Re: [ANN] lolMiner 0.4 - Mining Minexcoin (MNX) and Equihash 144.5 coins (BTG,XSG...
running ubuntu 18.04.1 with 13 RX570 (8GB) cards.
There is something seriously wrong with the Equihash 96.5 (Minexcoin) algo on v0.4
If I use the WORKBATCH: HIGH setting, the hashrate slows down to a crawl, also of note is that the power draw of each GPU is around 40 watts (it's normally 85 watts when mining). Something just isn't working right with the HIGH setting.
If I use WORKBATCH: MEDIUM, the reported hashrate (on http://eu.minexpool.nl) is around 10-15% higher then with v.034
However, it goes through these long periods where very little crypto is actually paid out from the pool. I don't understand how the listed balance for this rig is consistently really low, but yet the hashrate is high.
Switched back to v.034 for now.
v.034 doesn't have issues with '--set-work-batch HIGH ' , and it gets paid more from the pool than with v.04
There is something seriously wrong with the Equihash 96.5 (Minexcoin) algo on v0.4
If I use the WORKBATCH: HIGH setting, the hashrate slows down to a crawl, also of note is that the power draw of each GPU is around 40 watts (it's normally 85 watts when mining). Something just isn't working right with the HIGH setting.
If I use WORKBATCH: MEDIUM, the reported hashrate (on http://eu.minexpool.nl) is around 10-15% higher then with v.034
However, it goes through these long periods where very little crypto is actually paid out from the pool. I don't understand how the listed balance for this rig is consistently really low, but yet the hashrate is high.
Switched back to v.034 for now.
v.034 doesn't have issues with '--set-work-batch HIGH ' , and it gets paid more from the pool than with v.04
Ok, so here HIGH slowes down the speed but also the power draw. Seems the GPUs are in fact running slower then. Can you tell me when starting up the 0.4 should report "Work Batch: " what these numbers are for MEDIUM and HIGH? It could be that the card has some sweet spot (e.g. preferes numbers divisible by 2,3,4 whatever) - that would be good to know
As for the pool you will always see a larger delay:
First you will see the "Shares" counter increase. That should happen lineary with your sol/s, so when pool says you got 10% higher sol/s it should climb up 10% quicker. Then after a while shares will be reset to 0. At that point a block was mined where the pool decided you now should be payed from that block. So the shares you collected before are then transfered to "Immature" and once the corresponding block has 100 confirmations it will be added up to your balance. The balance will then be payed out when reaching your current payment limit, I guess default at that pool is still 0.1 mnx.
That said: Between hashing and the actuall payment usually is more then half a day. Also luck of the pool and overall network hash plays a role, so to get a realistic estimate what advantage you have from one or other software version you must run both on identical hardware and same pool and start comparing incomming payouts more then a day after the experiment started. Usually when even pool detects that the hash is higher it should reward it higher. But also currently the network hashrate is over 30% higher then last week so that reduces payout / sol :/