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Re: [ANN] lolMiner-mnx, Mining MinexCoin(MNX) New version: v0.31 (Mar 15)
by
jezined
on 15/03/2018, 13:39:13 UTC
Time is running fast and coding never stops.

Although its only a small update, I would like to share lolMiner-mnx 0.31 with you

For those who do not want all the info whats new, here are just the download links:

Linux 64: Click me (v0.31)
Windows 64:   Click me (v0.31)



Awesome work once again Mr Lollie!

However, with my little setup I have found that with my Nvidia GTX 1060 v0.31 with "--optim=OFF" works better/faster than v0.3 and v0.22
(I think since writing this you have made another fix, I will re-test)

For this card (slightly overclocked) the average speeds for each version are:
v0.22 - 11200 sol/s
v0.3 -  11300 sol/s
v0.31 - 12500 sol/s

And now with v0.31 if I try to run it against my Intel CPU I see one core get very busy but not much else (in benchmark mode):

 ./lolMiner-mnx_v031 --platform 1 --device 1 --optim OFF --use-alt-mine-thread
-------------------------------------------------
          Welcome to lolMiner-mnx v0.31

   This software is only meant for pool mining
    with the Equihash 96/5 algorithm (MARS)

For usage instructions add -h to the commandline.
   For support visit our bitcointalk thread.

          Made by Lolliedieb, March 2018
-------------------------------------------------
Using expert parameter "--use-alt-mine-thread". Be aware on possible consequences on CPU load and miner stability.
Multi GPU support will be deactivated.
No Argument given - Switching to Benchmark mode
Using device with id 1 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz)
Selected work-batch for device 1: 42
^C



Also, the stdout from lolMiner (all versions) when piped into a file is regarded by my Linux host to be a data file, because I think of a control-@ null character...?

$ ./lolMiner-mnx_v031 --platform 0 --device 0 --optim OFF  > test.log 2>&1

$ file test.log
test.log: data

$ cat test.log
-------------------------------------------------
          Welcome to lolMiner-mnx v0.31

   This software is only meant for pool mining
    with the Equihash 96/5 algorithm (MARS)

For usage instructions add -h to the commandline.
   For support visit our bitcointalk thread.

          Made by Lolliedieb, March 2018
-------------------------------------------------
No Argument given - Switching to Benchmark mode
Using device with id 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 3GB)
Selected work-batch for device 0: 20
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12448.7 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12457.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12481.3 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12427.7 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12400 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12393.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12440.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12393.3 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12475.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12541.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12474.9 sol/s
---------------------------------------------
Average speed (60s): 12454.8 sol/s
---------------------------------------------

$ vi test.log
-------------------------------------------------
          Welcome to lolMiner-mnx v0.31

   This software is only meant for pool mining
    with the Equihash 96/5 algorithm (MARS)

For usage instructions add -h to the commandline.
   For support visit our bitcointalk thread.

          Made by Lolliedieb, March 2018
-------------------------------------------------
No Argument given - Switching to Benchmark mode
Using device with id 0 (GeForce GTX 1060 3GB^@)



This is only a bit annoying when wanting to use text search tools such as grep on the log files, which I can fixup using the strings util.

$ grep Average test.log
Binary file test.log matches

$ strings test.log | grep Average
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12448.7 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12457.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12481.3 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12427.7 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12400 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12393.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12440.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12393.3 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12475.9 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12541.1 sol/s
[Device 0] Average speed (5s): 12474.9 sol/s
Average speed (60s): 12454.8 sol/s