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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] dstm's ZCash / Equihash Nvidia Miner v0.5.7 (Linux / Windows)
by
Seb83
on 12/12/2017, 13:02:34 UTC
New Version 0.5.7

reduce cpu load
minor performance improvements
con: use single pool connection
con: ssl: clear session data before reconnect
nvml: handle invalid values


This release contains quite some technical work/optimizations, which results most notably in a lower cpu load - about 40% - 30%. It also contains minor solver performance improvements - most notable on an 1060 - about 0.5%, pretty small - however it's still there. ZM uses now a single connection to the pool, since some pools/routers seemed to have difficulties with multiple connections - this might help people who had regular disconnects. Pools which adjust the difficulty based on the share rate won't be able to distinguish between the GPUs because zm uses a single connections now - so the difficulty and thus the share rate might change.

People who requested failover pool support: I'm planning to support it in the next release, I'm releasing this iteration first to make sure the transition to a single connection works as expected.

Nice improvement!
I'm testing right now on a small rig with 2x 1070 and 2x 1080ti (2330 sols)
I have more than half cpu load on windows 10, same hashrate.

IMO, it would be nice to also add an option to launch the miner with higher cpu priority (like ccminer --cpu-priority)
I change the priority in a BAT file, and it helps a lot.