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Re: PhoenixMiner 2.9e: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Windows)
by
janding
on 16/04/2018, 02:11:09 UTC
What are we still happy with phoenixminer 2.9.e the stale shares are back again, while it was with the 2.9 .d away the joy is so short-lived unfortunately.

I am going to guess its your system, I have less stale shares as well as fewer incorrect ones being generated. I will say its been only around 7 hrs so far. What cards and drivers are you running?



Indeed the system, try re-installing your drivers.

I've been updating as the releases come out since 2.7c and to date 2.9d & 2.9e seem to stay under 0.10% in my case.

I'm using rx580 4 & 8Gb, one click patch, OC/UV done via Phoenix settings and running latest Adrenalin 18.2.3 feb 22.

Hope this helps, good luck.

I've tried lots of times to let people know that they're reading stale share incorrectly.
Your stale share rate is not 0.10% like you state.
First, pools don't report stale shares in percentages less than 1%
Second you don't get your real stales shares rate from the miner display.
You can ONLY know what your real stale share rate is at the pool, not the miner display.

I also have been tracking the stale shares when trying each version of PhoenixMiner.
I will say Phoenix has improved to the point it is almost as good as Claymore, but not quite as good.
I get between 1 and 4% stale shares from Phoenix and 1 to 3% on Claymore. SO, it is very close and with the slightly reduced fee it
makes it equal.

People should read all the info the miner developers publish and try to understand what they're looking at.

From page 1 of PhoenixMiner:

Q005: Why is the percentage of stale shares reported by PhoenixMiner smaller than the one shown by the pool?
   A: PhonixMiner can only detect the stale shares that were discovered after it has received a
   new job (i.e. the "very stale") shares. There is additional latency in the pool itself, and in
   the network connection, which makes a share stall even if it was technically found before the
   end of the block from the miner's point of view. As pools only reports the shares as accepted
   or rejected, there is no way for the miner to determine the stale shares from the pool's
   point of view.