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Re: PhoenixMiner 4.2c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)
by
laik2
on 19/05/2019, 21:57:29 UTC
This is usually caused by nvidia driver bug, try using low intensity dag loading or reduce your memclk( usually the pill crashes it, not the miner ).
Switching briefly from P2 to P0 is not a driver bug, that's how the P-states work on nvidia. There's a workaround on Windows, but Linux has no such settings. I'll try to check the GPU clocks when a dag is being switched to see whether my suspicions are correct.
All ethash miners experience the same issue, except Claymore.

Edit - looks like my suspicions are correct:
Code:
#Date       Time        gpu   pwr  temp    sm   mem   enc   dec  mclk  pclk
#YYYYMMDD   HH:MM:SS    Idx     W     C     %     %     %     %   MHz   MHz
 20190519   14:27:01      0   159    67   100   100     0     0  5613  1531
 20190519   14:27:02      0   159    67   100   100     0     0  5613  1531
 20190519   14:27:03      0   159    67   100   100     0     0  5613  1531
 20190519   14:27:04      0   159    67   100   100     0     0  5613  1531
 20190519   14:27:05      0   159    67   100   100     0     0  5613  1531
 20190519   14:27:06      0   159    67   100   100     0     0  5613  1531
 20190519   14:27:07      0   160    67   100   100     0     0  5613  1531
 20190519   14:27:08      0    63    66     0     0     0     0  5613  1544
 20190519   14:27:09      0    69    65     3     0     0     0  6106  1556
 20190519   14:27:10      0 < this is where it crashed

This is while the DAG switches to another one. Note the mclk column.
Yes there are settings to bypass that issue from P0 to P2 in linux while compute is idling. Not going to further discuss this because its not related to miner at all.