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Topic
Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: GMiner v1.50 Equihash(BEAM, VDS, BTG)/CuckooCycle(AE, SWAP, GRIN)
by
kbs1
on 15/07/2019, 21:51:33 UTC
Hi guys, my windows 10 1903 AMD rig is now showing this weird behavior:

6x RX580 8GB
driver 17.x
all cards set to 'compute' mode
gminer 1.50
attemping to mine grin C29
HDMI dongle connected to one of the GPUs
using only RDP to launch the miner

It 'just works'. For 12 hours. Or for 4 days. Sometimes 3. There are no exact times. When it 'stops working', I just see on the pool the miner disconnected.

I connect via RDP and violla - it starts up instantly! Smiley Then I disconnect. Then it dies. In console, there's the following:

21:21:31 Total Speed: 11.01 G/s Fidelity: 0.993 Shares Accepted: 3973 Rejected: 5 Power: 725W 0.02 G/W
21:21:31 Uptime: 0d 18:14:37 Electricity: 13.222kWh $1.98
21:21:34 Connection Error: Write timed out
21:21:50 Connect to eu-west-stratum.grinmint.com:4416 Failed: No such host is known

21:21:52 Stopped Mining on GPU0
21:21:52 Stopped Mining on GPU1
21:21:52 Stopped Mining on GPU2
21:21:52 Stopped Mining on GPU3
21:21:52 Stopped Mining on GPU4
21:21:52 Stopped Mining on GPU5
21:22:06 Connect to eu-west-stratum.grinmint.com:4416 Failed: No such host is known
21:22:06 All user mining pools are unavailable
21:22:09 Miner terminated, watchdog will restart process after 10 seconds <--- miner keeps on restarting every 10 seconds without any further error message. It never starts.

Then I connect to RDP and boom, it instantly starts mining again. I don't have to restart the miner process by hand. Power profile is set to high performance. There are no sleeps, hibernates, power-downs, no "energy saving" features or anything like that.

It's not a connection issue, as I can always connect back to the machine via RDP. So the connection isn't 'asleep'. It's a ethernet connection, not a wifi.

Has anyone ever seen this behavior? It is a first time for me. It might be a bug in GMiner, but it's very very weird that it 'magically' comes back alive INSTANTLY when I connect via RDP when dead. Maybe some windows 'this proccess is using a lot of resources, so I'll pause it' feature? Or something like that? But as I said, I've never encountered anything like that.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you! Smiley