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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] Bminer: a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs
by
NameTaken
on 09/01/2018, 14:43:11 UTC
What faster Bminer 5.0 or DSTM 0.5.8 ? Someone make compare with data from pool ?

I was getting around 305 Sols/s per GTX 1060 3GB using dstm 0.5.7 (didn't try 0.5.8 because some people were reporting issues with it) and now with bminer 5.0 I am getting around 310 Sols/s per GPU, or 1.6% improvement. Modest, but worthwhile. Mind you, it's only been running for about 1 hour at this point.

The -no-timestamps switch is a step in the right direction, but I still want to see cumulative mining time.


Using systemd I can run

Code:
systemctl status bminer

to display uptime, status and logs while

Code:
systemctl show bminer

dumps all the details I could want

Code:
Type=simple
Restart=always
NotifyAccess=none
RestartUSec=10s
TimeoutStartUSec=1min 30s
TimeoutStopUSec=10s
RuntimeMaxUSec=infinity
WatchdogUSec=0
WatchdogTimestamp=mar 2018-01-09 02:46:22 PST
WatchdogTimestampMonotonic=291102220341
FailureAction=none
PermissionsStartOnly=no
RootDirectoryStartOnly=no
RemainAfterExit=no
GuessMainPID=yes
MainPID=2891
ControlPID=0
FileDescriptorStoreMax=0
NFileDescriptorStore=0
StatusErrno=0
Result=success
ExecMainStartTimestamp=mar 2018-01-09 02:46:22 PST
ExecMainStartTimestampMonotonic=291102220311
ExecMainExitTimestampMonotonic=0
ExecMainPID=2891
ExecMainCode=0
ExecMainStatus=0
ExecStart={ path=/opt/bminer/bminer ; argv[]=/opt/bminer/bminer -no-timestamps -api=0.0.0.0:12345 -uri=stratum://nametaken.44388:miner54@us-west01.miningrigrentals.com:50466 ; ignore_errors=no ; start_time=[mar 2018-01-09 02:46:22 PST] ; stop_time=[n/a] ; pid=2891 ; code=(null) ; status=0/0 }
ExecReload={ path=/bin/kill ; argv[]=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID ; ignore_errors=no ; start_time=[n/a] ; stop_time=[n/a] ; pid=0 ; code=(null) ; status=0/0 }
Slice=system.slice
ControlGroup=/system.slice/bminer.service
MemoryCurrent=18446744073709551615
CPUUsageNSec=18446744073709551615
TasksCurrent=18446744073709551615
Delegate=no
CPUAccounting=no
CPUShares=18446744073709551615
StartupCPUShares=18446744073709551615
CPUQuotaPerSecUSec=infinity
BlockIOAccounting=no
BlockIOWeight=18446744073709551615
StartupBlockIOWeight=18446744073709551615
MemoryAccounting=no
MemoryLimit=18446744073709551615
DevicePolicy=auto
TasksAccounting=no
TasksMax=18446744073709551615
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
UMask=0022
LimitCPU=18446744073709551615
LimitCPUSoft=18446744073709551615
LimitFSIZE=18446744073709551615
LimitFSIZESoft=18446744073709551615
LimitDATA=18446744073709551615
LimitDATASoft=18446744073709551615
LimitSTACK=18446744073709551615
LimitSTACKSoft=8388608
LimitCORE=18446744073709551615
LimitCORESoft=0
LimitRSS=18446744073709551615
LimitRSSSoft=18446744073709551615
LimitNOFILE=4096
LimitNOFILESoft=1024
LimitAS=18446744073709551615
LimitASSoft=18446744073709551615
LimitNPROC=7286
LimitNPROCSoft=7286
LimitMEMLOCK=65536
LimitMEMLOCKSoft=65536
LimitLOCKS=18446744073709551615
LimitLOCKSSoft=18446744073709551615
LimitSIGPENDING=7286
LimitSIGPENDINGSoft=7286
LimitMSGQUEUE=819200
LimitMSGQUEUESoft=819200
LimitNICE=0
LimitNICESoft=0
LimitRTPRIO=0
LimitRTPRIOSoft=0
LimitRTTIME=18446744073709551615
LimitRTTIMESoft=18446744073709551615
OOMScoreAdjust=0
Nice=19
IOScheduling=0
CPUSchedulingPolicy=0
CPUSchedulingPriority=0
TimerSlackNSec=50000
CPUSchedulingResetOnFork=no
NonBlocking=no
StandardInput=null
StandardOutput=journal
StandardError=inherit
TTYReset=no
TTYVHangup=no
TTYVTDisallocate=no
SyslogPriority=30
SyslogLevelPrefix=yes
SyslogLevel=6
SyslogFacility=3
SecureBits=0
CapabilityBoundingSet=18446744073709551615
AmbientCapabilities=0
User=1000
MountFlags=0
PrivateTmp=no
PrivateNetwork=no
PrivateDevices=no
ProtectHome=yes
ProtectSystem=full
SameProcessGroup=no
UtmpMode=init
IgnoreSIGPIPE=yes
NoNewPrivileges=no
SystemCallErrorNumber=0
RuntimeDirectoryMode=0755
KillMode=mixed
KillSignal=15
SendSIGKILL=yes
SendSIGHUP=no
Id=bminer.service
Names=bminer.service
Requires=system.slice sysinit.target
Wants=lightdm.service network-online.target
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Conflicts=ccminer.service dstm.service shutdown.target ewbf.service optiminer.service
ConflictedBy=dstm.service
Before=shutdown.target multi-user.target
After=lightdm.service system.slice sysinit.target network-online.target systemd-journald.socket basic.target
Description=Bminer Service
LoadState=loaded
ActiveState=active
SubState=running
FragmentPath=/etc/systemd/system/bminer.service
UnitFileState=enabled
UnitFilePreset=enabled
StateChangeTimestamp=mar 2018-01-09 02:46:22 PST
StateChangeTimestampMonotonic=291102220342
InactiveExitTimestamp=mar 2018-01-09 02:46:18 PST
InactiveExitTimestampMonotonic=291098705658
ActiveEnterTimestamp=mar 2018-01-09 02:46:22 PST
ActiveEnterTimestampMonotonic=291102220342
ActiveExitTimestamp=mar 2018-01-09 02:46:17 PST
ActiveExitTimestampMonotonic=291097348517
InactiveEnterTimestamp=mar 2018-01-09 02:46:18 PST
InactiveEnterTimestampMonotonic=291097980346
CanStart=yes
CanStop=yes
CanReload=yes
CanIsolate=no
StopWhenUnneeded=no
RefuseManualStart=no
RefuseManualStop=no
AllowIsolate=no
DefaultDependencies=yes
OnFailureJobMode=replace
IgnoreOnIsolate=no
NeedDaemonReload=no
JobTimeoutUSec=infinity
JobTimeoutAction=none
ConditionResult=yes
AssertResult=yes
ConditionTimestamp=mar 2018-01-09 02:46:18 PST
ConditionTimestampMonotonic=291098705207
AssertTimestamp=mar 2018-01-09 02:46:18 PST
AssertTimestampMonotonic=291098705207
Transient=no
StartLimitInterval=10000000
StartLimitBurst=5
StartLimitAction=none