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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining v0019-1.2
by
fullzero
on 09/10/2017, 19:53:27 UTC
Unfortunately I must write, that nvOS is really unstable with 11 GPUs in my case. I'm sad... :-( In this case, each miner crash a few minutes after mining for memory segmentation fault, in 70% of startups watchdog kill mining process for maybe 20x times. In general there are many epochs without mining - when nvOS set up GPUs, or restating whole mining process. After GPUs re-allocation there are great improvement in stability. So, someone who has in one rig more that 8 cards and succesfully OCed?

I'm solving miners crashing, OC all day. My conclusion is nvOS v0019 is unstable and I can't trust it - with 11x GPUs.

It's little strange that if rig has only 8 cards, so it's stable. So, I've two rigs now, with 8 gpus, and 3 gpus. Both use nvOS and works :-) I don't understand why both rigs can have different OC settings.

On rig with 8 gpus is this:
On rig with 3 gpus is this:
  • power limit: 225W
  • core: +120
  • mem: +900
  • Mobo: ASUS Maximus Ranger IV
  • PSU 1700W
  • 3x Gigabite AORUS 1080Ti Extreme Water
  • i7-4790K

both rigs use CPU mining too

Hash rates are for ZCash:
  • with 8 gpus - about 5550 Sol/s
  • with 3 gpus - about 2150 Sol/s


My guess is the problem is temperature related. 

in 1bash you can increase the target temp:

Code:
TARGET_TEMP=80

and increase the minimal fan speed:

Code:
MINIMAL_FAN_SPEED=75
  or higher depending on how hot your GPUs are tending.

IMO 1080tis should always have active cooling; also they do best when the fans are blowing into the GPUs from the front (they are rear + top ejecting (not front like you would expect))