Quote from: patrike on Today at 08:30:20 AM

Quote from: MrClean636 on April 22, 2022, 03:43:15 PM

Good morning patrike,

First time I am trying to use MiniZ and I am having an issue with it running.
No issues with gminer or trex miner that I've been using for over 1 year.

Setup:
AM v9.3.5 console and agent on miner
Windows 10 21H2 with latest updates
Nvidia driver 496.76
(12) EVGA RTX 3070

Findings:
MiniZ 1.8y2 loads the GPUs very slowly (the green list of RTX 3070's) but will not actually start mining.
MiniZ 1.8y3 loads the first 2 GPUs but then the miner exits. Subsequent reboots of the miner also fail.
Diagnostics with 1.8y3 shows it mining perfectly fine, even when running a 2 minute diag.
I'm also able to successfully run MiniZ 1.8y3 locally via command line, from the AM AppData path, using the same cmd line parameters as shown in the AM console.
Creating a custom miner in AM and specifying path to 1.8y3 also works without issue.
I have tried with no overclock but miner still exits.

I see AM lists MiniZ as "1.8y3 (CUDA: 10.0)" while I see bitcointalk main notes of MiniZ saying CUDA 11 is supported. Otherwise I am lost.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

There is a bug in MiniZ where it sometimes crashes on startup if the monitoring API is being called. So it's basically a timing issue where Awesome Miner sends a request for monitoring details - and depending on where Miniz is in the initialization phase, it may crash.

This is the reason why it always runs fine via the Awesome Miner diagnostics, as no API calls are being made. Same when launching it manually via the command line, as no API calls are being made it works fine.

I've reported this to the MiniZ developer a while ago.

Update: I just added the latest MiniZ 1.8z and on my system it runs perfectly stable now. Please give the new version a try as well.

Hi patrike,

The new 1.8z version is in fact working! Also an increase in hashrate compared to 1.8y3! Thank you for your prompt reply!