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Re: lolMiner Equihash Miner, Update: Dec 3rd: lolMiner 0.6 alpha 4 release
by
IngerDev
on 09/12/2018, 13:23:17 UTC

lolMiner

-- Announcement Thread --


Hi there,
this is the announcement thread for lolMiner 0.5 (stable version) and lolMiner 0.6 (alpha 4 version) , a multi algorithm Equihash miner with focus on AMD GPUs (OpenCL based).
Note it will run on most Nvidia GPUs, too but the speed and stability may vary. Hope to improve this in the future.

Currently with this miner you can mine 4 different algorithms:
         Algorithm    Req GPU Mem    Coins that use it
Equihash96/5
500MB
Minex Coin (MNX)
Equihash144/5
1.8G
E.g. ANON, BTG, BTCZ,XSG, ZEL and many more!  
Equihash192/7
3G
Zero (ZER), Genesis (GENX) & Zero Classic
Equihash210/9
1G
Aion Mainnet

Download:

From github :
[Linunx & Windows] Click me (0.5 - Bugfix Release)

Hive OS Integration (as Custom Miner):
https://forum.hiveos.farm/t/custom-miner-lolminer/8135

Almost complete 0.6 alpha 4 releases:
ReadMe: https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-preview/blob/master/README.md
Releases: https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-preview/releases
The alpha versions will be used to identify bugs and improve the versions before their full release.


Usage:

The first way to use the miner is from command line interface. The syntax is

Code:
Linux: ./lolMiner --coin --pool --port --user --pass
Windows: lolMiner.exe --coin --pool --port --user --pass

Here the parameter is a short name for the coin you want to mine. For example inserting AION will configure the miner to mine AION, MNX for MinexCoin and so on.
For more shortcuts and more options please read the lolMiner_manual.pdf shipped with the miner.
lolMiner 0.5 supports fail-over pools, configuration files (easy sharing between Rigs and easy switching between coins), automatic worker names, a simple statistics reading API, logging to text file and many more features.

Estimated Performance (0.6 alpha 4):

GPU              
   Equi 96/5
   Equi 210/9
   Equi 144/5
   Equi 192/7
Vega64
unknown
~160 sol/s
  ~44 sol/s
~26 sol/s
580      
~13.7 ksol/s
~118 sol/s
  ~28 sol/s
~17 sol/s
2080    
~31.0 ksol/s
~280 sol/s
  ~75 sol/s
~38 sol/s
1080    
~24.0 ksol/s
~205 sol/s
  ~55 sol/s
~29 sol/s


Estimated Performance (0.5):

Most of this measurements were reported by community members in this thread. Results may vary a bit depending on clocks, driver version and operation systems:

GPU              
   Equi 96/5
   Equi 210/9
   Equi 144/5
   Equi 192/7
Vega64
~24.000 sol/s
~155.0 sol/s
  ~37 sol/s
~22.5 sol/s
580      
~13.800 sol/s
~107.5 sol/s
  ~25 sol/s
~15.5 sol/s
560      
  ~6.900 sol/s
    ~54 sol/s
~12.5 sol/s
 ~7.5 sol/s
(More data to come when available)




Known issues and troubleshooting:

Problem: The miner crashed at startup when creating memory buffers or miner ends up with 0 sol/s from start.
Solution: The AMD driver requires on start as many MB of system memory as it will need on all started GPUs together. Increase the fixed page file size (Windows) or swap partition size (Linux) to give the rig more virtual memory.

Problem: The miner gets unstable or slow when using more then 4-5 GPUs
Solution: Start two instances and use the --devices parameter (command line) or "DEVICES" (config file) to point one instance to the first n GPUs and the second to the next. For most systems that will work better.

Hello Dev,

Is there any customizing string?
Or is it just working with hardcoded coins?

Could you add GLT?
We are Multialgo, with supporting 30 algos.

Zhash is included as well, and users claim that they cannot mine GLT with lolminer.