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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [CMD] Equihash Miner Autorun (Autorestart / Watchdog) for Ewbf & Claymore & Dstm
by
starkinsaur
on 06/12/2017, 23:13:08 UTC
Hi Acrefawn,

Thanks for your excellent work here.

I am finding that I am experiencing a couple of issues with this using DSTM's miner 0.5.6 with Autorun ver 1.8.1.

Issue 1:
When the server changes difficulty on several GPU's at once, there is sometimes a significant, temporary hashrate drop which autorun incorrectly identifies as a real problem and restarts the miner.

Issue 2:
I regularly receive the "Loaded too many GPUs" report on only one of my rigs.
This is a 7 card rig but for some reason Autorun is detecting 14/7 cards despite the problem not actually existing in the miner.

I suspect that this is related to an erroneous log output from the miner as follows; note that the miner has reported two iterations of each card before outputting the "average" line (the last line of the extract below)

2017-12-07 9:39:51 AM|   ========== Sol/s: 2898.4 Sol/W: 3.89  Avg: 2874.0 I/s: 1565.8 Sh: 39.13  1.00 357
2017-12-07 9:39:51 AM|#  GPU4  server set difficulty to: 000f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f...
2017-12-07 9:39:53 AM|#  GPU5  server set difficulty to: 000f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f...
2017-12-07 9:39:55 AM|#  GPU6  server set difficulty to: 000f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f...
2017-12-07 9:39:58 AM|   GPU0  63C  Sol/s: 291.4  Sol/W: 3.94  Avg: 432.1  I/s: 158.8  Sh: 4.97   1.00 349
2017-12-07 9:39:59 AM|   GPU1  67C  Sol/s: 279.9  Sol/W: 3.80  Avg: 419.6  I/s: 149.5  Sh: 5.31   1.00 352 ++
2017-12-07 9:40:01 AM|   GPU2  54C  Sol/s: 295.4  Sol/W: 3.99  Avg: 424.5  I/s: 154.2  Sh: 3.82   1.00 344
2017-12-07 9:40:03 AM|   GPU3  66C  Sol/s: 284.6  Sol/W: 3.74  Avg: 421.5  I/s: 152.0  Sh: 6.15   1.00 375 +
2017-12-07 9:40:05 AM|   GPU4  70C  Sol/s: 298.7  Sol/W: 3.83  Avg: 435.5  I/s: 159.8  Sh: 6.31   1.00 416
2017-12-07 9:40:05 AM|>  GPU0  62C  Sol/s: 229.0  Sol/W: 2.06  Avg: 229.0  I/s: 121.5  Sh: 5.99   1.00 343 ++
2017-12-07 9:40:06 AM|>  GPU1  67C  Sol/s: 225.1  Sol/W: 2.02  Avg: 225.1  I/s: 120.1  Sh: 2.96   1.00 344 +
2017-12-07 9:40:08 AM|>  GPU2  54C  Sol/s: 219.8  Sol/W: 2.06  Avg: 219.8  I/s: 119.7  Sh: 5.99   1.00 352 ++
2017-12-07 9:40:09 AM|   GPU5  71C  Sol/s: 276.1  Sol/W: 3.73  Avg: 437.3  I/s: 148.8  Sh: 7.44   1.00 344 +
2017-12-07 9:40:10 AM|>  GPU3  66C  Sol/s: 222.7  Sol/W: 1.95  Avg: 222.7  I/s: 119.4  Sh: 5.81   1.00 351 ++
2017-12-07 9:40:11 AM|   GPU6  49C  Sol/s: 162.0  Sol/W: 3.69  Avg: 248.7  I/s: 84.8   Sh: 3.79   0.96 360 +
2017-12-07 9:40:11 AM|   ========== Sol/s: 1888.2 Sol/W: 3.82  Avg: 2819.2 I/s: 1008.0 Sh: 37.79  1.00 362

As a side note;
Inputting the real "average" hashrate into the config.bat file tends to cause autorun to detect too many instances of low hashrate because any reported hashrate below the average appears to be considered an error.
I'd suggest this parameter would be better if named "minimum acceptable hashrate" or similar
or
Add a configurable tolerance to the acceptable range of hashrates. ie, within (say) 10% of the average is -not- considered to be a hashrate error.

Further, (just an idea) rather than the user nominating the average hashrate, perhaps autorun could automatically detect the actual average hashrate from all log files and store it in the config.bat file.

Happy to discuss this with you if the issue isn't clear from my description. Sorry that my input is not in the form of code change suggestions, it's beyond my capability.
That said, using this script has been educational and I'm thankful that you have released it open source.
Thanks again.