it, you just need to

1. make sure that miner exists in the current directory (ls -al)
2. start the miner like this ./miner --flags etc etc  ( ./ is current dir).

Thanks

edit - sometimes it is named "minerd", but IDK in your case, I don't use that miner.

the problem is that your current directory is not in your %PATH% so it can't see miner, so you have to start it by ./ or fully qualified path e.g. /usr/local/src/miner-src/build/miner --flags

oh derrrrrr.... I was forgetting the "./" in front of "miner"

however, a new issue ----

Code:

monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$ ./miner xmr.conf
[18:01:22] Parsed pool URL: xmr.poolto.be
[18:01:22] Successfully connected to pool's stratum.
[18:01:22] Request: {"method": "login", "params": {"login": "438gFWUiHY68N4MUMWbgUGXyqGC47eqq65TbiTy4MyL4Fm7aRYHKPBM9aGyNbmeqWvLMC4aUsifgS719Shg38KKa8TZaXG7", "pass": "x", "agent": "wolf-xmr-miner/0.1"}, "id": 1}

[18:01:22] Got something: {"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":null,"result":{"id":"933664273004978","job":{"blob":"02039e95bdbe05b0d489689fc1bd652f8f9e8de35c28ff976410ee758c8a5cc3d4324de1f2cf6f0000000024dc732a4391e0ae70ffbdb6e6fb50933baa6a54ba950ec7e709982ea8e3f00803","job_id":"262076305435039","target":"711b0d00"},"status":"OK"}}

[18:01:23] Error -61 when calling clCreateBuffer to create hash scratchpads buffer.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$ 

In the wolf readme it states

Wolf's OpenCL XMR Miner for AMD GPUs

If you get an error about clCreateBuffer - lower your rawintensity. See the example config xmr.conf for details.

Generally, you want to raise rawintensity as high as it will go without error - but remember, 2MiB of GPU RAM is needed for every work-item.

I edited the xmr.conf to reflect my GPU's stock clock and memory freqs, then reduced the intensity to 100 .... I still got the error. I reduced the intensity all the way to 1, I still got the error. I don't think its an intensity issue, more like an open cl issue perhaps?

Your thoughts?

I edited the xmr.conf with my wallet address and payment id as well as the pool that I want to mine on.

However, I'm still getting that cl error, but I noticed that the pool is NOT what I entered, and the payment address is not mine.

Where if the correct configuration file found. I edeted the xmr.conf found in the same folder as miner, I also found xmr.conf~ in my home folder after pressing ctrl-h.

Somewhere its getting the config info to mine with a pool and address that is not mine.

Code:

monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$ ./miner xmr.conf
[18:47:16] Parsed pool URL: xmr.poolto.be
[18:47:17] Successfully connected to pool's stratum.
[18:47:17] Request: {"method": "login", "params": {"login": "438gFWUiHY68N4MUMWbgUGXyqGC47eqq65TbiTy4MyL4Fm7aRYHKPBM9aGyNbmeqWvLMC4aUsifgS719Shg38KKa8TZaXG7", "pass": "x", "agent": "wolf-xmr-miner/0.1"}, "id": 1}

[18:47:17] Got something: {"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":null,"result":{"id":"306201277323998","job":{"blob":"0203d2a9bdbe054538459b23229928fd3a66be792f6a29c8fa04781f5f57f4bc43599d89a8bba400000000d799b581c1ee759d9f28d3c18b50d96e48fe7110428122166b299e6d3878cc2008","job_id":"959680734225548","target":"711b0d00"},"status":"OK"}}

[18:47:18] Error -61 when calling clCreateBuffer to create hash scratchpads buffer.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
monerominer@monerominer:~/wolf-xmr-miner-0.3b$ 

xmr.conf contents

Code:

{
	"Algorithms":
	[
		{
			"name": "CryptoNight",
			"devices":
			[
				{
					"index": 0,
					"corefreq": 1050,
					"memfreq": 1400,
					"fanspeed": 100,
					"powertune": 1,
					"threads": 1,
					"rawintensity": 1,
					"worksize": 1
				}
			],
			"pools":
			[
				{
					"url": "stratum+tcp://xmr-usa.dwarfpool.com:8050",
					"user": "463tWEBn5XZJSxL]U6uLQnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxyV3z8zctJLPCZy24jvb3NiTcTJ.7c3740cc047b4ddxxxxxxxxd5aed3ea3fdf78f",
					"pass": "x"
				}
			]
		}
	]
}

[owlcatz]

I edited the xmr.conf with my wallet address and payment id as well as the pool that I want to mine on.

However, I'm still getting that cl error, but I noticed that the pool is NOT what I entered, and the payment address is not mine.

Where if the correct configuration file found. I edeted the xmr.conf found in the same folder as miner, I also found xmr.conf~ in my home folder after pressing ctrl-h.

Somewhere its getting the config info to mine with a pool and address that is not mine.

Do you have a link to wolf's repo you are trying to compile from? Is there a command line option to specify the conf file path or anything? thanks.

[bbOOmm]

I edited the xmr.conf with my wallet address and payment id as well as the pool that I want to mine on.

However, I'm still getting that cl error, but I noticed that the pool is NOT what I entered, and the payment address is not mine.

Where if the correct configuration file found. I edeted the xmr.conf found in the same folder as miner, I also found xmr.conf~ in my home folder after pressing ctrl-h.

Somewhere its getting the config info to mine with a pool and address that is not mine.

Do you have a link to wolf's repo you are trying to compile from? Is there a command line option to specify the conf file path or anything? thanks.

right from github ...

https://github.com/wolf9466/wolf-xmr-miner/releases

I downloaded the Source Code tar.gz file