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Re: NBMiner v23.3, Nvidia GPU Miner for Grin, AE, BTM, ETH, SWAP
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bakermining76
on 21/06/2019, 18:01:56 UTC
Hi all,

Been racking my brain for weeks trying to figure out why my 2080 ti's crash mining grin31...I have a couple machines with 1080ti's and they run wonderfully, but this machine has 3 cards, 1 x 1080ti and 2 x 2080ti's and within a min or so of firing up the miner one of the 2018ti's crash - fans go to full bore and 0's show in afterburner.   The machine is quite powerful with an 8 core cpu and 64 GB of RAM.  I've got VRAM set to 80GB, my machines with 6 x 1080ti's runs great with 70GB...Power supply is probably on the edge at 850 watts, but I monitor the usage and run the cards at 65%..And the wattage stays below 700 ish on the machine...I've uninstalled drivers, swapped cables, tried different drivers, lowered the clocks...Any tips on what else I could try would be greatly appreciated.  It will mine x16r for weeks without an issue...It's not just this miner, it's all miners for grin31, but I posted here because this miner is the best which means this thread probably has some real smart folks...

Are you using SMOS? Have you tested it without the 1080ti? I had this issue in February when I tried to run a rig with two 20-series cards (2080ti + 2070) and four 10-series cards (1080ti x2 + 1080 x2) on SMOS. I tried every configuration I could come up with and every time a 20-series card was mixed with a 10-series card, the fan on one or more of them wouldn't work right and that(those) card(s) would crash. I had to split the rig, which added 40-50W, but back then it was still more profitable in my situation to run the 1080s on Grin31 instead of Grin29. When you consider the extra electricity, it is now more profitable for me to run all the cards on one rig using Windows and just have the 2070 and two 1080s mining Grin29. I have no real technical expertise here and no idea if this is just an SMOS issue or more broadly a Linux issue.

Thanks for the reply...I should of mentioned these are Windows 10 machines...I did try running it on just the 2080ti's but no luck...the other machines with no 20180ti's have 0 issues...So strange.  I've swapped risers and cables...Might be the power supply but it runs so many other algos without issue...I've tried running them at 50% and still they crash.  I'll try like you said, run Grin31 on the 1080ti and 29 on the 2080ti's



Okay. In that case, if you have another power supply, I'd try it because the power usage on Grin jumps around alot, but I would think it would run a little bit before that caused an issue. Hopefully you can get it figured out.
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Re: NBMiner v23.3, Nvidia GPU Miner for Grin, AE, BTM, ETH, SWAP
by
bakermining76
on 21/06/2019, 05:24:47 UTC
Hi all,

Been racking my brain for weeks trying to figure out why my 2080 ti's crash mining grin31...I have a couple machines with 1080ti's and they run wonderfully, but this machine has 3 cards, 1 x 1080ti and 2 x 2080ti's and within a min or so of firing up the miner one of the 2018ti's crash - fans go to full bore and 0's show in afterburner.   The machine is quite powerful with an 8 core cpu and 64 GB of RAM.  I've got VRAM set to 80GB, my machines with 6 x 1080ti's runs great with 70GB...Power supply is probably on the edge at 850 watts, but I monitor the usage and run the cards at 65%..And the wattage stays below 700 ish on the machine...I've uninstalled drivers, swapped cables, tried different drivers, lowered the clocks...Any tips on what else I could try would be greatly appreciated.  It will mine x16r for weeks without an issue...It's not just this miner, it's all miners for grin31, but I posted here because this miner is the best which means this thread probably has some real smart folks...

Are you using SMOS? Have you tested it without the 1080ti? I had this issue in February when I tried to run a rig with two 20-series cards (2080ti + 2070) and four 10-series cards (1080ti x2 + 1080 x2) on SMOS. I tried every configuration I could come up with and every time a 20-series card was mixed with a 10-series card, the fan on one or more of them wouldn't work right and that(those) card(s) would crash. I had to split the rig, which added 40-50W, but back then it was still more profitable in my situation to run the 1080s on Grin31 instead of Grin29. When you consider the extra electricity, it is now more profitable for me to run all the cards on one rig using Windows and just have the 2070 and two 1080s mining Grin29. I have no real technical expertise here and no idea if this is just an SMOS issue or more broadly a Linux issue.
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Re: Efudd's Z-Series Fuddware v2.2 Discussion Thread/ Now with NiceHash Support (Z9)
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bakermining76
on 19/06/2019, 18:57:38 UTC
Yeah, that is weird. By chance do you have the logfile from this same time? Specifically the lines that say "Switching pool"?

The logs on these rotate quickly... what I'm gonna do for now is flag your system as no-dev-fee though because the last thing I want is for you to be having issues with something you need to run (board that must be run lower clock).

That is active as of 6/19/2019 @ 06:49:27 UTC.

This is not the first time I've seen what you are describing and I have not been able to come up with a reproducible test case. I believe there is a "race condition" (timing issues) that is causing this, but I would have to see a log of the "Switching pool" lines to confirm.

Alternatively, some pool issues can cause it, but I've discounted those since you have a 2nd machine running as an effective control here.

I am sincerely sorry for the challenges you've run into; it is not the experience I want for any user.

(I now have your support ID saved, you can edit it out of your original post now if you'd like -- it is unique to your machine).

Thank you,

Jason

I have the logfile for the last couple days. Here's a screenshot of where the most recent issue happened (Jun 19 03:08:13 to 03:19:20):
https://imgur.com/a/fkGx3hh

I can send you the rest of the logfile if you need...what's the best way to get it to you?
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Re: Efudd's Z-Series Fuddware v2.2 Discussion Thread/ Now with NiceHash Support (Z9)
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bakermining76
on 19/06/2019, 06:32:13 UTC
Since the dev pool stay in place even when not being used, if the primary pools are not reachable or otherwise have some connectivity issue, cgminer will automatically fail over to another pool. There is a chance in that scenario that it could make it to the dev pool.

However, when the primary pool recovers, cgminer should automatically switch back within 5 minutes of identifying the pool as responsive again (it has a 5 minute holdback timer to make sure things stabilize).

This scenario could be what you have seen. There should be clear indication in the logs if this were the case.

Regardless, please do let me know if you isolate things any more. I am definitely interested in ensuring everything acts as expected.

Thank you,

Jason

I've run into this issue again, where my Z9 Mini is disconnecting from the pool (presumably to dev fee mine), then won't connect again for several hours or until I restart it. I thought it was just an issue with Prohashing's pool since I wasn't entirely sure I'd seen it at other pools. But recently when I've mined on Slushpool, I'm getting the same issue. Again, I have two Z9 Minis - one works fine at 750Mhz without your firmware, so I only use your firmware on the other, which has to run one hashboard at lower clocks. I switched both over to Slushpool at the same time and the one without your firmware has been connected the whole time, while the one running your firmware has disconnected and submitted no shares to my pool for 2+ hours at least 3 times in the last week - in fact, one of the times was over 6 hours before I realized.

Screenshot of my miner status page showing an example of the latest issue:
https://imgur.com/a/rOXBkde

And my support id:
****

Can you look into this?
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Re: Efudd's Z-Series Fuddware v2.2 Discussion Thread/ Now with NiceHash Support (Z9)
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bakermining76
on 13/05/2019, 03:12:09 UTC
...snip...

Just a data point regarding this: I've noticed several occasions where my Mini has continued to mine for a few hours, but is not mining my pool. I know it has happened with Prohashing multiple times, and I think at least once on Flypool. To the best of my knowledge, its been maybe 5-10 times since 2.1d came out, but I've never spent time on it or looked into any further - I've just restarted and it fixes itself (though that is actually adding some dev mining on restart).

One thought...

There is a new antminer malware that does not infect the miner directly, but instead uses the API to change the mining pools and runs from another infected computer (at least that is what it appears so far). It uses flypool for the mining.  I haven't managed to get a copy of the malware yet to figure out exactly what it is doing, however. I confirmed this on another customer's system yesterday and implemented a temporary workaround for that user.

If you happen to be using awesomeminer, you will be able to tell if this is happening to you because all of the pools will disappear except the malware pool.

If you'll catch me on discord, we can troubleshoot it together and see what is going on.

Thank you,

Jason

I have two Z9 Minis running - one with your firmware and one without. This issue only occurs on the one with your firmware. I don't use AwesomeMiner or any other software to monitor, track, etc. It happens when I am mining on prohashing and I could be mistaken, but I thought at least once when I was mining on flypool. I never tried to see where it was actually mining or any other info; I just restarted and moved on. It hasn't been a big enough deal to date for me to worry about - just thought it might be useful info for you if others run into the same issue. Until it happened while I was mining flypool, I assumed it was probably issue on Prohashing's side. And since I'm not 100% sure it did occur mining flypool, I'm still not ruling out that its a Prohashing issue.
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Re: Efudd's Z-Series Fuddware v2.2 Discussion Thread/ Now with NiceHash Support (Z9)
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bakermining76
on 11/05/2019, 05:18:27 UTC
Hello! I start to use firmware on my Antminer z9. But i saw that 4 of them started to mine zec.ss.poolin.com - for dev fee, i guess. But after more than 1 hour they did not change back to my pool. I rebooted them, but the change back to zec.ss.poolin.com. Is this a bug?

Support ID please? Are you running minerstat, by chance? Join the discord and send me a PM to get my attention and we can figure out what is going on here.. to answer your question, no, I expect it is not a bug since these firmwares have been running for months without that type of issue. Let's figure out what is going on in your environment.

Are you mining piratepool by chance? I see problems with piratepool connectivity reasonably often (you can use luxor's arrr pool instead). If your other pools are not configured properly or are not up, cgminer will automatically switch to a working pool.


-j

Just a data point regarding this: I've noticed several occasions where my Mini has continued to mine for a few hours, but is not mining my pool. I know it has happened with Prohashing multiple times, and I think at least once on Flypool. To the best of my knowledge, its been maybe 5-10 times since 2.1d came out, but I've never spent time on it or looked into any further - I've just restarted and it fixes itself (though that is actually adding some dev mining on restart).
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Re: NBMiner v14.0, Nvidia GPU Miner for Grin, BTM, ETH
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bakermining76
on 21/02/2019, 22:18:13 UTC
Anyone tested lower RTX cards like the 2080,2070 and 2060?

I've only tested BTM using v20.0, but my 2070 gets 9030 h/s at stock settings (1665core/6800mem/100%power on my card). With power set to 80%, the hashrate drops to about 8350 h/s. I was happy with that, so haven't played around with lots of settings.
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Re: Grin | Cuckoo POW | Benchmarking from c29 to c31 | Everything you need to know
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bakermining76
on 21/02/2019, 15:19:01 UTC
⭐ Merited by suchmoon (4) ,Cryptotourist (1)
On second thoughts maybe not. Depends on the rejected shares rate (Bminer).
Will know for sure tomorrow, unless someone else can confirm it.

I've been running Bminer v15.0 for a few days now. Some users were reporting stability issues, and I had some early with my prior overclocks, but running with stock core/memory and slight undervolt on SMOS, I've only had two restarts in a little over 3 days between two rigs. One rig has 2x 1080Ti (0/0/225W) + 2x 1080 (0/0/155W) and gets a combined 4.19gps poolside (miner reports 4.38gps) on C31 using Luxor, with less than 0.2% rejects. I haven't tested it on any other pools. If you're just looking at 1080Tis, mine report ~1.26 poolside (1.32gps on the miner). I've also got a 2080Ti running at 1.84gps poolside (miner reports 1.91gps) on C31. The new NBMiner looks interesting and I'd like to test it, but I have testing fatigue, so it'll probably be a few days before I get around to it.
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Re: Grin | Cuckoo POW | Benchmarking from c29 to c31 | Everything you need to know
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bakermining76
on 18/02/2019, 21:02:58 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
Did you confirm your hashrate poolside?



Running on sparkpool, with a nice average, using GMiner 1.3.1 on 4 X 1080ti's mining c29.
That would make it 6.5 G/s+ AVERAGE per ti. Reward wise as expected.
It could be your pool. You should try another one.

Firstly, I made a mistake in my prior post. I intended to say Bminer showed 6.0 gps (not 5.6gps), but poolside, I got 6.1 gps. You mentioned in your prior post that you were getting a solid 7.1 gps per card, but this post shows you're getting 6.5 gps poolside - that was my whole point. Gminer shows significantly higher hashrates than the pool, while other miners do not and/or it is less pronounced.


Rather than spewing numbers about, I'd encourage you to continue testing. I've tested Luxor, F2pool, sparkpool, and Grinmint using Minerbabe's Kbminer, Bminer, Gminer, and Grinminer on Linux (mostly SMOS) plus Bminer, Gminer, and Grinpro on Windows 10. I've done some with a P106 x6 rig + 2 1080s, 2 1080 Ti's, a 2070, and a 2080 Ti in various configurations. (Side note: Every time I add 20xx cards to a rig with 10xx cards on SMOS, one 10xx card fan will stop working correctly, so I have to separate them). I'm located in the southeast US, and in every test I've conducted, Luxor has shown lower rejects and higher reported hashrates than F2pool, sparkpool, on grinmint (in that order). Additionally, Gminer has always shown a higher hashrate than reported poolside, and Bminer has always shown a lower or equal hashrate to that reported poolside.

If you are only going to use Windows, I've found that, for my circumstances on the pools I've tried and the cards I have, Bminer 14.0+ shows better results than Gminer 1.31.
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Re: [ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/CuckooCycle miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 14.3.0
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bakermining76
on 10/02/2019, 23:21:16 UTC
With v14.3, I'm getting 2.5gps (GRIN31) poolside using two 1080 Tis at +180/+600/85% on F2pool with 1.2% rejected  I found in the past that both sparkpool and grinmint had too high rejected shares, so haven't bothered with them. I did have pretty good luck with Luxor on Grin29 - near 0% rejects, which makes sense because my ping is ~55ms at Luxor compared to ~330ms on F2pool. I'm planning to go back to Luxor after my next F2pool payout.

Hey,

Are you using win10 ?

Im getting

"Insufficient memory 9171.7 MB available on device (#0). Unable to run the solver"

on every rig, using win10 and 1080ti's.

No, I'm using Linux.
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Re: [ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/CuckooCycle miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 14.3.0
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bakermining76
on 10/02/2019, 21:30:33 UTC
With v14.3, I'm getting 2.5gps (GRIN31) poolside using two 1080 Tis at +180/+600/85% on F2pool with 1.2% rejected  I found in the past that both sparkpool and grinmint had too high rejected shares, so haven't bothered with them. I did have pretty good luck with Luxor on Grin29 - near 0% rejects, which makes sense because my ping is ~55ms at Luxor compared to ~330ms on F2pool. I'm planning to go back to Luxor after my next F2pool payout.
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Re: [ANN]Bminer: a fast Equihash/Ethash/CuckooCycle miner for AMD/NVIDIA GPUs 14.1.0
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bakermining76
on 05/02/2019, 04:00:24 UTC
well i made some more testing VS gminer 1.30 and f2pool gives quite big drop of hashrate using gminer with 28.1g/sec hashrate vs only 26.8g.sec actual hashrates that bminer 14.0 has, maybe it's because this setting:

Improved the miner fidelity by 8%-10%. You will not see big local difference but you will see roughly 10% higher speed on the pool side.

here's result :

https://i.imgur.com/WNwcjkd.png

i will test it further in longer periods, it's quite interesting result, if this fidelity option really works (i'm not quite sure yet whether gminer also has it or not) i will receive higher earnings than gminer with 28g/sec hashrate, with gminer there's no rejected shares, but teamviewer works slower with gminer, it also uses around 32gb pagefile

After mining GRIN for about 1 1/2 weeks with bminer, I've consistently had higher hashrates on F2pool than has been shown on the miner. I thought it might be an outlier *luck* result, but it has held true the whole time on both my 1080Rig (1080Ti x2 + 1080 x2) on GRIN-31 part of the time and GRIN-29 the rest of the time and on my P106Rig (P106-100 x6) on GRIN-29 the whole time. I've also seen that going from version 13.2 to 14.1 decreased rejects from ~1.8% to ~1.3% (again on F2pool). I've tried sparkpool and grinmint for a few days with different rigs and have had much poorer results, with sparkpool's reject rate hovering above 4.5% now (it was over 5% on v 13.2). Not sure what to make of all that except to keep using bminer on F2pool.
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Re: How many people are calculating their electricity costs incorrectly?
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bakermining76
on 31/01/2019, 07:10:00 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
Each place I've lived in the US, the electric company had a base charge of some sort + charges for usage. Unless you have a separate meter specifically for mining, the only thing that matters is the usage charges. If you have a separate meter for mining, the base charge is irrelevant when determining whether or not to add cards/rigs/ASICs.
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Re: A Grin GPU miner for AMD/NVIDIA 4G 6G 8G 10G GPU from Minerbabe
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bakermining76
on 31/01/2019, 06:36:42 UTC
Been using version 4.12 for just over 24 hours mining Grin31 on F2pool. My two 1080Ti's are showing 0.55 / 0.56 gps (+180/+600/200W OC) and my two 1080's are showing 0.35 / 0.36 gps (+100/+500/150W OC) for a total of 1.82 gps. F2pool shows 24hr hashrate of 1.969 gps and 1.3% rejects. I don't have a Killawatt on it right now, so can't report at the wall power.

Update: Killawatt reads 800W +/-10W with platinum psu for this setup.
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Re: Efudd's Z9/Mini Firmware is now available: v2.1 / Dev Fees Disabled till 12/01!
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bakermining76
on 28/11/2018, 05:35:42 UTC
This is great. One of my batch 1 minis ran at 750Mhz for a long time before one board started crapping out and i had to run all three at 550Mhz because of that board, so I'm very happy you put this out. Can't wait for the increased frequencies.